Clube Atlético Linense

Clube Atlético Linense, commonly referred to as Linense, is a Brazilian professional association football club based in Lins, São Paulo. The team competes in the Campeonato Paulista Série A3, the third tier of the São Paulo state football league.

Not to be confused with Real Balompédica Linense.
Linense
Full nameClube Atlético Linense
Nickname(s)Elefante da Noroeste (Northwestern Elephant)
Founded12 June 1927 (1927-06-12)
GroundGilbertão
Capacity15,770 [1]
PresidentJosé Hugo Gentil Moreira
Head coachXandão
LeagueCampeonato Paulista Série A3
2019Paulistão A2, 16th (relegated)

Founded on June 12, 1927, it was reorganized on February 11, 1930. Their colors are red, white and black. They won the Campeonato Paulista Second Division in 1952, and the Série A-2 (Second Division) in 2010, returning to the First Division in 2011, what has not happened since 1957.

They are the club that showed Leivinha, idol of Portuguesa, Palmeiras, the Brazil national team and Atlético Madrid, was also the club that held the first international transfer of Brazilian striker Americo Murolo trading with Italy. Has one of the most curious football mascots of São Paulo state, which it is intimately connected. Some episodes characteristic of the players involved a parade of circus elephants on site after winning the league's second division in 1952. In 2000, there was a parade of elephants from the track's premises Estádio Gilberto Siqueira Lopes.

The club announced the launch of a professional basketball team, which will begin playing in the second tier division of Sao Paulo state basketball. In January 2015, it is also expected that Clube Atlético Linense will join Liga Ouro, the second division of Brazil's national basketball league known as NBB.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  BRA Júnior Oliveira
2 DF  BRA Gedeílson
4 DF  BRA Magno Alves
5 MF  BRA Maycon
6 DF  BRA Thiago Feltri
7 MF  BRA Henrique Santos
8 MF  BRA Diego Silva
9 FW  BRA Raphaël Carioca
10 MF  BRA Thiago Humberto
11 FW  BRA Carlos André
13 DF  BRA Felipe Costa
14 DF  BRA Wellington
15 MF  BRA Pedro Demarchi
16 FW  BRA Lucas Machado (on loan from Londrina)
17 DF  BRA João Paulo
18 FW  ARG Franco
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW  BRA Wellisson
20 FW  BRA Raul
21 DF  BRA Vinicius Silva
22 DF  BRA Rodrigo Salgado
23 FW  BRA Luan
25 MF  BRA Kássio
26 MF  BRA Diego Felipe
27 DF  BRA Lucas Newiton (on loan from Grêmio Novorizontino)
28 MF  BRA Balestra
29 MF  BRA Mateus Melo
30 GK  BRA Igor
31 FW  BRA Juan
32 DF  BRA Mateus Bolt
33 MF  ARG Alvaro
35 GK  BRA Jonatas

Supporters

The supporters of the Clube Atlético Linense is, in proportional terms, one of the largest in Brazil. A poll conducted by TV TEM, the local affiliate of Rede Globo, found that only in the city of Lins, whose estimated population in 2007 was 70,000 inhabitants, there are approximately 45,00 fans known as atleticanos. The team is also known to regularly carry more than 15% of its population, i.e. 12,000 people at a football stadium, an achievement considered unique in the whole national territory.

Achievements

References
  1. "CNEF - Cadastro Nacional de Estádios de Futebol" (PDF). Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (in Portuguese).

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