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Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras

Palmeiras are a Brazilian football team from São Paulo in Brazil, founded on August 26, 1914 as Palestra Itália, but changed to the current name on September 14, 1942.

Home stadium is the Palestra Itália, which seats 32,000. They play in green shirts, white shorts and green socks.

Honours

Brazilian Champions 1972-73, 1993-94
Libertadores Cup in 1999
Twenty-one state championships.

Famous players:

Ademir da Guia
Djalma Santos
Rivaldo
Edmundo[?]
Roberto Carlos[?]

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