Londrina Esporte Clube
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| Full name | Londrina Esporte Clube | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Tubarão (Shark) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Café, Londrina, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 45,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Agostinho Miguel Garrote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Roberto Fonseca | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2005 | Brazilian Série C, eliminated in the third stage |
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Londrina Esporte Clube, or Londrina as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Londrina in Paraná, founded on April 5, 1956.
Home stadium is the Café stadium, capacity 45,000.
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[edit] History
Londrina was founded by a group of sportsmen that, after watching a friendly match between Nacional and Vasco da Gama in Rolândia, decided that they wouldn't need to go to Rolândia to watch football. Instead, they founded a club in their own city. The club was founded on April 5, 1956. They chose blue and white to be Londrina's colors.
In 1969, Londrina's two clubs, Londrina Futebol e Regatas and Paraná Esporte Clube merged into Londrina Esporte Clube. Red and white, city of Londrina colors, became the new club's colors. In 1972, Carlos Antônio Franchello returned to the presidency of the club, and restored blue and white as the club's colors.
[edit] Titles
- Taça de Prata (not to be confused with Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, also known as Taça de Prata): 1980
- Campeonato Paranaense: 1962, 1981, 1992
[edit] Stadium
Londrina's stadium is Estádio do Café, inaugurated in 1976, with a maximum capacity of 45,000 people. However, Vitorino Gonçalves Dias stadium, with a maximum capacity of 13,000 people is owned by Londrina, and sometimes is also used by the club.
[edit] Idols
- Carlos Alberto Garcia
- Gauchinho
- Neneca
[edit] Logo
The club's logo includes a coffee plant, representing the most important product of the Londrina city agriculture. The gray star, on the top of the logo represents the 1980 Brazilian Second Division title.
[edit] Mascot
The original mascot of Londrina was a giant boy, known as Caçulo Gigante (Giant Youngest), however, the local media chose a Shark (known in Portuguese as Tubarão) as the new club mascot.
[edit] Anthem
Londrina's official anthem was composed by João Arnaldo, a Paraná Clube fan. Another anthem, called Bandeira do Meu Coração (or My Heart's Flag) was composed by the Baiano João Só, in 1977.
