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Sport Club Portuguese – A Family Club with Tradition

15 Mar

Sport Club Portuguese is a club of families and sportsmen which was founded in 1921 by Portuguese immigrants and since then has grown to the stature of one of the most respectable and community-minded sports clubs in New Jersey and the US.

Nowadays, picking the right people to associate with can be a thankless task. For 20 people that we meet, we may find 1 or 2 who exactly fit into the temperament and character profile that we can associate with productively. Life is short and a lot of people are wary of getting into relationships that will not be productive, to say the least.

If you want to expand your circle of friends who have a sincere, wholesome and healthy outlook on life, why not join Sport Club Portuguese today. If you are a the head of a family, not only you will stand to benefit from associating with people with the positive outlook that you want to instill into your life, but your children as well. Most particularly if you are having problems raising your children with the correct and robust attitude towards self and society, expose them to the good influence of Sport Club Portuguese. It is firmly dedicated to the nurture and development of young people in particular and society in general. Read the rest of this entry »

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About The Sport Club Portuguese

14 Mar

History

The Sport Club Portuguese started to develop back in 1920. Portuguese residents that lived in Newark gathered and discussed starting a club that would allow friends of the Portuguese people of Newark to meet at a facility not only to get to know one another better, but also to take time to honor and also dignify the Portuguese that lived in the United States. The first of their meeting was held to discuss the formation of their idea. At their first meeting there was approximately twenty-eight Portuguese present. After a year of meetings and careful planning, the Portuguese club was officially opened on seventeenth day of December 1921. The incorporation became official a little more than a year later on April sixth, 1922. The club originally started out as a theater with a sports section plus an Orchestra which was composed with several elements. Approximately two-hundred of the Portuguese immigrants, the majority consisted of men, were all members within the Sports Club Portuguese (SCP) at that time. Almost all of the Portuguese residents living in Newark were members of the Sports Club Portuguese. Interestingly, because there were few Portuguese women in Newark during that time, at times the ladies roles in the theater group at the Sports Club Portuguese were played by men. Read the rest of this entry »

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On State’s Fields, a World Cup in Miniature

10 Jan

NEWARKJOE R. MANSO reached his hand into a crowded display case one recent afternoon and pulled out a silver trophy that could have used a good polishing. It commemorated a soccer tournament — Portuguese v. Spaniards — played in Bayonne in April 1922.

Evoking the spirits of what must have been the immigrant players’ war-weary European brethren, the words, “In memory of all those who have lived and died for World Peace,” were etched in the metal cup.

Ninety years of immigrant soccer history in New Jersey are contained in this wall-length glass cabinet in the lobby of Newark’s Sport Clube Português. The sport club, which was founded in 1921 by Portuguese immigrants who came to work in the local tanneries and paint factories, is one of the state’s oldest ethnic soccer clubs. Read the rest of this entry »

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