- Mascots of Brazilian football sides
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Each Brazilian football team has a number of symbols attached to it and used prominently by the fandom. Among these symbols are the badge, the flag, the anthem and the mascot. While the first three are commonplace all over the world, the last one is peculiarly Brazilian both in its character and its use.
A club's mascot is a cartoon character, often that of an animal, that symbolises some virtue boasted by the team. Most of them have proper names. Usually mascosts come in two versions, a "soft" une, which is the official and a "hardcore" one used by ultras and torcidas, which often contain traces of vulgarity or violence.
Animals
Elefante
An elephant
Coelho
A cute white “bunny” rabbit. Extremely popular.
Macaca (“she-monkey”)
A female ape. Extremely popular.
Azulão (“big blue”)
A blue bird
Galo Carijó (“Spotty Rooster”)
A black-and-white feathered rooster.
Leão
A lion
Biriba/Cachorro
A mongrel dog, very popular in the 40's/50's, is being adopted again by the fans since the late 90's.
Jacaré
An alligator
Azulão (“big blue”)
A blue bird
Galo
A black-and-white feathered rooster. Extremely popular.
Galo-da-campina
A small white-red bird (the name translates literally into “country rooster”)
Urubu
A black vulture. Extremely popular.
Leão
A lion
Timbu
A brown rat
Tigrão
A tiger
Raposa
A brown fox. Extremely popular.
Papagaio
A parrot
Leão
A lion
Tubarão
A white shark
Touro do Sertão (“the bull from the outback”)
A ferocious bull
Leão
A lion
Periquito
A green parakeet
Coelho
A rabbit
Bode
A goat
Sapão (“he-toad”)
A big green toad
Galo
A rooster
Gralha azul
An Azure Jay, a dark-blue bird with a long beek
Piauí Esporte Clube
Ratinho
A mouse
Cobra-coral
A striped snake
Santos Futebol Clube
Peixe (“fish”)
A white whale (though the whale is not actually fish).
Periquito
A green parakeet
Periquito, Porco (“swine”)
A green parakeet, the original and official mascot, and a hog, adopted by the supporters. The second is more popular nowadays.
Leão da Ilha (“Island Lion”)
A lion
Galo da Borborema
A rooster
Tigre
A tiger
Human (or Somewhat Human) Figures
América Football Club
Diabo
The devil, himself, pictured red, with pointy black beard, horns, arrow-pointed tail and sporting a trident. Very popular.
ASA
Fantasma (“phantom”)
A fiendish ghost
Manequinho
A boy pissing, a replica of Manneken Pis. Adopted in the 80's, since the late 90's is being replaced by the mangrel dog (used in the 50's) among fans.
Xerife
A sheriff
Vovô (“grandpa”)
An old man with a shotgun.
Furacão (“hurricane”)
A lamp genie
Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama
Almirante
A Portuguese sea captain. Not much used by the fandom.
Clube Sportivo Sergipe
Capeta (“demon”)
The devil (with horns, pointy tail, trident and all)
Coritiba Football Club
Vovô (“grandpa”)
An old man (usually sporting a cane or listening to a portable radio)
Super-Herói
A man in a blue super-hero costume.
Pó-de-Arroz
A man in a colourful suit. Not much used by the fandom.
Xavante
An Indian
Mosqueteiro
A musketeer (a man in a XVI-Century army uniform). Very popular.
Bugre
An Indian
Moleque Travesso (“trickster boy”)
A fair-haired boy with a freckled face (homage to the Italian immigrants who founded the club).
Saint Paul
A white-bearded man wearing the club’s jersey.
Bepe
A drunk man in Italian costume.
Mosqueteiro
A musketeer (a man in a XVI-Century army uniform). Very popular.
A black one-legged boy wearing a phrygian cap and smoking from a pipe. Very popular.
Monsters and other
América Futebol Clube de Natal
Dragão
A dragon
Dragão
A red dragon
Moto Clube (MA)
A red furry monster.
A furry monster. Very popular. Sometimes pictured as the “big bad wolf”.
Souza Esporte Clube
Dinossauro
A dinosaur
External links
- Mascotes do Futebol -- features custom cartoons (not the official ones, which are copyrighted by the clubs).
- Juarez Corrêa's cartoons are the most used officially. Also in paperback picture book elsewhere.
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