sentences:  Among the club's most famous players are Paulo Figueiredo, Clayton, Idrissa Keita, Lito Vidigal, and Jorge Ribeiro while Portugal's former all-time leading scorer Pauleta, a native of the Azores, also played for the club.The Santa Clara Sporting Club is the end result of something distant in time but very close in essence, a social phenomenon that sports beginning in late 1917, had its heyday during the years 1919 and 1920, the peak of the lively dispute of "Leagues of Santa Clara," a competition in which participating teams representing some of the various "shops of Santa Clara", presenting himself as heir apparent of the other two "Santa Claras"; the "Santa Clara Foot-ball Club" and "Sport Club Santa Clara", both before him also affiliated to the "Foot-ball Association Sam Miguel" today; Football Association of Ponta Delgada.The first board of Clube Desportivo Santa Clara was elected by acclamation on May 12, 1927, with its founding statutes approved shortly after June 21, 1927, a General Assembly for that purpose had been called and then was chaired by Lieutenant John Joaquim Vicente Jr.