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COPA LIBERTADORES

Paulista powerhouses’
prodigious pasts
30 Jan 2021 "

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• Palmeiras and Santos clash in

today’s Copa Libertadores final
• We spotlight the two clubs and
their rivalry
• Legends, titles and stats feature

The interviews

Interview: Gabriel
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Menino

Interview:
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Libertadores finals
Palmeiras have appeared in four
Libertadores finals, losing thrice in
1961, 1968 and 2000. A side including
Marcos, Junior Baiano, Roque Junior,
Junior, Cesar Sampaio, Zinho, Alex and
Paulo Nunes beat Deportivo Cali to lift
the trophy in 1999, before losing a
tight game to Manchester United in
the Intercontinental Cup.

Palmeiras also won the Copa Rio 1951,

the first intercontinental club
tournament. The eight-team event
featured Austria Vienna, Juventus,
Nacional and Sporting.

Santos have won three of the four

finals in which they appeared. They
were triumphant in 1962 and ’63,
going on to beat Benfica and AC Milan
in back-to-back Intercontinental Cups.
Neymar then inspired victory over
Penarol in the 2011 final, though
Lionel Messi and Barcelona proved too
much for them in the FIFA Club World
Cup™ final.

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Green is the colour of envy. ‘The Big Green’

were the envy of the wide world #OnThisDay
65 years ago. A Liminha-inspired
@sepalmeiras edged a @juventus team
including Giampiero Boniperti & a dazzling
Danish triumvirate to become the sport’s
first intercontinental world club champions.
100,000 watched that at the Maracanã. One
million flooded the streets of São Paulo to
welcome their heroes home. #BrazilIsBack
#Euphoria #CopaRio #Juventus #Palmeiras
#PalestraItália #Verdão #Liminha
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The green king and the

king of kings
Unlike many clubs, Palmeiras and
Santos both have an undisputed
greatest player of all time. Pele
inspired Santos to 24 titles – including
six Brazilian championships, two
Libertadores crowns and two
Intercontinental Cups – during an
incomparable 18-year career at the
Vila Belmiro.

Curiously, Ademir da Guia – another of

Brazilian football’s best-ever players –
is little-known outside the country’s
borders because of Pele. ‘The Divine
One’, indeed, played only 14 times for
Brazil and in only one FIFA World
Cup™ match – the third-place playoff
at Germany 1974 – because ‘The King’
was considered to play in a similar
position.

At club level, however, Ademir dazzled.

Despite the presence of a star-stacked
Santos, he was the leader of ‘The
Academy’, an exhilarating Palmeiras
side that won six Brazilian
championships between 1960 and ’73.

Pele’s 80th Birthda…

Brazilian championships

Club Titles

Palmeiras 10

Santos 8

Corinthians 7

Sao Paulo 6

Flamengo 6

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Brazil never lost in 40 games with

@Pele & Garrincha on the pitch
together

#OnThisDay in 1963, however, one

of them had to lose. Ultimately, Pele
hit a hat-trick as @SantosFC thrashed
@Botafogo 4-0 at the @maracana to
reach @TheLibertadores final

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Legendary players
Palmeiras

Heitor (1916-31), Oberdan Cattani

(1940-54), Jair (1949-55), Julinho (1958-
67), Djalma Santos (1959-68), Ademir
da Guia (1961-77), Djalma Dias (1962-
68), Dudu (1964-75, 1976), Cesar
Maluco (1967, 1968-75), Luis Pereira
(1968-75, 1981-84), Emerson Leao
(1971-78, 1984-85), Leivinha (1971-75),
Evair (1991-94, 1999), Cesar Sampaio
(1991-94, 1999-2000), Mazinho (1992-
94), Marcos (1992-2011), Roberto
Carlos (1993-95), Edmundo (1993-95),
Rivaldo (1994-96), Alex de Souza (1997-
2000), Dudu (since 2015).

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Seus pais já devem ter contado muitas

histórias. Mesmo assim, fizemos esse
quadrinho para exaltar a trajetória do
nosso maior camisa 10.

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Santos

Araken Patusca (1923-29, 1935-37),

Zito (1952-67), Pepe (1954-69), Dorval
(1956-64, 1965-67), Pele (1956-74),
Coutinho (1958-68), Mengalvio (1960-
69), Gilmar (1961-69), Carlos Alberto
Torres (1966-74), Edu (1966-76),
Clodoaldo (1966-79), Serginho Chulapa
(1983-84, 1986, 1988, 1989-90),
Giovanni (1994-96, 2005-06, 2010), Leo
(2000-05, 2009-14), Elano (2001-05,
2015-16), Robinho (2002-05, 2014-15,
2020), Neymar (2009-13).

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Producers of superstars from

@Pele to @neymarjr, seven of Brazil’s
1962 @FIFAWorldCup winners & one
of the greatest club sides in history,
the beautiful story of @SantosFC
turns 108 today!

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The Clássico da Saudade

Dictionary: Saudade (Brazilian-
Portuguese)
A deep emotional state of nostalgic or
profound melancholic longing for an
absent something or someone that
one cares for and/or loves.

The fixture’s nickname, which can be

very loosely translated as ‘The
Nostalgia Derby’, came because fans
missed the exhilarating clashes
between the rivals during the 1960s,
considered Brazilian football’s epochal
height.

Ademir da Guia
@Ademir_daGuia

Academia x Santos de Pelé

Dois timaços! Bons tempos! Parabéns

ao rei @Pele ! #AdemirdaGuia #Pele80
#Pele80Anos

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Thirteen members of

13 Brazil’s most recent 18-

man squad took to the
field when Palmeiras faced
Santos in 1960.

Palmeiras, Santos and the

World Cup
Both clubs have had 24 players apiece
named in Brazilian FIFA World Cup™
squads. Palmeiras trio Djalma Santos,
Zequinha and Vava, and Santos septet
Gilmar, Mauro, Zito, Mengalvio, Pepe,
Pele and Coutinho, ensured tem of the
Seleção’s 22 players at Chile 1962
came from the two teams.

Head-to-head deciders
Palmeiras and Santos have met in four
finals, with the latter winning three of
them: the Campeonato Paulista in
1928 and 1960 and the Copa do Brasil
in 2015. O Peixe won the Paulista 2015
decider at O Verdão’s expense.

All four finals were extremely close,

with two going to penalties and one
requiring a play-off after two draws.

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Will we see you at the #ClubWC

again, @SantosFC?

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