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The road joins again Tigers with a Brazilian team, this time with Palm trees as an obstacle to overcome to reach Club World Cup final. There they will meet a growing team in football, with a series of titles that have already painted in its history of over 100 years.
HOW WERE PALMEIRAS BORN?
The history Palesta, as his fans nickname him, began on August 26, 1914 thanks to four Italians who lived in Sao Paulo, who decided to give life to the club that at that time was called Gym in Italy Yes whose colors were those of the flag of that nation (green, white and red). With this peculiarity, the team played the amateur league and won even five times, until it jumped to professionalism.
With a history full of glory, the team has been the protagonist in all the national tournaments it has played, but at the outbreak of World War II, everything changedAs Brazil supported the Allies and therefore there was a rejection of the Italians, in addition to the fact that the government banned everything related to the Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan). So, Palmeiras was born in 1942, although the origin is not forgotten, because in some seasons the alternative uniform was tricolor, the most recent case in 2017.
PALMEIRAS, THE GIANT WHO WAKES UP
One of the main problems Tigres will face is that they will face the winner of the Brazilian championship. and that he is living a remarkable moment, after a long drought of 12 years, from 1994 to 2015 he did not succeed in the league, until 2016 he added 80 points, being that he lost only six games.
As if that wasn’t enough, Palmeiras was to be crowned again, as he repeated the dose in 2018 with the same 80 units, In addition, last year he won the Paulista Championship, which he had not won since 2008. The sum of all the above places the team as a favorite to overcome the semifinals of the Club World Cup.
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