Soccer club
Íbis Sport Club, or Íbis as they are usually called, are a Brazilian
football team from Paulista in Pernambuco👄 state, founded on 15 November 1938. Their
home stadium is the Municipal de Paulista. They play in black and red👄 colors. Íbis are
one of the founders of the Pernambuco Football Federation.
The club is notorious for
its epith of the👄 "Worst Team in the World" after a long losing streak in the late 1970s
and 1980s.[1] The club has taken👄 this reputation proudly and humorously, using it to
promote the club.[1]
History [ edit ]
Íbis Sport Club were founded on 15👄 November 1938
by employees of Tecelagem de Seda e Algodão ("Silk and Cotton Weaving Factory"), owned
by João Pessoa de👄 Queiroz,[2] and located in Santo Amaro.[3] Initially only employees
of that company could play.[2] The club were named Íbis after👄 the African bird.[4]
After the death of João Pessoa de Queiroz, who was the club's owner, his heirs lost
interest👄 in the club, then one of the company's managers, Onildo Ramos adopted Íbis.[4]
Íbis, under Onildo Ramos administration, started to👄 accept non-employees of Tecelagem
de Seda e Algodão as players.[5]
While the Pernambuco Football Federation was founded
on 16 June 1915👄 as Liga Sportiva Pernambucana, only in 1955 it was renamed to its
current name.[6] Íbis is considered by the organization👄 as one of its founders.[7]
Íbis
won the Torneio Início in 1948 and in 1950, and the Torneio Incentivo in 1975👄 and in
1976.[8] Carlito of Íbis, with 12 goals, was the Campeonato Pernambucano's top goal
scorer in 1948.[4] The team👄 are commonly known as the "Worst Team of the World" due to
their several defeats in the late 1970s and👄 early 1980s.[5] The club spent three years
and eleven months between 1980 and 1984 without winning a game.[8] Íbis were👄 the
runners-up of the Campeonato Pernambucano Second Level in 1999,[9] when they were
defeated by Central in the final.[10] After👄 celebrating their 70th birthday on 15
November 2008, the club started a project to become a private company, with the👄 help of
Portuguese entrepreneur Filipe Fernandes.[11] R$15 million will be invested in building
a training center.[11]
In the late 1970s and👄 early 1980s, Íbis gained worldwide fame
for its poor results on the field. Thanks to nine consecutive defeats and then👄 a
sequence of 23 games without a win, it achieved national fame. It was three years and
eleven months without👄 celebrating a single victory, a record included in the Guinness
Book of Records. It became well known to reporters at👄 the time as the worst team in the
world.[12][13][14]
Notable players [ edit ]
Achievements [ edit ]
