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São paulo FC

São Paulo Futebol Clube was born in January 1930. The original team was created from the union of Associação Athletica das Palmeiras with dissidents from Club Athletico Paulistano, in 1930, and had its activities closed in May 1935, after the merger with CR Tietê, giving rise to the Clube de Regatas Tietê-Sao Paulo. But, at the end of the same year, a group met with the mission of reviving São Paulo Futebol Clube and so, on January 25, 1936, the team returned to the pitch.

January 25th is considered the big date, that is, the most important, for São Paulo Futebol Clube. The anniversary of the state capital had been chosen for the founding of the team, but the minutes were only signed on January 26, 1930, as the statutes were only ready during the early hours of the morning. The day also marked São Paulo's first game after its refounding, in 1936. On the occasion, the São Paulo tricolor beat Associação Atlética Portuguesa, from Santos, by 3-2, at Parque Antarctica.

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.

In 1952, the idea of building Morumbi, at the time the largest private stadium in the world, arose. The proposal was from the then treasurer of the club Laudo Natel. To raise funds for the construction, São Paulo sold 12,000 captive chairs as permanent assets. The stadium was inaugurated incomplete, on October 2, 1960, in order to raise more funds, with ticket sales and advertising. It also had the support of public money. Cícero Pompeu de Toledo Stadium was completed just 10 years later.

The black, white and red shield, known as the five-pointed heart, was created by the German designer Walter Ostrich, Oliver, with the collaboration of Firmiano de Morais Pinto Filho, one of the founders of the club, through an internal competition. The team's colors come from the teams that originated São Paulo FC. Club Athletico Paulistano was red and white and Associação Atlética das Palmeiras was white and black.

The first official game of São Paulo Futebol Clube took place on January 25, 1936, against Portuguesa Santista, at Parque Antártica. Victory by 3 x 2. Hours before the game, the news spread that the game was banned by the Secretary of Education. It was the day of the military parade and there could not be a soccer game in São Paulo. Lieutenant and pharmacist Porfírio da Paz, one of the founders and sports director of the new club, took a taxi and went straight to Avenida Paulista, the site of the parade. Disgusted, he went up to the stage and demanded from Secretary Cantídio Sampaio that the game be released.

From its foundation until today, São Paulo has always had the same colors, the same flag, the same uniform and the same badge, designed at the club's founding meeting by Walter Oliver. Joaquim Simão Gomes, one of the first employees in the history of São Paulo, proclaimed himself the inventor of the white soccer ball. At the time, they were all brown and he, tired of the difficulties in looking for the round ball in the middle of the woods, decided to paint the club's balls white.

São Paulo was the first owner of Estádio do Canindé. The place belonged to a club from the German colony and was bought by Tricolor in 1944. In 1956 the club sold the land to Portuguesa, which built a stadium there. During the administration of São Paulo, a goat named Augusto lived there in the Canindé CT. In 1949, São Paulo, thinking of making the TC more presentable, planted eucalyptus trees on the site. Augusto ate all the seedlings and started a political war that divided the club into two groups: “Tira o bode” and “O leave the goat”. Augustus stayed.

In the early 1940s, Corinthians and Palmeiras were the best teams in the state. It was said that to know who would be champion of São Paulo, it would be enough to throw a coin in the air. If this guy, it would give Palmeiras. If it gave tails, it would give Palmeiras. And São Paulo? “Only if the coin lands on its feet”, joked the directors of the two rivals. In 1943, São Paulo was champion and the tricolors began to joke: the coin landed on its feet.

The first goal by a goalkeeper in the history of São Paulo was not scored by Rogério Ceni. In 1995, two years before the goalkeeper-scorer scored the first goal of his career, Moscatto scored a penalty goal against Uberlândia in a friendly tournament. São Paulo is the only Brazilian team to have played in the Libertadores final for three consecutive years. After being champions in 1992 and 1993, Tricolor lost the decision in 1994. São Paulo, by the way, is the Brazilian team with the most Libertadores finals disputed: there were six. Three titles (1992, 1993 and 2005) and three runners-up (1974, 1994 and 2006). In addition, Tricolor is the only Brazilian to have been world champion three times.

Greatest idol in the history of São Paulo, Rogério Ceni arrived at the club in 1994. In 1997, he scored his first goal. As a starter, he was twice champion of São Paulo, once champion of the Rio-São Paulo Tournament, three times Brazilian champion, once champion of the Copa Sudamericana, once champion of Libertadores and once world champion. international competitions, São Paulo has never won the Copa do Brasil.

Telê Santana, in addition to being champion of São Paulo, Brazil, twice in Libertadores and twice in the world with São Paulo, was Muricy Ramalho's coach in the early 1990s. A decade later, between 2006 and 2008, Muricy would become, at São Paulo, three-time Brazilian champion. The coach's history with the club, however, begins precisely together with Telê in the 1990s. The "Expressinho", a kind of Team B of São Paulo, coached by Muricy, was champion of the Conmebol Cup in 1994. Three years later, he was he was the one who authorized Rogério Ceni to take the free-kick that led to the first goal of his career.