Centro Olímpico

Paulista club, pioneer of Brazilian women's football in the early 1990s, important developer of players who became references in the Brazilian National Team.

History

Centro Olímpico was one of the most relevant clubs in Brazilian women's football in the first half of the 1990s, a period when the sport was still seeking space and recognition in the country following the regulation of 1983. The Paulista team revealed and projected names like Sissi, who years later would be elected the best player of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup by the United States. Centro Olímpico was a protagonist in some of the first national competitions organized for women's football in Brazil. With the structural weakening of amateur women's football at the turn of the century, the club ended its competitive activities, but remains remembered as part of the history of the formation of national women's football.