The first organized crowd in Brazil was São Paulo

The first organized crowd in Brazil was São Paulo, founded in 1939 by Manoel Raymundo Paes de Almeida, then a high school student and later a counselor, secretary, director, coach and president of the club. The crowd was created under the name of Grêmio São-Paulino and, later, renamed as Tusp (São Paulo Uniformed Crowd). The Independent Organized Torcida emerged from a dissidence of Tusp, in 1972.
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