Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama

Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama CLUB DE REGATAS VASCO DA GAMA Unofficial Home Page Created in March 1995 The first and most copied Vasco site   Português      English…

Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama




Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama

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CLUB DE REGATAS

VASCO DA GAMA


Unofficial Home Page


Created in March 1995
The first and most copied Vasco site

 


    


Casaca, Casaca

Casaca-zaca-zaca

A turma é boa

É mesmo da fuzarca

Vasco, Vasco, VASCO!


This (somewhat untranslatable) traditional chant has been intoned
thousands of times by immense legions of Vasco supporters during
the celebration of great victories in many different sports.

flag

black jersey
white jersey

Founded in 1898 as a rowing club, Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama soon embraced other sports as well.

The scope of this document is exclusively soccer.




HISTORY


TROPHY
ROOM


HALL OF
FAME


SOUND &
IMAGE


OTHER WEB
RESOURCES

Vasco profile displays the basic info about this great Brazilian club.

History of Vasco chronicles the relevant facts since the club’s foundation until the present.

Vasco’s distinctive role in the

extinction of the odious racial discrimination that scourged Brazilian
soccer in its beginnings
makes the supporters proud, and deserves
special mention.

Acclaimed Brazilian sports writers, like
Sérgio Cabral, Aldir Blanc, Armando Nogueira,
Álvaro do Nascimento and Mário Filho,
among others, dedicated some of their
best articles to Vasco-related themes.

Several
curious stories related to Vasco are hereby told.

Get your heart ready to recall the emotions of Vasco’s unforgettable
great games.

The list of
Vasco’s largests blowouts
shows that they never hesitated to impose huge scores over
opponents from many parts of Brazil and the world.

Check out all
team lineups, year by year since 1916.

Vasco’s all-time position tables summarize the club’s performance in all official tournaments.

One of the most successful clubs in Brazil, Vasco have won no less than
115 titles, so far.

Vasco’s most recent official title in the international arena was the
Mercosur Cup 2000.

Vasco were the
first South American club champions,
in 1948. This title is
officially recognized by the South American Football Confederation.
Vasco’s second continental title was the
Copa Libertadores 1998.

Vasco won the Brazilian Championship four times since the competition started in 1971. Vasco’s
last Brazilian title was in 2000.

Vasco were the
2011 Cup of Brazil champions, the club’s first title
on this competition.

Vasco are the
2016 Rio de Janeiro State champions (unbeaten) –
for the second season in a row, and the twenty-fourth time since their first participation in 1923.

In their 73
international tours,
Vasco played in 54 countries of all continents, and won 21 tournaments.
Vasco’s unbeaten runs of 29 games abroad, and 34 games against foreign
opponents, achieved in 1954, remain the longest ever achieved by a Brazilian side.

Vasco have often boldly gone where no one had ever gone before. And
you never forget the first time.

Find the Vasco fans’ idols of all time in the
Hall of Fame.

Vasco players have often shined in the Brazilian Squad. Their number of
World Cup caps is one of the largest among Brazilian clubs.

Vasco’s dynasty of
goal scorers, always a terror for opponents’ defenders, established several records of Brazilian football.

Four of the few Brazilian football former superstars that have never played for Vasco
had the privilege of appearing as a
Vasco player for a day – or a few days even.

Vasco’s anthems: The famous Brazilian popular
music composer Lamartine Babo wrote the anthems of all clubs from Rio,
including Vasco’s. But few people know that Vasco previously had two
other anthems, now forgotten.

Goals: Narrations from radio broadcasts.

Photo Album

Museum of memorabilia

Fernanda Abreu and the Vascaino Happiness Rap

“Vasco” sound vignette (wave, 30k), from Globo radio sports broadcasts.

Links to other Vasco sites.

Current and former Vasco player sites.

Books and articles about Vasco related themes.

Daily news on Vasco sites, without the anti-Vasco bias usually exhibited by the Brazilian sports media.

Daily news on the Brazilian press.

Multimedia sites, with video and audio.

Search engines.

Evolve! Be Vasco!!



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Last modified: February 12, 2023.

Thanks to:
Sergio Valle and Eline Valle, for the “Vasco” vignette audio, and several image files.
Mauro Prais
email: [email protected]

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