Grêmio

Make The Case

Grêmio are not a spare club. They are Brazil Serie A, Arena do Grêmio, and 123 years of people deciding this was theirs, pick them and the season has a second spine.

• Cathedral football

  Arena do Grêmio holds around 55,662. Even a routine league game arrives with a noise floor most clubs only reach in a semi-final.

• You get a nickname

  Known as Imortal Tricolor (Immortal Tricolor) Tricolor dos Pampas (Tricolor of the Pampas. That is your new shorthand, your search term and your excuse for buying a scarf.

• The calendar you inherit

  Following Brazil Serie A means odd kick-off hours, a new commentary language and a table you will check before your own club's. Brazil becomes part of your week.

• Old enough to matter

  1903 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.