Multi-sport club in São Paulo, Brazil
This article is about the São Paulo club.
For the defunct Curitiba football club, see Esporte 🏵 Clube Pinheiros (PR)Football club
The Esporte Clube Pinheiros, founded on 7 September 1899, by German immigrants, under the name Sport Club 🏵 Germânia (Sport Club Germany), is a multi-sports and social club located in the Brazilian metropolis São Paulo.
The full name of 🏵 the club is Esporte Clube Pinheiros São Paulo (E.C.P.S.P.).
The club's name is commonly abbreviated as E.C.Pinheiros, or E.C.P.
It has around 🏵 35,000 members, and its terrain comprises 170,000 m² in the well regarded quarter of Jardim Europa.
The club's assets are valued 🏵 to be in excess of R$ 350 million.
Historically, Germânia is the fourth oldest football club of Brazil and was part 🏵 of the first inter club match of the country.
Until 1915 the club had won twice the State Championship of São 🏵 Paulo.
Already early tennis grew popular among the club members and the club should become one of the co-founders of the 🏵 Tennis association of São Paulo.
Football was basically abandoned with the advent of the professionalization of the sport in the 1930s.
During 🏵 the course of World War II the club abandoned references to its German origin and in 1941 was renamed to 🏵 Pinheiros.
In later years water polo was very popular.
In the 1970s João Carlos de Oliveira from Pinheiros held the world record 🏵 in the triple jump.
In more recent times the club has joined the national elite in basketball and volleyball, in the 🏵 former even winning international titles.
César Cielo won Olympic gold in swimming.
History [ edit ]
Logo of SC Germânia ca.1909.
Sport Club Germânia 🏵 (S.C.
Germânia) was one of the clubs which established football in Brazil, and was one of the clubs which participated in 🏵 1899, in the first inter-club match, and in 1902, in the first championship match of the country.
Germânia was twice the 🏵 winner of the state championship of São Paulo, the Campeonato Paulista.
The eminent player of the early days of the club 🏵 was Hermann Friese, considered the first football player personality of Brazil.
Arthur Friedenreich, the first great star of Brazilian football, and 🏵 widely acknowledged as one of the all-time greats of the sport, commenced his career at Germânia in 1909.
The football team 🏵 in the early years.
Club's founder, Hans Nobiling (with tie) poses with the players.
After abandoning football in the early 1930s, due 🏵 to the professionalization of the game, the club successfully transformed itself to a universal sports club.
Already in 1932, the water 🏵 sports department sent its first representative to the Olympic Games.
Many more athletes from the club since represented Brazil in major 🏵 international sports events, and swimmers like Gustavo Borges and César Cielo are among the club's Olympic medal winners.
The basketball and 🏵 volleyball teams play in the national top divisions, and the swimmers continue their dominance in Brazil.
Beyond this, Pinheiros has departments 🏵 for many more modalities, such as judo, gymnastics, and tennis.
Since its merger with the Gesellschaft Germania, a social club of 🏵 German immigrants, in the early 1940s, to form the Esporte Clube Pinheiros, named after the river Rio Pinheiros, flowing close 🏵 by its seat, the club has also developed as a meeting place and venue for cultural events.
These days, thousands of 🏵 visitors pass daily through the club's restaurants, bars, and other facilities.
Top stars of the Brazilian entertainment industry, like Daniela Mercury 🏵 and Jorge Ben Jor have performed in the club's auditorium, which at its opening in 1957, was the largest of 🏵 its kind in South America.
Also classical music and theatrical plays are regularly on the schedule.
Further facilities of the club include 🏵 a kindergarten, library, and the Centro Pró-Memória Hans Nobiling, which comprises a museum displaying trophies and other memorabilia from the 🏵 club's rich history, as well as the archives.
Activities [ edit ]
Nocturnal view across the greenery of the club, to apartment 🏵 blocks along Rua Angelina Maffei Vita.
Basketball [ edit ]
In the 2005–06 season, EC Pinheiros participated for the first time in 🏵 the professional first division of Brazilian basketball, but then failed to qualify for the single league that resulted from the 🏵 merging of the conferences.
In the 2008–09 season, Pinheiros joined the new top Brazilian league, called the Novo Basquete Brasil, under 🏵 the sponsored name Pinheiros/Sky.
[1] The team plays at the Ginásio Poliesportivo Henrique Villaboim, on the club's grounds in Jardim Europa.
In 🏵 2013, the team won its first international title, the most important competition of the Americas, the FIBA Americas League, and 🏵 thus qualified to play at the 2013 edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, where it lost the series against the 🏵 EuroLeague champions Olympiacos, of the Greek Basket League.
Handball [ edit ]
EC Pinheiros is a recognized powerhouse in Brazilian handball, winning 🏵 the Paulista Championship 30 times including the 2016 edition,[2] the National League 6 times the last time being the 2015 🏵 edition[3] and the Pan American Championship twice including the 2017 edition.[4]
The women's team is achieving success recently, winning the 2016 🏵 National League.[5]Judo [ edit ]
At the Olympic Games 1984 in Los Angeles Douglas Vieira won silver and thus the first 🏵 Olympic medal for the judoka of Pinheiros.
In 2008 Leandro Guilheiro won a bronze medal in judo in the −73 kg 🏵 class.
In London 2012 Rafael Silva won the first bronze medal of the +100 kg category in judo – the tenth 🏵 Olympic medal in the club's history.
Swimming [ edit ]
The swimming section from Pinheiros is leading in Brazil.
It has won a 🏵 record 13 times the two main competitions in Brazil, the Maria Lenk Trophy and the José Finkel Trophy.
Manuel dos Santos 🏵 won 100 m freestyle bronze at the Olympics 1960 in Rome.
Freestyle swimmer Gustavo Borges won silver and bronze medals in 🏵 the Olympics of 1992, 1996 and 2000.
Cesar Cielo won short distance freestyle gold and bronze in 2008 in Beijing.
View across 🏵 the tennis courts.
Tennis [ edit ]
By 1903, SC Germânia already had its first two tennis courts.
In his later years, founding 🏵 president Hans Nobiling became an enthusiastic tennis player and the club's interest in tennis grew dramatically.
In 1924, SC Germânia won 🏵 the State's top tennis club honor, the "Taça Brasil", or the Brazil Cup.
The club was one of the founders of 🏵 the state association "Federação Paulista de Tênis.
" By 1949, the now EC Pinheiros had 14 courts and was the largest 🏵 tennis facility in Brazil.
Today, EC Pinheiros has 24 courts, two of which are covered for play during inclement weather.
Several times, 🏵 the club has served as the host of matches for the Davis Cup, i.e.– Brazil v.India in 2010.
[6] The club's 🏵 facilities also have served as venue for the Banana Bowl, a Grand Slam -event for junior players between 16 and 🏵 18 years of age.
In 1956, Ingrid Metzner from EC Pinheiros, then aged 19, was the first female Brazilian participant at 🏵 the Wimbledon Championships.[7]
In 2007, the club's tennis association had 3,000 members.
[8]Volleyball [ edit ]
Brazil is a leading country in volleyball, 🏵 and the ladies volleyball department is playing in Brazil's first division, the Superliga.
In 2010, the men's team played with their 🏵 sponsored name as Pinheiros/Sky, but the men's team is not active currently.
The ladies formed a union with Mackenzie University, and 🏵 therefore played as Pinheiros/Mackenzie.[9]
Track and field [ edit ]
Track and field was practically right from the beginning part of SC 🏵 Germânia.
Hermann Friese, who was German Champion over 1500 metres in 1902 and joined Germânia in 1903 was in 1907 Brazil's 🏵 sole representative at an international tournament in Montevideo, Uruguay where he won two competitions and finished second in a third 🏵 one.
In 1924 Germânia was co-founder of the state athletics association Federação Paulista de Atletismo.
By the end of the 1930s the 🏵 club had a 70 strong group of athletes and dominated track and field in Brazil.
Apart from many South-American records it 🏵 held almost all national records.
At the Games in 1932 in Los Angeles Lúcio de Castro became the first athlete from 🏵 EC Pinheiros to participate at Olympic Games.
In the pole vault he cleared 3,90 metres and finished sixth.
João Carlos de Oliveira 🏵 won triple jump bronze 1976 in Montreal and 1980 in Moscow.
At the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico he won 🏵 the long jump with 8.
19 metres and surpassed the triple jump world record of Viktor Saneyev by 45 centimetres reaching 🏵 17.89 metres.
This mark held for almost six years, when the US-American Willie Banks extended it to 17.
97 which should stand 🏵 for ten years.
18 metres should not be exceeded before mid 1995.
Lately the club's athletes lined-up as EC Pinheiro/Asics.
Fabiano Peçanha, 2009 🏵 South-American champion over 800 metres, and Sabine Heitling, in the same year continental champion over 3000 metres steeplechase, belong to 🏵 the most successful athletes of the club in more recent years.
Water polo [ edit ]
Water polo has been played at 🏵 EC Pinheiros since 1949.
Soon players from the club were also selected to play in the national team, and represent Brazil 🏵 at the Olympic Games and many other international events, such as the 1963 Pan American Games, which was won by 🏵 Brazil.
After winning the Brazilian Cup in 2004, Pinheiros also won the first edition of the national league, the Liga Nacional 🏵 de Pólo Aquático in 2008.
[10]Honours [ edit ]
Campeonato Paulista (2): 1906, 1916
