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Excellent well-illustrated history of this Brazilian club known allover the world for the wrong reasons.
Íbis Sport Club were founded on November 15, 1938 by employees of Tecelagem de Seda e Algodão located in Santo Amaro.
The club were named Íbis after the African bird.
While the Pernambuco Football Federation was founded on June 16, 1915 as Liga Sportiva Pernambucana, only in 1955 it was renamed to its current name. Íbis is considered by the organization as one of its founders.
Íbis won the Torneio Início in 1948 and in 1950, and the Torneio Incentivo in 1975 and in 1976.
The team are commonly known as the "Worst Team of the World" due to their several defeats in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The club spent three years and eleven months between 1980 and 1984 without winning a game.
21 x 15 cms, softback, 138 pages.
2010
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