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Tradition of Champions, loyal fans and a spectacular home. The Sao Paulo in Brazil has it all. One of the major football teams not only in America but around the world.

Football is like a religion in this part of the world. In addition to the samba, soccer is a religion in Brazil.

One of the clubs that has a large following is the Sao Paulo Futebol Clube. This team is the most prestigious South American level and throughout the world.

Its history dates back to 1930, and to date has won the Brazilian championship six times, three of them consecutively from 2006 to 2008. Sao Paulo has 22 regional championships, three Copa Libertadores Cups and two World Club Cup.

Another feature is that it has the third swollen largest.

Fans who follow them wherever they go and they always fill their stadium.

On the coast southeast of the giant Brazil in Sao Paulo state, 70 kilometers of the vast metropolis, emerge Santos on the Atlantic Ocean, a town of barely half a million inhabitants, whose port , the largest in South America, is the main economic activity of the population.

Santos is also a tourist destination for millions of people who visit each year for the benefits of the tropical climate.

For years, Santos has been synonymous with soccer. However, considered the best footballer of all time, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele, devoted his entire career, or at least sixteen prime, the largest club in town, the Santos Futebol Clube.

Vila Belmiro club, which until the arrival of Pele had just won three championships in São Paulo, became the light of the sun and the collaboration of many other great players over the years, attracted by the magic to play alongside the larger served the club in São Paulo, one of the most successful track record of Brazilian beat scorers records, and earning a deserved reputation for equipment - spectacle, soccer lively and engaging.

Santos Futebol Clube was founded on a historic day for mankind. That April 14, 1912, while in the offices of Concordia Club, Calle del Rosario, was brewing the launch of the new club, the Titanic sank in the icy waters off Newfoundland.

Charles Miller had come to Brazil twenty years before the first two footballs that were used in the country in Rio, and Santos the sport of Brazil would later world leading power had barely practiced.

The proponents of that meeting were three former local players of modest American club: Raymundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos and Argemiro de Souza Júnior.

In this assembly, as well as deciding the foundation of the club, also had to agree what would be your name, and what would distinguish colors.

For the first, the assembled several policy options that were ultimately dismissed. Concordia, Euterpe and Brazil Atlético were the names discussed in the first instance.

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Finally the participants of the meeting, unanimously accepted the suggestion of Edmundo Jorge Araújo, who proposed that the new club called Santos Futebol Clube.

deciding colors also had several ideas. The participants wanted the Concordia Club, host of the meeting, it is honored at the Saints.

discussed whether the shirt is blue and white vertical stripes of this club was the best, but ultimately decided that the Saints dress in white.

There she also elected the first President the club, Don Sizino Patusca.

The Saints play their first official match on September 15 of that year, against the Saints Athletic Club. The Futebol Clube got his first victory, beating its neighbors by 3-2, and Arnaldo Silveira happen to the club's history as the man who got his first official goal.

Eighty-six years after that first goal, the Saints became the first global soccer team managed to score 10,000 goals.
course, the first years of life were not too successful, at least as far as titles are concerned.

In the 20's, Santos was a pool of extraordinary talent. It became a benchmark of clubs dedicated to discover and develop future stars.

Made famous legendary "Front of the 100 goals, formed by Siriri, Camarão Feitico, Evangelista and Arak Patusca.

The latter, at age 20, starred in a historic event in 1927. In the match against Ipiranga, which ended with the result 12-1 for the Saints, Patusca made seven goals. The brand would last until 1964, he was whipped, of course, Pele.

team "Front of 100 goals "that year was about to come to the Paulista Championship, but in the last match, which earned him a tie, the Palestra Italia, Palmeiras later named him a 3-2 defeat, winning the title.

Santos's first trophy come eight years after that second place in 1935.

not get the title again until 1955, revalidating the following year, the year in which Pelé appeared to raise the Saints for years to the top of world football.

The September 7, 1956 is perhaps, along the date of its foundation, the most important day in the history of Brazilian club. That day, a boy who was missing more than a month to age 16, debuted for Santos.

During the next sixteen years, he scored the Saints' best club in the world, eclipsed only by the Real Madrid of Di Stefano, Puskas, Gento and company.

At that time, Santos was champion of the Campeonato Paulista in 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968 and 1969.

The ancient Taça Brasil, which has now known as the Brazilian Championship, went to the windows of Vila Belmiro in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 y1965.

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Between Brazil and the Brazilian Championship, created in 1971, there was a national competition called Tournament Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, which Santos won in 1968.

This competition was created after the Rio Championship - Sao Paulo, regional, as the Paulista, admitted to clubs in other states. Championships Rio - Sao Paulo from 1959, 1963, 1964 and 1966 were also won by the Saints in that glorious era.

Outside Brazil, Santos also won major titles, such as the Copa Libertadores in 1962 and 1963, the Intercontinental in the same seasons, with Benfica and Milan (this without Pele, injured), a Recopa Sudamericana in 1968 and also a World Cup Winners Cup in 1968.

Undoubtedly, the real architect of the avalanche of success was Pele, but also must recognize that he acted with an exceptional class players, many of them members of the mythical selection "canarinha" that won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970, such as Zito, Dorval, Jair, Coutinho, Zé Carlos, Pepe, Captain national team Carlos Alberto, Toninho, Edu, Clodoaldo and many others.

curious fact include an unprecedented event in world football. On May 5, 1963, in a match against Germany, the Brazilian national team fielded no fewer than eight players in the starting Santos: Gilmar, Lima, Zito, Mengálvio, Dorval, Coutinho, Pele and Pepe.

Santos contributed almost all players the best soccer team in the world.

The November 19, 1969, in Maracana Stadium, the Saints faced the Basque de Gama, in a match valid for the Tournament Roberto Gomes Pedrosa.

then Pele had made 999 goals in official matches, and the mark of 1000 was close to being achieved. In the absence of twelve minutes remaining with a goal to tie the score, René Basque defender committed a penalty. Pele, in his usual calm, scored the goal with which succeeded the legendary figure.

The star took a victory lap of the stadium dressed in a shirt with the number one thousand, receiving the cheers of supporters of his opponent that night.

In 1972, Pele decided to end his club career in his lifetime. After sixteen years and lots of titles, records and awards, the best Brazilian player of all time, and thirty-two years, accepted an offer from the New York Cosmos to at least try to increase the love of soccer in the United States.

The Saints ran out the best value, and many of its former stars were also removed over the years. How could it be otherwise, the club suffered, and in the years just got a couple of Campeonato Paulista in 1973 and 1978. The 80 brought only a championship again Paulista, in the year 1984. Dark years followed in which the club failed to titles, and its old aura of "big" was going out, so much so that in the 90's, the Saints went through a serious institutional crisis.

end of that decade, the club re-emerged, making the championship in 1997 with Rio - Sao Paulo, and one year after the Copa CONMEBOL.

With the arrival of Vila Belmiro bench of former Brazil coach Wanderley Luxemburgo, and the emergence of new stars like Robinho or Giovanni, Santos Champion regained its stigma, making the Titles Brazilian Champion in 2002 and 2004, and the Paulista Championship in 2006, for the sixteenth time in their history.

The Saints may never be what it once was, because it would require a new Pele and a new generation of stars to cover him up. Today it is almost impossible to repeat what Pelé and his companions did.

Brazilian stars are very young tempted by powerful European clubs, and South American teams in general, and Brazilians in particular, can not retain their most valuable players.

In Brazil there was once, long ago a generation of players who quit the European golden goal by a much more romantic.

The result was a dream team, precious, which delighted the general public, and clinched a modest club like the Saints to the Olympus of the Gods of football.

The scene of many of those hits was the Estadio Urbano Caldeira, Santos field, located in the district of Vila Belmiro. His name is a close associate of the club in its infancy, which served the Saints for over twenty years.

The camp was inaugurated on October 12, 1916, in a match against Ipiranga which ended with a 2-1 home win. Adolfo Millon Junior scored the first goal in the new field. Fifteen years after its inauguration, the Urbano Caldeira premiered lighting. The Saints have always been a pioneer in this area, and in 1999 expanded its stadium lighting, becoming the best sports field lighting throughout Brazil.

In 1996 he undertook a series of works affecting the pitch, widely criticized for years because of their poor condition, and the bleachers, building a new grandstand with capacity for 4,000 people behind one of the porterías.Actualmente The stadium holds 20,000 spectators.

article Pedro J. Diaz