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The Football Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FERJ) is the highest football entity in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. It organizes the state championships that are popularly called the carioca championship. The big four of Rio de Janeiro football are: Flamengo, Vasco, Fluminense and Botafogo, but other clubs were considered great in the past for having memorable campaigns, such as Bangu and América.

The São Paulo Football Federation (FPF), founded on April 22, 1941, is the highest football entity in the state of São Paulo, in Brazil. The four big ones of São Paulo football are: Corinthians, Palmeiras, Santos and São Paulo, but the interior also has clubs that have already made memorable campaigns, which are: Guarani, Ponte Preta, Red Bull Bragantino, São Caetano among others..

Governador Magalhães Pinto Stadium, better known as Mineirão, is a football stadium located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was the stage for Brazils famous 7-1 defeat to Germany in the 2014 fifa world cup. Atlético mineiro and Cruzeiro stand out as the two big players in the capital. Other clubs such as América Mineiro and more recently Ipatinga sometimes stand out from the rest on the national scene.

The Gaucho Football Championship, better known as Gauchão is an official and professional competition of this sport in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. Organized by the Gaucho Football Federation (FGF). Grêmio and Internacional, popularly known as Grenal, stand out as the big teams, while Caxias do sul, Juventude and Brasil de pelolas are also historic and can always have some prominence on the national scene.

The Club World Cup is a football competition organized by FIFA and played between champion clubs from all six continental confederations: CONMEBOL (South America), CONCACAF (North, Central America and the Caribbean), UEFA (Europe), CAF (Africa ), AFC (Asia) and OFC (Oceania). The Brazilian clubs that were champions are: Santos (1962 and 1963), Flamengo (1981), Grêmio (1983), São Paulo (1992, 1993 and 2005), Internacional (2006) and Corinthians (2000 and 2012)

The Brazilian Championship is the main competition in the country. It is through it that the representatives for the Copa Libertadores are appointed. Since 1971 the champions are: Atlético Mineiro(1971,2021), Palmeiras(1972,1973,1993,1994,2016,2018), Vasco(1974,1989,1997,2000), Internacional(1975,1976,1979), São Paulo( 1977,1986,1991,2006,2007,2008), Guarani(1978), Flamengo(1980,1982,1983,1987,1992,2009,2019,2020), Gremio(1981,1996), Fluminense(1984,2010, 2012) Coritiba(1985), Bahia(1988), Corinthians(1990,1998,1999,2005,2011,2015,2017), Botafogo(1995), AtléticoParanaense(2001), Santos(2002,2004), Cruzeiro(2003, 2013, 2014)

The Série A of the 2009 Brazilian Football Championship was the 53rd edition of the main division of Brazilian football, won by Clube de Regatas do Flamengo. The dispute took place between May and December and the regulation was similar to that of previous years, when the consecutive points system was implemented. The title was decided in the last round, in favor of Flamengo, who won the fifth title in its history, after beating Grêmio, by 2–1, at Estádio do Maracanã, with a record audience in this edition of almost 85,000 spectators.

The Football World Cup or World Cup is a competition organized by FIFA that takes place every four years with the exceptions of 1942 and 1946 due to World War II. The countries that edited until then were: Uruguay(1930), Italy(1934,1990), France(1938,1998), Brazil(1950,2014), Switzerland(1954), Sweden(1958), Chile(1962), England (1966), Mexico(1970,1986), WestGermany(1974), Argentina(1978), Spain(1982), United States(1994), SouthKorea_Japan(2002), Germany(2006), SouthAfrica(2010), Russia(2018) , Qatar(2022)

Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) as it exists today, was founded on September 24, 1979. CBF is responsible for organizing national championships. It also manages the Brazilian mens and womens football team. During the football world cups, the following coaches were appointed to lead the mens team: Tite(2018,2020), Dunga(2010), Felipão(2002,2014), Parreira(1994,2006), Zagallo(1970,1974, 1998), Sebastião Lazaroni(1990), TelêSantana(1982,1986), CláudioCoutinho(1982), VicenteFeola(1958,1966), AymoréMoreira(1962), ZezéMoreira(1954), FlávioCosta(1950), AdemarPimenta(1942), LuizVinhaes(1934) ), PindarOfCarvalhoRodrigues(1930)

In soccer world cups, the Brazilian team also had major defeats. We highlight here some of the most bitter: Brazil 1x2 Uruguay (1950), Brazil 2x3 Italy (1982), Brazil 0 x 1 Argentina (1990), Brazil 0 x 3 France (1998), Brazil 0 x 1 France (2006), Brazil 1 x 2 Netherlands (2010), Brazil 1x7 Germany (2014), Brazil 0 x 1 Belgium (2018)

Soccer Start the CR Flamengo does at home. But certain players create such a strong identity with the club that it seems like they havve been there since they were little, when in fact they came from outside. As is the case of Everton Ribeiro, who was released by Corinthians in 2007 and Gabriel Barbosa (Gabigol), who is a Santos calf and debuted as a professional in 2013 against Flamengo himself.

Renato Portaluppi is the only Brazilian champion of Libertadores as players and as a coach. In the 1983 World Cup final in Tokyo, he scored twice against Hamburg in Germany and returned home a hero. Already as a coach, he led Grêmio to the third championship of the tournament in 2017, which further reinforced his image as an idol.

Despite being often called “América Mineiro” so as not to be confused with the other “Américas” of Brazilian football, the club, unlike rival Atlético, does not carry “Mineiro” in its official name: its baptism is just América Futebol Clube. . América was the first team to be founded by a black man: Geraldino de Carvalho was among the young men who founded the club on April 30, 1912.

America's name and colors were chosen by lot. On April 30, 1912, the girl Alda Meira, sister of one of the founders, took the little paper with the name América Foot-Ball Club, which later had the spelling changed. The same process was used to define green and white as the team colors. The year after the foundation, the black of the shorts also became part of the team's official colors.

On March 25, 1908, a group of 22 students gathered at the bandstand in the Municipal Park of Belo Horizonte to found the Athlético Mineiro Football Club, which five years later became Clube Atlético Mineiro (CAM).

If throughout its centenary history Atlético revealed great players to Brazil, its first revelation, back in 1909, was in the field of literature: the first Galo goal in history was scored by Aníbal Machado, who would later become a poet and writer. , famous mainly for the work “Journey to the breasts of Duília”.

The nickname Rooster was given in the 1930s, inspired by a white and black rooster that, at the time, was unbeatable in Belo Horizonte's fights. In 1945, cartoonist Fernando “Mangabeira” Pieruccetti helped publicize the nickname by designing the mascot for the newspaper A Folha de Minas. But it was in the 1950s that the name really stuck, with the help of midfielder Zé do Monte, who entered the field with a rooster under his arm in every match.

The nickname Rooster was given in the 1930s, inspired by a white and black rooster that, at the time, was unbeatable in Belo Horizonte's fights. In 1945, cartoonist Fernando “Mangabeira” Pieruccetti helped publicize the nickname by designing the mascot for the newspaper A Folha de Minas. But it was in the 1950s that the name really stuck, with the help of midfielder Zé do Monte, who entered the field with a rooster under his arm in every match.

The Hurricane emerged from the merger of the Internacional Foot-Ball Club, founded by Joaquim Américo Guimarães, after whom Arena da Baixada is named, and the América Foot-Ball Club, founded by a group of members of Internacional. The first official match for the Red-Black team was played with Internacional's shirt because the new team's uniform had not been ready. The game took place on April 6, 1924 and Athletico beat Universal FC 4-2.

Athlético earned the nickname Hurricane in the 1949 State Championship. There were 10 wins in 12 games, including a 3 x 1 and a 5 x 2 in Atletibas (disputes against rival Coritiba). The team scored a total of 49 goals in the league and won the title with two games to spare.

When Clube Bahiano de Tênis and Associação Atlética da Bahia decided to close their football teams, some “orphan” players from the team decided to join together to create Esporte Clube Bahia. The first meeting was at a cabaret in Salvador. The team was founded on January 1, 1931.

Esporte Clube Bahia is also known as Tricolor de Aço or Esquadrão de Aço, so no one better than the Man of Steel to be the club's mascot. The Superman drawing that represents the club was created by cartoonist Ziraldo, in 1979. To help in the fight against racism, the classic mascot gained, in 2014, a companion: Lindona da Bahêa, a version of the artist Nei Costa for the Wonder Woman.

Botafogo is the oldest team in Rio de Janeiro: it was founded on 7/1/1894 as a racing club. In 1904, from this club was born a football team called Electro Club. The name was short-lived: months later it was decided to use the name of the neighborhood for the football team, then called Botafogo Football Club. Only in 1942 did Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas appear, a merger between the regatta club and the football team.

The number 7 is very present in the history of Botafogo: it was the number of Garrincha, the greatest player in the history of the club; it was Maurício's number, scorer of the 1989 title goal for Carioca, which broke a 21-year drought without a title; it was also the number of Túlio Maravilha, idol and top scorer in Botafogo's greatest achievement of all time, the 1995 Brasileirão. And more: in this title, Botafogo's sponsor was the soft drink brand… 7up.

Corinthians was named after Corinthian FC, an English team that had toured Brazil. The name did not please everyone. There were those who preferred that the name of the club honor a renowned Brazilian such as Santos Dumont or Carlos Gomes. Corinthians was founded by a group of humble workers. The first president, for example, was a tailor. The players themselves helped build the field where the team would play its friendlies.

The club's mascot, the Musketeer, emerged from a chronicle in the newspaper A Gazeta Esportiva after a friendly match against Barracas, from Argentina. The text compared the grit of Corinthians players with The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Corinthians lived for four years without having a shield. The first one was only designed in 1914. The first Corinthians uniforms were cream colored. The shade, however, faded easily after washing, and as there was no money to replace the fabric, it was decided to adopt white as the official color.

On January 30, 1910, a group got together to found the Coritiba Foot-Ball Club. At the time of drawing up the minutes, however, the member João Viana Seiler suggested considering the date of October 12, 1909 as the foundation of the club. On that occasion, they received an invitation from a group from Ponta Grossa, in the interior of the State, to hold the first football game in Paraná – scheduled for the 23rd of October. In a new meeting, on April 21, 1910, it was decided to change the name from Coritibano to Coritiba.

The first Paranaense Championship was played only in 1915 and the following year, in the 1916 Paranaense, Coritiba lifted its first trophy, by beating Britânia, in a final disputed in January 1917. The competition was still a doubt in relation to his credibility and any football game was a cause for joy and celebration. In the years 1917, 1920 and 1921, Coxa won the Torneio Inicial, a competition that had games with reduced time and a field with smaller dimensions.

Cruzeiro was born during a visit by the Italian consul to Belo Horizonte, at the turn of the 1920s. Members of the Italian colony in the city met with the official in the middle of Christmas to request the organization of the association. It was decided to arrange a new meeting for the following week, after the end of the year festivities. In this second conversation, held on January 2, 1921, the Società Sportiva Palestra Italia was formed.

The club was founded in 1921 under the name Palestra Itália, but had to change its name in 1942 due to the imposition of the New State of Getúlio Vargas, which prevented any Brazilian association from exalting Germany, Italy or Japan, Brazil's opponents in World War II. The new name made reference to Cruzeiro do Sul, the constellation represented in the flag of Brazil. Until 1925, Cruzeiro only accepted players of Italian descent into its squad.