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Film about Cândido de Oliveira turned into TV series
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Film about Cândido de Oliveira turned into TV series

SAPO Notícias12 September 2026 at 18:45

The life of Cândido de Oliveira, founder of A BOLA newspaper, is being adapted into a television series titled "The Spy Who Came from Football". The project began as a film but was eventually turned into a series for broadcast on RTP.

Jorge Paixão da Costa is the director of this production that portrays the story of the iconic founder of the Portuguese sports daily. The series is based on the life of a remarkable figure of sports journalism in Portugal.

The broadcast of the series "The Spy Who Came from Football" is scheduled for RTP and will be aired over three consecutive days, from Tuesday to Thursday next week.

Why this matters

Sports readers and lovers of Portuguese cinema now have the opportunity to learn about the story of Cândido de Oliveira, an unavoidable figure of Portuguese sports journalism, through this adaptation to a television series. The broadcast on RTP1, in prime time, allows a wider audience to discover the biography of the man who founded A BOLA almost a century ago.

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