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The Esporte Clube Radar was a sports club from Rio de Janeiro in the Copacabana district that became known as a pioneer of professional women's football in Brazil . Its colors were blue and yellow.

history

The club was founded in 1932 as an amateur sports club. When the ban on the organization of women's football that had been in force since 1941 was lifted in 1979, club owner Eurico Lyra Filho seized the opportunity the following year to set up the first professionally organized women's football team in Brazil with the help of financial sponsorship from the local banking sector. The team was composed primarily of players who were at home in the milieu of beach footballers from Copacabana and who practiced sport as a hobby on the sand, on which the team then had to play and train for the first two years, even if there was no pitch of their own. The team was only able to play on grass from 1982 after they had received permission to use the field of the local sports center of the Brazilian Navy (Casa do Marinheiro), to which access for women was previously prohibited.

In 1983 the FERJ hosted the first national championship for women’s football , one of which was the EC Radar, who won the title after three finals (1: 0; 0: 1; 3: 0) against Bangu AC . This marked the beginning of the club's dominance in Brazilian women's football, which lasted throughout the eighth decade of the 20th century. Radar not only won all the national championships held up to 1988, but also all national competitions for the Taça Brasil organized by the CBF from 1983 to 1989 . At that time, Radar was the only relatively professionally run women's soccer club in Brazil, which ultimately led to its dominance, while all other clubs attached little importance to this sport and operated it at an amateur level.

A lack of audience interest and support from reporting led to an initial decline in Brazilian women's football towards the end of the decade, as sponsorship funds increasingly failed to materialize, which also ushered in the end for Radar. However, he was able to underpin his outstanding importance for women's football once again with the establishment of the women's national team , whose first squad was almost entirely provided by the players from Radar. For example, at the FIFA invitation tournament in China in 1988, and at the first women's soccer World Cup in the same country in 1991. Eurico used the influence it had gained to be appointed technical director of the national team by the CBF on the occasion of the World Cup. Brazil eliminated here in the preliminary round.

In China, Eurico's reputation came to a quick end when radar player Márcia Honório da Silva made public his sexual relationship with her roommate, which the CBF used as an excuse to dismiss him from all association functions. This also put his club out, which from then on was avoided by the CBF, whereupon his players felt compelled to switch to other clubs in order not to endanger their careers. Former radar players formed the core of the successful CR Vasco da Gama team in the nineties. In December 1996, a robbery was carried out on the Radar Clubhouse on Rua Mascarenhas de Morais, in which a bomb was detonated, which caused severe burns to the Eurico present, from which he died in the hospital in January 1997. In his former clubhouse there is now a fitness studio.

successes

Well-known players

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