Club Name
The club name is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'. This is based on the story of Mori Motonari who told his three sons that while a single arrow might be easily snapped, three arrows held together would not be broken and urged them to work for the good of the clan and its retainers.
- 1938-70 : Toyo Kogyo Syukyu Club (東洋工業蹴球部?) {"Syukyu" means "football" in Japanese.}
- 1943-46 : Play was suspended during this period due to the Pacific War.
- 1971-80 : Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (東洋工業サッカー部?)
- 1981-83 : Mazda Sports Club Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (マツダスポーツクラブ東洋工業サッカー部?)
- 1984-85 : Mazda Sports Club Soccer Club (マツダスポーツクラブサッカー部?)
- 1986-92 : Mazda Soccer Club (マツダサッカークラブ?)
- 1992- : Sanfrecce Hiroshima (サンフレッチェ広島?)
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Famous quotes containing the word club:
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)
“He loved to sit silent in a corner of his club and listen to the loud chattering of politicians, and to think how they all were in his power—how he could smite the loudest of them, were it worth his while to raise his pen for such a purpose.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)