At the entrance to Splink’s locker room, the synthetic grass stands out. A carpet that imitates a soccer field, balls scattered on the floor of one of the offices, a sofa and a console where you can play video games and more than a dozen framed t-shirts displayed on the walls. In Saldanha, in Lisbon, the headquarters of this company is a sanctuary that honors the sport considered king.
The shirts that are from various football clubs, Portuguese and international, and which have the names of various players printed on them, are part of the private collection of Ivan Braz. “The entire collection that is here is my personal collection. I don’t have a house to have it and then you bring it here to the office”, he joked, assuming that he was “addicted” to soccer. The taste for this sport translated into a career as a player (he did not want to reveal the clubs in which he played), but a the injury led him to take other paths. At the age of 20, he opened his first company, in the area of software development — this was 18 years ago, when “there were no startups” yet.
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Source: Observadora
