Santos FC

Infobox Football club
clubname = Santos
fullname = Santos Futebol Clube


nickname = "Peixe" (The Fish),
"Santástico" and "Alvinegro praiano"

founded = 1912
ground = Vila Belmiro, Santos, Brazil
capacity = 20,120
chairman = flagicon|Brazil Marcelo Teixeira
manager = flagicon|Brazil Márcio Fernandes
league = Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
season = 2007
position = Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 2nd
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Santos Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Santos, is a Brazilian football team from Santos, São Paulo state, Brazil. The club has been nicknamed "Peixe" (literally, "Fish") for decades, but the usual mascot is a whale. The nickname evokes that Santos, Brazil, the city where it is located, is a seaport, when all other big clubs from São Paulo are from inland. A fan of the team is known as a "Santista".

It was founded as "Santos Foot-Ball Club" on April 14, 1912, through the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos: Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos and Argemiro de Souza Júnior. The club won its first state tournament in 1935, and then again, in 1955.

They play in an all-white strip, with an alternative kit with black and white vertical stripes and black shorts. However, according to the club's statute, the team's first choice kit is a striped shirt with white shorts and white socks.

Pelé (chosen as "Athlete of the Century" by the IOC in 1999) started his career with the team in 1956, at the age of 15, and remained with Santos for 17 years. With Pelé, Santos won the Intercontinental Cup in 1962 and 1963.

On 20 January 1998 Santos became the first and only team in football history to pass the 10,000-goal mark. More recently, on October 26, 2005 Geílson scored the team's 11,000^th goal, the first scored in the team's away match against Vasco da Gama at the São Januário stadium. Santos went on to win the match 3-1.

History

The golden years

The club enjoyed its peak in the sixties, having players like Pelé, Coutinho, and Pepe.cite web|url=http://noticias.uol.com.br/pelenet/santos/ultimas/2003/05/29/ult1201u1009.jhtm|title=Santos 2003 supera versão de 1965|publisher=Pelé.net|accessdate=2008-09-17|date=2003-05-29|language=Portuguese]

In its peak Santos won 9 state championships; two Libertadores cups and 6 Brazilian championships.

However, the end of the club's best period coincides with the substitution of the Taça Brasil with the Campeonato Brasileiro, which it would take the club 30 years to win.

Congo

In 1969 in the Congo. The Kinshasa (the former Belgian Congo) and the Brazzaville (the former French Congo) governments were engaged in a war when Santos arrived at the Kinshasa airport heading to Brazzaville, where it would play against the Congo-Brazzaville national team. On January 19, 1969, Santos beat the Congo-Brazzaville national team 3-2. On January 21, 1969, to be allowed to return to Kinshasa, Santos had to play against a Congo-Kinshasa national team, which the club won 2-0.cite web|url=http://www.irohin.org.br/onl/clip.php?sec=clip&id=2179|title=Breve trégua para o Rei desfilar|publisher=Jornal Ìrohìn|accessdate=2008-08-10|language=Portuguese] On January 23, 1969, Santos played against a Kinshasan club named Leopards, losing 2-0. After that match, they returned to Brazil.

1972-onwards

In 1972 Pelé retired from professional football. From 1972 onwards Santos only won three significant titles: the São Paulo state championship in 1978 and 1984, and the Copa Conmebol international title — the precursor of the current Copa Sudamericana - in 1998. Santos was also the runner-up in the Brazilian championships of 1983 (won by Flamengo) and 1995 (won by Botafogo).

The recent years

Santos started enjoying success again when President Marcelo Teixeira, having spent several million reais on players, decided to try a new management formula to run the football team during financial difficulties, that basically was to stick to the players coming up the club's ranks, hire Leão as coach in an attempt to develop new emerging talents for the professional league. Marcelo Teixeira also honored former Santos' president Modesto Roma with a bust, inside the Vila Belmiro Stadium.cite web|url=http://santos.globo.com/noticias_ultimas_texto.php?cod=15400|title= Santos FC homenageou o Gigante da Vila Modesto Roma|publisher=Santos Futebol Clube official website|accessdate=2008-08-10|date=2008-06-17|language=Portuguese] The club renew its stadium by increasing its capacity, sign players and invest in infrastructure such astraining fields, medical and physiotherapist facilities.

This rehabilitation policy proved effective and the club was soon replenished with numerous players (among them Robinho, Diego, Elano, Léo and Renato). In 2002 Santos were national champions for the first time since 1968, and in 2004 won the league again.

tadium

Santos' home stadium is the Urbano Caldeira (also known as Vila Belmiro), inaugurated on October 12, 1916. It has a capacity of 20,120 people, but its record attendance is 32,989 people, in a game against Corinthians in 1964.cite web|url=http://classicoeclassico.sites.uol.com.br/templos/sp/Santos1.htm|title=Estádio Urbano Caldeira|publisher=Templos do Futebol|accessdate=2008-08-10|language=Portuguese]

Current squad 2008

First Squad

Out on loan

2008 transfers

:"For a list of Santos 2008 transfers, see here."

ignificant titles

International competitions

World championships

*Intercontinental Cup: 1962 and 1963.

Continental championships

*Libertadores Cup: 1962 and 1963.
*Recopa Sul-Americana (Supercup of the Continental Champions of South America): 1968.
*Conmebol Cup: 1998.

National competitions

*Campeonato Brasileiro: 2002, 2004.
*Taça de Prata: 1968
*Taça Brasil: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
*Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1997.
*Paulista Championship: 1935, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1984, 2006 and 2007.
*FPF Cup: 2004

Youth competitions

*Copa São Paulo de Juniores: 1984
*Porto Seguro Cup: 2008

Friendly tournaments

*Kirin Cup: 1985

Notable players

*flagicon|Brazil Airton Pavilhão
*flagicon|Argentina Agustín Cejas
*flagicon|Brazil Alex
*flagicon|Brazil Araken
*flagicon|Brazil Careca
*flagicon|Brazil Carlos Alberto Torres
*flagicon|Argentina César Luis Menotti
*flagicon|Brazil Clodoaldo
*flagicon|Brazil Coutinho
*flagicon|Brazil Diego
*flagicon|Brazil Dunga
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*flagicon|Brazil Edu
*flagicon|Brazil Elano
*flagicon|Brazil Fábio Costa
*flagicon|Brazil Feitiço
*flagicon|Colombia Freddy Rincón
*flagicon|Brazil Formiga
*flagicon|Brazil Gilmar
*flagicon|Brazil Giovanni
*flagicon|Uruguay Hugo de León
*flagicon|Brazil Juary
*flagicon|Japan Kazuyoshi Miura
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*flagicon|Brazil Lima
*flagicon|Brazil Léo
*flagicon|Argentina Leopoldo Luque
*flagicon|Chile Maldonado
*flagicon|Brazil Mauro
*flagicon|Brazil Mengálvio
*flagicon|Peru Ramón Mifflin
*flagicon|Brazil Pelé
*flagicon|Brazil Pepe
*flagicon|Brazil Pita
*flagicon|Brazil Renato
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*flagicon|Brazil Ricardo Oliveira
*flagicon|Uruguay Rodolfo Rodríguez
*flagicon|Brazil Robinho
*flagicon|Brazil Serginho Chulapa
*flagicon|Brazil Sócrates
*flagicon|Brazil Toninho Guerreiro
*flagicon|Brazil Viola
*flagicon|Colombia Víctor Aristizábal
*flagicon|Brazil Zé Roberto
*flagicon|Brazil Zito

Notable coaches

*flagicon|Brazil Luís Alonso Pérez (Lula)
*flagicon|Brazil Carlos Alberto Silva
*flagicon|Brazil Pepe
*flagicon|Brazil Cabralzinho
*flagicon|Brazil Castilho
*flagicon|Brazil Wanderlei Luxemburgo
*flagicon|Brazil Émerson Leão

References

External links

* [http://www.santosfc.com.br/ Official website] pt icon
* [http://www.supersantos.com/ Super Santos] pt icon
* [http://www.santistaroxo.com.br/ Resgate Santista Association] pt icon
* [http://www.santastico.com.br SANTÁSTICO - news website about the team] pt icon