Canto do Rio Foot-Ball Club

The Canto do Rio Foot Ball Club - usually only briefly mentioned in Canto do Rio - is a sports club from Niterói in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. The club was founded on November 14, 1913 is best known for its activities in the field of football, where he had his heyday of the 1940s until the 1960s, but could not achieve a more significant title. This day is Canto do Rio facing more popular sports.

Canto do Rio played by the professionalization of its gaming operation from 1940 to 1964 as the only club of the then state of Rio de Janeiro in the first division of the then Federal District of Brazil, the capital of Rio, the with after the transfer of the capital in 1960 to Brasília until the unification the State of Rio in 1977 again renamed as Guanabara. In the first division of the state championship the city Canto do Rio closed normally starting at end of table. The highlight was the sixth place in 1944. During that season Canto do Rio presented with Geraldino, who scored 19 goals, the top scorer. Since the descent 1964, the club occasionally played in the second division, but otherwise mostly mediocre.

Between 1933 and 1968, won Canto do Rio five times the city championship of Niterói, a competition was held from 1913 to 1974. In the 1940s, the club also took a few times on the city tournament in Rio in part, held 1938-1951, and was able to close 1944 with a respectable third place there.

From 1940 to 1945 played Ely do Amparo - later part of the legendary Expresso da Vitória CR Vasco da Gama and the Brazilian national team 1949-1953 - Canto do Rio. Danilo Alvim, as part of that Vasco da Gama team and the national team of that era, played there in 1943. With Caetano da Silva " Veludo ", 1954-1956 nine -time Brazilian goalkeeper, 1956 was another well-known player in the ranks of Canto do Rio. In the late 1950s Gerson de Oliveira Nunes began, world champion with Brazil in 1970, his career in the youth teams of the club.

This day is the club in the city, a site of approximately 12 000 m² which holds numerous sports fields, swimming pools, gyms, saunas and Gebäudlichkeiten for all kinds of events for its members.