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Sport Club Corinthians Paulista
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| Full name | Sport Club Corinthians Paulista | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Timão (Great Team) Coringão |
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| Founded | 1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Pacaembu Stadium[1] São Paulo, SP Brazil |
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| Capacity | 37,500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Alberto Dualib |
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| Manager | Emerson Leão |
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| League | Brazilian Série A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Brazilian Série A, 9th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is a Brazilian sports club, based on São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, most known for its football team, is a traditional and popular Brazilian football club. As of 2004, Corinthians is estimated to have 24 million fans, making it the second largest number of fans in Brazil.[2]
Corinthians was founded in 1910 by a group of labourers - mainly of Portuguese, Italian and Spanish descent - hoping to create a popular club in the city of São Paulo to play against the elite clubs that already existed. They are named after the famous English amateur team Corinthians, now Corinthian-Casuals.
The football team is one of the most successful in Brazil, having won the Brazilian Série A 4 times, the São Paulo State Championship 25 times and the FIFA World Club Championship once, amongst other honours. Corinthians fans are widely knows as "Fiel", Portuguese for "faithful" or "loyal".
As a multisport club, Corinthians also have amateur volleyball, handball, taekwondo, judo, swimming, tennis and futsal teams.
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On September 1, 1910, a group of labourers in the neighborhood of Bom Retiro decided to create their own club. Their idea was to found a football team in which anyone could display his abilities in the sport, since back then, in the beginning of the 20th century, football in Brazil was considered to be an elitist sport, played mainly by British descendants and people who worked for British companies.
Under the lights of an oil lamp, in the "Rua dos Imigrantes" (Immigrants Street), the labourers Joaquim Ambrósio, Antônio Pereira, César Nunes, Rafael Perrone, Anselmo Correia, Alexandre Magnani, Salvador Lopomo, João da Silva, Antônio Nunes founded the first popular club in São Paulo.
Among the founders, the first ideas for the name of the club were full of Brazilian national spirit: Carlos Gomes Football Club and Futebol Clube Santos Dumont. However, these prominent Brazilian names were put aside after the English amateur team Corinthians, that used to wear pink and brown shirts, won all six games in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during an exhibitional tour of Brazil. The name Sport Club Corinthians Paulista was agreed upon, as an homage to the great British club of the beginning of the past century. The name was suggested by Joaquim Ambrósio, one of those five labourers who founded the club.
Fúlvio, Casemiro do Amaral and Casemiro Gonzalez; Police, Biano and Cesar; Aristides, Peres, Amilcar, Dias and Neco
Corinthians played their first match on September 10, 1910 playing away against União da Lapa, a respected amateur club in São Paulo, and despite being defeated by 1-0, this match would mark the beginning of a successful age as an amateur club.
On September 14, Luis Fabi scored Corinthians' first goal, against Estrela Polar, another amateur club in the city, and Corinthians won their first game by 2-0.
With good results and an ascending number of supporters, Corinthians joined the Liga Paulista, after winning two qualifying games, and played in the São Paulo State Championship for the first time, in 1913, and just one year after joining the league, Corinthians was crown champion for the first time, in 1914 and again two years later.
Tuffy, Grané, Aparício, Neco, De Maria, Del Debbio, Gambinha, Mario, Munhoz, Soares e Rato
The year of 1922, the Centennial of Brazilian Independence, marks the start of Corinthians hegemony in the São Paulo State Championship.
As football was almost exclusively played at Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo by that time, the two state champions were considered to be the two top clubs in Brazil. And defeating the Rio de Janeiro State Championship champion of that year, América, Corinthians definitely joined the hall of the great teams in Brazil.
The same year also marked the first of three State Championships in a row, something that happened again in 1928-1930 and 1937-1939.
The club's situation in early 2004 was one of the most difficult in its history. Bad administration, lack of money and terrible campaigns both in the 2003 Brazilian Championship and in the 2004 São Paulo State Championship were worrying its millions of supporters. Fortunately some young players and a new manager Tite helped the team to improve from their terrible start. At the end of the championship, Corinthians finished in 5th place and won entry to the Copa Sudamericana (a minor continental championship).
This situation was one of the facts that Corinthians' president, Alberto Dualib, used to convince the clubs' advisors and Corinthians have signed a controversial deal with an international fund of investors known as Media Sports Investment. The deal grants the company a large degree of control over the club for 10 years, in exchange for large investments. This has brought many quality players to the team, such as Carlos Tévez, Roger, Javier Mascherano and Carlos Alberto.
Despite the MSI investiments, Corinthians had a slow start in the 2005 state championship, but managed to improve and finished second. The Brazilian championship start was not nice either, but after Daniel Passarella's dismissal, after an unexpected 5-1 loss to Corinthians' rivals, São Paulo, the club made an amazing rest of championship and were crowned Brazilian Champions for the fourth time, after some controversial annulment of eleven games due to a betting scandal.
The relationship between Corinthians' managers and the MSI president, Kia Joorabchian is not good, and after being eliminated in the Copa Libertadores de América, the club experienced a large crisis that was responsible for the bad performances in the rest of 2006. Is still unknown if the partnership will continue for the next years and if the club will get more funds to contract new players, although Kia Joorabchian has left the partnership.
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Even though the club has been recognized by the colors black and white for most of its history, the first Corinthians' kit originally consisted of cream shirts and black shorts. But when the shirts were washed, the cream color gradually became white. After that, early in the club's history, the official colors were changed, so the club wouldn't waste much money on buying new kits.
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The Corinthians' shirt had no crest before 1913, when the club joined the Liga Paulista and became able to play official matches in the São Paulo State Championship, when the club debuted their first symbol, with the letters "C" and "P".
The first crest was created by the lithographer Hermógenes Barbuy, brother of the Corinthians' player Amílcar, in 1914, but the crest changed often before 1919, when a new crest (part of the present crest) debuted in Corinthians' shirts in 1919. Presenting a São Paulo State flag in a circle and the club's name written around it.
The crest changed again in 1940 when the modernist painter and former member of Corinthians' reserve squad Francisco Rebolo González created the club's definitive crest, with the anchor and two oars (a reference to the nautic sports practiced in the club), making it very unique. The definitive crest was revised a few times.
- Campo do Lenheiro: The first Corinthians' stadium wasn't actually a stadium. The team played on a field, owned by a wood seller, and because of that, known as Campo do Lenheiro (Portuguese for Wood Seller's Field).
- Estádio do Bom Retiro: After that, in 1918, the club's players and fans managed to build another stadium for the club, and Corinthians would play at the Estádio do Bom Retiro for 9 years.
- Parque São Jorge: In 1928, the chairman Alfredo Schürig (after whom the stadium is named) bought the terrain where Parque São Jorge is placed now. Corinthians would play there for a long time.
- Estádio do Pacaembu:[1] In the last years, the second biggest stadium in the city, the Municipal Stadium of Pacaembu is the venue used by the club to play their home matches. For biggest events, the team plays at the Morumbi Stadium, owned by rivals of São Paulo, where the crowd can go over 70000 supporters.
In late 2006 a NGO called Cooperfiel commenced a fund drive for a new stadium.[3]
Corinthians Chairman Alberto Dualib has recently met with the President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva to ask him for financial help to build a new stadium for the deserving team. In that meeting, the President demanded to talk to coach Emerson Leão and tell him he trusts him to "fix" the team, which has been having problems with greedy players and jealousy amongst them. It is also said that the real purpouse of that meeting was that Dualib could talk to Lula about Boris Berezovsky's arrival. Berezovsky is known for being involved in the Russian politics and mafia.
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Corinthians have the second largest number of fans in Brazil.
- Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil;
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil;
- Ayrton Senna da Silva, notable F-1 racer;
- Rubens Barrichello, another notable F-1 racer;
- Jose Dirceu, former president of PT (Worker's Party), and former minister;
- José Genoíno, former president of PT;
- Daiane dos Santos, female gymnast;
- Padre Marcelo Rossi, famous Brazilian Catholic priest;
- Hortencia Marcari, famous female basketball player;
- Antonio Ermirio de Moraes, one of the most important businessman in Brazil;
- Silvio Santos, a TV show host and owner of SBT, the second largest Brazilian television network;
- Rita Lee, famous brazilian rock star;
- Sérgio Groisman, a very popular Brazilian journalist.
- Palmeiras: Palestra Itália (now known as Palmeiras) was founded in 1914 as an Italians only club. Some Corinthians' Italian members and the player Bianco, the only Italian in the Corinthians' squad, then left to join the new club and were labeled as traitors. Because of that, the teams became rivals, and remain the fiercest rivals in Sao Paulo to this day.[4]
- Other Rivals: Corinthians have a historic rivalry with São Paulo and Santos, but they are minor rivalries compared with Corinthians x Palmeiras.
Corinthians are known in Brazil as the "Centennial Champion", because of the coincidence featured in the years of some of its conquests:
- 1922 - State Champions; Brazil's independence from Portugal was in 1822
- 1954 - State Champions; Foundation of the city of São Paulo was in 1554
- 1988 - State Champions; Abolition of Slavery was in 1888
Corinthians is also known in Brazil as the "Campeão dos Campeões" (Champion of Champions). That's because in 1915 the team broke up with the Paulista League and didn't participate on that year's tourney, won by Germania. At the end of the season, Corinthians defied the champions and won by 4-1. Challenged to face Palmeiras, the champion of the Apea League (another league of those times), Corinthians didn't back off, and beat the rivals by 3-0. As a sidenote, the victorious team on those challenges was also the 1914 and 1916 undefeated São Paulo State Championship champion.
There's also another story that could explain that nickname. In 1930, even though there was yet no national championship in Brazil, there was a challenge match between the champions of the São Paulo and the Rio de Janeiro State Championships. On February 16, on a match against Vasco da Gama, in Rio de Janeiro, Corinthians won by 4-2, with goals scored by Filó (2), De Maria and Gambinha, bringing home the "Champion of Champions" trophy.
Nowadays that nickname is used on the second verse of the club's official anthem.
Corinthians' official mascot is the musketeer, symbol of bravery, audacity and fighting spirit. The adoption of that character recalls the first years of the club. In 1913 most of the football leaders of the São Paulo State founded the APEA (Paulista Athletic Sports Association, in English).
In the now-poor Paulista League remained only Americano, Germania and Internacional, known so far as the "three musketeers" of the paulista football. Corinthians therefore joined those three teams as D'Artagnan, being the fourth and most adored musketeer, just like Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers. To be accepted on that "musketeers universe", Corinthians had to show its bravery. As there was many other teams who wanted that spot on the Liga Paulista, Corinthians participated in a selective tournament against Minas Gerais and São Paulo, two other great teams of paulista amateur football at that time. With class and competence, the corinthian team beat Minas by 1-0 and São Paulo by 4-0, being accepted in the group and acquiring the right to participate in the Special Division of the Paulista League in the following year.
The so-called "Corinthians Invasion" happened in 1976, when the Corinthians fans invaded the Mário Filho Stadium (Maracana) in Rio De Janeiro during the semifinal of the Brasileirão championship of 1976. In the game between Fluminense and Corinthians, more than 70 thousand Corinthians fans had left the State of São Paulo to see the team. Those in attendance participated in the biggest human displacement in peace time, according to the Guinness Book. The game went on to overtime, followed by penaltys shoot-outs won by Corinthians. In November 2006, a special team jersey was released celebrating the 30th anniversary of the invasion.
César, Zé Maria, Wágner Basílio, Gomes, Paulinho and Wladimir; Eduardo Amorim, Sócrates, Walter Casagrande, Zenon and Biro-Biro
The Corinthians Democracy was an unique ideological movement in the world, known in Brazil as one of the important movements that struggled against the military dictatorship that dominated the country.
Leaded by Socrates and Wladimir, the players took some control of the team's management, deciding the thing that would affect them, and one of the decisions they took is known as one of the most important actions against the dictatorship.
In 1982, the players voted to print on the back of their shirts an announce, "Vote on 15th" to motivate people to vote on November 15th, in the elections that would help Brazil to end the dictatorship.
Numbers for the São Paulo State Championship, as of 1 March 2007.[5]
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As of February 11, 2007
| # | Name | Pos. | Goals |
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| 1 | Cláudio |
FW | 305 |
| 2 | Baltazar |
FW | 267 |
| 3 | Teleco |
FW | 256 |
| 4 | Neco |
FW | 239 |
| 5 | Marcelinho Carioca |
MF | 206 |
| 6 | Servílio |
FW | 200 |
| 7 | Luizinho |
MF | 172 |
| 7 | Sócrates |
MF | 172 |
| 9 | Flávio Minuano |
FW | 167 |
| 10 | Paulo |
FW | 149 |
Top from current squad:
Nilmar (31)
As of February 11, 2007
| # | Name | Pos. | Matches |
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| 1 | Wladimir |
DF | 803 |
| 2 | Luizinho |
MF | 606 |
| 3 | Ronaldo |
GK | 601 |
| 4 | Zé Maria |
DF | 595 |
| 5 | Biro-Biro |
MF | 592 |
| 6 | Cláudio |
FW | 554 |
| 7 | Vaguinho |
FW | 548 |
| 8 | Olavo |
DF | 514 |
| 9 | Idário |
DF | 475 |
| 10 | Roberto Rivellino |
MF | 471 |
Top from current squad:
Betão (179)
Neco (1913-1930)- Armando Del Debbio (1922-1931, 1937-1939)
- De Maria (????)
- Brandão (???)
- Teleco (1934-1944)
- Baltazar (????)
- Cláudio Christovam de Pinho (????)
- Luizinho (1949-1967)
- Gylmar dos Santos Neves (1951-1961)
- Idário Sanchez Peinado (????)
- Rivellino: (1965-1974)
- Zé Maria (1970-1983)
- Wladimir (1972-1985, 1987)
- Basílio (1975-1981)
- Sócrates (1978-1984)
- Biro-Biro (1978-1989)
- Walter Casagrande (1980-1981, 1982-1984, 1985-1986, 1994-1995)
- Zenon (1981-1986)
- Ronaldo(1988-1998)
- Neto (1989-1993)
- Marcelinho Carioca (1993-1997, 1997-2001, 2006)
Freddy Rincón (1997-2000, 2004)- Edilson (1997-2000)
- Ricardinho (1998-2002, 2006)
Carlos Gamarra (1998-1999)- Vampeta (1998-2000, 2002-2003)
- Luizão (1999-2002)
- Dida (1999-2001, 2002)
Carlitos Tévez (2005-2006)
- Osvaldo Brandão, deceased
- Vanderlei Luxemburgo, current coach of Santos FC
- Nelsinho Baptista, current coach of Ponte Preta
- Daniel Passarella, current coach of River Plate
- Oswaldo de Oliveira, current coach of Kashima Antlers
- Antônio Lopes
- Carlos Alberto Parreira, World Cup 1994 Champion and current coach of South Africa national football team
- Emerson Leão current coach
- FIFA Club World Cup - 2000[6]
- Mundialito de Clubes (Little World Club Cup): 1953 (Caracas, Venezuela)
- Torino Tournament: 1966 (Torino, Italy)
- New York International Tournament: 1969 (New York City, USA)
- Torneo Costa del Sol: 1969 (Spain)
- Hidalgo International Cup: 1981 (Mexico)
- Trofeo Ramón de Carranza: 1996 (Spain)
- Brazilian Série A: 1990, 1998, 1999, 2005
- Brazilian Cup: 1995, 2002
- Brazilian Supercup: 1991
1914, 1916, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003
- Rio-São Paulo Tournament: 1942, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1966, 2002
- Bandeirantes Cup: 1994
- Dallas Cup: 1998, 1999 (USA)
- Nike Cup: 2003 (USA)
- Copa São Paulo de Juniores (São Paulo Youth Cup): 1969, 1970, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2005
- Corinthians 3 x 2 Universidad Católica - 2006 Copa Libertadores de América Group Stage
- Corinthians 7 x 1 Santos - 2005 Brazilian Série A Season Match
- Corinthians 5 x 1 Cianorte - 2005 Copa do Brasil Eighth-Finals Match
- Corinthians 3 x 2 São Paulo - 2003 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians 0(4) x 0(3) Vasco da Gama - 2000 FIFA World Club Championship Final Match
- Corinthians 2 x 2 Real Madrid - 2000 FIFA World Club Championship Group Stage Match
- Corinthians 0 x 0 Atlético-MG - 1999 Brazilian Série A Final Match
- Corinthians 3 x 2 São Paulo - 1999 Brazilian Série A Semi-Finals (Corinthians GK Dida stopped two Raí penalties)
- Corinthians 8 x 2 Cerro Porteño - 1999 Libertadores da América Qualifying round
- Corinthians 2 x 0 Cruzeiro - 1998 Brazilian Série A Final Match
- Corinthians 1 x 1 Santos - 1998 Brazilian Série A Semi-Finals 3rd match
- Corinthians 1 x 0 Grêmio - 1995 Copa do Brasil Final Match
- Corinthians 2 x 1 Palmeiras - 1995 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians 1 x 0 São Paulo - 1990 Brazilian Série A Final Match
- Corinthians 10 x 1 Tiradentes-PI - 1983 Brazilian Série A Season Match
- Corinthians 5 x 1 Palmeiras - 1982 Campeonato Paulista Season Match
- Corinthians 1 x 0 Ponte Preta - 1977 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians 1(4) x 1(2) Fluminense - 1976 Brazilian Série A Semi-Finals (the Corinthians Invasion game).
- Corinthians 1 x 1 Palmeiras - 1954 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians 6 x 1 Bologna FC - Match between the Paulista Champion and the Italian Champion of 1929
- Corinthians 10 x 5 Portuguesa - 1927 Campeonato Paulista Season Match
- Corinthians 11 x 0 Santos - 1920 Campeonato Paulista Season Match
- ^ a b Pacaembu Stadium is property of the city of São Paulo. Corinthians matches are played there because of the low capacity of Corinthians' stadium.
- ^ According to Lance/Ibope Survey in 2004
- ^ The NGO stated goal is to raise R$300 million (approximately $140 million USD) within a 36-month time frame for the construction of a 60,000 seat venue that will be ceded to the club under an as yet undetermined arrangement. (Reference: Cooperfiel Website.)
- ^ Football Derbies - Corinthians x Palmeiras.
- ^ According to Corinthians Squad 2007. and match reports
- ^ RSSSF - FIFA Club World Championship 2000.
- Corinthians' (football) official website - in portuguese
- Corinthians (social area/amateur sports) official website - in portuguese
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