Vasco football club

In the late nineteenth century, rowing was the most popular sport in Rio de Janeiro. Although cycling was also popular, the sport's most prestigious among the business people of the time was the oar, as the bike behaved many costs.

Four young, Henrique Ferreira Monteiro, Luis Antonio Rodrigues, José Alexandre de Avelar Rodrigues and Manuel Teixeira Sousa Júnior, met and paddled every weekend at Club de Regatas Gragoatá in Niteroi. Residents of Rio de Janeiro and tired of having to travel to Niterói to practice their favorite sport, decided to found a new yacht club in town and soon got more fans to the idea.

The first meeting to outline plans for the foundation of a rowing club was held at number 80 the street Teófilo Ottoni. A week later, on August 21, 1898, there was another meeting, chaired by Gaspar de Castro. This time it was founded the Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama, then with a group of 62 rowers, almost all Portuguese in one room of the Sons of Talma Dramatic Society, Street Health 293, which became the first headquarters of the club. On this occasion, was elected president Francisco Gonçalves Couto Jr., merchant of the neighborhoods of Health and Botafogo, with 41 votes.In 2000, Vasco won the Mercosur Cup final in history against Palmeiras, when he turned a losing game 3-0 in the first half to 4-3 in what became known as "the turn of the century" and raised the Cup Joao Havelange, who was the Brazilian championship in 2000 in a tumultuous end with Sao Caetano (where the fence of the stadium collapsed Januarius overcrowding), but a title perceived as fair, behold, there were three games with St. Caetano, with the following scores: 1-1 (in SP), 0-0 (match suspended in the RJ) and 3-1 in the final at the Maracana.
In 1905 Vasco won their first championship in rowing.