Event of presentation of Aragao Pinto Foundation at 18h30 in Hall VIP and Conference room in the Stadium Jose de Alvalade.

After a cocktail gently served by House XXI in Hall VIP of the Stadium Jose Alvalade, the Conference Room was full of hundreds of people, from members and family of the Foundation, the institutions supported by the Foundation, Sporting CP board, national institutions, partners of the Foundation, entrepreneurs, admirers and friends of Jose Aragão Pinto, the great and notable sporting man that gives the name to this Foundation.

The leonine faces had been many that had wanted to mark its presence, such as Sá Pinto, Manuel Pedro Gomes, Carlos Xavier, Hilário, Ernesto Figueiredo, Carvalho, Fernando Mamede, Aldo Lima, Tó Romano, Chana, António Ramalho, and much more that had made of this event a party of force and solidary claw.

An allusive film was followed the Aragão Pinto and another one to the Foundation, its work and goals.

The President of the Sporting Club of Portugal, Filipe Soares Franco, accepted the invitation of the Foundation and made the opening speech where he enhanced the friendship and respect for the friend and leonine partner of reference Jose Aragão Pinto. He felicitated the Foundation for its noble mission, relating that the Sporting supported it of this the first moment and will always support it.

Marta Aragão Pinto and Ricardo Pinto had followed themselves speaking of the pride that is to be son of Jose Aragão Pinto, the values that this transmitted to them, the force and claw that he taught to them how to live and the pride to raise this Foundation in set with its president Bruno de Carvalho.

Bruno de Carvalho locked up the speeches making reference to the work and mission of the Foundation, its importance in the Portuguese society, its difference before excessively and enhancing:

” The beginning of Sec. XXI has come to demonstrate the fragilities of the actual social systems.
We have to start to prepare our children and young of efficient and efficient form to be able to want a different future.
The Aragão Pinto Foundation wants to assist the young to show its determination, its courage, getting a set of rules and values that will serve to them of guide in a difficult but basic process.
To reach success, the programs of social integration need to leave the look that sees lacks and to make as a focus its attention in the potentialities.”
” Because we leave of the particular one for the generality, we can include in our values to transmit Effort, Dedication, Devotion and the consequent Glory to those who will have the strength to do them. 

The linking of our Foundation to Sporting CP does not limit the simple familiar bows, but yes to a common work and effort that we decide to follow in set with the Solidary Sporting and the Lions of Portugal. Because we all have a mission to fulfill, in what he respects to the harmonious evolution of the societies, Sporting CP, which was given the character of Public Utility in June, the 6 of 1960,