Marcelo Portugal Gouvêa

Marcelo Figueiredo Portugal Gouvêa (born March 2, 1938 - November 29, 2008) was the chairman of São Paulo Futebol Clube in Brazil from 2002 to 2006.

Gouvêa started his chairmanship in 2002, along with his friend, director of football, and presidential successor since April 2007, Juvenal Juvêncio (who has already been the club's chairman, from 1988 to 1990).

During his period as the chairman, Gouvêa has led the club to many achievements, such as the victories at the FIFA Club World Championship, the Libertadores Cup, and in the Paulista Championship, all in 2005. He is also known for investments made in young players, with the creation of the Laudo Natel Training Center in Cotia, a few miles away from São Paulo.

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Portugal (Portuguese: [puɾtuˈɣaɫ]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa), is a country on the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, being bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Portugal–Spain border is 1,214 km (754 mi) long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union. The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.

The land within the borders of current Portugal has been continuously settled and fought over since prehistoric times. The Celts and the Romans were followed by the Visigothic and the Suebi Germanic peoples, who were themselves later invaded by the Moors. These Muslim peoples were eventually expelled during the Christian Reconquista of the peninsula. By 1139, Portugal had established itself as a kingdom independent from León. In the 15th and 16th centuries, as the result of pioneering the Age of Discovery, Portugal expanded Western influence and established the first global empire, becoming one of the world's major economic, political and military powers.

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