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131-448: The stadium was opened in May 1965 with a friendly match between Olimpia and Santos FC of Brazil , whose team included Pelé . The excitement to see Pelé playing was so great that the stadium's capacity was exceeded. During the game, one of the fences supporting the crowd in the stands broke and many people were injured. As soon as the incident happened, Pelé ran and jumped over the fence to help

262-486: A 3–0 victory at the Vila Belmiro, they went through the final even after a 0–1 away loss. With Robinho and Diego as the most important of Meninos da Vila , Corinthians was beaten in both of the final legs and thus Santos conquered its seventh national championship. The pedalada , one of the most disseminated tricks nowadays, was popularized by Robinho in the final match. In 2003, Santos finished in second position in

393-1099: A 3–6 away win at the Parque Antárctica (now known as the Estádio Palestra Itália), the 5–1 and 6–1 thumpings that Santos suffered at the hands of SC Internacional and Americano, respectively, and the high cost of travel, forced the team to abandon the tournament and make much needed improvements. However, in 1913 the Campeonato Santista was first played, with the Alvinegro earning their first ever title after winning all six matches, scoring 35 goals and conceding only seven. In 1914, due to an internal financial crisis, Santos only played friendly matches, winning all seven of them. In 1915, Santos changed their name temporarily to União Futebol Clube in order to compete in another city tournament due to budgeting reasons. Even so, Santos still went on to earn another title, their second in three years. With economic stability on hand,

524-503: A Club World Cup contested by the champions of Europe, South America, North and Central America , and Africa , the only continental club tournaments in existence at the time; the competition was to potentially take place in Paris between September and October 1974 with an eventual final to be held at the Parc des Princes. The proposal, supported by CONMEBOL , was dismissed due to the negativity of

655-462: A Club World Cup with representative clubs of every existing continental confederation. Nevertheless, some European champions started to decline participation in the tournament after the events of 1969. Estudiantes would face Dutch side Feyenoord the following season , which saw the Dutch side victorious. Oscar Malbernat ripped off Joop van Daele 's glasses and trampled on them claiming that he

786-435: A Série A side in the year's Paulistão , and Cuca returned to the club after being named manager in his place. Shortly after, president José Carlos Peres was removed from his role, and vice-president Orlando Rollo (who was also out from the club for more than a year after having public altercations with Peres) took over in an interim manner. Santos also suffered various bans from FIFA during the 2020 season, after failing to pay

917-416: A UEFA meeting he attended as an invitee. Prior to this announcement, the reigning European champions, Real Madrid , played just one intercontinental club competition, the 1957 Tournoi de Paris (they also played the 1956 Pequeña Copa , but scheduled their participation in it before becoming European champions). According to a video record of the highlights of the final match of the 1957 Tournoi de Paris,

1048-496: A brutal blow. According to the Greek press of the time, the sound of the fracture was heard up to the stands. The Greek defender collapsed on the ground and was transported unconscious out of the field. The medical diagnosis was a fracture of the tibia and fibula, an injury that effectively ended his career. Nacional won the series 3–2 on aggregate. Ajax participated in 1972 against Independiente. The team's arrival at Buenos Aires

1179-407: A comeback in the last few games was relegation avoided. In 2008 Santos played Copa Libertadores again. They endured until quarter-finals, when they were beaten by America (Mexico). With a recurrence of financial problems, Santos recruited young players. In 2009, Neymar and Paulo Henrique Ganso joined the professional team; Neymar signed with the team when he was 13, while Ganso came from Paysandu,

1310-468: A competition that it did not organise. Though the competition was endorsed by UEFA and CONMEBOL, René Courte, FIFA's General Sub-Secretary, wrote an article shortly afterwards (1967) stating that FIFA viewed the competition as a "European-South American friendly match". Courte's statement was endorsed by then-FIFA president Sir Stanley Rous , who then stated that FIFA saw the Intercontinental Cup as

1441-486: A decade dominated by European teams, as Milan, Red Star Belgrade, Ajax, Juventus, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and newcomers Borussia Dortmund of Germany were fuelled to victory by their economic powers and heavy poaching of South American stars. Only three titles went to South America, as São Paulo and Argentina's Vélez Sársfield came out the winners, each of them defeating Milan, with São Paulo's inaugural win being over Barcelona. The 2000s would see Boca Juniors win

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1572-546: A domination by South American sides as Brazil's Flamengo and Grêmio , Uruguay's Nacional and Peñarol, Argentina's Independiente and River Plate take the spoils once each after Nacional's victory in 1980. Only Juventus, Porto and Milan managed to bring the trophy back to Europe. In that decade, the English Football Association attempted to organise a Club World Cup sponsored by promoting company West Nally, only to be shot down by UEFA. The 1990s proved to be

1703-471: A friendly match. After these controversial statements, Madrid newspaper ABC then pointed out that, though the Intercontinental Cup was not endorsed by FIFA, it was endorsed by UEFA and CONMEBOL, therefore being an "intercontinental jurisdiction" cup. However, with the AFC and CONCACAF club competitions in place, FIFA opened the idea of supervising the Intercontinental Cup if it included those confederations, which

1834-466: A goal from Mario Corso , becoming the first European team to win two times in a row the competition. Peñarol gained revenge for their loss in 1960 by crushing Real Madrid 4–0 in aggregate in 1966 . However, as a result of the violence often practised in the Copa Libertadores by Argentine and Uruguayan clubs during the 1960s, disagreements with CONMEBOL, the lack of financial incentives and

1965-553: A low wage, and the club also loaned out Damião (the most expensive player of the previous campaign). On 5 March, despite the club's unbeaten status, Enderson Moreira was sacked. Marcelo Fernandes was appointed manager shortly after, winning the year 's Paulistão . After a poor start in the Brasileirão , Dorival Júnior returned to the club after five years, taking it to the finals of 2015 Copa do Brasil and returning to G-4 after more than 130 rounds. Dorival remained in charge of

2096-537: A man-hunt". The Argentinean press responded with "The English were right" – a reference to Alf Ramsey 's famous description of the Argentina national football team as "animals" during the 1966 FIFA World Cup. The Argentinean Football Association (AFA) , under heavy international pressure, took stern action. Argentina's president, military dictator Juan Carlos Onganía , summoned Estudiantes delegate Oscar Ferrari and demanded "the severest appropriate measures in defence of

2227-489: A manager of Bauru Atlético Clube 's junior squad, won three consecutive São Paulo state youth championships between 1954 and 1956 with the child. The boy, called Edson Arantes do Nascimento and who would be better known as Pelé in the near future, was the main driving force behind those victories. The contract between Santos and the young Pelé was finalized in June 1956. [REDACTED] After 50 years Santos began to be seen as

2358-413: A northern team, when he was 15. They started to play together and developed a very strong bond. In 2010, they led a great team, which is the base of the actual squad. The team that won Campeonato Paulista this year was formed by: Felipe ; Pará , Edu Dracena , Durval and Léo; Wesley , Arouca and Ganso; Neymar , André , and the repatriated Robinho. They also won Copa do Brasil 2010, beating Vitória in

2489-478: A period of irregular campaigns, coinciding with the club's transition to professionalism; in 1933 the president of Santos publicly declared Santos a professional side for the first time. This was followed by the club's first great success in 1935 . During that season, the club prepared heavily for the Paulistão with 14 friendlies, winning seven, losing four and drawing three matches. The 10-1 thrashing of Espanha at

2620-830: A quadruple , comprising the Campeonato Paulista , the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A , the Copa Libertadores , and the European/South American Cup . Santos is one of the most successful clubs in the Brasileirão , becoming national champions on eight occasions. It has also won 22 Paulistão titles, three Copa Libertadores, two Intercontinental Cups , one Supercopa de Campeones Intercontinentales , one Copa CONMEBOL (the precursor of current Copa Sudamericana ), one Copa do Brasil , and one Recopa Sudamericana . On 20 January 1998, Santos became

2751-551: A record that has never been equaled in any state competition in the country: he scored no less than 58 goals. Santos' traditional rivals were heavily beaten in 1958, particularly a 10–0 win against the Nacional . In addition to state titles, Santos won the Rio-São Paulo in 1959, beating Vasco in the final by 3–0 with two goals by Coutinho , who was only 16 years old. Coutinho also scored five goals against Ponte Preta , and Santos won

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2882-678: A result of the rivals being Argentine teams. He claimed it was a scheduling impossibility, rather, which kept the Germans from participating. He also stated that the competition was not economically rewarding due to the team's fan base's disinterest in the Cup. To cover the costs of playing the first leg in Munich 's Olympiastadion , the organisers needed to have a minimum of 25,000 spectators. However, due to heavy snow and cold weather, only 18,000 showed up. Because of this deficit, Cramer stated that if Bayern were to win

3013-730: A secondary trophy, the Toyota Cup. At that point, the Japan Football Association was involved at a logistical level as host, though it continued to be endorsed by UEFA and CONMEBOL. The first winner of the cup was Spanish side Real Madrid , who beat Peñarol of Uruguay in 1960 . The last winner was Portuguese side Porto , defeating Colombian side Once Caldas in a penalty shoot-out in 2004 . The competition ended in 2004. Since 2017, past Intercontinental Cup winners have been recognised by FIFA as club world champions. According to Brazilian newspaper Tribuna de Imprensa in 1958,

3144-513: A sixth-place finish until the Zveitão . Upon discovery that referee Edilson Pereira de Carvalho participated in manipulating results, all matches he led were played over again. Santos' 4–2 win against Corinthians thus became a 2–3 loss, which meant Santos dropped to the 11th place and gave its rival, Corinthians, the championship at cost of Internacional. In 2006, Santos was fourth in Brazil, securing itself

3275-503: A spot in the Copa Libertadores, and won the Paulista Championship for the first time since 1984. In 2007 Santos lost its first match only in the first leg of the final yet winning the title through a second leg victory nonetheless. In the national championship Santos led the team to second place, 15 points behind champion São Paulo. With again various big names leaving, 2008 proved to be a troublesome year for Santos. Only thanks to

3406-554: A strange consensus and the interested clubs are not tempted to risk much for so little money, as evidenced by the attendance at the game in Malmö, played, of course, in absence of this year's champion, Nottingham Forest, by the Swedish team, finalist in one of the most boring and worst games played to cap off the European Cup since 1956. According to Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo ,

3537-604: A third match if required in the early years (when goal difference did not count), the competition had a rather turbulent existence. The first winners of the competition were Spanish club Real Madrid. Real Madrid managed to hold Uruguayan side Peñarol 0–0 in Montevideo and trounce the South Americans 5–1 in Madrid to win. After Real Madrid's victory in the first Intercontinental Cup, Barcelona newspaper Mundo Deportivo hailed

3668-479: A video published by Journal Les Actualités Françaises on 19 June 1957, that match, held between Real Madrid and Vasco da Gama , was the first match ever dubbed as "the best team of Europe vs. the best team of South America", as Madrid was the European champions and Vasco was the "Brazilian" (in fact, Rio de Janeiro) champions, having this match been held at Parc des Princes , then managed by Jacques Goddet; moreover,

3799-428: Is Brazil's fourth-richest sports club and one of the biggest football clubs in the world, generating an annual turnover of over $ 114 million in 2012. Santos has many long-standing rivalries, most notably against Corinthians , Palmeiras , and São Paulo . My time in football was short, but it had interesting moments. I started playing for Americano, which was founded by Sizino Patusca and Benedito Ernesto Guimarães. I

3930-583: Is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a bairro in the city of Santos . It plays in the Campeonato Paulista , the state of São Paulo 's premier state league , as well as the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B , the second tier of the Brazilian football league system , after getting relegated in the 2023 season for the first time in the club's history. The club was founded in 1912 by three sports enthusiasts from Santos: Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos, and Argemiro de Souza Júnior. The initiative

4061-462: Is commonly said, " One Giant sank into the ocean, and on the same day Another One was born". The club's first president was Sizino Patuska (who had participated in the founding of Atlético Internacional and was the founder of Americano). The club's first practice match took place on 23 June 1912 at the Villa Macuco field, against a local club called Thereza. Santos won 2–1. The first Santista goal

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4192-524: Is white shirts, with white shorts, accompanied by white socks. Santos is nicknamed the Peixe ( pronounced [ˈpejʃi] ; "fish"), in reference to significance of the city's port. The most recognized Santista anthem is the " Leão do Mar " written by Mangeri Neto. In 2013, the club is the 2nd most valuable club in Brazil and South America, and 38th most valuable club in the world according to Brand Finance, worth over $ 65 million. In terms of revenue, Santos

4323-503: The Seleção rather than the club, the suspicious French were invited to the clubhouse to prove that the team that had just faced them was not the Brazilian team in disguise. Following their triumph in the 1935 Paulistão , many key players of the winning squad left or retired soon afterwards, depleting the club of its veterans. Santos would finish in 4th place in their failed attempt to defend

4454-479: The 1979 match against European Cup runners-up , Swedish side Malmö FF , after winning both legs. However, the competition had greatly declined in prestige. After the 0–1 win of the South Americans in the first leg at Malmö , which saw fewer than 5,000 Swedish fans turn up, Mundo Deportivo called the Cup "a dog without an owner". The truth is that the Intercontinental Cup is an adventitious competition without foundation. It has no known owner, it depends on

4585-512: The FIFA Club World Cup Statistical Kit , the official document of FIFA's club competition. The competition trophy bears the words "Coupe Européenne-Sudamericaine" ("European-South American Cup") at the top. At the base of the trophy, there is the round logo of UEFA and a map of South America in a circle. During the sponsorship by Toyota, the competition awarded an additional trophy, entitled "Toyota Cup" , usually given to

4716-524: The FIFA World Cup in 1930 , the first World Cup. He played one match against Yugoslavia . Santos finished as runners-up in 1927, 1928 and 1929 , scoring 100 goals in 16 games in the 1927 season, resulting in an incredible rate of 6.25 goals per match. The milestone of 100 goals was a result of work characteristics that later would become an excerpt in the official anthem of the club: Técnica e Disciplina (English: Technique and Discipline). Santos entered

4847-461: The Vila Belmiro sports park was inaugurated on 12 October 1916. That same year , Santos returned to compete in another Campeonato Paulista finishing in a much-improved 5th place. Between the 1917 and 1926 seasons, Santos was recognized as a solid and talented team, but one that could not offer a true challenge for the state title, finishing no higher than fourth place. That changed in 1927 when

4978-542: The "Athlete of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee , and widely regarded as the best and most accomplished footballer in the game's history. Os Santásticos , considered by some the best club team of all times, won a total of 24 titles during that decade including five consecutive league titles, a feat that remains unequaled today. Os Santásticos won four competitions in 1962, thus completing

5109-416: The 1957 Paris match was the only defeat of Real Madrid to a non-European side since becoming European champions in 1956 and prior to the Intercontinental Cup in 1960, having Madrid's then-president Santiago Bernabéu been one of the instigators of the Intercontinental Cup (see below); for these reasons, some sources have claimed that the 1957 match and the 1958 FIFA World Cup Brazilian victory have influenced

5240-532: The 1970 World Cup "The beasts of the Saldanha" played with six Santos players : Carlos Alberto , Djalma Dias , Joel Camargo , Rildo , Pelé and Edu. The influence of Santos was so great that the defense played with the national team the same numbers that were used at Santos: right-back with the shirt 4, right center-back with the second, left center-back with the sixth and left-back with three. Finally, left-winger Antônio Simões, Benfica and Portugal said: "I compare

5371-450: The 5th minute. As a result, Dante Mircoli retaliated with a vicious tackle a couple of minutes later; Cruyff was too injured to continue and the Dutch team found themselves being assaulted with tackles and punches. Kovács had to convince his team to play on during half-time as his players wanted to withdraw. Ajax squeezed a 1–1 tie and followed up with a 3–0 trounce in Amsterdam to win

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5502-587: The African and Asian champions. However, UEFA declined once again and the proposal failed. In 1976 , when Brazilian side Cruzeiro won the Copa Libertadores, the European champions Bayern Munich willingly participated, with the Bavarians winning 2–0 on aggregate. In an interview with Jornal do Brasil , Bayern's manager Dettmar Cramer denied that Bayern's refusal to dispute the 1974 and 1975 Intercontinental Cups were

5633-672: The Copa Libertadores, beating Peñarol (Uruguay) in the finals. In December, Santos traveled to Japan and finished in the second position in the FIFA Club World Cup, beaten by Barcelona. In 2012, Santos kept the two title per year ratio, winning the State Championships (Paulistão) against Guarani and the Recopa against Universidad de Chile . The team started to fragment, and saw the departures of Ganso (São Paulo), Borges ( Cruzeiro ), Elano (Grêmio) and other key players. 2013 marked

5764-472: The Cup. Although Ajax were the defending champions, they again declined to participate in the 1973 Intercontinental Cup after Independiente won the Copa Libertadores again, leaving it to Juventus , European Cup runners-up , to play a single-match final won by the Argentines. Also in 1973, French newspaper L'Équipe , which helped to bring about the birth of the European Cup, volunteered to sponsor

5895-713: The European Cup again, they would decline to participate as it held no assurances of income, and that a friendly match, as the one Bayern Munich had scheduled in Tel Aviv , would have been more financially rewarding to them. Argentine side Boca Juniors qualified for the 1977 and 1978 matches, for which the European champions, English club Liverpool , declined to participate on both occasions. In 1977, Boca Juniors defeated European Cup runners-up , German club Borussia Mönchengladbach , 5–2 on aggregate. Boca Juniors declined to face Belgian club Brugge in 1978 leaving that year's competition undisputed. Paraguay 's Olimpia won

6026-401: The European Cup – or face an international lawsuit from UEFA and Toyota. Barcelona , the winners of the 1991–92 European Cup , considered not participating in the Intercontinental Cup in 1992, and the aforementioned contractual obligation weighed in for their decision to play. The first Toyota Cup was held in 1980 , which saw Uruguay's Nacional triumph over Nottingham Forest . The 1980s saw

6157-403: The European and South American clubs to the rest of the world, reflected earlier in the tournament for national teams, the winning clubs of the Intercontinental Cup were named world champions and can claim to be symbolic World champions, in a "symbolic" club world championship, while the FIFA Club World Cup would have another dimension, as the "true" world club showdown, created because, with

6288-633: The Europeans on the importance of South American football, and thus the idea in 1958 for the creation of the Intercontinental Cup ( the Madrid team declined to participate in the 1958 Paris Tournoi for it was held just 5 days before the final of the 1957/1958 European Cup ). The Madrid-Vasco 1957 match was described as "being like a club world cup match" by the Brazilian press, as was a June 1959 friendly between Real Madrid and Torneio Rio – São Paulo champions Santos , which Real Madrid won 5–3. Created in 1960 at

6419-414: The Europeans. In 1974, João Havelange was elected president of FIFA , having made the proposal, among others, of creating a multicontinental Club World Cup. In 1975, L'Équipe once again made its 1973 proposal, again to no avail. West German club Bayern Munich also declined to play in 1974 as Independiente again qualified to participate. European Cup runners-up Atlético Madrid from Spain won

6550-639: The Final of the 2020 Copa Libertadores , but lost to local rivals Palmeiras after a goal in the stoppage time. In the following month, Cuca announced his departure from the club, and Argentine Ariel Holan was hired on his place for the 2021 campaign. Holan resigned in April 2021, after a poor campaign in the Campeonato Paulista, and Fernando Diniz was appointed manager in May; he was himself dismissed in September, as

6681-516: The Intercontinental Cup is considered by FIFA as the predecessor to the FIFA Club World Cup, which was held for the first time in 2000. On 27 October 2017, the FIFA Council, while not promoting statistical unification between the Intercontinental Cup and the Club World Cup, in respect to the history of the two tournaments (which merged in 2005), has made official ( de jure ) the world title of

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6812-611: The Intercontinental Cup, either by representing the American continent against the European champions or by creating a UEFA-CONMEBOL-CONCACAF tournament. Seeing the deterioration of the Intercontinental Cup, Japanese motor corporation Toyota took the competition under its wing, and created contractual obligations to have the Intercontinental Cup played in Japan once a year, with every club participating being obliged to participate or face legal consequences. This modern format breathed new air into

6943-422: The Intercontinental Cup, recognising all the winners as club world champions, with the same title of the FIFA Club World Cup winners, or "FIFA Club World Champions". FIFA recognises the Intercontinental Cup as the sole direct predecessor of the Club World Cup, and the champions of both competitions are the only ones uncontroversially officially recognised by FIFA as Club World Champions, as seen in

7074-407: The Madrid team as the first world champion club; although they pointed out that the competition "did not include Africans, Asians and other countries part to FIFA", they also expressed doubt that these regions presented football of the same quality as Europe and South America. The Spaniards titled themselves world champions until FIFA stepped in and objected; citing that the competition did not grant

7205-593: The Milan team as they warmed up and hot coffee was poured on the Italians as they emerged from the tunnel by Estudiantes' fans. Estudiantes resorted to inflicting elbows and allegedly even needles at the Milanese team in order to intimidate them. Pierino Prati was knocked unconscious and continued for a further 20 minutes despite suffering from a mild concussion. Estudiantes goalkeeper Alberto Poletti also punched Gianni Rivera , but

7336-483: The Santos 62 team with the national team of Brazil in 70. These are the two best football teams I have ever seen. The 70 side is the confirmation of a game model that Santos already demonstrated long ago." Santos was champion in 1973, still with Pelé in the team, and again in 1978, driven by the amazing Meninos da Vila , Pita , Juary , João Paulo and Nilton Batata, the Santos of the 1970s were no longer just appreciated for

7467-413: The Santos's stars in 1995. The new chairman Marcelo Teixeira, son of former chairman Milton Teixeira, tried to prepare Santos for domination in the 21st century. No expense was spared to build a complete squad, with names as Freddy Rincón , Marcelinho Carioca , Edmundo , Márcio Santos , Carlos Germano , Valdo and Carlos Galván . Those big names could not translate their reputation into excellence on

7598-422: The beginning of the 20th century, the city of Santos grew to become of great importance to Brazil. Its port became one of the largest in the world with coffee, a major product in those times, being the most exported product. With the influx of income, the wealthy socialites of the city became increasingly interested in having the city represented in sports. Being a port, water sports such as rowing were generally

7729-643: The best team in the world. When Pelé made his debut in the Campeonato Paulista in 1957, the team was already twice state champion (1955/56). Pelé had as fellow players Zito , Pagão , Formiga , Hélvio, Jair da Rosa Pinto , Urubatão , Tite and Pepe . Santos won the third state title in 50 years, the magical year of 1958 – in which Brazil won the World Cup in Sweden , with Zito Santos, Pelé and Pepe, and won in spectacular fashion. Santos scored 143 goals in 38 games, averaging 3.76 per game, and conceded only 40 goals. Pelé set

7860-580: The city students dissatisfied at this turn of events, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the Concordia Club (located in Rosario Street No. 18, at the top of the old bakery and Switzerland confectionery, currently Avenida João Pessoa), with the aim of creating a football team. The conference, which lasted 14 hours, was spearheaded by three sportsmen from the city: Raymundo Marques Francisco, Mário Ferraz de Campos and Argemiro de Souza Junior. During

7991-465: The club for the 2016 campaign, winning the year's Paulistão (22nd) and achieving a first place in Brasileirão for one week after eight years. During the 2017 campaign, the club sacked Dorival and subsequently appointed Levir Culpi ; however, after the club's elimination of the Copa Libertadores and due to poor form, Levir was himself dismissed. On 9 December 2017, José Carlos Peres was elected as

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8122-574: The club was threatened with relegation in the Série A, and Fábio Carille finished the season as manager, leading the club to a 10th place. Carille was sacked in February 2022, with Argentine manager Fabián Bustos being appointed in his place. Intercontinental Cup (football) The Intercontinental Cup , officially the European/South American Cup and known as the Toyota Cup for sponsorship reasons,

8253-447: The club went on undefeated in what was, until then, the longest football trip any Brazilian club has taken. It lasted from 29 November 1946 to 2 February 1947 with Santos obtaining 12 wins and three draws. The leading goal-scorers of the tour were Caxambu, with 19 goals, and Adolfrise, scoring 18. The club managed to finish in 2nd place in the 1948 edition of the Paulistão , thanks to Antoninho, Pinho and Odair dos Santos . Odair become

8384-407: The club's aspirations to the state title in danger. However, the club's strong team spirit, the goals of Emanuele Del Vecchio , its relatively stable campaign and the 2–1 victory over Taubaté , Santos' last match in the competition, ensured the club would win their second state title ever, the first in 20 years. Del Vecchio's 38 goals were the club's highest season tally since Patusca's 53 in 1927. He

8515-474: The club's finances in order, he sanctioned a tour into the Brazilian northern and northeastern regions to face the top teams in Belém , Fortaleza , Natal and Recife , among other cities, and give the upcoming generation much needed experience. Santos soundly defeated many of the regions' top clubs such as Paysandu , Fortaleza EC , ABC , Santa Cruz , etc. Led by the club's second chronological idol Antoninho ,

8646-620: The club's manager that same year. It was in 1955 when Santos finished building its base and establishments that would make it a success in the future. Despite starting that year's Paulistão with a mediocre 0–0 draw against Noroeste , the club would go on to remain undefeated for the first 11 matches in the competition which included a 7–1 victory over Jabaquara , the heaviest defeat they would inflict in that competition's edition. A 4–2 defeat to Guarani and an 8-0 drumming by Portuguesa brought setbacks and instability. A 3–1 loss to São Paulo and consecutive losses to São Bento and Corinthians put

8777-457: The club's season topscorer with 20 goals; he will repeat this feat for the following three seasons. Odair and Antoninho would also help the club finish 3rd in the 1950 edition of the state competition. This was the first time Santos had two top-three finishes in three seasons in the Paulistão since the O ataque dos 100 gols generation. Santos also participated in the Torneio Rio – São Paulo for

8908-471: The competition 2–1 on aggregate. Once again, Independiente qualified to participate in 1975; this time, both finalists of the European Cup declined to participate and the competition was not played. That same year, L'Équipe tried, once again, to create a Club World Cup, in which the participants would have been: the four semifinalists of the European Cup, both finalists of the Copa Libertadores, as well as

9039-713: The competition as part of their honours. Throughout the history of football, various attempts have been made to organise a tournament that identifies "the best club team in the world" – such as the Football World Championship , the Lipton Trophy , the Copa Rio , the Pequeña Copa del Mundo and the International Soccer League – due to FIFA's lack of interest or inability to organise club competitions, –

9170-483: The competition twice for South America, while European victories came from Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and Porto. The 2004 Intercontinental Cup proved to be the last one, as the competition was merged with the FIFA Club World Cup . All the winning teams from Intercontinental Cup were regarded as de facto "world club champions". According to some texts on FIFA.com, due to the superiority at sporting level of

9301-508: The competition was as a two-legged tie, with a play-off if necessary until 1968, and penalty kicks later. During the 1970s, European participation in the Intercontinental Cup became a running question due to controversial events in the 1969 match , and some European Cup-winning teams withdrew. From 1980, the competition was rebranded and contested as a single match played in Japan, regarded neutral territory for both contestants, and sponsored by multinational automaker Toyota , which offered

9432-435: The competition which saw a new trophy handed out along with the Intercontinental Cup, the Toyota Cup. In order to protect themselves against the possibility of European withdrawals, Toyota, UEFA and every European Cup participant signed annual contracts requiring the eventual winners of the European Cup to participate in the Intercontinental Cup – this was added as a condition to those UEFA stipulated for clubs to participate in

9563-409: The competition, Santos was able to surpass Atlético Paranaense, who had been on top of the table for the majority of the season. In the last match Santos did not crumble and beat Vasco da Gama 2–1 for its eighth title. With Robinho, Léo, Deivid and manager Vanderlei Luxemburgo leaving Santos in 2005, the team was unable to win more titles that year. Despite leading figures leaving, Santos was headed for

9694-414: The competition. In 1962 the tournament grew more in worldwide attention after it was swept through the sublime football of a Santos team led by Pelé , considered by some the best club team of all times. Os Santásticos , also known as O Balé Branco ("The White Ballet"), which dazzled the world during that time and containing stars such as Gilmar , Mauro , Mengálvio , Coutinho , and Pepe , won

9825-566: The cups and in the state league, however, the club failed to repeat the same success after being knocked out in the first round of the Copa Sudamericana , in the round of 16 in the Copa do Brasil and in the semifinals of the Paulistão . Sampaoli later resigned, and Jesualdo Ferreira was signed on his place for the 2020 campaign. Jesualdo was sacked in August, with the team having the worst campaign of

9956-701: The deal for the establishment of the Interamerican Cup was made in 1968 by CONMEBOL and CONCACAF, and established that the Interamerican Cup champion club would be entitled to represent the American continent in the Intercontinental Cup. According to the Mexican newspapers, after winning the 1977 and 1980 Interamerican Cup tournaments, Mexican clubs América and PUMAS Unam, and the Mexican Football Association, demanded, unsuccessfully, to participate in

10087-399: The debts of Cléber Reis , Yeferson Soteldo and Felipe Aguilar . These bans led to debuts of several youth prospects in the first team, the most notable being Ângelo with just 15 years of age. On 12 December 2020, Andrés Rueda was elected as president of the club for the 2021–2023 three-year term, in which was the first online voting of the club's history. In January 2021, Santos reached

10218-524: The defenses that the Brazilian Championship and became the top scorer with 22 goals. The team took the runner-up slot, to win in São Paulo, Rio lose and be overtaken on goal for Flamengo. The following year the team became São Paulo state champions in a rally-point competition, ending Corinthians' dream of reaching the championship for the third straight year. In the decisive game of ecstasy to Santos,

10349-411: The end of the latest Santástico era. Without achieving the fourth Paulistão in a row (runner-up), the eventual negotiations and departure of Neymar (negotiated with Barcelona ), the coach Muricy Ramalho and the goalkeeper Rafael Cabral ( Napoli ) ended up leaving Santos as a shadow of its latest victorious installment. Santos ended the 2013 season in seventh place and had the best finish of any team from

10480-403: The executioner of this final Santos – São Paulo fan striker Serginho – is who would become the idol of the decade Santos. Passionate team Belmiro since childhood, the irascible Sérgio Bernardino only felt at home when he was hired by President Milton Teixeira to the team that would compete in the 1993 Brazilian Championship . Opportunist, kicking strong and big stamina, Serginho was the terror of

10611-404: The finals, but with an overwhelming campaign. For example, they beat Naviraiense 10–0, which gave them the status of Santástico (Santos + Fantastic) again. This team is also known for the irreverent game style and the dancing celebrations. 2011 was also a good year for the club. It raised its revenue with marketing and rights, mainly because of Neymar's success. Santos traded away some players from

10742-409: The first ever Brazilian national championship without a post-season play-off to determine the champion. The next year, however Santos returned to glory. In a year where fans felt their team was being intentionally hampered by referees, lost the right to play in its own stadium on various occasions and the kidnapping of Robinho's mother, Santos had an impressive campaign. Only two matches before the end of

10873-408: The first team, in any category in the world, to reach the milestone of 10,000 goals in the entire history of football and was voted by FIFA as one of the most successful clubs of the 20th century . Santos also holds a record as the club with the most goals in football history. The team plays their home games at the Vila Belmiro , which currently holds up to 20,120 spectators. Santos' regular kit

11004-451: The first time in 1952, finishing in third place overall. The arrivals of younger prospects such as Formiga , Manga , Tite , Zito and Vasconcelos coincided with the retirements of Odair and Antoninho in 1952 and 1953 respectively, ensuring the club had the quality to maintain its pursuit on the State championship. Antoninho would become the club's assistant manager in 1954 with Lula becoming

11135-400: The game by 12–1 even without Pelé. No other team had a dominance in Brazilian football as great as Santos in the 1960s. The club won eight titles: six Brazilian Championships (five Taça Brasil and one Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa), two Copas Libertadores , two Intercontinental Cups , three Rio-São Paulo, a South American Recopa , a World and numerous international tournaments. A poll in

11266-453: The good name of the national sport. [It was a] lamentable spectacle which breached most norms of sporting ethics". Poletti was banned from the sport for life, Suárez was banned for 30 games, and Eduardo Manera for 20 with the former and latter serving a month in jail. Due to the brutality in the 1967 match, FIFA was called into providing penalties and regulating the tournament. However, FIFA stated that it could not stipulate regulations in

11397-532: The hands of Santos provided the highlight of its preseason preparations. On the last match of the state competition, Santos defeated Corinthians 2–0 at the Estádio Parque São Jorge , Corinthians' home ground at the time, to win their first state title ever, thanks to goals by Raul and an experienced Araken Patusca. This historic consecration sealed Santos' first major title and paved the way for future generations to follow. Although Santos failed to retain

11528-508: The idea for the Intercontinental Cup rose in 1958 in a conversation between the then president of the Brazilian FA João Havelange and French journalist Jacques Goddet . The first mention of the creation of the Intercontinental Cup and the Copa Libertadores was published by Brazilian and Spanish newspapers on 9 October 1958, referring to Havelange's announcement of the project to create such competitions, which he uttered during

11659-477: The initiative of the European confederation ( UEFA ), with CONMEBOL's support, the European/South American Cup , known also as the Intercontinental Cup, was contested by the holders of the European Champion Clubs' Cup and the winners of its newly established South American equivalent, the Copa Libertadores. The competition was not endorsed by FIFA, and in 1961 FIFA refused to allow it to take place unless

11790-462: The injured people. Only minor injuries occurred and the match proceeded, ending in a 2–2 draw. Though the stadium is the home ground of Club Olimpia, the Defensores del Chaco stadium is used for major derbies against their rivals such as Cerro Porteño because of its greater capacity. The stadium is nicknamed "The Forest of Stop One" on account of its surroundings constituting large, tall trees, and

11921-501: The last game of the series was played. From 1969 through 1979, the competition adopted the European standard method of aggregate score, with away goals . Starting in 1980, the final became a single match. Up until 2001, the matches were held at Tokyo's National Stadium. Finals since 2002 were held at the Yokohama International Stadium , also the venue of the 2002 FIFA World Cup final. The performance of various clubs

12052-477: The location having been the first stop of a now defunct Paraguayan train. 25°17′29″S 57°36′31″W  /  25.29139°S 57.60861°W  / -25.29139; -57.60861 This article about a Paraguayan sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Santos Futebol Clube This is an accepted version of this page Santos Futebol Clube ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsɐ̃tus futʃiˈbɔw ˈklubi] )

12183-462: The luxurious Spa Park, Santos came back to be only eleven shirts who fought and drew crowds. In one of the worst moments of its history, which resulted in the loss of the Spa Park and all that was invested in him, Santos rose a charismatic worship, which had its greatest asset in his legions of fans. The period began with the Santos became the vice-champion of the São Paulo state championship of 1980, and

12314-512: The magazine El Gráfico saw dozens of experts from South America and Europe choose the Santos side of 1962/63 as the best team of all time. In demand worldwide, Santos became the first globetrotting football team and played exhibition matches in dozens of countries. A war in Africa was stopped so that the two sides could see Pelé's team play. Under pressure from the CBD (Brazilian Sport Confederation), which

12445-532: The meeting, there was doubt as to the name that should be given to the club. Several suggestions emerged: África Futebol Clube, Associação Esportiva Brasil, Concórdia Futebol Clube, among others. But the participants unanimously approved the proposal of Edmundo Jorge de Araujo: Santos Foot-Ball Club . Thus, the club was formally born on 14 April 1912, hours before the RMS Titanic sank into the Atlantic Ocean . As

12576-639: The most practiced activity by the city's youth, but the city had teams strong enough to compete in the Campeonatos Paulista or Paulistão , with Clube Atlético Internacional and Sport Club Americano being the two strongest representatives. Football was introduced to Santos in 1902 via the Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie , and the students created the two aforementioned clubs as a result. However, Atlético Internacional dissolved in 1910 and Americano moved to São Paulo in 1911. With

12707-441: The most vicious treatment was reserved for Néstor Combin , an Argentinean-born striker, who had faced accusations of being a traitor as he was on the opposite side of the intercontinental match. Combin was kicked in the face by Poletti and later had his nose and cheekbone broken by the elbow of Ramón Aguirre Suárez . Bloodied and broken, Combin was asked to return to the pitch by the referee but fainted. While unconscious, Combin

12838-448: The new president. The first manager of his tenure was Jair Ventura , who left the club in July 2018 after being in the relegation zone; Cuca (who already worked at the team in 2008) later took over and led the club to a 10th position. For the 2019 season, Santos hired widely known manager Jorge Sampaoli to take over the first team, and he led the club to a second position in the league; in

12969-414: The participants gave it a "private friendly match" status. However, the competition went on regardless, with the endorsement of UEFA and CONMEBOL, both of whom include every edition of the competition in their records. It was the brainchild of UEFA president Henri Delaunay , who also helped Jules Rimet in the realisation of the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 . Initially played over two legs, with

13100-481: The passage of time and the development of football outside Europe and South America, it had become "unrealistic" to continue to confer the symbolic title of world champion upon the winners of the Intercontinental Cup, the idea to expand it being mentioned for the first time in 1967 by Stanley Rous as CONCACAF and the AFC had established their continental club competitions and requested the participation, an expansion that

13231-507: The pitch, and boycotts tarnished its image, to the point of bringing into question the wisdom of organising it at all. The 1967 games between Argentina 's Racing Club and Scotland 's Celtic were violent affairs, with the third decisive game being dubbed "The Battle of Montevideo" after three players from the Scottish side and two from the Argentine side were sent off. A fourth Celtic player

13362-588: The pitch, resulting in a runner-up and a semi-final loss in the state championships of 2000 and 2001. In the national league Santos performed sub-par, with an 18th place in 2000 and a 15th in 2001. In 2002, after being in a severe financial crisis, Santos let go of high-profile players and focused at their youth squads for reinforcements, aiming to avoid relegation. Bringing in low cost players like André Luís (loan return from Fluminense ), Maurinho ( Etti-Jundiaí ), Júlio Sérgio ( Comercial-SP ), Alberto ( Rio Branco ), and promoting Alex , Robinho and Diego from

13493-438: The previous year's team, but maintained some of the main players. Also, some other named players came from Europe to Peixe's squad, like Elano , Alan Kardec and Ibson . This year Santos won the Campeonato Paulista, beating two of its biggest rivals, São Paulo and Corinthians. The main team was formed by: Rafael Cabral ; Danilo , Edu Dracena, Durval, Léo; Arouca, Adriano , Elano, Ganso; Neymar and Borges . This team also won

13624-404: The refinement of their football and became a symbol of passion and rapture. Their fans, who for a long time could not compete with the teams of the capital, steadily grew in number and started to compete with the massive Morumbi crowd, and significantly passed São Paulo and Palmeiras. When it seemed that the fate of the club would be hopelessly compromised by debt made millions for the purchase of

13755-404: The right to attempt participation to any other champions from outside Europe and South America, FIFA stated that they can only claim to be intercontinental champions of a competition played between two continental organisations ( in contrast to the Intercontinental Cup, the right to attempt participation at the FIFA World Cup , through FIFA invitation in 1930 and qualification process since 1934,

13886-399: The services of several established players such as Zito. Cury also invested to keep several young potentials like Pepe and the upcoming Pagão . The club president also gave Lula leeway to scout talented individuals who were trying out for the club. Perhaps the greatest signing Cury approved of was that of a 15-year-old boy brought over to Vila Belmiro by Waldemar de Brito . De Brito, who was

14017-415: The state of São Paulo. At the end of the season, interim manager Claudinei Oliveira was let go of by the club on mutual terms and Santos hired Oswaldo de Oliveira to begin in 2014. In 2014, Santos began the year competing in the Paulistão and completing several signings, including the most expensive player ever bought by Santos, Leandro Damião . On 1 February, Gabriel (another player who came through

14148-460: The state title in 1936. Patusca's departure in 1937 proved to be the closing chapter of his generation and the beginning of dismal campaigns in the Paulista tournament for the following 10 years, finishing no higher than 5th place. However, Santos' fortunes changed when former goalkeeper Athié Jorge Cury became club president in 1946 and immediately sought out to reconquer the state title. After getting

14279-564: The state title next season, the club remained undefeated in international matches during the 1930s, with seven wins and one draw. The most overwhelming win occurred against the France national football team , who arrived at Santos on 30 July after the FIFA World Cup in Uruguay and decided to use the stop to play against a local team, handidly losing 6–1 with four goals from Feitiço . Claiming they faced

14410-512: The team defeated Corinthians 1–0 with a Serginho goal in the second half. Santos' striker was again the top scorer, this time tied with Chiquinho of Botafogo, with 16 goals. In the 1990s Santos won only two tiles: the Rio – São Paulo Tournament in 1997 and the Copa CONMEBOL in 1998. In the final of the national Championship of 1995, Santos faced Botafogo, but could not beat the team from Rio de Janeiro

14541-644: The team did not want to risk their star players in unsafe stadiums in South America, Santos did not participate in the editions of the Libertadores 1966, 1967 and 1969. Players from Santos and Botafogo formed the basis of the Brazilian World Cup sides in Chile (1962) and Mexico (1970). On two occasions – against Germany and England – the national team had eight Santos players in the team. In six games of qualifying for

14672-568: The title after defeating Benfica 3–2 in Rio de Janeiro and thrashing the Europeans 2–5 in their Estádio da Luz . Santos would successfully defend the title in 1963 after being pushed all the way by Milan. After each side won 4–2 at their respective home legs, a play-off match at the Maracanã saw Santos keep the title after a tight 1–0 victory. The competition attracted the interest of other continents. The North and Central American confederation, CONCACAF ,

14803-466: The tradition of the Alvinegro became defined during the 1920s: the discovery and creation of young talent. The team, known as O ataque dos 100 gols (English: The 100-goal attackers), was led by the first major club idol, Araken Patusca , son of the first president of Santos. With the Araken Patusca was the first Santista to participate in a World Cup, as a member of the Brazilian national team in

14934-432: The violent, brutal and controversial way the Brazilian national team was treated in the 1966 FIFA World Cup by European teams, Brazilian football—including its club sides—declined to participate in international competitions in the late 1960s, including the Copa Libertadores and consequently the Intercontinental Cup. During this time, the competition became dogged by foul play. Calendar problems, acts of brutality, even on

15065-402: The winning team's vice-captain. From 1960 to 1979, the Intercontinental Cup was played in two legs. Between 1960 and 1968, the cup was decided on points only, the same format used by CONMEBOL to determine the winner of the Copa Libertadores final through 1987. Because of this format, a third match was needed when both teams were equal on points. Commonly this match was host by the continent where

15196-463: The year's Brasileirão, and on 13 December 2014, Modesto Roma Júnior was elected the new president, after winning by 1,329 votes. The club also suffered with several financial troubles from the previous management, led by Odílio Rodrigues, and saw Damião, Arouca, Aranha and Eugenio Mena take legal actions against the club due to unpaid wages. In 2015, due to the club's financial problems, free agents Elano and Ricardo Oliveira returned to Santos with

15327-460: The youth setup) scored Santos' 12,000th goal in a 5–1 routing over Botafogo-SP . Despite playing an enthusiastic football during the tournament (also being the most effective attack), Santos was defeated in the final round by fourth division side Ituano on penalty kicks , eventually finishing runner-up. On 2 September 2014, Oswaldo de Oliveira was released by the Santos board and replaced the next day by Enderson Moreira . Santos finished 9th in

15458-417: The youth setup, all of those seven players would become starters under new head coach Emerson Leão , along Elano , Paulo Almeida , Léo and Renato . In a more than reasonable campaign Santos finished eighth in the regular season and thus qualified for the play-offs. Eliminating São Paulo (and its young duo Kaká and Luís Fabiano ) in the quarter-finals, the club faced Grêmio in the semi-finals. After

15589-469: Was "not allowed to play with glasses". Dutch side Ajax , European champions of 1971 , would decline to face Uruguay 's Nacional due to violence in previous matches, which resulted in European Cup runners-up, Greek side Panathinaikos , participating. Ajax fears about Nacional's brutal game were confirmed. In the first game in Athens, Uruguayan striker Julio Morales broke the leg of Yiannis Tomaras with

15720-485: Was a response to the lack of representation the city had in football. Since then, Santos has become one of Brazil's most successful clubs, becoming a symbol of Joga Bonito (English: The Beautiful Game) in football culture , hence the motto "Técnica e Disciplina" (technique and discipline). This was largely thanks to the club's golden generation of the 1960s, with players like Gilmar , Mauro Ramos , Mengálvio , Coutinho , Pepe , and most notable of all, Pelé , named

15851-506: Was also dismissed near the end of the game, but amid the chaos he got away with staying on. The following season , Argentine side Estudiantes de La Plata faced England 's Manchester United in which the return leg saw Estudiantes come out on top of a bad-tempered series. But it was the events of 1969 which damaged the competition's integrity. After a 3–0 win at San Siro , Milan went to Buenos Aires to play Estudiantes at La Bombonera . Estudiantes' players booted balls at

15982-457: Was also the Paulistãos' top scorer with 23 goals. An infamous club anthem, " Leão do Mar ", was created in order to commemorate this triumph. In order to build upon the moment and provide a capable defense of the state title, Cury set in motion a series of plans and contracts after predicting that several of its veterans might opt to leave the club in a repeat of the aftermath in 1935. He secured

16113-713: Was an international football competition endorsed by UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America), contested between representative clubs from these confederations (representatives of most developed continents in the football world), usually the winners of the UEFA Champions League and the South American Copa Libertadores . It ran from 1960 to 2004, when it was succeeded by the FIFA Club World Championship , although they both ran concurrently in 2000. From its formation in 1960 to 1979,

16244-428: Was arrested by Argentine police on a charge of draft dodging, having not undertaken military service in the country. The player was forced to spend a night in the cells, eventually being released after explaining he had fulfilled national service requirements as a French citizen. Estudiantes won the game 2–1 but Milan took the title on aggregate. Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport dubbed it "Ninety minutes of

16375-405: Was created, among other reasons, to attempt the participation of North and Central American clubs in the Copa Libertadores, and thus in the Intercontinental Cup. Milan's fierce rivals , Inter Milan , would go on to win the 1964 and 1965 Intercontinental Cups , beating Argentine club Independiente on both occasions, in 1964 after a play-off match won at Santiago Bernabéu in extra time with

16506-520: Was extremely hostile: Johan Cruyff received several death threats from Independiente's local fan firms. Due to the indifference from the Argentine police, Ajax manager Ştefan Kovács appointed an organised emergency security detail for the Nederlandse meester , headed by himself and team member Barry Hulshoff , described as a big and burly man. In the first leg, Cruyff opened the scoring in Avellaneda at

16637-539: Was met with a negative response from its participating confederations, UEFA and CONMEBOL. According to Rous, CONCACAF and the Asian Football Confederation had requested in 1967 to participate in the Intercontinental Cup, which was rejected by UEFA and CONMEBOL. In 1970, the FIFA Executive Committee gathering put forward, unsuccessfully, a proposal for the expansion of the Intercontinental Cup into

16768-569: Was only 11 when I started playing football in 1906. My father, Turíbio Silveira of the Xavier da Silveira family, was a city sportsman. We had a great relationship with the Patusca, our relatives. We played together in Americano...me, my brother and my cousins while the club was in Santos. In 1911, Americano moved to São Paulo. Then, my cousins and I founded Santos Futebol Clube, which was registered in 1912. In

16899-535: Was open to every FIFA member-country, regardless of the continent where it was located ). Peñarol would appear again the following year and come out victorious after beating Portuguese club Benfica on the play-off; after a 1–0 win by the Europeans in Lisboa and a 5–0 trashing by the South Americans, a play-off at the Estadio Centenario saw the home side squeeze a 2–1 win to become the first South American side to win

17030-498: Was scored by Anacleto Ferramenta da Silva, with Geraule Moreira Ribeiro adding another one later on. The first official match took place on 15 September of that same year, beating Santos Athletic Club 3–2. Arnaldo Silveira, one of the original founders of Santos, scored the first official goal of the club. The Alvinegro Praiano took part in their first Campeonato Paulista in 1913 , being thrashed 8–2 by Germânia on 1 June. Although Santos earned their first victory against Corinthians ,

17161-410: Was to occur only in 2000 through the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship . Nevertheless, some European champions started to decline participation in the tournament after the events of 1969. Though "symbolic" or de facto as a club world championship, the Intercontinental Cup has always been an official title at interconfederation level, with both UEFA and CONMEBOL having always considered all editions of

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