Soccer Betting - Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
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Ponte Preta (SP)
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, or just Ponte Preta, was founded on August 11, 1900 by students from Colégio Culto à Ciência including Miguel do Carmo, Luiz Garibaldi Burghi and Antonio de Oliveira. It is located in Campinas, São Paulo and are also known as the Macaca and their fans pontepretanos.
The clubs biggest rival is from the same city of Guarani and the games between Ponte Preta and Guarani are known as derby, dérbi in Portuguese. Ponte Preta's first president was Pedro Vieira da Silva and their stadium is the Estádio Moisés Lucarelli, built in 1948, with a maximum capacity of 19,722 people. Its nickname is "Majestoso", meaning the "Majestic One" because it was the third largest stadium in Brazil at the time of its inauguration.
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