Valentim Loureiro

Valentim Loureiro

Valentim dos Santos de Loureiro (born 24 December 1938 in Calde, Viseu) is a Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional. He has the rank of Major of the Portuguese Army. He was involved in the Apito Dourado corruption sports scandal.

He is mayor of Gondomar municipality in northern Portugal (elected as an independent, after his Social Democratic Party (PSD) withdrew its support due to ongoing legal suits against him), former President of the Portuguese League for Professional Football, former chairman of Boavista F.C., and father of his successor, João Loureiro who managed the club from 1997 to 2007. He was also a consul of Guinea-Bissau in Porto, leader of the PSD party in the Porto district, and chairman in Porto Metro state-owned mass transit company. Indeed, he is famous in Portugal for the multiplicity of offices he holds at any one time.

Valentim Loureiro briefly attended the Law School of the University of Coimbra before embracing a military career.