page_title: Supporters of Santos FC
section_title: Torcida Jovem
hierarchical_section_title: Supporters of Santos FC / Torcidas / Torcida Jovem
caption_attribution_description: Português: Torcida Jovem do Santos
context_page_description: Santos FC is a football club based in Santos, that competes in the Campeonato Paulista,
  São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league. The club was founded in 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by the names of Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos, and Argemiro de Souza Júnior, and played its first friendly match on June 23, 1914. Initially Santos played against other local clubs in the city and state championships, but in 1959 the club became one of the founding members of the Taça Brasil, Brazil's first truly national league. As of 2010, Santos is one of only five clubs never to have been relegated from the top level of Brazilian football, the others being São Paulo, Flamengo, Internacional and Cruzeiro.
  The supporters of Santos have played an important part in the formation of the club's cultural association with Joga Bonito in football culture during the club's 99-year existence, numbering at 18,491 in 2009.
context_section_description: The Torcida Jovem are a torcida organizada founded in 1969 by a group of fans from São Paulo, the group set out to make it a goal in attending every match that the club played in the capital of São Paulo. With over 30,000 members, it is one of the largest supporting groups in Brazil. The current president is Marcos Gordinho. Thirteen individuals were the driving force behind the creation of Torcida Jovem, with Cosmo Damiano, German, toboggan, Menezes, Celso Jatene and Ze Miguel being the principal de facto leaders. On September 26, 1969, when the club returned from another successful tour, unbeaten in a series of seven matches in Europe, the group gathered in an old house in the traditional bairro of Brás in São Paulo. It was decided to name the group Torcida Jovem since the founders were no older than 21 years of age. Cosmo's house became the first official seat of the first organized supporters group for Santos. The firm's first witness of the club's success came on November 19 of that same year in Rio de Janeiro in a match against Vasco da Gama as Pelé scored his 1,000th goal in the Maracanã.
caption: Torcida Jovem
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