Goiânia Esporte Clube

The Goiania Esporte Clube - usually only briefly mentioned Goiânia - is a football club based in Goiânia, of the approximately 1.2 million inhabitants, capital of the Brazilian state of Goiás. The club was founded on July 5, 1938 in life, and thus is considered the second oldest football club, founded in 1933 city.

The club will also often referred to by his brazil usual mascot, a rooster with Galo.

History

When Erstaustragung the Campeonato Goiano, the state championship of Goiás, Goiânia, 1944, Atlético Goianiense still had to give the oldest football club of the State beaten. Up to and including 1961, when Vila Nova, was able to celebrate another club from Goiânia, his first title, making the two clubs the title from among themselves. The white - blacks who Alvinegra, it usually had the upper hand and won in these years twelve times the state championship, while the rivals Atlético could collect only four more titles in that era. Then Goiânia also won the Goianão State referred to competition only in 1968 and 1974. 1967 also succeeded in winning the Regional Tournament Copa Brasil Central before the traditional rivals Atlético Goinaniense.

At national level, Goiânia skilled between 1975 and 1979 introduced for the matches in the 1971 Brazilian Championship four times, without there but especially highlight. 2000, Goiânia eligibility for participation in the national championship competition advertised as Copa João Havelange, but there was only classified as 99th in a field of 115 participants at the end. Similarly, it was the traditional association of Goiás in the two participations in the national cup competition. In 1991 the reasons already in the first round, while in 2001 the second round Corinthians from Sao Paulo posed too high a hurdle. A Caution success was the cock of Goiás in 1999 when attending the third highest national performance level, the Série C, as there of the time which had reached a low point tradition Fluminense from Rio de Janeiro in domestic Estádio Serra Dourada 4-3 was defeated, but what still did not prevent the Erstrundenaus.

On a state level Goiânia get only three vice- championships 1975-1977 and two more in 1984 and 1990. Since the beginning of the 1990s the club but is characterized by an ongoing crisis. Participation in the first division of Goiás were the exception. 1997 also fell prey to the now obsolete club's stadium Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, once the largest in the state, the wrecking ball.

In the late 1990s and into the new millennium into the Alvinegra experienced while a smaller flower. But after descents in the second State League in 2003 and 2005 still followed in each case the immediate revival of the club is established now apparently in the second division since the descent as severed Table with only two wins from 17 games in 2007. Also the spectator interest is nurmehr very low.

Stadium

Estádio Pedro Ludovico Teixeira

The club's Estadio Pedro Ludovico, named after the founder of the city of Goiânia, was when it opened in the 1960s with a capacity of around 10,000 spectators still the largest stadium in the state. On the grounds of the stadium are also a water sports center and a much-used, 5,000 spectators sports' hall.

The stadium itself was known nationally when it was used in 1987 in the biggest nuclear accident of the state as a place for contaminated and evacuees.

Twenty years after this event 's outdated stadium was demolished. The completion of a new stadium on the site is not yet foreseeable.

Estádio Onésio Brasileiro Alvarenga

The stadium of the city rivals FC Vila Nova, Estádio Onésio Brasileiro Alvarenga, which is only briefly mentioned in the rule OBA has since been the home ground of Goiânia. The stadium in the city center has a capacity of 8,000 spectators. It is after Onésio Brasileiro Alvarenga, a former player and official who has substantially contributed to the professionalization of Vila Nova, named.

Estádio Serra Dourada

The Estádio do Governo do Estado de Goiás, usually called Serra Dourada, is the largest stadium of Goiás and belongs to the state government. It was built until 1975, according to a plan of later awarded the Pritzker Prize architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Originally, the stadium took around 80,000 spectators, but modernization, increased comfort and safety have shrunk the current capacity to 50,000.

The Goiânia EC uses the Serra Dourada ( " Golden Mountains " ) whenever the expected spectator interest justifies it. The local rivals Goiás EC Vila Nova and Atlético Goianiense use the stadium.

In Goiânia EC is also called the " curse of the Serra Dourada " because since its opening once accustomed to success club won no more titles.

The Serra Dourada is in the pre-selection for the World Cup 2014.

Attendance Records

Achievements

• State of Goias Championship: (14 x) 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1968, 1974