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Santos Futebol Clube
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| Full name | Santos Futebol Clube | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Peixe (The Fish, although the traditional mascot is actually a whale), Santástico and Alvinegro praiano |
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| Founded | 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Vila Belmiro, Santos, Brazil (Capacity 20,120) |
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| Chairman |  Marcelo Teixeira |
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| Manager | Émerson Leão |
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| League | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Santos Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Santos, is a Brazilian football team from Santos, São Paulo state, Brazil. The club has been nicknamed Peixe (literally, "Fish") for decades, but the usual mascot is a whale (which is not a fish, but a marine Mammal). The nickname evokes the circumstance that Santos, Brazil, the city where it is located, is a seaport, when all other big clubs from São Paulo are from inland. A fan of the team is known as a Santista.
It was founded as Santos Foot-Ball Club on April 14, 1912, through the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos: Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos and Argemiro de Souza Júnior. The club won its first state tournament in 1935, and again 20 years later, in 1955.
They play in an all-white strip, with a second choice uniform of black and white vertical stripes and black shorts. However, according to the club's statute, the team's first choice uniform is a striped shirt with white shorts and white socks.
Pelé (chosen as "Athlete of the Century" by the IOC in 1999) started his career with the team in 1956, at the age of 15, and remained with Santos for 17 years. With Pelé, Santos won the Intercontinental Cup in 1962 and 1963.
On 20 January 1998 Santos became the first and only team in football history to pass the 10,000-goal mark. More recently, on October 26, 2005 Geílson scored the team's 11,000th goal, the first scored in the team's away match against Vasco da Gama at the São Januário stadium. Santos went on to win the match 3-1.
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The club enjoyed its peak in the sixties, having players like Pelé, Coutinho, and Pepe. The club's popularity, nation-wide, was enormous.
In its golden years it won 9 state championships; two Libertadores cups; 6 (out of 10) Brazilian championships; and played exhibition games worldwide, showing the best Brazilian-style football at its moment of glory.
Unfortunately, however, the end of the club's golden age coincides with the substitution of the Taça Brasil with the Campeonato Brasileiro, which it would take the club 30 years to win.
It is really true that the club's popularity was so great that it could halt a war so that people could watch it play. The mythical event (which many dismiss as an urban legend) occurred in 1969 in the Congo. The Kinshasa (the former Belgian Congo) and the Brazzaville (the former French Congo) governments were engaged in a war when Santos arrived at the Kinshasa airport heading to Brazzaville, where it would play against the Congo National Team.
Instead of sending them away, the Kinshasa government gently produced a brief truce, escorted them to the border and back in safety. After playing their previously arranged match (19/1/1969), the team returned to Kinshasa (again escorted by the militia) and met the Congolese president, who told them that they would only be allowed leave if they played against a local team.
On January 21, 1969 Santos played against a quickly-assembled Congolese juvenile national team and won 2-0. The Congolese president wanted a rematch and, on January 23, 1969 Santos played against Kinshasa Leopards, "losing" 3-2. After that, they were allowed to take off.
In the meantime the war had been in a halt in both sides of the border, but it started over as soon as their plane left.
The end of the golden age also coincided with the retirement of Pelé from professional soccer, in 1972, after a low-profile participation in the first Brazilian Championship.
From 1972 onwards Santos only won three important titles: the 1978 and 1984 São Paulo state championship, and the Copa Conmebol international title -similar to the Copa Sudamericana- in 1998. It was also the runner-up in the Brazilian championships of 1983 (won by Flamengo) and 1995 (won by Botafogo). However, since the late eighties, the club was seen as decadent, and many believed its glory days were over.
The "resurrection" of Santos started when President Marcelo Teixeira, having spent several million reais on expensive player transfers, decided to try a new management formula to run the soccer team during those extremely tough financial years, that basically was to stick to the players coming up the club's ranks, hire the discredited Leão as coach in an attempt to develop new emerging talents for the professional league. Superstitious, Marcelo Teixeira also decided to put a statue of Modesto Roma, who was one of his greatests idols, inside the Vila Belmiro Stadium. Roma, called "Gigante da Vila" due to his body dimensions, was the greatest club executive director of all times, running the club during the golden age, and was the man responsible for keeping the amazing team together during the 60s, declining several international offers to sell Pelé. Modesto Roma once stated to the press his famous dictum "Da bola para a bola", meaning that all money received to play should be reinvested to keep and hire the best players of that age. The club would undergo a long process of rehabilitation, including the renewal of its stadium (increasing its capacity), the hiring of important players and, most important of all, a strong investment in infrastructure (training fields, medical and physiotherapical facilities) and the formation of players.
This rehabilitation policy proved effective and the club was soon replenished with numerous young talented players (among them Robinho, Diego, Elano, Léo and Renato). In 2002 Santos were national champions for the first time since 1968, and in 2004 won the league again. The club has also performed well in most tournaments in which it takes part and is seen as a major favourite for the current league.
Santos' home stadium is the Urbano Caldeira (also known as Vila Belmiro), inaugurated on October 12, 1916. Nowadays it has a capacity of 20,120 people, but its record attendance is almost 33,000 people, in a game against Corinthians (tie, 0-0), 1964.
At the beginning of 2007 Santos changed back to the 4-4-2 formation (3-5-2 was mainly employed in 2006), the current line-up being: Fábio Costa; Baiano, Domingos, Adaílton and Kléber; Maldonado, Rodrigo Souto, Pedrinho (Marcelo) and Petkovic; Marcos Aurélio and Kléber Pereira.
First Squad
- As of 02 December 2007.
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- Émerson Leão– Head Coach
- Pedro Santilli– Assistant Coach
- Mocóca, Edinho – Goalkeeping Coaches
- Fernando Leão, Marco Antônio, Marquinhos – Fitness Coaches
- André Souto, Nilton Petrone - Filé – Physiotherapists
- Ary Jarrão, Jorginho, Gustavo Calixto – Masseurs
Antônio Carlos from Juventude- Adaílton from
Rennes - Rodrigo Souto from Figueirense
- Marcos Aurélio from Atlético-PR
- Pedrinho from Fluminense
- Leonardo from
Shakhtar Donetsk Loan - Kléber Pereira from
Club América 
Dejan Petkovic from Goiás
- André Oliveira to Iraty Loan return
- Gilmar to Iraty Loan return
- Magnum to
Kawasaki Frontale - Wellington Paulista to
Alavés - Luiz Alberto to Fluminense
- Jardel to Iraty Loan return
- Leandro Rodrigues to Iraty Loan return
- André Luiz Released
- Reinaldo to Kashiwa Reysol Loan Return
- Ronaldo Guiaro to
Aris FC - Heleno to Sport
Julio Manzur to Club Guarani- Geilson to
Al Hazm - Pedro to Corinthians
- Rodrigo Tiuí to Fluminense Loan return
- Zé Roberto to
Bayern Munich - Neto to Aris FC
- Cléber Santana to Atlético Madrid
- Luciano Henrique to Internacional Loan
- Júnior to Itumbiara
- Cristiano Ávalos to São Caetano
- Fabinho Released
- Vinícius to Avaí
- Jonas to Grêmio
- Fabiano to Sport Loan
- Intercontinental Cup: 1962 and 1963.
- Recopa Mundial (Supercup of the Intercontinental Champions): 1968.
- Libertadores Cup: 1962 and 1963.
- Recopa Sul-Americana (Supercup of the Continental Champions of South America): 1968.
- Conmebol Cup: 1998.
- Kirin Cup: 1985
- Campeonato Brasileiro: 2002, 2004.
- Taça de Prata: 1968
- Taça Brasil: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
- Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1997.
- Paulista Championship: 1935, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1984, 2006 and 2007.
- FPF Cup: 2004
Final game: 5 x 1 against EC Bahia. Team: Laércio (Silas); Lima, Mauro (Olavo) and Dalmo; Zito and Calvet; Dorval, Tite, Coutinho, Pelé and Pepe.
Final game: 5 x 0 against Botafogo. Team: Gilmar; Lima, Mauro and Dalmo; Zito and Calvet; Dorval, Mengálvio, Coutinho (Tite), Pelé and Pepe.
Final game: 2 x 0 against EC Bahia. Team: Gilmar; Ismael, Mauro and Geraldino; Haroldo (Joel) and Lima; Dorval, Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pelé and Pepe.
Final game: 0 x 0 against Flamengo. Team: Gilmar; Ismael, Modesto and Geraldino; Zito and Haroldo; Toninho Guerreiro (Lima), Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pelé and Pepe.
Final game: 1 x 0 against Vasco. Team: Gilmar; Carlos Alberto Torres, Mauro, Geraldino and Lima; Orlando, Dorval, Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pelé and Pepe.
Final game: 2 x 1 against Vasco. Team: Cláudio; Carlos Alberto Torres, Ramos Delgado, Marçal and Rildo; Clodoaldo and Lima; Edu, Toninho Guerreiro (Douglas), Pelé and Abel (Adílson)
Final game: 3 x 2 against Corinthians. Team: Fábio Costa; Maurinho, Alex, André Luiz and Léo; Paulo Almeida, Renato, Elano, Diego (Robert) (Michel); Robinho and William(Alexandre).
Round-robin tournament, without play-offs. Last game: 2 x 1 against Vasco. Base team: Mauro; Paulo César, Avalos, Leonardo and Léo; Fabinho, Preto Casagrande, Ricardinho and Elano; Robinho and Deivid.
- Official website (Portuguese)
- Super Santos (Portuguese)
- SANTÁSTICO - news website about the team (Portuguese)
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