São Paulo Athletic Club
| SPAC | ||
|
||
| Basic data | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Club Atlético São Paulo | |
| founding | May 13, 1888 | |
| Website | atleticocg.com.br | |
| First soccer team | ||
| Venue | - | |
| Places | nb | |
| league | State Championship of São Paulo | |
|
||
The São Paulo Athletic Club - despite its renaming to Clube Atlético São Paulo , still mainly known by the acronym SPAC - is considered the oldest sports club in the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo . In terms of sport history, the club is credited with introducing football, rugby, field hockey and other sports in Brazil.
At the beginning of the last century, the SPAC footballers with their protagonist Charles William Miller dominated the first organized competition in Brazil, the championship of São Paulo , which the club helped to create . Today, the club's rugby team dominates their sport in Brazil.
history
On May 13, 1888, the same day that the Imperial Regent Princess Isabel abolished slavery in Brazil with the Golden Law , British residents of São Paulo founded a club near the center of the city for the purpose of cricket and recreational activities .
Charles William Miller, who was born in Brazil, returned to São Paulo in 1894 at the age of 19 from his schooling in England and soon became involved in the association. In 1895 he brought both rugby and football to the club's repertoire. At SPAC, he was co-initiator of the first soccer championship in São Paulo, and thus Brazil, in 1902. He was also a successful player in the club's initially dominant team.
Miller was also involved in tennis - another sport in which the club played an important role in introducing it to Brazil. The club and Miller co-founded the São Paulo tennis association, the Federação Paulista de Tênis , in 1924 .
After the game of football was discontinued after 1912, rugby developed more and more into the sporting flagship of the club and has dominated it on a national level since the 1920s. The SPAC is still the leading national club in this sport and by far the record champions.
Nowadays rugby is the only sport where the traditional club is still active in top-class sport. The SPAC has otherwise gone through a similar development to SC Germânia, which was also at the top of São Paulo’s football at the beginning of the 19th century, and is primarily a leisure club these days, albeit of a smaller size.
The club's family- friendly facilities in the city center and in Santo Amaro in the south of the city offer swimming pools, tennis courts, squash halls and playing fields for lawn sports. There is also a sauna, billiards and restoration facilities. Rugby, futsal, squash, tennis, bowls, swimming and snooker are also offered as sports. Among other things, judo, gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics are encouraged for children. An amateur theater group, pub evenings, singing and dancing provide entertainment for around 1,000 members, a good number of whom are still British and their descendants.
Since 1995, with the exception of the year 2000, the association has been organizing the Rockgol , a football championship between well-known Brazilian musicians, which is broadcast by the TV station MTV Brazil.
Soccer
Charles William Miller also brought two footballs and a rulebook from England. First he brought the rugby game to the club, but soon he devoted himself exclusively to football, which was also received with enthusiasm by the other club members.
In the years that followed, football became more and more popular, and at the turn of the century Miller was co-initiator of the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball , the forerunner of today's State Association of São Paulo and the first official Brazilian football competition, the 1902 Championship of São Paulo In addition to the SPAC, the first draw included Club Athletico Paulistano , Sport Club Internacional , Sport Club Germânia , and the Associação Atlética Mackenzie College , which is mainly occupied by Brazilians . The SPAC became champions and Miller was the first top scorer with 10 goals. However, a playoff against CA Paulistano was due because the goal difference was insignificant at the time. SPAC won this at the Velódromo of São Paulo in front of 4,000 spectators thanks to two more goals from Miller with 2-1.
In the following season, the SPAC defended its title, also after a 2-1 win against Paulistano. Herbert Boyes became one of the two top scorer with just four goals. In 1905, with six participants now, since the Associação Atlética das Palmeiras joined, the championship hat trick succeeded. This time the SPAC remained unbeaten and a play-off was unnecessary for the first time. Miller and Boyes were at the end of the top scorer list with nine goals each.
In the following year it was only enough for fourth place. But things turned out badly in 1906. After the SPAC, still without a win, came under the wheels in the seventh game of the season with 1: 9 against Internacional - Charles William Miller was now in the SPAC's goal - the club immediately withdrew from the current competition. In the next three years the sporting situation for the English did not improve and they each came fifth. In 1910 the SPAC improved to third place and Herbert Boyes, who contributed ten goals, was at the top of the scorers list for the third time.
1911 saw the final high point in the club's football history. With a 2-0 win on the last day of the match at SC Germânia, the SPAC secured the fourth and final championship of São Paulo. In 1912 it was only enough to make it to the penultimate place among seven participants. The last game in football history of this important pioneer club ended on October 20, 1912 with a 1: 4 defeat against Germânia.
Because of the slowly creeping professionalization of football in São Paulo, the club decided to withdraw from this sport, as it has committed itself to pure amateur sport in its statutes.
At today's Clube Atlético São Paulo , football is only played at the old man's level - and sometimes there is a spontaneous game among members on one of the club's grass pitches.
successes
-
São Paulo State Championship : 1902, 1903, 1904, 1911
- Top scorer at the São Paulo State Championship
- 1902: Charles Miller (10 goals)
- 1903: Herbert Boyes (4)
- 1904: Charles William Miller, Herbert Boyes (9 each)
- 1910: Herbert Boyes (10)
- Top scorer at the São Paulo State Championship
rugby
|
||
| Full name | Sao Paulo Atlético Club (rugby) | |
| Founded | May 13, 1888 | |
| Stadion | Santo Amaro | |
| Places | ||
| Trainer | ||
| Homepage | www.spacrugby.com | |
| league | Campeonato Brasileiro de Rugby | |
|
||
In 1895, Charles William Miller played the first rugby game at the SPAC, but after the latter devoted himself entirely to football, rugby fell behind at the club for the time being.
In later years, SPAC returned to rugby - a purely amateur sport until the end of the 20th century, in Brazil still today - and a community dedicated to this sport developed in São Paulo with numerous clubs such as the Britânia Football Club and São Paulo Rugby Football Club .
In 1932 and 1936 important games between Brazil and the South African Springboks and the selection of England took place. At these games, the SPAC provided the vast majority of Brazilian players.
During the Second World War, rugby came to a major standstill in Brazil. In 1948, the then 36-year-old Englishman Jimmy McIntyre rebuilt rugby at SPAC and immediately organized the first trip abroad to Uruguay , where SPAC won all three games. At the beginning of the 1950s, the Irish Harry L. Donovan, a former player at the Blackrock College , which is regarded as the cradle of Irish rugby , came to São Paulo. He became technical director at SPAC and founded the first rugby union in Brazil in 1964 together with Jimmy Macintyre, from which the association Associação Brasileira de Rugby later developed.
In the same year, the opening game of the South American rugby championship between the hosts and Chile took place on the club grounds in Santo Amaro. Brazil - the majority, as was common in those years, with players from SPAC - achieved the best placement in this competition so far with second place behind permanent winner Argentina .
In 1964 the first Brazilian rugby championship was held in which SPAC was able to win its first of 12 titles so far.
In the Brazilian Cup, which has been held since 2004, SPAC has reached the final four times and won the title twice.
The club's rugby women won the first four draws of the São Paulo women's state championship until 2009.
successes
- Masters of Brazil: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976 *, 1977, 1978, 1999
- Cup winners of Brazil: 2005, 2008
- State Champion of São Paulo: 1999
- *) Championship shared with Niterói Rugby FC (RJ) in 1976.
Women:
- State champion of São Paulo: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federação Paulista de Tênis: História do tênis em São Paulo ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ MTV: Rockgol ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2009 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.
