sport club corinthians paulista

there is nothing like
fiel
corinthians’s crowd of supporters is arGuably the larGest in brazil
Corinthians fans do not live off titles,
Corinthians fans live off Corinthians. This
sentence is part of an advertising campaign
launched after Corinthians won its fifth
Brazilian Championship title, in December
2011. It represents the feelings of over 30
million fans in love with Timão, who, at all
times and in all situations, always support
the black and white colors of the team from
Parque São Jorge.
The biggest sign that being a Corinthians fan
is more important than winning championship
titles came during the 22 years, eight months,
and seven days that Fiel was unable to chant
“we are champions”. Even so, although the
team did not win any major championship titles
between 1954 and 1977, the gang of crazy
fans continued to grow in number and spread
throughout Brazil. In 1976, in the semifinal
against Fluminense, 80,000 Fiel warriors were
present in Maracanã. This is known as the
Corinthian invasion, and it is considered the
largest human movement in times of peace.
Nowadays, the title of largest crowd
of supporters in Brazil is shared between
Corinthians and Flamengo. Until 2010, the
fanbase of the team from Rio de Janeiro was
still bigger. However, a survey conducted by
Ibope whose results were published in October
Gri indicator: PR5
2011 showed a tie between Corinthians and
Flamengo on the list of the teams with the
largest fanbases in Brazil. The survey was
conducted in 12 Brazilian metropolitan areas
and revealed that both Corinthians and
Flamengo are preferred by 13% of fans.
In this survey, 18,000 people were
interviewed, representing 100 million
Brazilian citizens over 10 years of age.
gOLDEN MUSkETEER
Corinthians fans voted center forward Liedson
as the best player in the team in the 2011
season. He received the Gold Musketeer
Trophy with an average of 8.41 points, beating
midfielder Ralf, who came in a close second
with an average of 8.12 points. Goalkeeper
Júlio César came third with 8.03 points. Scores
are awarded after each match.
Levezinho, the nickname of Timão’s 2011
top scorer, played in 44 of the 56 Corinthians
matches played during the year. He sank the ball
in the opposing net 23 times, with 11 goals in
the State Championship and 12 in the Brazilian
Championship. He averaged 0.5 goals per
match. However, in Corinthians’s 5-0 thrashing
of São Paulo in the first phase of the Brazilian
Championship, Liedson scored three goals, his
best performance in a single game in 2011.
fans//
“i wiLL
NEVER
FORgET ThiS
CROwD OF
FANS. iT
CAN wAiT
FOR ME,
BECAUSE
i SwEAR,
i’LL COME
BACk!”
CARLiTOS
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striker, currently
playinG for
Manchester city
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