Athletic Associação Portuguesa - Brazilian football club based in the city of Santos, lying in a state of São Paulo. In November 1914 employees of Contorno Pedreira, located in a district called Jabaquara Santos, watching a local club match Espanha Futebol Clube, began to consider setting up your own football club. Three years later, 20 November 1917, Manoel Tavares at a meeting with 15 other people decided to form a club that their name corresponds to Portugal. Ultimately determined the name of the new Athletic Club Associação Portuguesa sounde