[2] The club's symbol and players' equipment were identical to those of Sporting CP, with the letters SCLM in place of SCP.

The club's leaders and players came mainly from the police and the Municipalized Water and Electricity Service, the city's utilities.

However, this was the result, not of a decision by Sporting de Lourenço Marques, but of a "ban on the use of blacks without an assimilation licence" in football, since those population was often deemed tribal or indigent and was largely illiterate and usually unable to speak fluent Portuguese.

In fact, José Craveirinha, one of Mozambique's greatest poets and a major figure in Portuguese-language literature, who was awarded the Camões Prize in 1991, praised "the outburst of pure and unbridled sportsmanship" that the "absolutely unique case" of "the presentation on the athletics tracks of some pure black athletes wearing the very susceptible, until then, local Sporting jersey" represented in the 1951–52 season.

[18][4] From 1957 to 1960, Eusébio scored a total of 77 goals in 42 appearances playing for the main team of Sporting Lourenço Marques.

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