Sport Club Corinthians Paulista
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| Full name | Sport Club Corinthians Paulista | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Timão (Big Team), Coringão (Big Joker) Time do povo (The people's club) |
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| Founded | September 1, 1910 | ||
| Ground | Pacaembu (public stadium) Parque São Jorge (own stadium) São Paulo, Brazil (Capacity: 37,180 (Pacaembu) 18,386 (Parque São Jorge)) |
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| Chairman |  Andrés Sanchez |
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| Coach | Mano Menezes |
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| League | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | ||
| 2008 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, 1st (promoted) | ||
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Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, a Brazilian sports club, based in São Paulo, São Paulo State, Brazil, most known for its football team, is a traditional and popular Brazilian multisport club. They have around 26-30 million fans in Brazil, which makes it the second most popular club in the country.
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 English amateur team Corinthian-Casuals, who exist to this day.
The football team is one of the most successful in Brazil, having won the first edition of the FIFA Club World Championship, the Brazilian Série A four times, the Brazilian Cup three times, the São Paulo State Championship 26 times (leader), amongst other honours. It is the most successful club in Brazil if considering national competitions, because it has won 4 times the National League (Campeonato Brasileiro) and 3 times the National Cup (Copa do Brasil), becoming 7 times nacional champion (against 6 from São Paulo, Grêmio and Flamengo). Corinthians fans are widely known as "Fiel", Portuguese for "faithful" or "loyal".
As a multisport club, Corinthians also have amateur and professional volleyball, handball, taekwondo, judo, swimming, tennis and futsal teams. Recently, Corinthians started competing in the Superleague Formula, a racing tournament with the biggest football teams around the world.
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[edit] History
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Fúlvio, Casemiro do Amaral and Casemiro Gonzalez; Police, Biano and Cesar; Aristides, Peres, Amilcar, Dias and Neco
[edit] The Centennial Champion
Corinthians are known in Brazil as the "Centennial Champion", because of the coincidence 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
[edit] The Champion of Champions
Corinthians is also known in Brazil as the "Campeão dos Campeões" (Champion of Champions), because in 1915 the team broke with the Paulista League and did not participate in that year's tournament, which was won by Germania. At the end of the season, Corinthians challenged Germania to a game and won 4-1. Challenged to face Palmeiras, the champion of the Apea League (another league of those times), Corinthians was again triumphant with a 3-0 victory. As a sidenote, the victorious team in those challenges was also the 1914 and 1916 undefeated São Paulo State Championship champion.
There is also another story that could explain the 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, in a match against Vasco da Gama, in Rio de Janeiro, Corinthians won 4-2, with goals scored by Filó (2), De Maria and Gambinha, bringing home the "Champion of Champions" trophy.
Today, the nickname is used in the second verse of the club's official anthem.
[edit] The Musketeer
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 the depleted Paulista League was left with only Americano, Germania and Internacional, known as the "three musketeers" of São Paulo football. Corinthians joined the three as D'Artagnan, being the fourth and most adored musketeer, just like Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers. To be accepted in that "musketeers universe", Corinthians had to show its bravery. As there was many other teams who coveted the spot in 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. The Corinthian team beat Minas 1-0 and São Paulo 4-0, earning acceptance into the group and acquiring the right to participate in the Special Division of the Paulista League in the following year.
[edit] Saint George
An important symbol for Corinthians was Saint George, that still can be found in old stationery for the team. Unfortunately, as the Roman Catholic Church demoted its status to a third class minor saint in 1963, Saint George has been gradually forgotten by the Corinthians supporters.
[edit] Corinthians Invasion (Invasão Corinthiana)
The so-called "Corinthians Invasion" happened in 1976, when the Corinthians fans invaded the Mário Filho Stadium (Maracanã) in Rio de Janeiro during the semifinal of the Brasileirão Championship of 1976. In the game between Fluminense and Corinthians, around 70 thousand fans supporting Corinthians 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 of Records. The game went into extra time, followed by a penalty shootout which was won by Corinthians. In November 2006, a special team jersey was released celebrating the 30th anniversary of the invasion.
[edit] Corinthians Democracy (Democracia Corinthiana)
The Corinthians Democracy was a unique ideological movement in the world, known in Brazil as one of the key moments in the struggle against the military dictatorship that governed the country at the time.
Led by Socrates and Wladimir, the players took some control of the team's management, deciding things 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 announcement, "Vote on the 15th", to motivate people to vote on November 15, in the elections that would help Brazil to end its dictatorship.
[edit] Corinthians World Champion
The first edition of the FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in 2000. Eight club sides representing every corner of Planet Football converged on Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It was the two Brazilian participants, Rio's Vasco da Gama and Corinthians of São Paulo that met the star-studded local final. The São Paulo side just managed to defeat their rivals 4-3 in a penalty shootout after 120 minutes of tactical, goalless football. After drawing with Real Madrid and disposing of Saudi Arabia's Al Nassr and Morocco's Raja Casablanca in the first round, Corinthians and their stable of thoroughbreds - Vampeta, Freddy Rincon, Edu, Dida and Edilson - ran out worthy champions in front of a crowd of 73,000 in Rio's fabled Maracana Stadium. Corinthians played the final match with Dida, Índio, Fábio Luciano, Adílson, Kléber, Vampeta (gave place to Gilmar), Rincón, Marcelinho Carioca, Ricardinho (gave place to Edu), Edílson (gave place to Fernando Baiano) and Luizão. Coach: Oswaldo de Oliveira.
[edit] Rivalries
- Palmeiras: Palestra Itália (now known as Palmeiras) was founded in 1914 as an Italians-only club. Some of Corinthians' Italian members, including the player Bianco, the only Italian on Corinthians' squad, left to join the new club and were labeled as traitors. Because of that, the teams became rivals, and remain the fiercest rivals in São Paulo to this day.[1]
[edit] Colours and crests
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[edit] Colours
Even though the club has been recognized by the colours 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 colour gradually became white. After that, early in the club's history, the official colours were changed, so the club would not waste much money on buying new kits. In 1954 was introduced the black with thin white stripes uniform which became the alternative uniform.
     1910 Kit
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[edit] Crests
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. The club then debuted its first symbol, with the letters "C" and "P", which stand for Corinthians Paulista.
The first crest was created by the lithographer Hermógenes Barbuy, brother of Corinthians' player Amílcar, in 1914. But the crest changed often before 1919, when a new crest (part of the present crest) debuted on Corinthians' shirts in 1919. Presenting a São Paulo State flag in a circle and the club's name, S.C. Corinthians Paulista, written around it, where S.C. stand for Sport Club.
The crest changed yet 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 acquatic sports practiced in the club), making it unique. The definitive crest has been revised a few times.
[edit] Manufacturer and Sponsors
Manufacturer:
Topper (1982-1987)
Finta (1988-1993)
Penalty (1993-1998)
Topper (1999-2002)
Nike (2003-)
Sponsors:
Bombril (1982) - back
Cofap (1983)
Citizen (1984) - back
Bic (1984)
Corona (1984)
Kalunga (1985-1994)
Suvinil (1995-1996)
Excel-Econômico (1997-1998)
Embratel (1998)
Batavo (1999-2000)
Pepsi (2000-2004)
Kolumbus (2003) - sleeves
Samsung (2005-2007)
Medial Saúde (2008-2009)
Ford (2009) - one game only
Locaweb (2009) - one game only - sleevs
Vivo (2009) - one game only - sholders
Aacd (2009) - one game only
Visa (2009) - one game only
Panasonic (2009) - one game only - sleevs
Lupo (2009) - one game only - shorts
Batavo/Perdigão/Brasil Food (2009-)
Bozzano (2009-) - sleeves
Grupo Silvio Santos/Banco Panamericano (2009-) - shoulders/lower back
Avanço (2009-) - under sleeves
[edit] Stadiums
- Main article(s): Campo do Lenheiro, Bom Retiro Stadium, Fazendinha, Pacaembu
As soon as founded Corinthians needed somewhere to host its matches. The team initially played on a field owned by a wood seller, and henceforth was known as Campo do Lenheiro (portuguese for wood seller's field). The field's conditions were not ideal as the players and fans had to clean the place before every match.
Four years after being included to play the São Paulo State Championship, in 1918, a more appropriate stadium was required, as the fame and number of fans increased after winning two state championships. Associates, players and fans managed to build another stadium, known as Bom Retiro Stadium which would be Corinthians home ground for nine years.
In 1928, club chairman Alfredo Schürig purchased the terrain where the social club now stands, known as Parque São Jorge. Inside the social club a stadium (named after Schürig) was built. Most known as Fazendinha (Portuguese for small farm) or Parque São Jorge Stadium' this stadium would host Corinthians matches for a long time.
Municipal Prefecture Stadium Paulo Machado de Carvalho (known as Pacaembu) was inaugurated in 1940. As the team with the biggest fanbase in the city, Corinthians would play its bigger matches in the public stadium for a bigger attendance. Eventually every Corinthians home match would be played there.
As the capacity of Pacaembu decreased with time, to 37,000 spectators as of its last improvement in 2008, Corinthians is forced to play sometimes in rival's São Paulo FC ground (Morumbi Stadium) when the expected attendance is superior to Pacaembu's capacity.
Several projects of a new stadium were presented to the public since the 1960s. The club owns property in Itaquera conceded for the built of its new stadium by the Municipal Prefecture in 1970s. In the 1990s Corinthians inaugurated its first training centre there, known as CT de Itaquera.
Former partner group HTMF bought land in the Raposo Tavares Highway in late 1990s for the stadium construction but the partnership ended soon after that.
In late 2006 a NGO called Cooperfiel established a fund drive for a new stadium.[2]
Former Chairman Alberto Dualib had conversations with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (an ardent supporter of the club) to ask him for financial assistance to build a new stadium for the team. In that meeting, the president demanded to talk to former coach Emerson Leão and tell him he trusted on him to "fix" the team, which has been having problems with greedy players and jealousy amongst them. It is also said that the real purpose of that meeting was that Dualib could talk to Lula about Boris Berezovsky's arrival.
Corinthians' practice field is home to Brazil's first FIFA certified artificial turf pitch. This synthetic turf pitch, called Xtreme Turf, was manufactured by ACT Global Sports.
As of 2009, there are some conjectures that Municipal Prefecture and Corinthians would make a deal for a 20-year allotment of Pacaembu. Besides that, Fazendinha is being improved to host some matches and shows starting 2010.
[edit] Anthem
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The Corinthians anthem was written in 1952 by Lauro D'Avila, called "Campeão dos Campeões" (Champions of the Champions).
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Salve o Corinthians, Salve o Corinthians, Teu passado é uma bandeira, Corinthians grande, |
Hail Corinthians, Hail Corinthians, Your past is a flag, Great Corinthians, |
[edit] Squad
Squad for the Brazilian Cup and São Paulo State Championship as of Feb. 2, 2009.[3]
[edit] First team squad
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[edit] Notable Players
[edit] Technical Staff
[edit] Current Technical Staff
- Mano Menezes — Head coach
- Toninho Oliveira — Fitness coach
- Carlos Alberto Pimentel — Assistant fitness coach
- Marcos Antonio Romando — Goalkeeping coach
- Dr. Fábio Luiz Novi — Club doctor
- Dr. Paulo Antonio de Faria — Club doctor
- Dr. Joaquim Grava — Head of Medical Department
- Dr. Renato Fraga Moreira Lotufo — Physiologist
- José Alberto Fregnani Gonçalves — Physiotherapist
- Paulo Rogério Vieira — Physiotherapist
- Christine Fernanda Machado Neves — Nutritionist
- Alexandro Gonçalves Dias — Masseur
- José Lazaro do Nascimento — Masseur
- Cleber Costa de Souza — Masseur
[edit] Notable managers
Corinthians first official manager was uruguayan Pedro Mazzulo appointed in 1933. Before that, usually the leader player (captain) accumulated also the head coach function. Former player Neco was the first appointed manager to win a championship with the club, in 1937.
Nelsinho Baptista in 1990, Wanderley Luxemburgo in 1998, Oswaldo de Oliveira in 1999 and Antônio Lopes in 2005 are the four managers that succeeded to win the Brazilian championship trophy with the club. Osvaldo Brandão is known as one of the most important managers in the club's history for leading the group to win the São Paulo State Championship in 1977, after 23 years without a trophy.
Current manager Mano Menezes wrote his name in the club's history after leading Corinthians back to first division in 2008, after Corinthians was relegated for the first time ever in 2007. Mano also lead Corinthians to a Runner-Up campaing in Brazilian Cup 2008 and a Title in Paulista State Championship 2009
[edit] Honours of professional football (66)
[edit] Official honours (41)
[edit] World Competitions (FIFA): (1)
[edit] National competitions (CBF): (9)
- Brazilian Championship Serie A: 1990, 1998, 1999, 2005
- Brazilian Championship Serie B: 2008
- Brazilian Cup: 1995, 2002, 2009
- Brazilian Supercup: 1991
[edit] Competitions inter-state (FPF and FFERJ): (5)
- Rio-São Paulo Tournament: 1950, 1953, 1954, 1966, 2002
[edit] Competitions state of São Paulo (FPF): (26)
- São Paulo State Championship: 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, 2009*
Unbeaten champion in 1914, 1916, 1929, 1938 and 2009
[edit] Friendly tournaments (25)
[edit] International tournaments (10)
- Pequeña Copa del Mundo (VEN) (1):1953
- Charles Miller International Tournament (BRA) (1): 1954
- City of Turin Tournament (ITA) (1): 1966
- Apollo V Cup (USA) (1): 1969
- Costa del Sol Tornament (ESP): 1969
- Independence of Mexico Cup (MEX) (1): 1981
- Nations Cup (USA) (1): 1985
- International Summer Tornament (BRA) (2): 1986, 1987
- Ramón de Carranza Trophy (ESP) (1): 1996
[edit] National tournaments (15)
- São Paulo City Cup: 1942, 1943, 1947
- Mayor of São Paulo Cup: 1953
- Gold Quinela: 1942
- Missões Tournament: 1953
- Charles Miller Tournament: 1955
- Brasília Tournament: 1958
- São Paulo Cup: 1962, 1975
- Recife Cup: 1965
- Peoples's Tournament: 1971
- Laudo Natel Cup: 1973
- Porto Alegre City Cup: 1983
- Bandeirantes Cup: 1994
[edit] Amateur football (13)
[edit] Youth Competitions (13)
- Dallas Cup (2): 1999, 2000
- Nike Cup (1): 2003
- Copa São Paulo de Juniores (7): 1969, 1970, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2009
- Copa Sub-17 de Promissão: 2002, 2003, 2007
Further information:Corinthians Youth Team
[edit] Matches
[edit] Notable matches
- Corinthians-Internacional 2-2 - 2009 Copa do Brasil Final Match
- Corinthians-Santos 3-1 - 2009 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians-Universidad Católica 3-2 - 2006 Copa Libertadores de América Group Stage
- Corinthians-Santos 7-1 - 2005 Brazilian Série A Season Match
- Corinthians-Cianorte 5-1 - 2005 Copa do Brasil Eighth-Finals Match
- Corinthians-São Paulo 3-2 - 2003 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians-Vasco da Gama 0(4)-0(3) - 2000 FIFA World Club Championship Final Match
- Corinthians-Real Madrid 2-2 - 2000 FIFA World Club Championship Group Stage Match
- Corinthians-Atlético-MG 0-0 - 1999 Brazilian Série A Final Match
- Corinthians-São Paulo 3-2 - 1999 Brazilian Série A Semi-Finals (Corinthians GK Dida stopped two Raí penalties)
- Corinthians-Cerro Porteño 8-2 - 1999 Libertadores da América Group Stage
- Corinthians-Cruzeiro 2-0 - 1998 Brazilian Série A Final Match
- Corinthians-Santos 1-1 - 1998 Brazilian Série A Semi-Finals 3rd match
- Corinthians-São Paulo 5-0 - 1996 Campeonato Paulista Season Match
- Corinthians-Grêmio 1-0 - 1995 Copa do Brasil Final Match
- Corinthians-Palmeiras 2-1 - 1995 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians-São Paulo 1-0 - 1990 Brazilian Série A Final Match
- Corinthians-Tiradentes-PI 10-1 - 1983 Brazilian Série A Season Match
- Corinthians-Palmeiras 5-1 - 1982 Campeonato Paulista Season Match
- Corinthians-Ponte Preta 1-0 - 1977 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians-Fluminense 1(4)-1(2) - 1976 Brazilian Série A Semi-Finals (the Corinthians Invasion game).
- Corinthians-Boca Juniors 4-1 - 1956 Torneio Internacional Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Group Stage Match
- Corinthians-Palmeiras 1-1 - 1954 Campeonato Paulista Final Match
- Corinthians-Barcelona 1-0 & 3-2 - 1953 Pequeña Copa del Mundo
- Corinthians-Bologna FC 6-1 - Match between the Paulista Champion and the Italian Champion of 1929
- Corinthians-Portuguesa 10-1 - 1927 Campeonato Paulista Season Match
- Corinthians-Santos 11-0 - 1920 Campeonato Paulista Season Match
[edit] See also
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[edit] References
- ^ "Football Derbies - Corinthians x Palmeiras". http://www.footballderbies.com/results/index.php?id=86.
- ^ The NGO's 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". http://www.fielzao.com.br/.)
- ^ According to "Corinthians Squad 2009". http://www.corinthians.com.br/futebol/elenco.asp., CBF's BID and match reports
[edit] External links
[edit] Official websites
- (English) official website
[edit] Corinthians related websites
- Committee for Preservation of Corinthians' Memories
- (Portuguese) Timao Web - News of Corinthians
- FIFA Home Page
- Biro Biro (former player)
- Internet Poll All Time Best XI
- All Time Best XI Placar Magazine
- Book - Top 10 Idols
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