Paulo Roberto Falcão, or simply Falcão, is a Brazilian former footballer and football manager. He is universally considered one of the greatest Brazilian players of all time and one of the greatest defensive midfielders in football history, and one of the best players in the world in his position at his peak in the 1980s.
Falcão with Roma during the 1983–84 Serie A season
Paulo Roberto Falcão holding the trophy of the 1979 Brazilian Championship
Sport Club Internacional, commonly known as Internacional, Inter de Porto Alegre or simply Inter, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre. They play in the Série A, the first division of the Brazilian league, as well as in Campeonato Gaúcho Série A, the first level of the Rio Grande do Sul state football league. The team's home stadium, known as Estádio Beira-Rio ("Riverside"), was one of the twelve 2014 FIFA World Cup venues and has a capacity of 50,128.
Henrique Poppe, founder of the club.
1919 squad
1942 state champions.
Construction of Beira-Rio in the Guaíba Lake in the 1960s