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Fluminense Football Club is a Brazilian multimodality sportive association from Rio de Janeiro, founded on July 21, 1902. Fluminense means both fluvial and natural from Rio de Janeiro.
History
Oscar Cox was responsible for introducing football in Rio de Janeiro. He had played football in Switzerland, during his studies in College La Ville, in Lausanne. When he returned to Rio de Janeiro, aged 22, he gathered a group of men who also wanted to play this relatively unknown sport. After playing some matches in Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo, they decided to found a club. The foundation meeting took place on July 21, 1902, at Horácio da Costa Santos' home, at Rua Marques de Abrantes, 51, and was attended by Horácio da Costa Santos, Mario Rocha, Walter Schuback, Felix Ignacio Frias, Mario Frias, Heraclito de Vasconcellos, Oscar Cox, Joao Carlos de Mello, Domingos Moutinho, Louis da Nobrega Junior, Arthur Gibbons, Virgilio Leite, Manoel Rios, Americo da Silva Couto, Eurico de Moraes, Victor Francois Etchegaray, Anselmo C. Mascarenhas, Alvaro Drolhe da Costa, Julio e Moraes and A. H. Roberts. Oscar Cox was elected the first president.
The first match was on October 19, 1902, at Paysandu Cricket Club field, against Rio Football Club. Fluminense won 8-0 and the first goal was scored by Horácio da Costa Santos. The team won the first championship they played, in 1906, the Campeonato Carioca (Championship of Rio de Janeiro). They also won the next three, in 1907, 1908 and 1909.
In 1911, they were again champions, and won all matches in Campeonato Carioca. However, a huge crisis took place at the end of this year, when 9 players from the main team quit the club after quarreling over who should coach the team and decided to play in Flamengo, which was only a rowing club by then. They founded the football department in Flamengo and started one of the most famous rivalries in Brazilian football, the Fla-Flu (Flamengo versus Fluminense). The first Fla-Flu happened on July 7, 1912. Despite Flamengo had nearly all players who had won the championship the previous year, Fluminense, with only two remainders from the champion team, Oswaldo Gomes and James Calvert, won the game 3-2.
On July 27, 1914, Fluminense field hosted the first match of Brazil national football team, against Exeter City F.C., an English club. Brazil won 2-0 and Oswaldo Gomes, a Fluminense player, scored the first goal.
Trivia Their biggest rivals are from the same city: Flamengo, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama.
Titles - FOOTBALL
- National
- State
- 29 state championships: 1906, 1907**, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1917-19, 1924, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1983-85, 1995, 2002
- International
- II Copa Rio 1952
- Taça Olímpica 1949
- I Copa Viña del Mar 1976
- Torneio de Paris 1976
- XXXII Troféu Teresa Herrera 1977
- Torneio de Seul 1984
- Torneio de Paris 1987
- Copa Kirin 1987
- Torneio de Kiev 1989
"*" Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa.
"**" Shared with Botafogo.
Famous players
External links - Official Website (http://www.fluminense.com.br)
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