EC Pinheiros
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| Surname | Esporte Clube Pinheiros |
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| Club colors | dark blue-light blue-white |
| Founded | September 7, 1899 |
| Place of foundation | Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo |
| Association headquarters | São Paulo |
| Departments | 40 |
| Chairman | Luis Dutra Rodrigues |
| Homepage | ecp.org.br |
The Esporte Clube Pinheiros is a sports club in the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo , which was founded in 1899 by German-Brazilians as the Sport Club Germânia . SC Germânia was one of the first clubs to establish football in Brazil , playing the first official championship game in the country's history in 1902. Germânia is a two-time winner of the São Paulo State Championship . The outstanding athlete at that time was Hermann Friese , who is considered to be the first major footballer in Brazil.
After the abandonment of football as a top sport in the early 1930s, the club transformed into a successful general sports club. The swimming department had its first Olympic athlete as early as 1932 and has since won gold. The basket and volleyball teams play in the first national league. One of the association's strengths is youth work.
Since the 1940s, the club has also established itself as a social club with a large ballroom and has since expanded its range of general leisure activities for its members, even beyond sports. These days, thousands of visitors pass through the club's restaurants and bars every day. Performances by top stars of the Brazilian entertainment industry such as Jorge Ben Jor and Daniela Mercury as well as classical orchestras and theatrical performances are regularly on the calendar of events.
From Nobilings team to SC Germânia
In March 1897, the Hamburg-born engineer Hans Nobiling arrived in São Paulo. Nobiling, who played at SC Germania 1887 in Hamburg, one of the predecessor clubs of Hamburger SV , until his emigration , had a soccer ball, the statutes of Germania and the Hamburg Sports Association in his luggage.
He soon formed the Hans Nobilings Team with other sports friends from different countries such as Portuguese, French, English and also Germans , after the São Paulo Athletic Club of the English-born pioneer Charles William Miller and the team from Mackenzie College, the third soccer team in Brazil and became one of the pioneers of this sport.
In 1899, Nobiling's team invited the Athletic Club to a competition, but the latter refused. Mackenzie College did not hesitate, and on March 5, 1899, the first game between two football clubs in Brazil took place. The result is 0-0.
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When Nobiling wanted to turn the syndicate into a regular club, a name dispute arose: 15 players voted for “Internacional”, five for “Germânia”. The club founded on August 19, 1899 as SC Internacional should make its way into the history of football in Brazil. After the two national championships in 1907 and 1928, the club ran into financial difficulties and at the end of the 1930s was part of today's successful club, São Paulo FC .
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Hans Nobiling was disappointed that his suggested name was not well received, left the new club with the Wahnschaffe brothers and founded the Sport Club Germânia with other German immigrants on September 7, 1899. He not only gave it the same name, but also the same club colors as his former club in Hamburg. Germânia was now the fourth football club in Brazil after the Athletic Club, Mackenzie College and Internacional.
Together with the three other clubs and the Club Athletico Paulistano , Germânia founded the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball on December 19, 1901 for the purpose of holding a championship, the first Brazilian football association. On May 3, 1902, the Germânia and Mackenzie finally went to the first championship game in Brazilian history. Germânia lost the game 2-1 and finished fourth after the São Paulo championship ended in October. In 1906 and 1915 Germânia finally won the championship. In the seasons 1905 and 1906, the Germânia players Hermann Friese and Fueller were also top scorer of the competition. The Frisian, who also came from SC Germania 1887 from Hamburg, not only acted as a coach, he was an outstanding athlete and the first great player personality in Brazil. In 1903 the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo called him “the most sensational footballer of all time”.
In May 1907, Friese, a former German champion in the 1,500 meter run , was the only Brazilian athlete to take part in an international competition in Uruguay , the so-called International Olympic Games of Montevideo , and won the 1,500 meters and in a single evening 800 meters , over 400 meters he came second. He can therefore also be seen as the club's first successful athlete.
Hermann Friese is also considered the discoverer of Arthur Friedenreich , one of the greatest footballers in Brazil, who began his career with Germânia in 1909. The mulatto was only accepted into the club because of his German father. Together with Nobiling, Friese successfully campaigned for the deletion of discriminatory aspects of the association's statutes. The exceptional footballer should only play for Germânia in 1909 and 1911.
As early as 1905, Nobiling, who had close contacts to Germany, had succeeded in winning the future German national team captain and Olympic participant Camillo Ugi for a four-month stint at SC Germânia. Nobiling had lured him to São Paulo with a lucrative position in his trading post.
In September 1913, the right half-striker Edgard Amstitter became the only selection player in the club's history when he competed with a city selection from São Paulo, which presented itself as the Brazilian national team, against a Chilean selection that lost 3-1 in Parque Antarctica.
As early as the second decade of the 20th century, the association increased its commitment to other sports besides football, such as athletics and tennis. Water sports such as rowing and swimming were practiced on the Rio Tietê . In the 1920s, the Germânia bought the Chácara Itaim , an agricultural homestead in a loop of the Rio Pinheiros , an area owned by the association.
With the transformation to professionalism, SC Germânia withdrew from football, although teams were still sent to lower amateur leagues in the 1950s. An increasing number of amateur sports was now the focus of the club. In 1932, the diver became the club's first Olympian.
The EC Pinheiros today
After the introduction of professional football, the EC Pinheiros limited itself to pure amateur sport. Water sports, triathlon and fencing are sports in which Pinheiros produces leading athletes in Brazil today. The club maintains around 40 sports departments, including card and chess players. The club also still operates futsal and football, albeit far from with the enthusiasm of the founding generation around Hans Nobiling.
During the Second World War , Brazil allied itself with the Allies . Club names that referred to the Axis powers such as Germany, Italy and Japan were no longer considered good form. In this phase, the SC Germânia went through a phase of nacionalização , the "Brazilianization", and the union with the association Gesellschaft Germania founded in 1868 (also: "Sociedade Germania") in March 1942 was taken as an opportunity to reconstitute itself as EC Pinheiros . The new name refers to the Rio Pinheiros , which runs through São Paulo and flows near the club area. Since then, the club language is no longer German and the majority of the board members have to be Brazilian. In order to better respond to the concerns of the non-sporty society Germania , Pinheiros opened his festival hall on New Year's Eve 1957, which at the time was considered the largest in South America.
With over 35,000 members, the club claims to be the largest multi-purpose sports club in the southern hemisphere. But sport is only one facet of the club. The EC Pinheiro now resides on 170,000 m² in the most noble of all quarters of São Paulo, Jardim Europa . The club's grounds include a park with mature trees, a sauna, a swimming pool, two dozen tennis courts and first category restaurants, a well-equipped library, a childcare facility and event rooms.
From 6:00 a.m. to midnight, an average of 6,000 visitors visit the club area every day. The club's publicly available balance sheet shows the club's assets of around BRL 380 million for 2007 , which is the equivalent of around 140 million euros .
The club's coat of arms is still similar to that of the original SC Germânia - but the border in the imperial colors of black, white and red has given way. The EC Pinheiros no longer has any special significance for the German-Brazilian community.
sports
basketball
In 2006 the EC Pinheiros took part in the professional Brazilian basketball league for the first time. In that year Pinheiros could not qualify for the single-track national basketball league, which began the following season. With the 2009 season, Pinheiros is back in the top Brazilian basketball league. In 2010, the team started with the sponsor name as Pinheiros / Sky .
In February 2012 Pinheiros lost only in the final of the South American Basketball League - the second most important South American competition for basketball clubs - with 73:88 against CA Obras Sanitarias de la Nación from Buenos Aires.
volleyball
Both the men and women of the volleyball department compete in the respective top division, the super league . In 2010 the men's team started with the sponsor's name as Pinheiros / Sky . The women played as Pinheiros / Mackenzie according to their syndicate with Mackenzie University . Brazil is one of the world's best in this sport.
Water polo
EC Pinheiros has been running water polo since 1949. Players from the club were soon accepted into the national team and represented Brazil at the Olympic Games and numerous other international competitions, such as when Brazil won the Pan American Games in 1963. After Pinheiros won the Brazilian Cup in 2004, the Club also champions of the national league, which was held for the first time in 2008, Liga Nacional de Pólo Aquático .
- National men's titles:
- Championship: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018
- Cup: 1992, 2003, 2005
- National women's titles:
- Championship: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
- Cup: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
tennis
Tennis was already practiced in the early years of CS Germania. The founding president Hans Nobiling also became an enthusiastic tennis player, especially in later years. In 1924, Germania was one of the founders of the Federação Paulista de Tênis national association . With 14 tennis courts, the club had the largest tennis facility in Brazil in 1949. The club has 24 tennis courts and has hosted several Davis Cup games , for example against India in 2010. Ingrid Metzner von Pinheiros was the first Brazilian participant in Wimbledon in the 1950s .
athletics
Within the club, athletics has been practiced at SC Germânia from the very beginning. Hermann Friese , at one time also German champion in the 1,500 meter run, was the only Brazilian to represent the country at an international tournament in Montevideo in 1907, where he won two competitions. In 1924 Germânia was a founding member of the national association for athletics, the Federação Paulista de Atletismo. At the end of the 1930s, the club dominated athletics in Brazil with its 70-member team and, in addition to numerous South American records, held almost all national records. In the 1970s, João Carlos de Oliveira dominated the triple jump and held the world record for a long time. In the presence of the four-time South American champion in the 800 meter run, Fabiano Peçanha and Sabine Heitling , South American champion over 3000 m obstacle, are among the best of these days of the athletics team competing under the sponsor name EC Pinheiro / Asics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ O jogador corn sensacional de todos os tempos , quoted in the article Quando a bola Começou a rolar , Gazeta Esportiva
- ↑ Revista Pinheiros , # 139, EC Pinheiros, São Paulo, 2009, p. 46
- ^ 2º Novo Basquete Brasil - Clubes Participantes ( Memento of July 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, (2010)
- ↑ CBV ( Memento of the original of December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol (2010)
- ↑ EC Pinheiros ( Memento of July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , Liga Nacional de Pólo Aquático (2010)
- ↑ Brasil foge de favoritos e enfrenta a Índia na Copa Davis , iG, May 11, 2010
