Sport Club Corinthians Paulista - O Time do Povo

In 1910 football in Brazil was still an elitist sport. The top clubs in São Paulo such as Club Athletico Paulistano, São Paulo Athletic Club  and Associação Atlética das Palmeiras were inaccessible to the proletariat.

On August 31st 1910 the Corinthian FC played Palmeiras as part of their tour of South America, winning 2-0 with goals from / Among the spectators were a group of working men, employees of the Railway Company. They lived in the Bom Retiro neighbourhood, an area of many Italian immigrants, and their names reveal these origins: Joaquim Ambrósio,Antonio Pereira , Rafael Perrone, Anselmo Correia and Carlos Silva.
The following day they put the plan into action and founded Sport Club Corinthians Paulista.

Corinthians played their first match on September 10th, 1910, an away game against União da Lapa resulting in a 1–0 defeat. The team was made up of the 5 founding memebers and 6 players from another Bom Retiro team, Botafogo Athletic Association. An original club member Caetano de Domenico remembered: We met at 4 am in Bom Retiro and walked to Lapa. I helped carry the bag of shirts, nothing but  rags... At the end of the match everyone changed in a shed and came away without bathing...

On the14th September Corinthians played a home match against  Estrela Polar, winning 2–0 (goals from  Luiz Fabbi and Jorge Campbell).  27th September saw a 5-0 win over an English club,  Associação Atlética da Lapa.

From these rather humble beginnings Corinthians developed rapidly in terms of both ability and popularity. 
In 1913 they joined the LPF, their first league game a 3-1 defeat away to Germania. They finished the season 4th out of 5 with one win.
Remarkably, the following season Corinthians claimed their first Campeonato Paulista, winning the LPF with a 100% record:

1914:Corinthians Champion de São Paulo (LPF)

12.04.14	Lusitano	0	6	Corinthians
10.05.14	SC Internacional-SP	2	3	Corinthians
17.05.14	Minas Gerais	1	2	Corinthians
21.06.14	Corinthians	3	1	Germânia*
14.07.14	Corinthians	5	1	Campos Elyseos
26.07.14	Corinthians	4	1	Hydecroft*
13.09.14	Corinthians	4	2	SC Internacional-SP
27.09.14	Corinthians	3	1	Minas Gerais
08.11.14	Corinthians	4	0	Campos Elyseos
15.11.14	Corinthians	3	0	Lusitano

* Germania and Hydecroft left the league and the results of their matches were annulled. 

P	W	D	L	F	A
8	8	0	0	30	7

Amílcar

Amílcar Barbuy made his debut for Corinthians at the end of the 1913 season, scoring in his first match. In 1916 he became the first Corinthians player to be capped by Brazil. He went on to make 19 international appearances, and was in the South American Championship winning sides of 1919 and 1922.
In 1918 Amilcar converted from a forward to centre half.
In 9 seasons with Corinthians he won 4 Campeonato Paulistas (1914,16,22 & 23).
When Amilcar parted company with Corinthians there was only one place for him to go- being from the Italian community he was already a member of Palestra Italia, and had actually played for them in their first ever match in 1914.
In 1931 Amilcar moved to Italy. He was player coach at Lazio, where the squad of 22 featured 10 Brazilians. 

S C Corinthians Paulista

SC Corinthians Paulista was founded in 1910 and won its first Campeonato Paulista in 1914 , a feat  repeated in 1916. In the seasons 1922- 24 Corinthians won 3 successive championships.
The commemorative picture above shows members of the 1924 team.

Name	Full name	Position	Years at Corinthians	P	G	Campeonatos Paulista
Colombo	Gino Colombo	goalkeeper	1920-31	100		1 (24)
Del Debbio*	Armando Del Debbio	defender	1922 -31 1937 -39	215	2	8 (22, 23, 24, 28,29,30, 37 ,39)
Grané*	Pedro Grané	defender	1924 -32	179	50	4 (24,28,29,30)
Rodrigues	Raphael Rodrigues	wing	1922 -29	115	26	5 (22,23,24,28,29)
Pinheiro	?	utility	1923-33	53		3 (23,24,28)
Gelindo	Gelindo Mattiazzo	wing	1922- 28	135		3 (22,23,24)
Apparício	?	wing	1923- 33	166	67	4 (24,28, 29,30)
Rafael	Rafael Guizardo	midfield	1921-30	135	7	6 (22,23,24,28,29,30)
Neco*	Manoel Nunes	forward	1913 -30	296	235	8 (14,16,22,23,24,28,29,30)
Gambarotta I *	Alberto Gambarotta	forward	1919- 28	180	81	4 (22,23,24,28)
Gambarotta IV	Leone Gambarotta	?	1923- 31	53		3 (24,28,30)

*Brazil Internationals 

Corinthian FC Timeline 1882-1914

1882-  Corinthians FC formed by N. Lane Jackson, assistant secretary of the Football Association, who was alarmed by the way in which English football was falling behind the Scottish game .The Corinthians original constitution stated that the club play no competitive matches, only friendlies.

Between 1883 and 1890, 52 of the 88 caps awarded against Scotland went to Corinthian players.

1883- EasterTour- having played 15 matches in their debut season, Corinthian FC embarked on their first ever tour. It was an ambitious undertaking, playing 4 matches in 4 days against northern clubs who were undoubtedly 'professional'. Accrington beat Corinth 4-3 before the tourists secured 2-0 victories over both Church and Bootle before losing 5-4 at Stoke.

P	W	D	L	F	A
4	2		2	11	9

1884 First Xmas Tour- (more than 50% of the Corinth games played before 1890 took part on such Xmas tours). Corinth played 7 north of England clubs , a match a day for a week! The opponents were Blackburn Rovers, Blackburn Olympic,  Darwen, Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield FC, Preston North End and Nottingham FA.

P	W	D	L	F	A
7	2	1	4	18	21

1894 England field an XI of Corinthian members

1895 England field an XI of Corinthian members
1897 Tour of South Africa- Corinth played 23 matches on the summer tour, using a meagre squad of 14! 3 games were played against South African representative XIs. 

P	W	D	L	F	A
23	21	2		113	15

‘Test’ Matches
14.08.97	South Africa	0	3	Corinthians
19.08.97	South Africa	1	4	Corinthians
13.09.97	South Africa	1	2	Corinthians

1898- Sheriff Of London Charity Shield  - shared with Sheffield United after 2 draws.

1900- Sheriff Of London Charity Shield  - beat Aston Villa  2-1

1903- Tour of South Africa- 2 games were played against South African representative XIs.

P	W	D	L	F	A
25	22	2	1	72	18

‘Test’ Matches
25.07.03	South Africa	0	5	Corinthians
05.09.03	South Africa	0	4	Corinthians

1904- Easter tour of Austria, Hungary and Germany, winning handsomely against such clubs as MTK, BTC, Slavia Prague and VfB Leipzig, averaging 6 goals a game.

P	W	D	L	F	A
8	8			53	8

1904- Sheriff Of London Charity Shield beat Bury 10-3.

1904- Corinthians 11 Manchester United 3- the biggest defeat ever inflicted on a Manchester United side

1904- Scandanavian tour playing Gothenburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen select teams. Stockholm came off pretty badly, losing their 2 matches with Corinth by an aggregate of 25-1!.

P	W	D	L	F	A
5	5			39	2

 1906- A tour  of Germany and Netherlands in April.

P	W	D	L	F	A
4	4			30	3

1906- August and September 1906 saw a strong Corinthian squad undertake a 17 match tour of Canada and the USA.
On August 28th Cincinnati were on the receiving end of a club record 19-0 hammering. Fall River inflicted a 3-0 defeat on Corinth on September 13th and also gained a 1-1 draw the following day.

P	W	D	L	F	A
17	14	2	1	122	14

1907- joined the newly formed Amateur Football Alliance.
1907-  2 month 24 match tour of South Africa that included 3 'test matches' against South African representative XIs.

P	W	D	L	F	A
24	12	7	5	46	29

‘Test’ Matches
17.08.07	South Africa	1	2	Corinthians	Johannesburg
24.08.07	South Africa	0	2	Corinthians	Bloemfontein
14.09.07	South Africa	1	1	Corinthians	Cape Town

1908- Easter tour to Paris, 3 matches in 4 days. The opponents were Comité de Paris (beaten 5-1), Standard Athletic (a club founded by English ex-pats and winners of the Paris/ French Championships on 4 occasions- beaten 9-0) and a team of English players (Outcasts, beaten 7-2).

P	W	D	L	F	A
3	3			21	3

1909- Easter tour of Prague and Switzerland. The opening game of the tour, a 0-0 graw with Slavia Prague, saw that unusual occurence, controversey in a Corinthians game. In the 90th minute the referee awarded a penalty to Slavia after the ball had struck a defender on the shoulder. Both teams protested against the award of the spot kick! Witht the 15,000 crowd believing they were about to see Corinthians first ever defeat on the continent  Braddel, the player who had been penalized  picked up the ball and the referee blew for time. 0-0! Slavia were beaten 3-1 the following day and victories also followed over a Prague select XI, FC Servette and Lausanne.

P	W	D	L	F	A
6	5	1		20	1

 1910-  Tour of Brazil.
In August and September 1910 Corinth played 6 matches in Brazil. A 17 day voyage followed by 3 matches in Rio de Janeiro and 3 in São Paulo. It was during this tour that Sport Club Corinthians Paulista were founded by a group of São Paulo  workers who were impressed by the tourists. 

24.08.10	Fluminense	1	10	Corinthians	Rio de Janeiro
26.08.10	Rio XI	1	8	Corinthians	Rio de Janeiro
28.08.10	Brazilian XI	2	5	Corinthians	Rio de Janeiro
31.08.10	Palmeiras	0	2	Corinthians	São Paulo
02.09.10	CA Paulistano	0	5	Corinthians	São Paulo
04.09.10	São Paulo AC	2	8	Corinthians	São Paulo

P	W	D	L	F	A
6	6			38	6

 1911 Corinthians traveled to San Sebastian in Northern Spain where they played 2 games against London Nomads (who they beat 7-0 and 6-0) as well as Real Sociedad (beaten 3-1). 

 1912- Corinthians spent the Easter period in Bohemia and Moravia. 
The rivalry with Slavia Prague was renewed. The opening game of the tour saw Corinthians beating Slavia 5-1. In the rematch the following day Slavia prevailed by 3-1. 2 days later Corinth suffered another defeat, Bohemia beating them 4-2 in Prague. 3 days later in Brno SK Moravska Slavia were beaten 9-2 and the following day in Bratislava a Moravian XI were defeated 3-1. 

P	W	D	L	F	A
5	3		2	20	10

1913- A return to Brazil, playing before crowds of 10,000.

21.08.13	Rio Select	2	1	Corinthians	Rio de Janeiro
23.08.13	Rio Foreigners XI	0	4	Corinthians	Rio de Janeiro
28.08.13	Rio Brazilian XI	1	2	Corinthians	Rio de Janeiro
31.08.13	CA Paulistano	1	2	Corinthians	São Paulo
02.09.13	Mackenzie College	2	8	Corinthians	São Paulo
04.09.13	Palmeiras	1	1	Corinthians	São Paulo

P	W	D	L	F	A
6	4	1	1	18	7