Clube Atletico Linense

Clube Atletico Linense, commonly referred to as Linense, is a Brazilian professional association football club based in Lins, Sao Paulo. The team competes in the Campeonato Paulista Serie A2, the second tier of the Sao Paulo state football league.

Founded on June 12, 1927, it was reorganized on February 11, 1930. Their colors are red, white and black. They won the Campeonato Paulista Second Division in 1952, and the Serie A-2 (Second Division) in 2010, returning to the First Division in 2011, what has not happened since 1957.

They are the club that showed Leivinha, idol of Portuguesa, Palmeiras, the Brazil national team and Atletico Madrid, was also the club that held the first international transfer of Brazilian striker Americo Murolo trading with Italy. Has one of the most curious football mascots of Sao Paulo state, which it is intimately connected. Some episodes characteristic of the players involved a parade of circus elephants on site after winning the league's second division in 1952. In 2000, there was a parade of elephants from the track's premises Estadio Gilberto Siqueira Lopes.

The club announced the launch of a professional basketball team, which will begin playing in the second tier division of Sao Paulo state basketball. In January 2015, it is also expected that Clube Atletico Linense will join Liga Ouro, the second division of Brazil's national basketball league known as NBB.

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