Athletico 100 years: Ademir Adur, the director

Ademir Guimarães Adur He is from the generation of historic athletes who arrived from the interior to complete their studies in Curitiba between 1967 and 68 and became fanatics of the revolutionary Furacão of that time. Born in São Mateus do Sul, raised in Pitanga, Adur soon went from fan to advisor.

A successful businessman in several sectors, during a Board meeting in the early 1990s, with the club in a state of pre-insolvency, he bought the pass of promising academy striker Paulo Rink and donated it to Athletico, guaranteeing the future idol’s permanence. and an asset that would be very expensive to the club years later.

This was just one of the many times he placed Athletico above his personal and professional life. In 1995, he was one of the names of the famous triumvirate that initiated the great technical, patrimonial and moral transformation in the history of Athletico, alongside Ennio Fornea Filho and Mário Celso Petraglia.

Between 1997 and 1998, during Petraglia’s retirement due to the Ivens Mendes scandal, Adur assumed the presidency of the club and established a management committee that chose the president for a six-month term. In this period of great turnover, Adur assumed the role of president again in 2000.

Averse to cameras and microphones, with a very good eye for the ball and ball players, he was responsible for many of the signings of the squad that would be champions of the Seletiva and the Brazilian Championship at the turn of the century. In the 2001 campaign, he was the football director, alongside Valmor Zimmermann, fundamental in decisions such as the change of coaches, from Mário Sérgio to Geninhowithout which there would not be our first title.

He left the board at the end of 2002. Called to collaborate in 2011, he left during one of the many crises of that year and had been away since then. The year 2023 ended with the great news of his return to the club’s day-to-day activities. A reinforcement of tons of athleticism that will help create the conditions for the club’s transformation into SAF during the centenary year. Every self-respecting red-black is an admirer of Ademir Adur.