Cruzeiro Esporte Clube
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| Full name | Cruzeiro Esporte Clube |
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| Nickname(s) | "Raposa" (Fox) "Celeste" (Azure) "La Bestia Negra" (The Black Beast) "Maior de Minas" (Greatest of Minas Gerais) |
| Founded | January 2, 1921 |
| Stadium | Mineirão, 61,846 capacity |
| President | Gilvan Tavares |
| Head coach | Mano Menezes |
| League |
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Campeonato Mineiro |
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2016 2016 |
Brasileirão, 12th Mineiro, 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Brazilian Portuguese: [kɾuˈzejɾu esˈpoɾtʃi ˈklubi]), commonly known as Cruzeiro and nicknamed Raposa (English: Fox), is a Brazilian multisport club based in Barro Preto, Belo Horizonte. Although they compete in a number of different sports, Cruzeiro is mostly known for its association football team. It plays in the Campeonato Mineiro, the state of Minas Gerais's premier state league, as well as in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system. Cruzeiro are one of the four Brazilian clubs to have never been relegated, along with São Paulo, Flamengo and Santos.
The club was founded on January 2, 1921 by sportsmen from the Italian colony of Belo Horizonte, some members of Yale Atlético Clube and many Italian immigrant workers decided to create a new club called Societá Sportiva Palestra Italia. As a result of the Second World War, the Brazilian federal government banned the use of any symbols referring to the Axis powers in 1942. The club board members rebaptized the club with the name of a leading national symbol: the Cruzeiro do Sul's constellation. Cruzeiro play their home games at the Mineirão stadium, which currently holds up to 62,547 spectators. Cruzeiro's regular kit colours are blue shirts and white shorts with blue socks (although the team has worn white socks with their home kit for certain periods of time). Umbro are the side's current kit manufacturers.
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