SC Corinthians Alagoano

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SC Corinthians Alagoano
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Basic data
Surname Sports Club Corinthians Alagoano
Seat Maceió / Alagoas
founding April 4, 1991
Colours red-white-blue
president BrazilBrazil Flávio de Albuquerque Moura
Website corinthiansalagoano.com.br
First soccer team
Head coach BrazilBrazil Ênio Oliveira
Venue Estádio Nelson Peixoto Feijó
Places 10,000

The Sport Club Corinthians Alagoano is a football club from Maceió , the capital of the northeast Brazilian state of Alagoas . The home stadium of the club, which - as is not uncommon in South America - has borrowed the name and symbolism from a popular, successful club, here the SC Corinthians Paulista from São Paulo (compare America FC ), is the round one known as "Nelsão" The multi-purpose stadium Estádio Nélson Peixoto Feijó with a capacity of 10,000 spectators .

The association was founded in 1991 with the explicit idea of ​​finding and promoting talent for the national and international market. The first notable successes began in 2000, and the club has dominated the youth competitions in Alagoas ever since. The U-17 teams won nine and the U-18 teams six national championships by 2010.

The fighting team rose in 1995 as the undefeated second division champion in the first division of Alagoas, but immediately had to relegate. Once again unbeaten, however, in 1997 they immediately rose again. Corinthians has since established itself in the first state league. 2004 succeeded the first time Corinthians, by the local rivals Centro Sportivo and CRB -dominated state championship from Alagoas to win. In 2007 and 2009 the club was runner-up.

National joined the club between 2000 and 2004 as a five-time participant of the third power level, the Série C , in appearance. In the first two years, the 7th and 11th place respectively achieved respectable successes. After that, however, Corinthians did not manage to place in the top 40 here. In the Brazilian Cup , Corinthians made it to the quarter-finals in 2008, but had to admit defeat to CR Vasco da Gama from Rio de Janeiro.

Known players

In accordance with the intentions on which the club was founded, a considerable number of players were able to assert themselves at a higher level. The best known is Pepe , who won the Champions League with Real Madrid and was European champion with the Portuguese national team . In the German Bundesliga, Luiz Gustavo played for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , FC Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg .

successes

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