São José Esporte Clube
The São José Esporte Clube is a Brazilian football club from São José dos Campos, a city of some 620,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of the state of São Paulo in the valley of the Rio Paraíba do Sul. The greatest success of the company founded in 1933 as a splinter group of the Associação Esportiva São José association was the second place in the State Championship of São Paulo in 1989., The women's division succeeded in 2011 and 2013, winning the Copa Libertadores Femenina. The colors of the club were originally black and white, but as the city since 1977 colors blue, white and yellow. The brazil usual mascot is since 1978 the Águia do Vale, the. "Eagle of the valley ", a white -headed eagle, which replaced an ant that carried out this function until 1976
History
Until 1957, when the São José EC with the rise in the third State League for the first time pushed forward in the professional field, the club history was underwhelming. In the years 1957 and 1958 São José was also amateur champion. Since 1964, the club takes full part in the professional game operation of the state and played in 1966 for the first time second-rate. 1968 and 1969 had São José but the operation of gambling rest was built during a new stadium, which was necessary because the state association for the professional associations demanded stages with a Minimalkapzität of 10,000 spectators and the former took only 5,000.
In 1981, São José qualified first for the state championship of São Paulo, where the club in the semi-finals only very slightly against the champions of this year, the São Paulo FC failed. This permit also the first participation in the national championship of Brazil, which was called at the time Taça de Ouro. There, the team suggested considerable and could successfully compete with prominent Teams Gremio FB Porto as Alegrense, Atlético Mineiro and Botafogo FR from before it failed in the third round at Bangu AC from Rio de Janeiro. Statisticians calculated from an attractive 12th place in a field of 44 participants.
1989 the most successful participation in the state championship. Prominent clubs São José in direct comparison was behind this included the traditional clubs Santos FC and SC Corinthians Paulista. In the finals, but retained São Paulo FC the upper hand, who won the home game 1-0 and held a 0-0 in the second leg. Less successful is the second appearance at the national championship for the São José is designed so that qualified. In the competition of 1990, the team finished 19th out of 20 participants.
To a third participation in the national championship, it was enough in 2000. In the formerly discharged as Copa João Havelange Tournament Sao Jose only reached a point in 10 games and is included in the statistics as a last be incurred under the 114 participants.
The following years were marked by crises. The club was even in the amateur field from 2003 and 2004 even the beginning right to entrepreneurs was sold and these teams played as São José Esporte. These days the club has re-established itself in the third State League.
Well-known players and coaches
The Brazilian goalkeeper Emerson Leao record began his professional career in 1968 at São José EC, as well as the later European Legionnaires Roque Júnior 1993.
Among the most famous coaches in club history include the star striker Pepe, who with the Santos FC won the Club World Cup in the initial 1960s. He worked in 1981 at São José. The Brazilian World Cup participants from 1938 Tim came in later in the year for the club. 1988 and 1990 returned Émerson Leão back as a coach to his original club. Mid-2009 led the former Colombian national player Freddy Rincón for a few months training.
Stadium
Originally, the São José EC played at the Estádio da Rua Antônio Sae, officially called Estádio Martins Pereira, named after the founders of the association, the brothers Nelson and Mário Martins Pereira, which was opened in 1942 and 5,000 spectators took.
Because São José established in the 1960s in the professional game operation, the Association called for a bigger stadium. 1968 was therefore started at another location with the construction of a new stadium which was inaugurated on March 15, 1970 with a match between Atlético Mineiro of Belo Horizonte and the SC Internacional of Porto Alegre. Mineiro won the game 1-0 thanks to a goal in the 29th minute of the Dadá Maravilha thus scored the first goal in the new stadium.
The São José EC, whose play operation rested during the construction period, was his first game in the new country, named the same after the founding fathers of the Association Estádio Municipal Martins Pereira, on March 22, 1970 against São Paulo FC from which here 1-0 won.
The stadium took a long time about 20,000 spectators. This day is given the official capacity of 15,300 spectators. The unofficial record number of audience was reached in May 1997, when 25,000 a State Championship game between São José and São Paulo FC saw which ended 1-1.