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Minas Tênis Clube
Brazilian sports club / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Minas Tênis Clube (short, just Minas) is a social, recreational and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. By 2013, it has more than 73,000 members. Its patrimony comprises two urban units, the Minas I and Minas II, and two country units, Minas Country and Minas Tênis Náutico Clube. It also has its own indoor arena, named Juscelino Kubitschek Arena, which is a part of the Minas I complex.
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Minas I main building | |
Formation | 15 November 1935; 88 years ago (1935-11-15) |
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Founder | Necésio Tavares Waldomiro Salles Pereira Otacílio Negrão de Lima José Mendes Junior Benedito Valadares |
Type | Traditional club |
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Key people | Luiz Gustavo Lage (president) |
Website | minastenisclube.com.br |
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Minas is best known for the professional teams it maintains, in a variety of olympic sports. It also maintains youth teams, and is recognized to be one of the most important formation centers of new sports talents in Brazil. Currently the club has approximately 1000 competing athletes, being about 900 youth athletes.[1]