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The Brazilian soccer team was five times world champion: 1958,1962,1970,1994 and 2002.

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The Club de Regatas Vasco da gama Was one of the pioneers, in accepting blacks and operarios in his team and was hard punished for it.

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Due to the extinction of the German soccer department, the Sport Club Rio Grande is considered the first soccer club, still in activity, to be founding in Brazil. It is located in the city of Rio Grande in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In honor of the club, the now defunct CBD (now CBF) in 1976 instituted the date of the club's foundation - July 19 - as the "Football Day" .

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The São Paulo Athletic Club was the first soccer team in Brazil, formed in 1894 by Charles Miller. Already the Athletic Association Mackenzie College was the first team turned towards Brazilians, in 1898. The first club destined only to the soccer was the São Paulo Sport Club International, founded in 1899 and already extinct. Soon after, in the same year, the Sport Club German was founded by the German Hans Nobiling, today with the name of Sport Club Pinheiros.

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Miller's pioneering spirit is also contested by Bangu Athletic Club, who claims to be the Scotsman Thomas Donohoe who introduced the sport into Brazilian soil.

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However, there are records stating that the sport had already been practiced in the country previously. In 1874, foreign sailors disputed a match in beaches of Rio. In 1878, crews of the Crimea ship faced off in a display for Princess Isabell
. In 1886, the College Anchieta, in Nova Friburgo, regularly imposed the practice of football, by influence of the Jesuit Fathers.

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The aristocracy dominated the soccer leagues, while the sport began to win the floodplains. The poorest sections of the population and even blacks could only watch. It was only in the 1920s that blacks became accepted as football became popular, especially with professionalization in 1933.

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The history of soccer in Brazil began in 1895, at the hands of the English, as in most other countries. The first clubs began to form in this period. Like the founding of clubs, practice was also restricted to the white elite. It is said that the first soccer ball of the country was brought in 1894 by the Paulist Charles William Miller.