SC Brasil
The Sport Club Brasil , usually shortly Brasil called, was a sports club that in at the foot of Sugar Loaf situated area Urca at Praia Vermelha (Vermelha beach, Red beach) in the Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro was located. The association was founded on November 18, 1912 and probably dissolved towards the end of the 1930s. The club has successes in football and basketball .
Soccer
The Brasil team usually competed in white with a horizontal red stripe on their jerseys. On the chest was the monogram "S C B." in red. The home games were mostly played on the square on Rua Paysandu in the Flamengo district.
The Sport Club Brasil in Campeonato Carioca
In 1923, Brasil took part in the Rio State Championship for the first time . In the third division, the Série C, it was able to achieve fifth place in a field of eight participants. In the following season, the Campeonato Carioca split into two rival competitions: the tournament of the Liga Metropolitana de Desportos Terrestres with Vasco da Gama as the most prominent team and the competition of the AMEA, the Associação Metropolitana de Esportes Athleticos , in which Brazil participated. Since only eight clubs participated in the AMEA, it turned out that Brazil was first class.
In terms of sport, this meant that the team from Urca was a bit overwhelmed and only achieved one win in 14 games and lost 13 times. Just as devastating as this record was the goal difference of 22:64.
In the next season, the Campeonato Carioca was officially reunified, under the aegis of the AMEA, "for the greater glory of the sport in Rio", as the newspaper O Imparcial says in its October 11, 1924 edition. Most clubs are of a different opinion and, unlike Vasco, remain with the competition, which has lost its figurehead as a result.
Since the better players from Brazil - the striker Vadinho, who scored 13 times last year, and Fragoso, who hit the net twelve times in the 1924 competition - were soon to be found at the renowned Club Flamengo , the club remained the league's whipping boy .
In 1927, Brasil started the season with a 0-11 record defeat against Vasco da Gama. The second double-digit swat followed in 1930 with a 1:11 at home against Flamengo. In the end, the goal difference after 20 games was 25:78.
1931 was a better season with four wins in 20 games and only 46 goals conceded. That was enough to make it third from last. A player named Coelho contributed ten goals to the relative success.
In 1933 there was the highest victory in the club's history, a 4-0 against the Confiança Atlético Clube from the north of the city. The result was canceled, however, because Waldemar Luiz Bittencourt, an ineligible man for Brazil, was on the field. In the further course of the season there was an appealing 8: 5 win against the Andarahy Athletico Club - noteworthy all the more since this team, also from the north of Rio, was not so bad in those years. In 1933 they were third in the group and were even in the final of the national championship the following season, but where Botafogo FC kept the upper hand 2-1.
The 1934 season was quite short for Brazil. After only six games there was a rather involuntary withdrawal from the competition after serious disputes with the association. But 1935 was to be even worse for the club. After the first four games brought in four defeats with 3:16 goals, on matchday 5 it came to a 0:10 package against Vasco da Gama. The sporting situation was quite hopeless and there was no more money. After this fifth match day, the kickers withdrew from the competition at the foot of the Sugar Loaf and the club with the red stripe soon disappeared into obscurity.
The only countable title in the club's history remains the 1927 national junior championship.
Known players
The most prominent player in the club's history was probably the famous "rubber man" Leônidas da Silva , who is considered to be the inventor of the fallback and was the top scorer of the 1938 World Cup with eight goals . He was briefly with SC Brasil in 1935.
Another well-known player was Zezé Moreira , who coached the Brazilian national team in the 1950s and was to win the Copa Libertadores in 1976 as coach with Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte .
Nilo Murtinho Braga (1903-1975), who was already playing first division football at the age of 15 and who took part in the Football World Cup with Brazil in 1930 , played at the club in 1922/23.
basketball
The basketball players of the Sport Club Brasil participated in the state championship in Rio de Janeiro until at least 1937. In 1928 they had their greatest success and won the title. A national Brazilian championship did not take place in those years.
Web links
- Times do Brasil: SC Brasil
- Rio de Janeiro State - List of Champions (with references to season details)