Associação Portuguesa de Desportos

Portuguesa
	Portuguesa
Basic data
Surname	Associação Portuguesa de Desportos
Seat	São Paulo
founding	August 14, 1920
president	José Ilídio da Fonseca Lico
Website	portuguesa.com.br
First soccer team
Head coach	Silas
Venue	Estádio do Canindé
Places	21,000
league	Série D
2017
home	Away

The Associação Portuguesa de Desportos , nationally also just Portuguesa de Desportos , locally often just called Lusa (from Lusitania for "Portugal"), is a sports club from the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo that is mainly known for its football department . The club is one of the most traditional clubs in the country.

Djalma Santos, 1958 world champion

The Estádio do Canindé under construction

The Estádio do Canindé (2007)

The Portuguesa won the São Paulo state championship three times and the traditional Rio-São Paulo tournament twice in the 1950s . In 1996 the club was runner-up in Brazil . Since relegating from the Série A in 2013, the Portuguesa has been in a lasting infirmity and is heavily in debt.

The star of the club's history is the two-time world champion in 1958 and 1962 Djalma Santos . Julinho, one of the world's best right wingers of the 1950s, and Zé Roberto , who won four German championships with FC Bayern , also come from the ranks of the club.

Club history

The Portuguesa was created on the anniversary of the Battle of Aljubarrota in 1385, which brought Portugal independence from Spain, August 14, 1920, through the union of the clubs of Portuguese origin: Lusíadas Futebol Club, Portugal Marinhense, Associação Cinco de Outubro, Associação Atlética Marquês de Pombal and Esporte Club Lusitano in the ballroom of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo as Associação Portuguesa de Esportes . The colors of the flag of Portugal , red and green, were chosen as the colors . The association received its current name in 1940.

In 1934 a player who emerged from the club became world champion. Anfilogino Guarisi , whose father was the second club president in history, played for the Red-Greens from 1922 to 1924 and won the 1934 World Cup with Italy.

In 1935 and 1936, the Portuguesa won the São Paulo State Championship twice . However, after the professionals split off in the competition held by the amateur association APEA, in which, apart from CA Ypiranga, only clubs that did not survive took part. Nevertheless, these championships are now formally run as being on a par with those of the professionals.

The club's heyday was in the 1950s, the era of the legendary Djalma Santos , who was with the club from 1948 to 1959 and became world champion in 1958 and 1962, but where he played for SE Palmeiras . During this period, the club won twice, in 1952 and 1955, the most important national competition at the time, the Torneio Rio-São Paulo . In 1951, 1953 and 1954 the Portuguesa was also awarded the Fita Azull , the "Blue Ribbon", the clubs got the longer trips abroad without defeat. At the Football World Cup in 1954 , in addition to Santos, Brandãozinho and Julinho , one of the best wingers of his time, who caused a sensation at Fiorentina from 1955 , were regular players in the team that won the quarter-finals in the infamous Battle of Bern of Hungary's golden generation with 2 : 4 defeated.

In 1953, the Portuguesa of São Paulo FC took over its run-down training ground in Canindé, where the pride of the club, the Estádio do Canindé , was to be built over the next few years .

Jair da Costa in 1962 and the 48-time national player Zé Maria , although in 1970 only as a reservist in the shadow of Carlos Alberto , were other world champions of the club. Félix , who played for the Portuguesa for almost ten years in the 1950s and 1960s, was in goal for the 1970 world championship, but then played for Fluminense FC in Rio.

In 1973 the Portuguesa won a third national championship. Here, however, referee Armando Marques gave strong assistance. The play-off in front of 116,000 spectators in the Estádio do Morumbi against FC Santos with the world champions Pelé and Carlos Alberto went to penalties. After two penalties, Santos scored his third to make it 2-0 and Wilsinho gave the Portuguesa the third. Marques then whistled, mistakenly believing that everything was decided. Portuguesa's coach Otto Glória knew better and immediately drove his team onto the bus to leave immediately. When Marques noticed his mistake after the Portuguesa leadership protested, there were no Portuguesa players left to take the remaining two penalties. After no time could be found in the calendar to reschedule the game, both clubs were declared champions. Enéas Camargo , who played three games in the national team, is probably the only figure from this team, besides the coach, where the name crossed the threshold of Ephemera .

Zé Roberto , who enjoyed many years of great success in Germany with FC Bayern Munich , began his professional career between 1994 and 1997 at Portuguesa and is part of the team that became vice-champions of Brazil in 1996 . The Portuguesa won the final first leg against Gremio FBPA 2-0, but lost the second leg with the same result. That made Gremio champion, because according to the rule, if the results were the same, the club was champion, who was better after the first phase of the competition - and there the team from the south came in sixth and the Portuguesa only eighth. The other players on the team included Alex Alves , who later became a "problem boy" at Hertha BSC , Rodrigo Fabri and Wolnei Caio .

In 2013, the Portuguesa rose after a controversial decision regarding the eligibility of a player from the first division . This led to Fluminense, the 2012 champion, escaping relegation. Since then, an almost inexorable infirmity has set in at the club, which has not only become nationally insignificant, but can only barely hold out in the second class at the state level. The association's debts have increased from almost 180 million reals in 2013 to around 350 million in 2018, which corresponds to around 80 million euros. This contrasts with the value of the stadium area, which is estimated at around 160 million real, just under 40 million euros.

Stadion

The club plays its home games in its own Estádio do Canindé in the district of the same name. The stadium has been officially named after Oswaldo Teixeira Duarte, the club president at the time it was built, since 1984.

The stadium, built in 1956, has a capacity of 25,000, which is also the official record from an encounter with Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte in 1998. Portuguesa won the game 1-0.