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Associação Atlética Portuguesa (RJ) Managers
Associação Atlética Portuguesa may refer to: *Associação Atlética Portuguesa (RJ), a football club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *Associação Atlética Portuguesa (Santos), a football club based in Santos, Brazil *Associação Portuguesa de Desportos Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, commonly referred to as Portuguesa or Lusa, is a Brazilian professional Association football, football club based in the district of Pari (district of São Paulo), Pari, São Paulo, that competes in the Ca ...
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Associação Atlética Portuguesa (RJ)
Associação Atlética Portuguesa, also known as Portuguesa Carioca, Portuguesa do Rio or Portuguesa da Ilha, and also nicknamed Lusa, is a Brazilian professional association football club based in Governador Island, Rio de Janeiro. The team plays in Campeonato Brasileiro Série D, Série D, the fourth tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Carioca, the top tier of the Rio de Janeiro State football leagues in Brazil, state football league. History After a long tour of Rio de Janeiro and Portugal, Constantino Paiva and Joaquim Martins Leal, businessmen in the empty and used bag business, were invited to play a football match at the organized Associação Atlética Portuguesa (Santos), Portuguesa Santista against their colleagues and employees from the Santos, São Paulo, Santos area. The result was 1-1 and the two Carioca, Cariocas, who had Portuguese ancestry and were passionate about Portugal, returned to Rio de Janeiro and told other businessm ...
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Associação Atlética Portuguesa (Santos)
Associação Atlética Portuguesa, commonly referred to as Portuguesa Santista, is a professional football club based in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. The team competes in Campeonato Paulista Série A2, the second tier of the São Paulo state football league. Founded in 1917 by the Portuguese descendants of the city, they play in predominantly red and green colors, being the use of those colors inspired on the main colors displayed by the Portuguese flag. The club's nickname, Briosa, was given between 1918 and 1920, when the club competed in several amateur football festivals. Briosa means courageous, graceful, in Portuguese. History In November 1914, Pedreira do Contorno workers, in Jabaquara neighborhood, Santos, were watching Espanha Futebol Clube matches and dreaming about creating a football club on their own. On 20 November 1917, Manoel Tavares had a meeting at Alexandre Coelho's barber shop, with 15 other people, who decided to found a club honoring Portugal. The na ...
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