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Santos Futebol Clube is a Brazilian professional football club, based in Santos, Brazil.[1] They play in the Campeonato Paulista,[2] São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão,[3] Brazil's national league, and are one of the only three clubs to have never been relegated, along with São Paulo and Flamengo.[4] Santos was a founding member of the Clube dos 13 (English: Club of the 13) group of Brazil's leading football clubs.[5][6]
The club has contributed many players to the Brazil national team, including to Brazil's World Cup-winning teams, especially during the golden generation of players known as Os Santásticos (The Santastics), from 1956 until 1974. Led by Lula, the team won a total of 22 titles between 1959 and 1974,[7][8] including two Copa Libertadores,[9] the most prestigious laurel in South American football.[10][11] Os Santásticos dominated the Brazil national football team and had what was considered by some the best club team of all times,[12] and became a symbol of Joga Bonito (English: The Beautiful Game) in football culture, thanks to figures such as Gilmar, Mauro, Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pepe and the iconic Pelé, named the "Athlete of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee,[13] and widely regarded among football historians, former players and fans to be one of the best and most accomplished footballers in the game's history.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Santos contributed players to the victorious Brazil national teams of 1958, 1962 and 1970 FIFA World Cups. It has also contributed players to the winning sides of the 1916, 2004 and 2007 Copa Américas as well as the 2005 and 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. One Santos player has won the Golden Ball award at the World Cup with Brazil; Pelé in 1970. Neymar replicated Pelé at the Confederations Cup by winning that competition's golden ball. Pinga and Narciso represented Brazil in medal winning squads at the 1984 and 1996 Summer Olympics.
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- ^ "F.P.F.: Série A1" (in Portuguese). Federação Paulista de Futebol. Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ "Campeonato Brasileiro Série A" (in Portuguese). Confederação Brasileira de Futebol. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ "Brazilian Championship Participations". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
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- ^ Mauro Beting. "Copa União 1987 e Clube dos 13 – A Linha do Tempo e do Dinheiro". Archived from the original on 2011-10-30. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ "Brazil Cup 1959". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ "São Paulo State - List of Champions". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ "Copa Libertadores de América". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ "Copa Libertadores tendrá nuevo patrocinador desde 2008" [The Copa Libertadores will have a new sponsor as of 2008] (in Spanish). CopaLibertadores.com. September 28, 2007. Archived from the original on September 25, 2009. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
- ^ "Competiciones, Copa Santander Libertadores" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. May 18, 2010. Archived from the original on May 12, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
- ^ Cunha, Odir (2003). Time dos Sonhos [Dream Teams] (in Portuguese). ISBN 85-7594-020-1.
- ^ "Pelé still in global demand". CNN Sports Illustrated. May 29, 2002. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. Retrieved May 30, 2008.
- ^ "The Best of The Best". RSSSF. June 19, 2009. Archived from the original on January 26, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
- ^ "IFFHS' Century Elections". RSSSF. January 30, 2000. Archived from the original on March 3, 2009. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
- ^ "The Best x Players of the Century/All-Time". RSSSF. February 5, 2001. Archived from the original on December 31, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
- ^ Pele tops World Cup legends poll Archived 2019-03-26 at the Wayback Machine BBC News. Retrieved June 12, 2010
- ^ Pelé "es el mejor" Archived 2011-05-11 at the Wayback Machine BBC News. Retrieved May 1, 2011
- ^ Acerca de ... Pelé Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine FIFA.com. Retrieved May 1, 2011
- ^ Over 50 per cent of Goal.com UK readers believe Brazilian legend Pele was a greater player than Diego Maradona Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine Goal.com. Retrieved May 1, 2011
- ^ Beckenbauer: "Pelé es el mejor del mundo" Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine La Cuarta Deportiva. Retrieved May 1, 2011
- ^ World Soccer Players of the Century Archived 2021-04-04 at archive.today England Football Online Retrieved May 1, 2011