''Record'' is a

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, founded by Manuel Dias, published in

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. Although it covers most sports, football is the focal point of it, and almost always is the only sport referred to on the cover.

History and profile

''Record'' was founded by Manuel Dias. Dias was a newspaper vendor as well an athlete. Dias participated the 1936 Summer Olympics in

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. In 1949, Dias would enter the national lottery in Portugal and would win 40 contos. Dias would use these funds to establish the ''Record'' newspaper. The first edition of the newspaper was published on 26 of November 1949 and was sold on a weekly basis. Over the 63 years, ''Record'' have had a difficult times and gone through becoming a

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company to a publicly traded one. Before the Carnation revolution ''Record'' belonged to the Banco Borges and Irmão, a bank. Then it was nationalized following the revolution. In 1988, ''Record'' was privatized and was acquired by the company Projectos e Estudos de Imprensa (PEI), which also became the owner of the paper ''

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'' the next year. The company was headed by

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, a member of the

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. During the 1990s, ''Record'' began to be released on a daily basis from Monday to Sunday, and the paper was acquired by the

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media conglomerate. In 2005, ''Record'' created an award called the Artur Agostinho Award in memory of

Artur Agostinho Artur Fernandes Agostinho (25 December 1920 – 22 March 2011) was a Portuguese journalist, recipient of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword The Military Order of Saint James of the Sword ( pt, Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada) ...

; the award distinguishes the person of the year in sport.

Circulation

In 2007, ''Record'' was the third-best-selling Portuguese newspaper with a circulation of 74,000 copies. The paper claimed it was the leading sport newspaper in Portugal with 62,245 copies in 2011, and was also the leading website in Portuguese sport newspapers, with 216 million page views recorded in May 2012. Between September and October 2013 the paper had a circulation of 50,886 copies.

Teams of the Year

Since 2012, ''Record'' has organised the ''Team of the Year'' award, which distinguishes the best eleven players of the calendar year of the Primeira Liga.

2012

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References

External links

''Record'' onlineAll the news from Portugal
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