São José EC
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | São José Esporte Clube | ||
| founding | August 13, 1933 | ||
| president | Helio Fontes | ||
| Website | saojoseec.com.br | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Estádio Martins Pereira | ||
| Places | 15,300 | ||
| league | Third division of the state championship | ||
| 2009 | 5th place | ||
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The São José Esporte Clube is a Brazilian football club from São José dos Campos , a city with around 620,000 inhabitants in the east of the state of São Paulo in the valley of the Rio Paraíba do Sul . The greatest success of the club, which was founded in 1933 as a spin-off from the Associação Esportiva São José , was second place at the state championship in São Paulo in 1989. The women's division succeeded in winning the Copa Libertadores Femenina in 2011 and 2013 . The club's colors were originally black and white, but have been blue, white and yellow like the city colors since 1977. The mascot common in Brazil since 1978 has been Águia do Vale , the "eagle of the valley", a white-headed eagle that replaced an ant that carried out this function until 1976.
history
The club's history was unimpressive until 1957, when the São José EC advanced to the third national league for the first time in the professional field. In 1957 and 1958, São José was also an amateur national champion. The club has been fully involved in the state's professional gaming operations since 1964, and played second class for the first time in 1966. In 1968 and 1969, however, São José put the game on hold while a new stadium was built, which was necessary because the national association required stadiums with a minimum capacity of 10,000 spectators for the professional clubs and the previous one only held 5,000.
In 1981 São José qualified for the first time for the state championship in São Paulo , where the club only narrowly failed in the semi-finals against the champions of that year, São Paulo FC . This also allows the first participation in the national championship of Brazil , which was then called Taça de Ouro . There the team did well and was able to successfully assert itself against prominent teams such as Gremio Porto Alegre , Atlético Mineiro , and Botafogo FR before failing in the third round at Bangu AC from Rio de Janeiro. From this statisticians calculated an attractive 12th place in a field of 44 participants.
1989 was the most successful participation in the state championship to date. Prominent clubs that São José left behind in direct comparison included the traditional clubs FC Santos and SC Corinthians Paulista . In the finals, however, São Paulo FC retained the upper hand, winning the home game 1-0 and holding a 0-0 in the second leg. The second participation in the national championship for which São José thus qualified turned out to be less successful. In the 1990 competition, the team was 19th out of 20 participants.
It was enough for a third participation in the national championship in 2000. In the tournament, which was once played as Copa João Havelange , São José only achieved one point in 10 games and is listed as the last among 114 participants in the statistics.
The following years were marked by crises. The club itself was relegated to the amateur sector, in 2003 and 2004 even the right of appearance was sold to entrepreneurs and these teams competed as Esporte São José . These days the club is back in the third national league.
Women's soccer
Since 2008 the São José EC has had its own women's soccer team, which is one of the most successful in Brazil.
Well-known players and coaches
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Freddy Rincon (2009)
The Brazilian national goalkeeper Emerson Leão began his professional career at São José EC in 1968, as did the later European legionnaire Roque Júnior in 1993.
One of the most famous coaches in the club's history is the star striker Pepe , who won the club's world cup with FC Santos in the early 1960s. He worked at São José in 1981. 1938 Brazilian World Cup competitor Tim joined the club later that year. In 1988 and 1990 Émerson Leão returned to his home club as a coach. In mid-2009, the former Colombian international Freddy Rincón was in charge of training for a few months.
Stadion
The São José EC originally played in the Estádio da Rua Antônio Saes , officially named Estádio Martins Pereira , named after the founders of the club, the brothers Nelson and Mário Martins Pereira, which opened in 1942 and held 5,000 spectators.
Since São José established itself in professional gaming in the 1960s, the association demanded a larger stadium. In 1968, construction of a new stadium began elsewhere, which was inaugurated on March 15, 1970 with a game between Atlético Mineiro from Belo Horizonte and SC Internacional from Porto Alegre . Mineiro won the game 1-0 with a goal in the 29th minute from Dadá Maravilha who scored the first goal in the new stadium.
The São José EC, whose game operations were suspended during the construction period, played its first game in their new home, also named after the founding fathers of the Estádio Municipal Martins Pereira club , on March 22, 1970 against São Paulo FC, which won 1-0 here won.
For a long time, the stadium held around 20,000 spectators. These days the official capacity is given as 15,300 spectators. The unofficial record attendance was reached in May 1997 when 25,000 watched a state championship game between São José and São Paulo FC which ended 1-1.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Year-end placements according to RSSSF Brasil