O Santos de 1959 foi campeão do Torneio Rio-São Paulo com um elenco que tinha Pelé, Pepe e Coutinho, treinado por Lula, na fase que antecedeu o auge do clube nos anos 1960.
Santos FC 1959
Santos in 1959 was one of the squads from the period when the club established itself as a national powerhouse, with Pelé, Pepe and Coutinho in attack. The team won the Rio-São Paulo Tournament that year, under the command of coach Lula.
History
The Santos Football Club, founded on April 14, 1912, lived between the end of the 1950s and the 1960s the most glorious phase of its history. The 1959 team already brought together a good part of the base that would dominate Brazilian and South American football in the following years. In that squad played Pelé, recently world champion with the Brazilian National Team in the 1958 World Cup, winger Pepe, striker Coutinho, midfielder Zito and winger Dorval. The coach was Luís Alonso Pérez, Lula, who commanded the club from 1954 to 1966. In 1959, Santos was champion of the Rio-São Paulo Tournament, a competition that brought together the main clubs of the two largest states in the country and was one of the most prestigious tournaments in Brazilian football at the time. The conquest consolidated the team as a reference and prepared the ground for the titles of the Taça Brasil and Copa Libertadores in the following decade.