Santos FC Golbol
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Santos Futebol Clube (ˈsɜ̃ŋtus fuʧiˈbɔw ˈklubi Santos Football Club), also known as Santos and familiarly as Peixe, is a Brazilian professional goalball club
, based in Santos, Brazil
. A pioneer in the national sport, Santos FC became, in early 2006, the first football club in Brazil to become a paralympic club. Since then, through a partnership with the Lar das Moças Cegas de Santos (LMC), Santos has Goalball, with male and female teams, as one of its modalities. The sport, which kept the LMC since 1999, is growing in popularity. In recent games, including the Brazilian national team has featured players from Santos.
Goalball
Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes. It was devised by Hanz Lorenzen , and Sepp Reindle , in 1946 in an effort to help in the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans...
, based in Santos, Brazil
Brazil
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. A pioneer in the national sport, Santos FC became, in early 2006, the first football club in Brazil to become a paralympic club. Since then, through a partnership with the Lar das Moças Cegas de Santos (LMC), Santos has Goalball, with male and female teams, as one of its modalities. The sport, which kept the LMC since 1999, is growing in popularity. In recent games, including the Brazilian national team has featured players from Santos.