Esporte Clube Pinheiros
Esporte Clube Pinheiros The is a sports club in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, which was founded in 1899 by German Brazilians as a sports club in Germânia. The SC Germânia was one of the established football clubs in Brazil and denied 1902, the first official championship game of the history of the country. Germânia is two-time winner of the National Championship of São Paulo. Outstanding athletes of that time was Hermann Friese, who is regarded as the first significant footballers of Brazil.
After the abandonment of football as a top sport in the early 1930s, the club transformed into a successful general sports club. Already in 1932 put the swimming sports department the first Olympian and won gold since then. The basketball and volleyball teams play in the first national league. A strength of the association is also the youth work.
Since the 1940s, the association established as a social club with a large ballroom and has since considerably expanded its offering for general recreational activities of its members beyond sports. These days through daily thousands of visitors, for example, the restaurants and bars of the association. Performances by top stars of the Brazilian entertainment industry as Jorge Ben Jor and Daniela Mercury, as well as classical orchestras and theater performances are regularly on the events calendar.
From Nobilings team to SC Germânia
In March 1887, the native of Hamburg engineer Hans Nobiling arrived in São Paulo. Nobiling, who until his emigration to SC Germania, 1887 in Hamburg, one of the predecessors of the clubs Hamburger SV, played, had in his luggage including a football, the statutes of the Germania and the Hamburg sports association.
Soon he formed with other sports friends from different countries such as Portuguese, French, English, and Germans Hans Nobilings team, after São Paulo Athletic Club of the English -born pioneer Charles William Miller and the crew of Mackenzie College only the third football team in Brazil and was one of the pioneers of the sport.
1899 invited Nobilings Team Athletic Club to a betting game, but he refused. The Mackenzie College but did not hesitate, and so it came on March 5, 1899 for the first game between two football clubs in Brazil. The result is delivered with 0-0.
Wanted to make a regular club as Nobiling from the gaming community, it came to a name dispute: 15 players voted for " Internacional ," five for " Germânia ". The association thus founded on August 19, 1899 as SC Internacional should make his way in the football history of Brazil. After the two state championships in 1907 and 1928, the club found itself completely into financial difficulties and went in the late 1930s in present-day success club São Paulo FC on.
Hans Nobiling was disappointed that his name suggestion found little echo, left together with the Wahnschaffe brothers the new club and already founded on September 7, 1899 with other German immigrants sports club Germânia. He gave this not only the same name, but also the same team colors as his former club Hamburg. Germânia was now after the Athletic Club, Mackenzie College and Internacional of Brazil's fourth football club.
Together with the three other clubs and the Club Athletico Paulistano Germânia founded on 19 December 1901 the League Paulista de Foot -Ball for the purpose of holding a championship the first Brazilian Football Federation. On May 3, in 1902 came the Germânia and Mackenzie at the first championship game in Brazil's history. Germânia lost the match with 1:2 and was after the end of the championship of São Paulo in October fourth. 1906 and 1915, eventually won the championship Germânia. In the seasons 1905 and 1906 also were the Germânia player Hermann Friese and Pens scorers of the competition. The also Come from SC Germania 1887 Hamburg Friese acted not only as a coach, he was an outstanding athlete and the first major player personality in Brazil. The newspaper O Estado de São Paulo in 1903 called him the " most sensational footballer of all time ."
In May 1907, Friese took, a former German champion in 1500 -meter run, the only Brazilian athlete in an international competition in Uruguay in part, the so -called International Olympics of Montevideo, and won in a single evening the competitions over 1500 meters and 800 meters, 400 meters, he finished second. It can thus be regarded as the first successful athlete of the association.
Hermann Friese is also regarded as a discoverer of Arthur Friedenreich, one of the greatest footballers of Brazil, at the Germânia began his career in 1909. The mulatto was but only because of his German father recording the club. Friese sat down beside it along with Nobiling successful for a deletion discriminatory aspects of the Articles of Association a. The exceptional footballer should be done only in 1909 and 1911 playing for Germânia.
As early as 1905 it was Nobiling, who has close contacts with Germany held, managed to win the later German national team captain and Olympian Camillo Ugi for a four-month stint at SC Germânia. Nobiling had lured him with a lucrative job in his trading post to São Paulo.
In September 1913 Amstitter was the case lost by the Germânia the only choice players in club history when he took up with a pass-by- city Brazilian national selection of São Paulo against a Chilean selection in the Parque Antarctica with 1:3.
As early as the second decade of the 20th century fostered the association involvement in other sports besides football, such as athletics and tennis. Water sports such as rowing and swimming were operated on the Rio Tietê. 1920 years, the Germânia bought her with the Chácara Itaim, Attractions, in a loop of the Rio Pinheiros agricultural homestead, a club-owned premises.
With the transformation to professionalism, the SC Germânia pulled from football back although teams have been dispatched to lower amateur leagues in the 1950s. A growing number of amateur sports was now at the center of the club. 1932 was the diver of the first Olympians of the association.
The EC Pinheiros today
After the introduction of professional football, the EC Pinheiros limited on pure amateur sport. Water sports, triathlon and fencing are sports in which Pinheiros today brings leading athletes in Brazil. The club has approximately 40 sports departments, this also includes the cards and chess players. Futsal and also operates the football club also, although not nearly with the enthusiasm of the founding generation to Hans Nobiling.
During the Second World War, Brazil allied with the Allies. Vereinsnamem which made reference to the axis powers such as Germany, Italy and Japan, no longer belonged to the de rigueur. In this phase, the SC Germânia went through a phase of nacionalização, the " Brazilianization ", and union with the founded in 1868 club company Germania (also: " Sociedade Germania " ) in March 1942 was taken as an opportunity to re-constitute as EC Pinheiros. The new name refers to the Rio Pinheiros, the São Paulo permeates and flows along close to the club grounds. Since that time the club language is not German and the majority of board members must be Brazilian. In order to respond better to the needs of non- sports-oriented society Germania, Pinheiros opened on New Year's Eve 1957 his Festival Hall, which was at the time as the largest in South America.
With over 35,000 members, the club is in the southern hemisphere today claims to be the largest multi-purpose sports club. But sports is only one facet of the organization. The EC Pinheiro now resides on 170,000 m² in the noblest of all areas of Sao Paulo, Jardim Europa. For club facilities include a park with old trees, a sauna, a swimming pool, tennis courts and two dozen restaurants in the first category, a well equipped library, a child care center and meeting rooms.
From 6:00 clock in the morning to midnight every day an average of 6,000 visitors visit the club area. The publicly available balance sheet of the club for 2007 has an association assets of approximately BRL 380 million, which works out at about 140 million euros.
The club crest is similar to that of the original SC today Germânia - the border in the imperial black- white-red, however, given way. Of particular importance for the German Brazilian municipality has the EC Pinheiros not today.
Sports
Basketball
2006, the EC Pinheiros first participated in the game operation of the Brazilian professional basketball league. That year Pinheiros but could not qualify for the beginning on the following season single-track national basketball league. With the 2009 season Pinheiros heard but again at the highest Brazilian basketball league. 2010 while the team entered with the sponsor name as Pinheiros / Sky.
In February 2012, Pinheiros only lost in the final of the South American Basketball League - the second most important South African competition for basketball clubs - with 73:88 to Obras Sanitarias de la Nación CA from Buenos Aires.
Volleyball
Both the men and the women of the volleyball club will compete in the respective top division, the Super League. 2010 while the men's team came in with the sponsors name as Pinheiros / Sky. The women played the game according to their communion with the Mackenzie University as Pinheiros / Mackenzie. Brazil is one of the world's top in this sport.
Water polo
The EC Pinheiros operates water polo since 1949. Soon found players of the club inclusion in the national team and represented Brazil at the Olympic Games and numerous other international competitions such as the victory of Brazil at the Pan American Games in 1963. Having Pinheiros in 2004 won the Brazilian Cup, was the club also masters of the 2008 inaugural national league Liga Nacional de Pólo AquatiCo.
Tennis
Tennis was practiced already in the first years of the CS Germania. Especially in later years was also the founding president Hans Nobiling an enthusiastic tennis player. 1924 Germania was one of the founders of the State Association Federação Paulista de Tênis. With 14 tennis courts of the Union In 1949 the largest tennis facility in Brazil had. The club has 24 tennis courts, and was among other things, multiple hosts at play for the Davis Cup, such as 2010 against India. Ingrid Metzner of Pinheisos was in the 1950s, the first Brazilian participant at Wimbledon.
Athletics
Internal club was operated by virtually from the beginning Athletics at SC Germânia. Hermann Friese, one day also German champion in the 1500 m run, took 1907 as the only Brazilians the country in an international tournament in Montevideo and won two competitions there. Germânia 1924 was a founding member of the national association for Athletics, the Federação Paulista de Atletismo. At the end of the 1930s, the club dominated with his 70 -member team athletics in Brazil and held in addition to numerous South American records almost all national records. In the 1970s, João Carlos de Oliveira dominated the triple jump and held for a long time the world record. Among the best of these days the antretenden under the name sponsors EC Pinheiro / Asics Athletics team are in the presence of the four times South American champions in the 800m run Fabiano Peçanha and Sabine Heitling, South America champion in the 3000m steeplechase.