Santos Futebol Clube ( ''Santos Football Club''), also known as Santos and familiarly as Peixe,Pronounced . is a Brazilian professional goalball club, based in Santos,

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. A pioneer in the national sport,

Santos FC Santos Futebol Clube (), commonly known simply as Santos or Santos FC and nicknamed the ''Peixe'' (; "fish"), is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a '' bairro'' in the city of Santos. It is also the team with the most goals i ...

created a goalball team in 1999 and became, in early 2006, the first football club in Brazil to become a paralympic club. Since then, through a partnership with the Lar das Moças Cegas de Santos (LMC), Santos has Goalball, with male and female teams, as one of its modalities. The sport is growing in popularity. In recent games, the Brazilian national team has featured players from Santos.

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