Fluminense Football Club
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| Full name | Fluminense Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Tricolor carioca (Three Colors) Fluzão (Big Flu) Nense |
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| Founded | 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Capacity | 8,000 (Laranjeiras) 103,022 (Maracanã) |
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| Chairman | Roberto Horcades | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Joel Santana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Brazilian Série A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Brazilian Série A, 15th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fluminense Football Club is a sports club in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It was founded on July 21, 1902, originally solely as a football (soccer) club. Fluminense means fluvial in Latin, and is also a colloquial name for a native of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Their biggest sporting rivals are from the same city: Flamengo (Fla-Flu, one of the best known rivalries in Brazil), Botafogo(oldest rivalry in Brazil: Oct., 22, 1905) and Vasco da Gama.
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[edit] Origins
Oscar Cox was responsible for introducing football to Rio. He had played it in Switzerland, during his studies in College La Ville, in Lausanne. When he returned to Rio, aged 22, he gathered a group of men who also wanted to play this relatively unknown sport. After playing some matches in Rio and in São Paulo, they decided to found a club. The foundation meeting took place on July 21, 1902, at Horácio da Costa Santos' home, at Rua Marques de Abrantes, 51, and was attended by Horácio da Costa Santos, Mario Rocha, Walter Schuback, Felix Ignacio Frias, Mario Frias, Heraclito de Vasconcellos, Oscar Cox, Joao Carlos de Mello, Domingos Moutinho, Louis da Nobrega Junior, Arthur Gibbons, Virgilio Leite, Manoel Rios, Americo da Silva Couto, Eurico de Moraes, Victor Francois Etchegaray, Anselmo C. Mascarenhas, Alvaro Drolhe da Costa, Julio de Moraes and A. H. Roberts. Oscar Cox was elected the first president.
The first match was on October 19, 1902, at Paysandu Cricket Club field, against Rio Football Club. Fluminense won 8-0 and the first goal was scored by Horácio da Costa Santos. The team won the first championship they played, in 1906, the Campeonato Carioca (Championship of Rio de Janeiro). They also won the next three, in 1907, 1908 and 1909.
In 1911, they were again champions, and won all matches in Campeonato Carioca. However, a huge crisis took place at the end of this year, when 9 players from the main team quit the club after quarreling over who should coach the team and decided to play for Flamengo, which had previously been only a rowing club. By founding the football section of Flamengo, they started one of the most famous rivalries in Brazilian football: the Fla-Flu (Flamengo versus Fluminense). The first Fla-Flu happened on July 7, 1912. Although Flamengo had nearly all the players who had won the championship the previous year, Fluminense, with only two survivors from the champion team (Oswaldo Gomes and James Calvert), won the game 3-2.
On July 27, 1914, Fluminense's ground hosted the first match of Brazil national football team against Exeter City F.C., an English club. Brazil won 2-0 and Oswaldo Gomes scored the first goal.
[edit] The Olympic Cup
Although considered one of the most successful football clubs in Brazil, Fluminense's greatest honour was not won in a football field. Among its collection of national and international trophies stands the diploma received in 1949 regarding the award of the IOC's Olympic Cup ("Coupe Olympique").
The Cup is a non-competitive award, instituted by Pierre de Coubertin in 1906, for distinguished service in upholding the ideals of the Olympic Movement and to recognise the particular merits of institutions or associations and their services rendered to sport. The Cup is in permanent exhibition at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
[edit] Fans
Fans are called "tricolores", a reference to the team's three colours (claret, white and green).
One of the team's most famous chants is "A Bênção, João de Deus" ("Bless us, John of God"), a song that was composed in honour of the pope John Paul II on his first visit to Brazil, in 1980. History is that Fluminense fans spontaneously started singing the famous song when the team was to decide the 1980 state championship on penalty shootout against arch-rivals Vasco da Gama. Fluminense won the championship.
Fluminense´s supporters are usually related to Rio de Janeiro upper classes, in opposition to those who support Flamengo, traditionally. However, the popularity of the club reaches much more than the city supporters. There are around 9 million Fluminense´s supporters all over Brazil, and even in Uruguay. And just one third part of all these people actually live in Rio.
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Technical staff
- Joel Santana – Head Coach
- Vinicius Eutrópio – Assistant Coach
- Victor Hugo – Goalkeeping Coach
- Marcos Seixas, Walquir Girardin, Kako Arêas, Alexandre Bittencourt – Fitness Coaches
- Marcelo Costa, Guilherme de Souza, Carlos Soter, Maurício Negri – Physiotherapists
- Michael Simoni, Adílson Camargo, Carlos Veiga, Douglas Santos – Club Doctors
- Jerônimo Barreto, Sandoval Neto (Rivelino), Sandro Alves – Masseurs
[edit] Transfers
[edit] In
Carlos Alberto from Corinthians Loan- Thiago Silva from
FC Porto - Rafael from
Messina - David from Atlético-PR Loan
- Ivan from Atlético-PR Loan
- Carlinhos from Avaí Loan
- Renato Silva from Flamengo
- Alex Dias from São Paulo
- Thiago Neves from Paraná Loan
- Rafael Moura from Corinthians
- Cícero from Figueirense Loan
- Júnior César from Botafogo
- Soares from Figueirense Loan
- Fabinho from Internacional
- Luiz Alberto from Santos
- Douglas Assis from Cabofriense Loan
- Dionattan from Académica
[edit] Out
- Pedrinho to Santos
- Radamés to Juventude Loan
- Juliano to Juventude Loan
- Ulisses to Juventude Loan
- Beto to Náutico
- Thiago to Flamengo
- Evando to Avaí
- Marcão to Cabofriense
- Tuta to Grêmio
Petković to Goiás- Rissutt to Vitória Guimarães
- Rogério Released
- Cláudio Pitbull to Académica
- Gabriel Santos to Palmeiras Loan return
[edit] Stadium
Fluminense's own stadium is Estádio das Laranjeiras, built in 1905, with a current maximum capacity of 8,000 people, formerly 25.000 (public interest refurbishment works took place in the sixties, when the club sold a part of its terrain for the construction of what is the now known as Rua Pinheiro Machado (Pinheiro Machado Street). Laranjeiras is the oldest stadium in Brazil, and it´s listed, therefore the club is planning to build a new one somewhere else than the traditional Laranjeiras district (Rio de Janeiro´s South Zone). Anyway, when hosts a match, the club plays at Maracanã stadium, with huge crowds of supporters.
[edit] Titles
- FOOTBALL
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- State
- 30 times winner of the Campeonato Carioca (Rio de Janeiro State Championship): 1906, 1907 (Shared with Botafogo), 1908, 1909, 1911, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1995, 2002(1), 2005
- Copa Rio:1998
- Taça Guanabara: 1966, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1993.
- Taça Rio: 1990, 2005
- Torneio Municipal : 1938 e 1948
- Torneio Extra : 1941
- Torneio Aberto : 1935
- State
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- National
- Brazilian Champions 1984
- Brazilian Champions Série C 1999
- Rio-São Paulo Tournament 1957, 1960
- Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (Old Brazilian Champions) 1970
- Copa São Paulo de Juniores 1971, 1973, 1977, 1986, 1989
- Copa Macaé de Juvenis 2002, 2003
- Copa Santiago de Futebol Juvenil: 1999
- National
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- International
- II Copa Rio 1952 (the former World Club Cup, before the creation of the Intercontinental Cup).
- I Copa Viña del Mar 1976
- Paris Tournament 1976, 1987
- XXXII Troféu Teresa Herrera 1977
- Seoul Tournament 1984
- Kirin Cup 1987
- Kiev Tournament 1989
- International
[edit] Famous players
- FOOTBALL
- Ademir
- Aldo
- Altair
- Assis
- Batatais
- Branco
- Carlos Alberto Torres
- Castilho
- Cláudio Adão
- Delei
- Didi
- Dirceu
Doval- Edinho
- Ézio
- Felipe
- Félix
- Fernando
- Gérson
- Gil
Henry "Harry" Welfare- Lula
- Magno Alves
- Manfrini
- Marco Antônio
- Marinho Chagas
- Moacir Bastos
- Nilo
- Orlando Pingo de Ouro
- Pamplona
- Petković
- Preguinho
- Renato Gaúcho
- Rivelino
- Roger
- Romário
Romerito- Russo
- Telê Santana
- Tim
- Valdo
- Washington
[edit] Best attendances in Matches of Fluminense
- 1)Fluminense 0x0 Flamengo, 194.603 (177.656 p.),15/12/1963 .
- 2)Fluminense 3x2 Flamengo, 171.599, 15/06/1969 .
- 3)Fluminense 0x0 Flamengo, 155.116, 16/05/1976 .
- 4)Fluminense 1x0 Flamengo, 153.520, 16/12/1984 .
- 5)Fluminense 1x1 Corínthians, 146.043, 05/12/1976 .
- 6)Fluminense 1x0 Botafogo,142.339, 27/06/1971 .
- 7)Fluminense 2x0 América, 141.689 (120.178 p.), 09/06/1968 .
- 8)Fluminense 2x0 Flamengo, 138.599, 02/08/1970 .
- 9)Fluminense 1x1 Flamengo, 138.557, 22/04/1979 .
- 10)Fluminense 2x5 Flamengo,137.002, 23/04/1972 .
- 11)Fluminense 1x2 Flamengo, 136.829, 07/09/1972 .
- 12)Fluminense 3x3 Flamengo, 136.606, 18/10/1964 .
- 13)Fluminense 2x0 Bonsucesso, 131.256, 08/06/1969 .
- 14)Fluminense 0x0 Vasco, 128.781, 27/05/1984 .
- 15)Fluminense 2x2 Vasco, 127.123, 29/08/1976 .
- 16)Fluminense 1x0 Vasco, 127.052, 03/10/1976 .
- 17)Fluminense 0x3 Vasco, 126.619, 21/03/1999 .
- 18)Fluminense 0x1 Flamengo, 124.432, 23/09/1979 .
- 19)Fluminense 1x0 Vasco, 123.083 (109.325 p.), 21/09/1952 .
- 20)Fluminense 1x2 Flamengo, 122.434 (100.749 p.), 06/12/1953 .
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- Best Attendances
- Ranking Carioca League
- Matches 1902/2005
- Fla-Flu History
- Fluminense-Botafogo History
- Fluminense-Vasco History
- www.CanalFluminense.com.br - Fluminense´s Daily News
- Coração Tricolor
- Torcida Tricolor
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