Frederico Pinto Basto

In his youth, together with his brothers Guilherme and Eduardo, his main hobby was playing a sport practically unknown at the time in Portugal called football.

[2][4] In October 1888, his brother Guilherme organized what is now considered to be the first football match on mainland Portugal in Cascais, which was contested between members of the Sporting Club of Cascais, which was 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 the Pinto Basto family.

[6] On the afternoon of 22 January 1889, a few months after the "rehearsal" in Cascais, his brother Guilherme organizes a more serious and competitive match between the Portuguese noblemen and a group of English workers living in Lisboa.

The Portuguese team was made up of the best players from the 1888 game, and Frederico was one of them, thus playing in the first proper football match in Portugal, held where today's Campo Pequeno bullring is located.

[3] He married Emilia Garrido Pinheiro, heiress and owner of the so-called Casa das Gaeiras and he set up home in this village in the municipality of Óbidos.