Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Brazilian Portuguese: [k~uzej~u espoti klubi]), known simply as Cruzeiro, is the largest sports club based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Although competing in a number of different sports, Cruzeiro is mostly known for its association football team.

As such, many Brazilians are able to understand Spanish, though they may not speak it fluently. As with speakers of all minority languages in Brazil, Spanish speakers pop up in clusters. Many of these occur close to Brazil's borders with other Latin American countries, where Spanish is the primary language.