Nacional Atlético Clube (SP)
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| Full name | Nacional Atlético Clube |
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| Founded | February 16, 1919 |
| Stadium | Estádio Nicolau Alayon, São Paulo |
| Capacity | 9,650 |
| President | Ayrton Santiago |
| Head coach | Tuca Guimarães |
| Website | [[1] Club home page] |
Nacional Atlético Clube is a sports club from the Brazilian metropolis São Paulo. Nacional was founded on 16 February 1919 as association football club by employees of the British owned São Paulo Railway Company as São Paulo Railway Athletic Club. These days the club, also known as NAC, Naça, and Ferroviário – its mascot is a locomotive – is these days focused on youth football and also maintains departments for such as volleyball, futsal, boxing, basketball, and button football. A traditional rivalry exists with Juventus and their matches were known as the Juvenal.
For the construction of a railway from Jundiaí, about 50 km north of São Paulo, to the seaport Santos from 159 forward the São Paulo Railway Company was founded. The company operated largely with British capital, and management and engineers where primarily of same origin. In addition the project also attracted many British immigrants to work as common labourers. There were similar ventures, e.g., in the electricity sector. By the end of the century the employees of these companies also transported the association football game to Brazil.
On 14 April 1895 the first organised football match in Brazil between two sides is to have taken place when SPR employees encountered in Brás, a quarter close to the centre of São Paulo, employees of the Gas Company of São Paulo. One of the SPR employees at play there was Charles Miller, regarded alongside the German Hans Nobiling and in Rio Oscar Cox one of the great pioneers of the game in Brazil. Railway Company won the match 4–2.
However, it took until 1903 when the SPR officially organised football as a leisure activity for its employees and another one-and-a-half decades when a proper football club was formed on 16 February 1919.
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