Sworn in on April 23, 1982, six days after being designated without opposition as the successor to Américo de Sá, the 33rd leader in the club's history, the 86-year-old has acted in recent decades as the mentor of a new correlation of forces in national sports. The "andrades" gave way to the mythological figure of the dragon and Pinto da Costa enriched a legacy of 42 years with 2,585 trophies in 21 categories, 68 of which were won in football, in which he achieved the status of the director with the most titles and longevity in the world. The main pursuer is Florentino Pérez, 77 years old, who has collected 60 senior scepters - 33 in football and 27 in basketball - in two periods (from 2000 to 2006 and since 2009) with Real Madrid. Born on December 28, 1937, in the Porto parish of Cedofeita, Jorge Nuno de Lima Pinto da Costa descended from an upper-class family with strong cultural traditions, in which football did not have great resonance, but he surrendered to the main club in the city, serving it since 1962 as director of roller and field hockey and boxing. Challenged by the then president Afonso Pinto de Magalhães to lead amateur sports, from 1969 to 1971, he returned to FC Porto five years later, already in the 'Américo de Sá era', to lead the football department and bet on the return of José Maria Pedroto. This second stint as coach of the former 'blue and white' midfielder was immortalized with the achievement of the national championship, in 1977/78 and 1978/79, after a 19-year 'fast', but would end in the 'hot summer' of 1980, when he accompanied the departure of Pinto da Costa. The foundations built with Pedroto would be redeemed two years later, with the leader coming to power at the age of 44, at a time when FC Porto only totaled 16 trophies, including seven editions of the I League, 'exploding' from the victorious turnaround on Benfica's ground (2-1) for the 1983 Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, after 0-0 in the first duel. The 'master's' prolonged illness had left the then assistant coach António Morais on the bench in that game, as happened in the 1983/84 Cup Winners' Cup final, lost to the Italian team Juventus (1-2), in a sign of the club's international emancipation. Seven successes followed, more than double the three achieved by Benfica and Sporting, including the European Champions Cup (1987/88), Intercontinental Cup (1987 and 2004), European Super Cup (1987), UEFA Cup (2002/03), Champions League (2003/04) and Europa League (2010/11), in an affirmation also supported by growing internal consistency. FC Porto dominated 23 of the 42 editions of the I League finalized in the 'Pinto da Costa era' - among a 'penta', a singular feat in 90 editions of the competition, from 1994/95 to 1998/99 -, beating the 19 scepters divided by 'eagles' (14), 'lions' (four) and the rival Porto Boavista (one). By adding 15 Portuguese Cups, 22 Cândido de Oliveira Super Cups and one League Cup, the 'dragons' more than quintupled their record and won 68 of the 145 football trophies in dispute in Portugal since the start of the presidential 'reign'. Among the main indoor sports, handball (from 13 to 44 successes at senior level), basketball (from six to 46), roller hockey (from one to 77, including 10 international) and volleyball (from 11 to 23) also evolved in competitiveness. The modernization undertaken by Pinto da Costa was also reflected in the heritage, starting with the lowering of the Estádio das Antas (1986), whose demolition would coincide with the opening of the Dragão (2003), interspersed with the PortoGaia Sports Training and Training Center, in Olival (2002), the Dragão Arena pavilion (2009) and the club's museum (2013). In addition to the frequency of combining sporting successes with controversy outside the four lines, he put the 'dragons' to speak in the rhythm of their own voice, agglutinating the Porto and full of frontal discourse, inflamed and ironic against the "centralism of Lisbon" censored by him. A strategist in managing the media stage and unequal in his relationship with the eight Benfica counterparts and the 12 Sporting counterparts known since 1982, he sowed hatred and love, bought and sold wars, without having gone unnoticed in that institutional irruption of FC Porto. Linked to several criminal proceedings, but without convictions in the ordinary courts, he saw his reputation tarnished in 2004 with his involvement in Apito Dourado, which investigated alleged cases of corruption in Portuguese football, influence peddling and coercion of referees, making it impossible to use compromising wiretaps as evidence. The controversial 'Eu, Carolina', launched by his ex-girlfriend Carolina Salgado, was one of the books resulting from the life and work of Pinto da Costa, the fifth president of the Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP), from 1995 to 1996, and founder of FC Porto SAD, in 1997. Accustomed to being unanimous in the 'blue and white' universe, the leader allowed himself to be dragged into power and paid for the most delicate moment of his 'reign', without having managed to sustain André Villas-Boas, the club's former coach, in the most competitive electoral act ever.