Carlos Villar (footballer)

Carlos Augusto Paiva Raposo Vilar (18 December 1874 – 17 July 1963[1]) was a Portuguese naval officer and a pioneer of football in Portugal.

[2][5] The Portuguese team was made up of members of Sporting Club of Cascais, a very elite club patronized by King Luis and King Carlos and by those who could afford to be close to the Royal Family, including counts, viscounts, other prominent members of Lisbon's high society, and two members of the Villar family, Carlos and his older brother Afonso,[2] although some sources state that the two Villars were Afonso and Henrique, which does not suit with any of the known Villar brothers of the time.

[2] This team went on to face Oporto Cricket Club in the 1894 Taça D. Carlos I on 2 March, in which he started as a forward alongside Afonso in an eventual 0–1 victory.

[2] In the press at the time, he was considered the João das Regras of football legislation (footballista as it was written in the newspaper).

[2] It was also through him that the CIF obtained from the Lisbon City Council the transfer of Campo de Alcântara, the place where the most popular fair of that time was held annually.