Cruzeiro Esporte Clube

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (abbreviated Cruzeiro E.C., usually known simply as Cruzeiro) is a Brazilian football team, from the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, founded on January 2, 1921.

Even though the club's main focus is football, Cruzeiro also supports semi-professional teams as well, these include track and field, bocha, and bowling.

The evolution of Cruzeiro’s crest has followed the transformation of their uniforms. The club was born as Societá Sportiva Palestra Itália and so the crest was a rhombus with the initials SSPI. In 1943 however in a game against São Cristóvão, the club started to use a new crest which was a blue circle with five white stars in it, symbolizing the Southern Cross. Cruzeiro used this crest on their jerseys, alternatively switching to loose stars on the shirt many times. As in 2004 the crest has been on the shirts rather than just loose stars. They also changed their crest from just a circle with five stars to having CRUZEIRO ESPORTE CLUBE being written around it. Lately they have been adding features to the crest, like in 2003 when the it had two trophies on its sides, representing two Libertadores conquers. In 2005 they added a crown to the crest along with the two trophies, representing the triple crown title of 2003. In 2006 they dropped the two trophies and just kept the crown on top.

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Cruzeiro's Honors

International

* Copa Libertadores de América (2): 1976, 1997

* Supercopa Sudamericana (2): 1991, 1992

* Recopa (1): 1998

* Copa Oro (1): 1995

* Supercopa Masters (1): 1995

Domestic

* Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1):2003

* Taça Brasil (1): 1966

* Copa do Brasil (4): 1993, 1996, 2000, 2003

* Copa Sul-Minas (2): 2001, 2002

* Copa Centro-Oeste (1): 1999

* Campeonato Mineiro: (35) 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1956, 1959,1960, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002[2], 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008

Youth

* Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20 (1): 2007

* Copa São Paulo de Juniores (1): 2007

* Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores (5): 1985, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2004

* Copa Santiago de Futebol Juvenil (2): 2002, 2004

* Copa Macaé de Juvenis (1): 2007