Criacao Shinjuku
History. The club was founded by the current chairman Kazutomo Maruyama as a leisure club under the name Criacao in 2005 to create an opportunity to play football even after completing his studies at Rikkyō University. After Maruyama's professional return to Tokyo, he first registered for the Japan Football Association in 2009. Club name. Criacao is from the Portuguese criação and means translated as much as "creation", "creation", "production". In doing so, he alludes to the club's philosophy, which aims to achieve "continuous generation of enthusiasm in the world through football".