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Club Athletico Paulistano –generally known as just Paulistano– is a
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and social club from the Brazilian metropolis
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located in the quarter of
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, close to the city. The club was founded on 29 December 1900 for the purpose of playing
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. Its team was one of the early pioneers of the sport in Brazil and was considered the nationally leading side around 1920. To date, Paulistano remains the only club that won the
São Paulo state championship The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Run by the São Paulo State Football Federation (FPF), t ...
four consecutive times. In the course of the professionalisation of the sport in Brazil, the club abandoned the game after 1929. Since then,
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has developed into the leading sport practised by Paulistano. Further to that, the club these days maintains departments for
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, among other activities.


History

Under the leadership of the Englishman
Charles William Miller Charles William Miller (24 November 187430 June 1953; ) was a Brazilian sportsman, who is considered to be the father of football in Brazil. Miller founded São Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC), one of the oldest sports clubs in Brazil, and founded ...
representing the
São Paulo Athletic Club São Paulo Athletic Club - officially nowadays Clube Atlético São Paulo, but generally referred to as SPAC, is a Brazilian sports club founded on 13 May 1888 by Charles William Miller, Algernon Francis Egert and several English immigrants, b ...
(SPAC), Paulistano, together with
SC Internacional Sport Club Internacional (), commonly known as Internacional, Inter de Porto Alegre, a cidade do Grêmio or simply Inter, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre. They play in the Série A, the first division of the ...
, AA Mackenzie College and SC Germânia founded in 1901 the ''Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball'' (LPF), the first football league in Brazil. In 1902 the first championship of São Paulo was held and the São Paulo Athletic club secured the first three titles, with Paulistano being runner up on each occasion. 1905 was the year when Paulistano won its first championship after all. 1907 Paulistano made the Briton John Hamilton coach of the team, which is believed to be the first appointment of a professional trainer by a Brazilian team. Further championships followed in 1908 and 1913. In 1914 there was a schism in the football of São Paulo as the LPF was averse to accepting new members and thus the broadening of the base of the game. Paulistano joined the competing, generally accessible league under the auspices of the Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos (APEA). In 1917 the LPF should dissolve and integrate into the APEA, which proved far more attractive. From 1916 to 1919 Paulistano won four consecutive championships, a feat hitherto unrivalled. A major contributor to this success was
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, these days counted among the all-time greats of football, who became six times top-scorer of the São Paulo championship during his time with the club. In this era Paulistano also won the
Taça Ioduran The Taça Ioduran (), was the third interstate clubs competition realized in Brazil, after Taça Salutaris (1911), and Taça dos Campeões Estaduais Rio – São Paulo, Taça dos Campeões Estaduais (1913 and 1914). The tournament consists of the ...
of 1918, a cup for the winner of a match between the champions of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and in 1920 the Copa dos Campeões Estaduais, the Cup of State Champions, which also included the champion of
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. In both cases Paulistano defeated
Fluminense FC Fluminense Football Club () is a Brazilian sports club based in the neighbourhood of Laranjeiras, in Rio de Janeiro, being the oldest Association football, football club in the state since its foundation in 1902. It competes in the Campeonato B ...
from Rio in the decisive match. In March and April 1925 Paulistano as first Brazilian side toured continental Europe, a trip that to date forms a major part of the club's folklore. Paulistano, re-inforced with Araken Patusca from
Santos FC Santos Futebol Clube () is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a ''bairro'' in the city of Santos, São Paulo, Santos. It plays in the Campeonato Paulista, the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo's premier State football lea ...
and three far less prominent players from Rio's
CR Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; ), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian multi sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea. It was founded and named after the Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Flamengo n ...
, won nine out of ten matches in France, Switzerland and Portugal, encountering and defeating also the national selections of their first two countries. On the occasion of the match against France in Paris, defeating the hosts 7–1, Brazilian football was seen as revelation, and Arthur Friedenreich was pronounced by the local press ''le roi du football'', the "king of football". Arakén was described as "Le Danger". Another one of Paulistano's stars on this tour was Anfilogino "Filó" Guarisi, who later should play in Italy and win the World Cup of 1934. On their return to São Paulo there was another break up in the state football. Most clubs opted for official professionalisation. Few clubs resisted, among them Paulistano. Under the leadership of Paulistano, the amateur league Liga dos Amadores de Futebol was founded. The fellow footballing pioneers of SC Gêrmania and AA das Palmeiras joined the club from the APEA and played with five other clubs from 1926 in this break-away league. Paulistano won three of the tournaments until 1929, and the
SC Internacional Sport Club Internacional (), commonly known as Internacional, Inter de Porto Alegre, a cidade do Grêmio or simply Inter, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre. They play in the Série A, the first division of the ...
, which joined in 1927, won in 1928 its second state title after 1907. However, amateur football proved not viable and with the formal dissolution of the league in early January 1930 Paulistano shut down its football operations, too. By the end of the month some members, sympathisers and players like Friedenreich from Paulistano and AA das Palmeiras joined to form the
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, then known as ''São Paulo da Floresta'', a club which in later years became one of the most prominent clubs in brazilian and south-american football.


Stadium

Paulistano initially played their home games at Velódromo, located in
São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
. The stadium had a maximum capacity of 10,000 people. It was inaugurated on 18 October 1901 for the practice of football, and was demolished in 1916. On 29 December 1917, the club inaugurated a new stadium, named Estádio Jardim América. It had a maximum capacity of 15,000 people, and was demolished in 1950.


Tennis

Another noteworthy sport is tennis, which has brought to light several prominent names in its history, such as Nelson Cruz, one of Brazil's players in the country's first participation in the
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;
Armando Vieira Armando Vieira (11 April 1923 – 14 January 2010) was a Brazilian tennis player. His best achievement was reaching quarterfinals of the 1951 Wimbledon Championships. In June 1951 he won the singles title at the Dutch International Championshi ...
, one of the pioneers in competing internationally and introducing foreign techniques to Brazilian tennis; Cecy Carvalho, a São Paulo and Brazilian champion who captained the CAP elite team for thirteen consecutive years; and
Laura Pigossi Laura Pigossi Herrmann de Andrade (; born 2 August 1994) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, playing alongside Luisa Stefani. Pigossi has won one singles and one doubles title on the ...
, a club member who, alongside
Luisa Stefani Luisa Veras Stefani (; born 9 August 1997) is a professional tennis player from Brazil who specializes in doubles. Stefani is the first Brazilian woman to reach the WTA rankings, WTA top 10 in the Open Era. This milestone for Brazilian tennis w ...
, won the first Olympic medal in tennis for Brazil in history at the
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. Additionally, Pigossi began her tennis training at Paulistano.


Basketball

Club Athletico Paulistano has an active men's
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team. As one of their sponsors is Unimed, the club is named Paulistano/Unimed. The team is one of the basketball teams of
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, the Brazilian basketball league.


Honours


National

* Copa dos Campeões Estaduais ** Winners (1): 1920


Inter-state

*
Taça Ioduran The Taça Ioduran (), was the third interstate clubs competition realized in Brazil, after Taça Salutaris (1911), and Taça dos Campeões Estaduais Rio – São Paulo, Taça dos Campeões Estaduais (1913 and 1914). The tournament consists of the ...
** Winners (1): 1918


State

*
Campeonato Paulista The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Run by the São Paulo State Football Federation (FPF), ...
** Winners (11): 1905, 1908, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1926, 1927, 1929 ** Runners-up (10): 1902, 1903, 1904, 1907, 1909, 1912, 1914, 1920, 1924, 1928 *
Taça Competência The Taça Competência was a tournament organized by Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos (APEA), that aimed to carry out the confrontation between the Capital and the Countryside champions, since at the time, logistical impossibilities di ...
** Winners (3): 1918, 1919, 1921 * Torneio Início ** Winners (3): 1924, 1926, 1927


See also

*
Club Athletico Paulistano (basketball) Club Athletico Paulistano, abbreviated as C.A. Paulistano or C.A.P., is the senior men's basketball section of the Brazilian multi-sports club Club Athletico Paulistano (C.A.P.), which is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The team competes in the t ...


Further reading

* Nilo Dias:
C.A. Paulistano: Os reis do futebol
', Museu Virtual do Futebol, 27 October 2009 * Sidney Barbosa da Silva:

', Arquivo Campeões do Futebol, December 2008.


References


External links

* {{Authority control Association football clubs established in 1900 Association football clubs disestablished in 1930 Football clubs in São Paulo Defunct football clubs in São Paulo (state) 1900 establishments in Brazil 1930 disestablishments in Brazil Novo Basquete Brasil