Croatian international footballer and current Shakhtar Donetsk star Eduardo da Silva is originally from Bangu and lived there before moving to Croatia as a 16-year-old.
He would then join the academy at Grenoble Foot for another 4 years, reaching the semi-finals of the Coupe Gambardella, before leaving to Brazil at age 19 to sign with Bangu.
On March 11, 1949, Anapolina played its first interstate match, against Bangu of Rio de Janeiro city, in Anápolis.
Sippola attended Mahtomedi Senior High School in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, and then Shattuck-St. Mary's High School in Faribault, Minnesota, played club soccer for Bangu Tsunami, and was a member of both the Minnesota State and National Region II Olympic Development Teams, before going on to play four years of college soccer at Butler University.
Carlos César Ramos Custódio also known as Carlos César (born February 27, 1943 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a football manager who last worked for Bangu.
In 1969, América substituted for Bangu as the fifth Rio de Janeiro representative, whereas the states of the Paraná and Pernambuco had been represented by its champions of the previous year, Coritiba and Santa Cruz.