Esporte Clube Pinheiros (PR)
The EC Pinheiros is a former Brazilian football team from Curitiba, the capital of the state of Paraná. The club was founded on the 1914 FC Savoia zurückgehenede, three times national champion was until 1971 the name of EC Água Verde. In December 1989, the club went on a merger in today Paraná Clube.
Club history
On 14 July 1914, football club was founded in the south of the center of Curitiba located Água Verde neighborhood of the descendants of Italian immigrants, was named in honor of the Italian dynasty of Casa Savoia on the name Savoia Futebol Clube. The club's colors have been adopted by the Italian flag and consequently were green, red and white.
Only a few months later was in the same neighborhood with the EC Água Verde, another sports club, which was named after the name of his neighborhood and got the club colors of green and white.
In the 1920s, these two clubs merged under the name Savoia - Água Verde. After Brazil had joined the Allies in World War II (1942 ), were many clubs with names that made reference to the Axis powers Italy or Germany, encouraged to " brasilianisieren " this. Savoia here named demonstratively to EC in Brasil. Immediately after the war ended in April 1945, the club took back the name of the predecessor association EC Água Verde and the colors green and white.
To distinguish itself from the city rivals Coritiba FC, which has the same team colors, the club in 1960 opted for blue and white jerseys. The renaming in EC Pinheiros - after this widespread tree Pinheiro do Parana, the Brazilian Araucaria, which also serves as a symbol of the state - took place on August 12, 1971 As of 19 December 1989 merged with the EC Pinheiros. which is also located in Curitiba, Paraná Clube EC to Colorado.
Sporting successes
The greatest success of the club with the three-time winning the state championship of Paraná ( 1967 Água Verde, as well as 1984 and 1987 as EC Pinheiros ) and the two-fold participation in the national football championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol, in the years 1981 and 1985. During were allowed to complete the Pinheiros in 1981 only nine games because they - with the balance sheet of just one win, but overall, six draws and two defeats - were eliminated after the first round, they survived 1985, the first round and qualified at least for the second round, giving them a total of 22 Matches enabled.
The balance of their 31 matches to the Campeonato Brasileiro falls completely balanced out: there were eight victories and defeats, and 15 draws and a goal difference of 30:28 in favor of the EC Pinheiro. Their minimalist style of play is reflected in their results: six draw ended with 0:0 or 1:1. The most common result was the victory ( five times scored ) 1-0 and with the result of 0:1 you also lost most ( three times). In the overall standings of 1981 Pinheiros finished 34th all Brazilian clubs and 1985 were achieved with the 21 rank the best finish in club history.
Most of the EC Pinheiros benefited in the games to the national championship of his strength at home. Of the 15 games ( with a goal balance of 14:9 ), he won five and played nine times in a draw. His only loss at home he moved into on 30 March 1985, 0-1 against Ponte Preta. The away record of 16 games thus lies in three wins, six draws and seven defeats and a goal difference of 16:19.
In the last year of its existence Pinheiros qualified also for the only time in the club's history for the final round of the Brazilian cup competition, the Copa do Brasil, where to twice ( 0-1 and 1-2) was defeated in July 1989 against the Mixto EC.
Top scorers
Best scorer of the club in games for the national championship is Enéias Camargo, of the Pinheiros completed 19 games in the 1985 season, scoring seven goals, corresponding to an average of 0.37. In a similar success rate (0.33 ) it brought Paulinho, who in all nine games came in 1981, scoring three goals. Rodolfo Carlos de Lima aka Capitão scored for the Pinheiros ( in 11 games of the championship round, 1985) strike three, corresponding to an average of 0.27. While the seven gates of Camargo, however, spread over six games ( only once he scored a brace ) and were three goals of Paulinho in three different matches, Capitão was successful only in a single game, where on March 10, 1985, all three goals for his side's 3-1 win at Corumbaense contributed. It was also the only of the 31 championship games in which the EC Pinheiros scored three goals!
Several players of the club or its Rechtsvogänger could even the top scorer of the national championship of Paraná einheimsen:
1 top scorer shared with another player
Title
- State Championship of Paraná: 1967, 1984, 1987