tabbo
Home >> Sports >> Football (soccer) >> Brazil >> SC Corinthians Paulista

SC Corinthians Paulista

Available Buttons

Tip:

Click on one of the buttons to add SC Corinthians Paulista to the list of your favorite topics.

Description

Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is a Brazilian sports club, based in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, most known for its football team, is a traditional and popular Brazilian football club. As of 2004, Corinthians is estimated to have 24 million fans, making it the second most popular club in Brazil.

Corinthians was founded in 1910 by a group of labourers - mainly of Portuguese, Italian and Spanish descent - hoping to create a popular club in the city of São Paulo to play against the elite clubs that already existed. They are named after the famous English amateur team Corinthians F.C., now Corinthian-Casuals.

The football team is one of the most successful in Brazil, having won the Brazilian Série A 4 times, the Brazilian Cup 2 times, the São Paulo State Championship 25 times and the FIFA World Club Championship once, amongst other honours. Corinthians fans are widely knows as "Fiel", Portuguese for "faithful" or "loyal".

As a multisport club, Corinthians also have amateur volleyball, handball, taekwondo, judo, swimming, tennis and futsal teams.

Source: Wikipedia.

Shoutbox

add a new comment

Your favorite topics

You haven't chosen any favorite topics yet. Start by looking in the category tree or search for something you like in the search box in the upper right corner.

Report problems with SC Corinthians Paulista

    • add a new thread
    Creative Commons License Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which means we're happy when You use it for any purpose (even commercially), as long as you mention we're the authors (a simple link is fine).