Associação Atlética Ponte Preta
Encyclopedia
Ponte Preta is a Brazil
ian football
club located in Campinas
, São Paulo
. Ponte Preta is also known as Macaca. Ponte Preta's biggest rival is from the same city: Guarani
. The games between Ponte Preta and Guarani are known as derby (dérbi in Portuguese
). They are known as "pontepretanos". Ponte Preta is one of the oldest football teams established in Brazil still in activity, founded on August 11, 1900, the oldest being Sport Club Rio Grande
, of Rio Grande do Sul
.
students Miguel do Carmo (nicknamed "Migué"), Luiz Garibaldi Burghi, (nicknamed "Gigette") and Antonio de Oliveira (nicknamed "Tonico Campeão"), nearby a black painted wood railroad bridge, so the name Ponte Preta (which means "black bridge", in English). Ponte Preta's first president was Pedro Vieira da Silva.
Ponte Preta is recognized, by FIFA, as one of the first teams in America to accept black players, since its foundation in 1900. It is also the first countryside team to play a national competition, in 1970.
Pelé
's last match in Brazil
was against Ponte Preta. On September 2, 1974, at Vila Belmiro
stadium, Santos
defeated Ponte Preta 2-0.
Ponte Preta lost the Campeonato Paulista final to Corinthians in 1977 in a controversial game that ended in a 2-1 final score. Rui Rey, an important piece of the Ponte Preta team, was shown a red card early in the game for no apparent reason. Ponte Preta were considered the favorites for the championship that year.
Its maximum capacity is of 19,722 people, nowadays. The biggest public in it was in a State's Championship
in 1970, against Santos
, with an official public of 33,000, but it is said that there were about 40,000 people, as the gates were broken down.
Its nickname is "Majestoso", meaning the "Majestic One" because it was the third largest stadium in Brazil at the time of its inauguration (only smaller than Pacaembu
, in São Paulo
and São Januário, in Rio de Janeiro
).
In Majestoso's entrance hall there is a bust of the stadium's founder, Moisés Lucarelli (after whom the venue is named) facing the outside. In 2000, after a long series of defeats some superstitious fans argued that the founder ought to see the team playing and the bust was rotated 180 degrees. As the team's performance did not improve noticeably, the statue was put back in its original position.
from Maceió
, Alagoas
, adopted a similar name and colors as the Campinas club. There is a Norwegian
futsal
club named after Ponte Preta http://www.indoor-football.com/index.php?domene=0&bykode=2&ID=lag&ID2=sis&id=1508/.
. The games between Ponte Preta and Guarani are known as derby
(dérbi in Portuguese
).
is a female monkey
(Macaca) wearing Ponte Preta's home kit. It was initially intended as a derogatory term, reflecting the racism against the club (one of the first Brazilian teams to accept blacks, having been even refused participation in championships due to this) and its fans. This co-option of a derogatory term as team mascot was copied by Palmeiras
fans, who adopted the pig as their mascot instead of taking offence from it, and other teams.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club located in Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
, São Paulo
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
. Ponte Preta is also known as Macaca. Ponte Preta's biggest rival is from the same city: Guarani
Guarani Futebol Clube
Guarani Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football club located in Campinas, São Paulo. Guarani is also known as Bugre, a popular term for an Indigenous Brazilian...
. The games between Ponte Preta and Guarani are known as derby (dérbi in Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
). They are known as "pontepretanos". Ponte Preta is one of the oldest football teams established in Brazil still in activity, founded on August 11, 1900, the oldest being Sport Club Rio Grande
Sport Club Rio Grande
Founded in 1900, Sport Club Rio Grande is Brazil's oldest active football club. Rio Grande currently plays in the second division of the Campeonato Gaúcho, the regional league of Rio Grande do Sul, which the club won in 1936 - its greatest achievement to date....
, of Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...
.
History
Ponte Preta was founded on August 11, 1900 by Colégio Culto à CiênciaColégio Culto à Ciência
The Colégio Culto à Ciência , currently denominated E.E. Culto à Ciência), is a public secondary school located in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil...
students Miguel do Carmo (nicknamed "Migué"), Luiz Garibaldi Burghi, (nicknamed "Gigette") and Antonio de Oliveira (nicknamed "Tonico Campeão"), nearby a black painted wood railroad bridge, so the name Ponte Preta (which means "black bridge", in English). Ponte Preta's first president was Pedro Vieira da Silva.
Ponte Preta is recognized, by FIFA, as one of the first teams in America to accept black players, since its foundation in 1900. It is also the first countryside team to play a national competition, in 1970.
Pelé
Pelé
However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
's last match in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
was against Ponte Preta. On September 2, 1974, at Vila Belmiro
Estádio Vila Belmiro
Estádio Urbano Caldeira, also known as Estádio Vila Belmiro, is an association football stadium located in the Vila Belmiro neighborhood of Santos, Brazil, and the home of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Santos Futebol Clube...
stadium, Santos
Santos Futebol Clube
Santos Futebol Clube is a Brazilian professional football club based in Santos, São Paulo They play in the Campeonato Paulista and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the highest professional leagues in São Paulo state and Brazil, respectively....
defeated Ponte Preta 2-0.
Ponte Preta lost the Campeonato Paulista final to Corinthians in 1977 in a controversial game that ended in a 2-1 final score. Rui Rey, an important piece of the Ponte Preta team, was shown a red card early in the game for no apparent reason. Ponte Preta were considered the favorites for the championship that year.
Achievements
- Copa São Paulo de JunioresCopa São Paulo de JunioresThe Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior , also known as Copa São Paulo de Juniores and Copinha , is a cup competition played by 88 Brazilian under-18 football teams , most of them from São Paulo state...
:- Winners (2): 1981, 1982
- Campeonato Paulista Série A2Campeonato Paulista Série A2Campeonato Paulista Série A2 is the second level of the São Paulo state professional football championship, one of the Brazilian state championships. This tournament is played by 20 teams, in which the four best teams are promoted to Série A1 and the four worst teams are relegated to Série...
:- Winners (1): 1969
- Campeonato Paulista do Interior:
- Winners (1): 2009
- Campeonato Paulista do Interior: 1
-
- 2009
Achievements time line
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Copa São Paulo de Juniores The Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior , also known as Copa São Paulo de Juniores and Copinha , is a cup competition played by 88 Brazilian under-18 football teams , most of them from São Paulo state... Copa do Brasil The Copa Kia do Brasil, commonly known as Copa do Brasil , is a knockout competition played by 64 association football teams, representing all 26 Brazilian states plus the Federal District... |
Stadium
Ponte Preta's stadium is Estádio Moisés Lucarelli, also known as "Majestoso", or "Estádio Majestoso" (Portuguese for Majestic Stadium), built in 1948, by its own fan's material and work.Its maximum capacity is of 19,722 people, nowadays. The biggest public in it was in a State's Championship
Campeonato Paulista
The Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1, simply known as the Campeonato Paulista, is the top-flight professional football league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The league is contested between 20 clubs and typically lasts from January to April...
in 1970, against Santos
Santos Futebol Clube
Santos Futebol Clube is a Brazilian professional football club based in Santos, São Paulo They play in the Campeonato Paulista and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the highest professional leagues in São Paulo state and Brazil, respectively....
, with an official public of 33,000, but it is said that there were about 40,000 people, as the gates were broken down.
Its nickname is "Majestoso", meaning the "Majestic One" because it was the third largest stadium in Brazil at the time of its inauguration (only smaller than Pacaembu
Pacaembu
Pacaembu is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 12,596 and the area is 340.69 km². The elevation is 415 m. This place name comes from the Tupi language. It is also the name of a neighborhood in São Paulo city, where is located Pacaembu stadium....
, in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
and São Januário, in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
).
In Majestoso's entrance hall there is a bust of the stadium's founder, Moisés Lucarelli (after whom the venue is named) facing the outside. In 2000, after a long series of defeats some superstitious fans argued that the founder ought to see the team playing and the bust was rotated 180 degrees. As the team's performance did not improve noticeably, the statue was put back in its original position.
Supporters
Ponte Preta supporters are known as "pontepretanos". A clubAssociação Atlética Ponte Preta (AL)
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, commonly known as Ponte Preta, is a Brazilian football club based in Maceió, Alagoas state.-Stadium:...
from Maceió
Maceió
Maceió is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state Alagoas, Brazil. The name "maceió" is of Indian origin, and designates the natural spontaneously courses of water which flow out of the soil...
, Alagoas
Alagoas
Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe ; Bahia ; and the Atlantic Ocean . It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti...
, adopted a similar name and colors as the Campinas club. There is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
futsal
Futsal
Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...
club named after Ponte Preta http://www.indoor-football.com/index.php?domene=0&bykode=2&ID=lag&ID2=sis&id=1508/.
Rivalry
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta's biggest rival is from the same city: GuaraniGuarani Futebol Clube
Guarani Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football club located in Campinas, São Paulo. Guarani is also known as Bugre, a popular term for an Indigenous Brazilian...
. The games between Ponte Preta and Guarani are known as derby
Derby Campineiro
Dérbi campineiro is the name given to the confrontations between very classic Guarani Futebol Clube x Associação Atlética Ponte Preta of the city of Campinas, in the State of São Paulo, what takes place from 1911, being able to affirm, is the biggest classic of the interior of Brazil, when the rich...
(dérbi in Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
).
Symbols
The club's mascotMascots of Brazilian football sides
Each Brazilian football team has a number of symbols attached to it and used prominently by the fandom. Among these symbols are the badge, the flag, the anthem and the mascot...
is a female monkey
Monkey
A monkey is a primate, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey. There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys...
(Macaca) wearing Ponte Preta's home kit. It was initially intended as a derogatory term, reflecting the racism against the club (one of the first Brazilian teams to accept blacks, having been even refused participation in championships due to this) and its fans. This co-option of a derogatory term as team mascot was copied by Palmeiras
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is a Brazilian football club from São Paulo. The club was founded on August 26, 1914, as Palestra Italia but changed to the current name on September 14, 1942...
fans, who adopted the pig as their mascot instead of taking offence from it, and other teams.
Ultras
Famous players
- DicáDicaDică may refer to:* Nicolae Dică, a Romanian football player, playing for FC Steaua Bucureşti;* Emil Dică, another Romanian football player playing for CFR Cluj....
, skilful midfielder and excellent at dead-ball situations, considered the biggest player ever of Ponte history - CarlosCarlos Roberto GalloCarlos Roberto Gallo, best known as Carlos , is a former Brazilian footballer who played as a goalkeeper....
, Brazilian goalkeeper at World Cup 1978, 1982 e 1986 - OscarJosé Oscar BernardiJosé Oscar Bernardi , nicknamed Oscar, is a noted association footballer, having been on the Brazil national football team and a member of São Paulo Futebol Clube and Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, and having played in defence at the Football World Cup in 1978, 1982, and as a reserve in 1986...
, Brazilian defender at World Cup 1978, 1982 and 1986 - PolozziJosé Fernando PolozziJosé Fernando Polozzi, best known as Polozzi is a former Brazilian football player in central defender role, currently managed Bandeirante's team....
, Brazilian defender at World Cup 1978 - Juninho Fonseca, Brazilian defender at World Cup 1982
- Valdir PeresValdir PeresValdir Peres, real name Valdir Peres de Arruda, , was an association footballer. He played goalkeeper, in particular with São Paulo FC and the Brazilian national team...
, Brazilian goalkeeper at World Cup 1974, 1978 and 1982 - Washington, Brazilian striker at Confederations Cup 2001, top scorer of Paulista Championship 2001, Brazilian Cup 2001, Campeonato Brasileiro 2004 and 2008
Other Ponte Preta players capped by the Brazilian national team
- Main squad: André Cruz, Fábio LucianoFábio LucianoFábio Luciano is a former Brazilian football defender. He also has Italian citizenship. He played for Brazil's major clubs Corinthians and Flamengo, being very well recognized by the supports from both clubs and for several other clubs including Turkish team Fenerbahçe.-Career:His youth playing...
, Mineiro and Luís FabianoLuís FabianoLuís Fabiano Clemente , commonly known as Luís Fabiano, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for São Paulo and the Brazilian national football team as a striker.-Early career:... - Olympics, U-21: João Brigatti, Gabriel, Claudinho, Alexandre Negri
Placar magazine's Silver Ball Prize winners while playing on Ponte Preta
- 1977 - Oscar and Polozzi (defenders)
- 1978 - Odirlei (left back)
- 1980 - Carlos (goalkeeper)
- 1981 - Zé Mario (defensive midfielder)
- 1982 - Carlos (goalkeeper) and Juninho (defender)
- 2000 - Mineiro (defensive midfielder)
Other notable players
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Jorge Pinto Mendonça Jorge Pinto de Mendonça was a Brazilian footballer most famous during 1970s and 1980s, playing in a striker role.-Career:... Luís Fabiano Luís Fabiano Clemente , commonly known as Luís Fabiano, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for São Paulo and the Brazilian national football team as a striker.-Early career:... Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus is a former Brazilian national team defensive football player, better known on the football pitch as Ronaldo and Ronaldão .... |
Basketball
Ponte Preta had one of the most powerful teams in the history of Brazilian female Basketball during the early 1990s, winning the World Club Championship twice.Current squad
Youth players with first team experienceOut on loan
Technical staff
- Gilson KleinaGilson KleinaGilson Kleina is a Brazilian football manager who currently coaches Associação Atletica Ponte Preta.On July 31, 2009, he assigned with Duque de Caxias Futebol Clube to coach the Rio de Janeiro team as a replacement for Rodney Gonçalves.-References:...
– Head coachFootball ManagerFootball Manager is a series of football management simulation games developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. The game began its life in 1992 as Championship Manager; however, following the break-up of their partnership with original publishers Eidos Interactive, Sports Interactive... - Jair Leite – CoachCoach (sport)In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
- Fábio Moreno – CoachCoach (sport)In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
- Eduardo Fratini – Goalkeeping CoachCoach (sport)In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
- Wiliam Hauptmam – Fitness CoachesPhysical fitnessPhysical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness , and specific fitness...
- Ricardo Garcia Sandoval – PhysiotherapistsPhysical therapyPhysical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...
- Eduardo Bassi – PhysiotherapistsPhysical therapyPhysical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...
Books
- O Início de uma Paixão: a fundação e os primeiros anos da Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, José Moraes dos Santos Neto, Editora Komedi, 2000
- História da Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, em sete volumes: 1900-2000, Sérgio RossiSergio RossiSergio Rossi is an Italian fashion designer and distributor of women's shoes and handbags, as well as a limited range of men's shoes. The Sergio Rossi label is owned by the French conglomerate PPR.-Biography:...
, R. Vieira Gráfica, 2001