Sport Club Internacional

Internacional is a Brazilian football team from Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, founded on April 4, 1909.

History

Early in the 20th Century, three young men from São Paulo who had recently arrived in Porto Alegre wanted to play soccer. But were not admitted at any club in town, because they were newcomers in Porto Alegre so they decided to found their own club. On the night of Monday, April 4 1909, in the basement of a house, and driven by three men (brothers Henrique and José Poppe Leão, and Luiz Madeira Poppe) 40 young men (twice more people than expected to attend the reunion) founded Sport Club Internacional. On the foundation minute, it was stated that the new club would not accept race, religion or economical discrimination. One of the two most popular soccer clubs in Rio Grande do Sul was born there, together with Grêmio.

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April 4 - 1909 - Grêmio

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The Gigante da Beira-Rio stadium, the home of Internacional, was inaugurated on a clear afternoon of Sunday, April 6 1969 with the Internacional 2-1 victory against Benfica of Portugal. Inter supporters collaborated as they could to build the stadium, like as bringing cement, nail boxes, iron bars or some bricks. The people's effort helped a lot for the construction of the imponent Gigante da Beira-Rio. In early times, the stadium had capacity for more than 90,000 spectators, and now, with the modern regulations by FIFA, the correct capacity is about 56,000 supporters.

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April 6 - 1969 - Benfica - Portugal

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Inter has not only a great stadium, but also owns the Beira-Rio Sportive Complex, including auxiliary training fields, Gigantinho Sportive Gymnsasium and the Nautical Complex. A few soccer clubs in the world have such a great privilege: all teams from every categories work together and players have close relationships with their professional superstars and idols since the youth divisions.

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The Gigante complex has restaurants, headquarters for players, physical training rooms, shops, museum, rooms for the Directors Board, management, marketing, telephony, parking and bank. It also has the most beautiful dressing room of the Brazil, one of the most complete and luxurious in the world, inaugurated in 2004. Gigantinho is the largest sportive gymnasium owned by a club in the country, having 18,000 people capacity and perfect safety, acoustical and luminosity conditions for all kind of events, like music shows or public concurses.

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In 1975, Internacional was the first club of Rio Grande do Sul to win the Brazilian Championship, making the state soccer to overpass the frontiers with a historical 1-0 victory against Cruzeiro from Minas Gerais, at the Gigante da Beira-Rio. It was also at Beira-Rio stadium that Inter became two-times brazilian champions, in 1976 against

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Corinthians, winning by 2-0 goal margin. And, in 1979, Internacional becomes the first and only club ever to win the Brazilian Championship without a single defeat at all campaign, with the last game against Vasco da Gama by 2-1 score. And, as expected, the title of Brazilian Cup against Fluminense in 1992 was again at Beira-Rio stadium, by the smallest margin 1-0.

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Corinthians - Vasco da Gama - Fluminense

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