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Terras do Desembargador, also known as Campo das Salésias, was a 
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football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
dirt field
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Expanses of open ground
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in Lisbon
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, Portugal. It hosted football matches of Sport Lisboa.
In 1903, football was a growing sport, and Terras do Desembargador was Lisbon's main field for playing football.
It had no fences and bystanders can freely enter the field and disrupt match. When a ball was lost to outside the field it was difficult to recover it because of the open spaces. Inconveniently it was also shared with the Portuguese Army
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who used it as an exercise field, so it would often be completely destroyed after a set of exercises.
It was in this field that a group a friends after a match decided to create Sport Lisboa. 6 friendlies were played, Sport Lisboa won 5, lost 1, scored 13 goals and conceded 2.
Benfica left in 1907 for Campo da Feiteira
Campo da Feiteira was a football dirt field
Field may refer to:
Expanses of open ground
* Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes
* Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport
* Battlefield
* ...
, seeking more privacy and exclusively of their own field.
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