Santos FC was a manager of Bauru Atlético Clube's junior squad, won three consecutive São Paulo state youth championships between 1954 and 1956 with the child. The boy, called Edson Arantes do Nascimento and who would be better known as "Pelé" in the near future, was the main driving force behind those victories. The contract between Santos and the young Pelé was finalized in June 1956. After 50 years Santos began to be seen as the best team in the world. When Pelé made his debut in the Campeonato Paulista in 1957, the team was already twice state champion (1955/56). The King
Francisco José do Nascimento and Culture, founded in 1999 in Fortaleza, was named after him. In 2017, Francisco's name was written into the ""Book of Steel" in the Tancredo Neves Pantheon of the Fatherland and Freedom, in Brasília. Francisco José do Nascimento Francisco José do Nascimento (April 15, 1839 — March 5, 1914), known as "Dragão do Mar" ("Sea Dragon") was a Brazilian pilot and abolitionist hero, who in 1881 led a strike in the port of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, refusing to transport enslaved black people to be sold in Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian provinces. Francisco José do Nascimento was born