Corinthians Soccer Team
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista
was founded September 1st, 1910, by a group of friends in
the neighbourhood of Bom Retiro, under the lights of a oil
lamp, in what is now downtown São Paulo. Their idea
was to found a football team in which anyone could display
his abilities in the sport, since back then, in the beginning
of the 20th century, football in Brazil was played mainly
by British descendants and people who worked for British companies,
like the São Paulo Railway. In other words, Corinthians,
like club Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro were one of the
first "popular" football clubs in Brazil.
Among the founders, the first ideas for
the name of the club were full of Brazilian national spirit:
Carlos Gomes Football Club and Futebol Clube Santos Dumont.
However, these prominent Brazilian names were put aside after
the English amateur team Corinthians, that wear pink and brown
shirts, won all six games in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
during an exhibitional tour of Brazil. The name Sport Club
Corinthians Paulista was agreed upon, as an homage to the
great British club of the beginning of the past century.
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