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Eurico Miranda
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Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro
In office
1 January 1995 – 31 December 2002
President of Vasco da Gama
In office
2 December 2014 – 17 January 2018
Preceded by Roberto Dinamite
Succeeded by Alexandre Campello
In office
22 January 2001 – 30 June 2008
Preceded by Antônio Soares Calçada
Succeeded by Roberto Dinamite
Personal details
Born
Eurico Ângelo de Oliveira Miranda

(1944-06-07)June 7, 1944
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died March 12, 2019(2019-03-12) (aged 74)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political party Progressistas (1994–2019)
Other political
affiliations
Partido Liberal (1990–1994)
Spouse Sylvia Brandão Miranda (1973–2019, his death)
Children 4
Parents Álvaro Miranda
Alexandra de Oliveira Miranda
Education Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Profession Jurist
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Eurico Ângelo de Oliveira Miranda (7 June 1944 – 12 March 2019) was a Brazilian politician and sporting director. He was president of Vasco da Gama from 2014 until 17 January 2018. He was previously president of Vasco da Gama between 2001 and 2008, having also previously worked in Vasco da Gama administration. He succeeded Antônio Soares Calçada in December 2000, and was reelected in December 2003 and December 2006. He was replaced by Roberto Dinamite in June 2008, however he returns to the presidency of Vasco da Gama in December 2014. He was also a federal deputy and known by his political approach characterised by Euriquism.

Vasco da Gama

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Eurico Miranda

He was a football advisor to the President of Vasco da Gama in 1980, and ran for club President in 1982, against Agarthyno Gomes and Antônio Soares Calçada, being defeated by the latter. He ran for President again in 1985 against Antônio Soares Calçada, being defeated again.

Eurico Miranda was the vice-president of Vasco da Gama football division between 1986 and 2000.

Politics

He was the Progressive Party's federal deputy of Rio de Janeiro State between 1995 and 2002, being elected in the 1994 and 1998 elections. In 2002 and 2006, he was again Progressive Party's federal deputy candidate, but was not elected.

In 1990, he was the Liberal Party's federal deputy candidate, but was not elected.

Euriquismo

Euriquismo ("Euriquism") is a Brazilian politico-cultural phenomenon consisting of three dimensions: the principles of the philosophy of Eurico, the methodology of its application and the separated groups, although associated with CR Vasco da Gama not necessarily part of it, operating with him. It is necessary to took this three separated dimensions under a whole to fully understand the phenomenon.

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