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Pipico
Wesley Henrique Lima Silva e Silva (born 7 March 1985), commonly known as Pipico, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for Santa Cruz. Pipico began his career as a youth player for Itaperuna, where he played for six months, before moving to Angra do Reis, America and Bahia, when Pipico started his professional career. After this, Pipico played for Floresta, Cabofriense, Bangu and Macaé, always having passages of great prominence, especially in Campeonato Carioca. In 2012, after one and a half year of interest and negotiations, Pipico made a move to Vasco da Gama to play Brazilian Série A, but wasn't very successful. He moved for first time to a foreign team, more precisely to play Major League Soccer for FC Dallas, but weeks later he returned to Brazil, signing with melhor Atlético Goianiense. Career Vasco da Gama For a one and a half years, Vasco da Gama showed interest in having Pipico in their squad. However, Vasco da Gama's optimal phase team in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campeonato Carioca
The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Port., Rio de Janeiro State Championship), was started in 1906 and is the annual football championship in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is under the authority of the FERJ or FFERJ (Football Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro). The first season of the ''Campeonato Carioca'' was played in 1906. It was predated by: the Campeonato Paulista of São Paulo and the Campeonato Baiano of Bahia. Rivalries amongst four of the most prestigious Brazilian teams ( Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama) have marked the history of the competition. The oldest clubs from Rio de Janeiro ( America, Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense, São Cristóvão, Vasco da Gama) had inspired the creation of many clubs from other states. Fluminense is the team considered the "champion of the century" with the highest number of titles of the 20th century at 28. Flamengo leads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CR Vasco Da Gama
Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (), commonly referred as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a professional sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Originally a rowing club, Vasco is mostly known for its football team, who it currently competes in the Brasileirão Série A, the top tier of Brazilian football league and in the Cariocão Série A, the top tier of Rio de Janeiro state football league. Named Vasco da Gama 400 years after 1498 European-Asian sea route, the club was founded in 21 August 1898 as a rowing club by Brazilian workers and Portuguese immigrants tradesmen, and created it football department in 26 November 1915.História 1898–1923' NetVasco.com Vasco da Gama plays their home matches in São Januário stadium since 1927, and also in Maracanã stadium since 1950. Vasco da Gama is one of the most widely supported teams in Brazil and the Americas. According to census and polls, Vasco is the fifth-most supported club in Brazil, with more than 15 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlético Clube Goianiense
Atlético Clube Goianiense, usually known as Atlético Goianiense or just as Atlético, is a Brazilian football team from the city of Goiânia, capital city of the Brazilian state of Goiás. Atlético Goianiense is the oldest Goiânia city football club. The club is the first team of its state to win a national competition, which was the Série C. Atlético Goianiense made a comeback to Brazil's top level Série A in 2010 after a 23-year absence. In 2016, Atlético Goianiense won the title of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B for the first time. They won the title with two rounds in advance, beating the already relegated Tupi by 5 to 3. History On 2 April 1937, Nicanor Gordo and Joaquim Veiga founded the club, starting football in the newly founded city of Goiânia. Gordo and Veiga left the newly founded club in 1938, and joined Goiânia EC, which was another new club. In 1944, the club competed in the first Campeonato Goiano, which was also the first official football c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Holidays In Brazil
In Brazil, public holidays may be legislated at the federal, statewide and municipal levels. Most holidays are observed nationwide. Apart from the yearly official holidays (listed below), the Constitution of Brazil also establishes that election days are to be considered national holidays as well. General elections are biennially held on the first Sunday of October in the first round, and on the last Sunday of October in the second round. Numerous religious and ethnic holidays are also celebrated in Brazil. Secondary holidays * Fat Tuesday, The day of Carnival. * Ash Wednesday Wednesday after Carnival, the last Carnival day. * Good Friday, the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, is a municipal holiday in many places. * Dia das Mães, the Brazilian observation of Mother's Day, is celebrated every second Sunday in May. * Corpus Christi is celebrated on the Thursday, 60 days after Easter Sunday. * Dia dos Namorados, the Brazilian equivalent of St. Valentine's Day, is observed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 CR Vasco Da Gama Season
The 2011 season was Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama's 113th year in existence, the club's 96th season in existence of football, and the club's 40th season playing in the Brasileirão Série A, the top flight of Brazilian football, having been out only in 2009, after a relegation from top division in 2008, backing in 2010. Vasco da Gama finished Brasileirão Série A as runners-up, 2 points behind winners Corinthians, in a title decided in last round, when Corinthians draw 0–0 against Palmeiras and Vasco da Gama draw 1–1 against Flamengo. Vasco da Gama in Copa Sudamericana goes at semifinals, after a 1–3 aggregate loss against eventual winners Universidad de Chile. Vasco da Gama won their first Copa do Brasil title, after an epic finals against Coritiba, winning in away goals rule after a 3–3 aggregate draw. Vasco da Gama finished Rio de Janeiro State Championship in 6th place, after a fall in group stage of Taça Guanabara and a runners-up against Flamengo in Taça Rio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada—since the 2023 season. The league is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Major League Soccer is the most recent in a series of men's premier professional national soccer leagues established in the United States and Canada. The predecessor of MLS was the North American Soccer League (NASL), which existed from 1968 until 1984. MLS was founded in 1993 as part of the United States' successful bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The inaugural season took place in 1996 with ten teams. MLS experienced financial and operational struggles in its first few years, losing millions of dollars and folding two teams in 2002. Since then, developments such as the proliferation of soccer-specific stadiums around the league, implementation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian"), and also known as Brasileirão Assaí due to sponsorship with Assaí Atacadista, is a Brazilian professional league for men's football clubs. At the top of the Brazilian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B. In 2021 the competition was chosen by the IFFHS as the strongest national league in South America as well as the strongest in the world. Due to historical peculiarities and the large geographical size of the country, Brazil has a relatively short history of nationwide football competitions. Only in 1959, with the advancements in civil aviation and air transport and the need to appoint a Brazilian representative to the first edition of the Copa Libertadores was a natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floresta Atlético Clube
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Floresta may refer to: Geography * Floresta, Pernambuco, a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil * Floresta, Rio Grande do Sul, a neighbourhood in Porto Alegre, Brazil * Floresta, Boyacá, a municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia * Floresta, Buenos Aires, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina * Floresta, Sicily, a municipality in the province of Messina, Sicily * La Floresta, Uruguay, a small city located in Canelones Department, Uruguay * La Floresta, Guayaquil, a neighborhood located in Guayaquil, Ecuador Geology * Floresta Formation, a fossiliferous geological formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, named after Floresta, Boyacá See also * La Floresta (other) La Floresta can refer to: * La Floresta, Quito, electoral parish in Quito, Ecuador * La Floresta, Córdoba, town in Capital Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina * La Floresta, Lleida, municipality in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tombense Futebol Clube
Tombense Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as Tombense, is a Brazilian professional club based in Tombos, Minas Gerais founded on 7 September 1914. History The club was founded on 7 September 1914. They won the Campeonato Mineiro Segunda Divisão in 2002 and in 2006. In 2014, the club was promoted to the third division after winning the fourth division. This was the club's first national title. Honours * Campeonato Brasileiro Série D : Winners (1): 2014 * Campeonato Mineiro Segunda Divisão : Winners (2): 2002, 2006 * Recopa Mineira The Recopa Mineira ( en, Minas Gerais Winners Cup), is a super cup tournament organized by the Federação Mineira de Futebol reuniting the winners of Troféu Inconfidência and the best placed team that is not from Belo Horizonte of each season ... : Winners (2): 2021, 2022 Players First team squad Reserve team Out on loan References Tombense Futebol Clube As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volta Redonda Futebol Clube
Volta Redonda Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as Volta Redonda, is a Brazilian professional club based in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro founded on 9 February 1976. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, the third tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Carioca, the top tier of the Rio de Janeiro state football league. History Foundation In 1975, the only professional team of the city of Volta Redonda was Clube de Regatas do Flamengo of Volta Redonda (not be confused with Clube de Regatas do Flamengo of Rio de Janeiro city), commonly known as Flamenguinho. In the same year, the states of Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara fused. Because of the fusion of the two states, the Federação Carioca de Futebol ("Carioca Football Federation", Rio de Janeiro city football federation) and Federação Fluminense de Desportos ("Fluminense Sporting Federation", federation of the interior cities of today's Rio de Janeiro state) also fused. At a meeting between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarani Futebol Clube
Guarani Futebol Clube, colloquially called Guarani, is a Brazilian association football club in Campinas, São Paulo. Guarani is the only club from Brazil's countryside to have won the top tier of the Brazilian Championship. The team currently play in the Série B, the second tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Paulista Série A1, the top tier of the São Paulo state football league. It is also known as Bugre, a popular term for an Indigenous Brazilian, and its supporters are known as ''bugrinos''. History Guarani Football Club was founded on April 1, 1911, in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, as Guarany Foot-Ball Club, by the initiative of 12 students from the Gymnasio do Estado (now Culto à Ciência). The students, including Pompeo de Vito, Hernani Felippo Matallo and Vicente Matallo, usually played football at Praça Carlos Gomes. Vicente Matallo became Guarani's first president. Guarani was named after maestro Antônio Carlos Gomes' opera " Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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