Ceará Sporting Club

The Ceará Sporting Club, usually just referred to only Ceará, Fortaleza is a football club from the capital of the Brazilian state of Ceará, founded on June 2, 1914. He is regarded as a traditional and popular especially among the working class club. In addition to the archrival Fortaleza EC it is one of the two leading clubs of Ceará. The club was a 1994 Brazilian Cup finalist. National played by the club in the second-rate Série B.

The team is also known as Vovô ( Grandfather). The name originated in 1919 as Meton Alencar Pinto, one of the club founders, with children playing soccer and begged, please play carefully with the " grandfather " yet. Since Ceará is also the oldest team in Ceará, the name stuck. The mascot is accordingly a " Vovô " in the jersey of the club.

Ceará 's biggest local rival is the Fortaleza EC. The Games of the two teams against each other represent the most important derby in Fortaleza dar. It is Classico Rei, "King classic" called. In recent years, Fortaleza Ceará has overtaken and dominated again in the number of state championships. Another local rivals is the Ferroviário AC, the third largest club in Fortaleza. The " railwaymen " but are nationally insignificant and also in the number of state championships - 9-1995 - far behind.

History

On 2 June 1914, the club was as Rio Branco Foot -ball Club with the team colors white and purple founded, and a year later renamed Ceará Sporting Club. From 1914 to 1919, the club won six times in a row Championship of Ceará, which was organized in the first year of the five participating clubs. For holding the other five tournaments that continue, with the exception of Maranguape Foot -ball Club participated only teams from Fortaleza, the league finally Cearense Metropolitana de Futebol was launched.

From 1961 to 1963, the club had three consecutive times national champion of Ceará. 1969 Ceará won the regional cup of the north- northeastern states of Brazil, the Copa Norte - Nordeste. In the years 1975 to 1978 the club was again three times in a row champion of Ceará.

1985 reached Ceará in the Brazilian first division the 7th Place. This is the best finish ever for a team from the state of Ceará.

In 1994, the club reached the final of the Copa do Brasil, the Brazilian Cup, but this was in the record winner Gremio in the final matches the narrowest of margins with O in: 0 and 0:1. In 1995, the team qualified for the Copa Conmebol, the South American equivalent of the UEFA Cup.

From 1996 to 1999 the club was four times in a row champion of the state and in 2006 was again the Federal National Champion.

1996 was the team manager Emanuel throat, a businessman in the music industry ( forró bands ). The team moved its home kit in a completely black, so it has since been known as Urubu do Nordeste ( " Northeastern Vulture " ), in reference to the mascot of CR Flamengo, a vulture.

Stadium

Club stadium is the Estádio Carlos de Alencar Pinto, called Vovozão that offers but only for 10,000 spectators. Therefore, the first team to bear its championship games at the Estádio Presidente Vargas exclusively, which has 22,228 seats, or at the Estádio Plácido Castelo Aderaldo owned by the State.

Ceará shares this venue, which is just called " Castelão " in general, with local rivals Fortaleza EC. The stadium was inaugurated on 11 November 1973, provides approximately 60,000 spectators. The Castelão should also occur in the Football World Cup in 2014 for use.

Title

• Cup of Brazil: Finalist 1999; Semi-finals in 2005, 2011

• Copa Norte - Nordeste ( north-northeast Brazilian Regional Championship): 1969

• State Championship of Ceará: (42 x) 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013

Known player

• André, played in the Bundesliga for 1.FC Cologne