Vasco da Gama Beach Soccer is a Brazilian men's professional

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team based in

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, Brazil. It is a part of the multi-sports club

CR Vasco da Gama Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (; English: Vasco da Gama Club of Rowing), commonly referred to as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although originally a rowing club and then a multi-sport club, Va ...

History

The beach soccer division of CR Vasco da Gama was founded in 1999. The team won the first

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

hosted in

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Honours

Worldwide

** Winners (1):

** Runners-up (1): 2015

Continental

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** Winners (4):

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, 2024 ** Runners-up (1):

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

National

* Campeonato Brasileiro ** Winners (3): 2017, 2019, 2020 * Copa do Brasil ** Winners (2): 2012, 2014 * Circuito Brasileiro ** Winners (1): 2013–14

Inter-state

* Torneio Rio–São Paulo ** Winners (1): 2010

State

* Campeonato Carioca ** Winners (5): 1999, 2003, 2014, 2018, 2020 Although it has qualified for the competition from the Brazilian Championship of 2017, the club is considered champions of the Copa Libertadores of 2016. Both competitions were destined to be disputed in December 2016, nevertheless, due to the tragedy with the team of the Chapecoense, were postponed to the beginning of 2017. For reasons of homologation with the

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, the edition of the Copa Libertadores continued being referring to the year 2016, while the

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opted to leave the edition of the Brazilian Championship referring to the year of dispute, in this case 2017.

Notable players

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* Betinho * Bokinha * Bruno Xavier * Bueno *

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* Catarino * Cesinha *

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* Jorginho * Júnior Negão * Lucão * Mauricinho * Rafael Padilha *

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* Villalobos *

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References

{{CR Vasco da Gama Beach soccer clubs in Brazil

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