Bangu AC

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Bangu AC
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Basic data
Surname Bangu Atlético Club
Seat Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
founding 1904
president Jorge Varela
Website bangu-ac.com.br
First soccer team
Head coach Alfredo Sampaio
Venue Estádio Moça Bonita
Places 9600
league Campeonato Carioca
2017 13th place
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Bangu Atlético Clube is a Brazilian football club from Rio de Janeiro . The club was founded in 1904 and plays its home games at the Estádio Moça Bonita , which can seat 9,600 spectators. Bangu is currently playing in the state championship in Rio de Janeiro .

history

The Bangu AC 2004 team

In 1903 some English workers at a factory in Rio de Janeiro agreed to set up a football club. The Bangu district was chosen as the seat of the association. In December 1903, Andrew Procter applied to found the association, which was approved. On April 17, 1904, Bangu Athletic Clube was founded. Initially, the newly founded club played in the League of Rio de Janeiro, which was first won in 1933.

Previously, the club was a first for all of Brazil as it was the first football club to allow colored footballers to play for the club. The first colored player was Francisco Carregal , who officially appeared for the club for the first time in 1910. Based on a photo dated May 14, 1905, which showed him with the ball in the circle of the team and a corresponding note, it is assumed that he was already active earlier. In 1911, the club rose as a second division champion and thus winner of the Taça Francis Walter at the time in the first division of Rio. Bangu was also second division champions in 1914 and 2008.

In 1960 Bangu won the International Soccer League, which was held in the USA, by beating FC Kilmarnock from Scotland 2-0 in the final . Other important participants in this tournament that year included the champions from England, Yugoslavia , Sweden and Austria, FC Burnley , Red Star Belgrade , IFK Norrköping and SK Rapid Vienna . From Germany, FC Bayern was at the start. Ademir da Guia was named player of the tournament. After this success, Bangu still likes to consider himself the club world champion from 1960. The following year Bangu took part again in this competition, but this time only came second in his group of six participants.

1967 Bangu AC took part as Houston Stars in the championship of the then official soccer association of the USA, the United Soccer Association and finished fourth in the Western Division with six participants. Bangu played its home games in the Astrodome , making it the first soccer club to play its games in a hall.

The club had its most successful time when it was represented in the first Brazilian soccer league for a long time and even took second place behind Coritiba FC in the 1985 season. This allowed them to take part in the Copa Libertadores of the following year, where Bangu, however, failed in the preliminary round against Barcelona SC Guayaquil , Coritiba and Sociedad Deportivo Quito. This was Bangu's only foray into international competitions, and soon they were relegated from the Série A. After a few more relegations and promotions, Bangu AC is currently playing in the state championship in Rio de Janeiro , where it was sixth in the past season (2009).

successes

player

  • Décio Esteves , 3 international matches, 1950–1962 in the club
  • Ademir da Guia , 9 international matches, 1974 World Cup participant, 1956–1961 in the club
  • Domingos da Guia , 30 international matches, World Cup participant in 1938, 1929–1932 and 1947–1948 in the club
  • Jorge Mendonça , 6 international matches, participant in the 1978 World Cup, 1971–1973 in the club
  • José Sanfilippo , 29 international matches for Argentina, participant in the World Cup in 1958 and 1962, briefly with the club
  • Mehmet Aurélio , youth 1993–1995, Turkish international
  • Zizinho , 53 international matches, runner-up in 1950, 1951–1957 in the club
  • Zózimo , 35 international matches, world champion 1958 and 1962, 1951-1965 in the club
  • Sebastián Abreu , 6 international matches, 2017 for the club

Trainer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Francisco Carregal , on historiadoresdosesportes.com of December 21, 2017, page in portug., Accessed October 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Steve Holroyd: The Year in American Soccer - 1967 ( Memento of March 28, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) , American Soccer History Archives, August 15, 2008.

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