Clube Atlético Paranaense

MISSION OF THE SOCIAL SERVICE AT CAP:
“To promote and mediate the strengthening of family relationships, citizenship and work in the enterprise-soccer, contributing with the formation of athletes and/or soccer players who are aware of their reality, of their role in the society, of their rights and duties as a citizen.”

FUNCTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS OF THE SOCIAL WORKER AT CAP:
- To provide guidance and aid in the adaptation process of new athletes;
- To elaborate the social-economical profile, creating a database containing the main information about the athletes;
- To service, guide and clarify parents and/or guardians’ doubts, informing them about the main happenings involving the athletes;
- To monitor and analyze the clinical history of the athletes who have been through medical treatment, helping with the recovery;
- To develop social-educational works for promoting health and prevention;
- To monitor and analyze the athletes’ scholar development, carrying out preventive and curative actions for a good performance;
- To help the athletes’ citizenship development and formation;
- To develop educational, cultural and leisure programs;
- To elaborate, implement and coordinate Social Projects, seeking the promotion of citizenship, as well as the improvement of interpersonal relationships and life quality of the athletes;
- To elaborate the Continued Education Program aiming the environmental conservancy;
- To elaborate Performance Reports when required so;
- To supervise the Social Service trainees;
- To seek and strengthen bonds with the athletes’ families and the athletes themselves through the Motivational Programs, so that they can feel calm and committed to “wear” and “defend” the club’s shirt with safety, respect and passion, inside and outside the fields.

MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICE AT CAP:
“To motivate and involve the soccer player’s family as a co-manager and co-participant in the athlete’s personal and professional growth, guiding and monitoring in such way that they can convey tranquility feelings to the athlete, for a better professional performance.”

ATHLETES FORMATION
The main proof of CAP’s excellence at forming soccer players is the large amount of the club’s athletes who have already passed through the different categories of the Brazilian official team. In total, 22 players have worn the official team’s shirt, the five-time world champion team.

Special highlight for the middlefielder Kléberson, five-times champion in the 2002 World Cup, formed in the CAP’s base categories, who nowadays plays in Turkish team Besiktas; for Fernandinho, who plays in Ukrainian team Shakhtar, and Dagoberto, both U-20 World Champions in 2003; and for Paulo Rink, also formed in the club’s formation categories and first Brazilian player to wear the Germany official team’s shirt, including participation in the 2000 European Football Championship.

The Clube Atlético Paranaense maintains two formation categories (juvenile and junior). Currently, the Furacão’s boys play average 10 (ten) annual competitions, of which 06 (six) are juvenile category championships and 04 (four) junior.

The system houses the entire management structure and the Atlético’s formation categories’ teams. The space assigned to them comprises:
• Junior team’s locker rooms
• Juvenile team’s locker rooms
• Two locker rooms for visitor teams
• Two locker rooms for referees
• Gym
• Lodge with 22 beds for athletes undergoing test
• Pedagogy Room