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Deportivo Unidad
Club Deportivo Unidad, commonly known as Deportivo Unidad, is an Equatoguinean football club based in Malabo that plays in the National League First Division. The club have won the Equatoguinean Cup twice. Achievements *Equatoguinean Cup: 2 ::1999, 2000 Performance in CAF competitions *African Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance ::2001 African Cup Winners' Cup The 2001 African Cup Winners' Cup was the twenty-seventh season of Africa's second oldest club football tournament organised by CAF. South African club Kaizer Chiefs appeared in and won their first African club final, defeating Angolan club In ... References External links * :de:CD Unidad Malabo [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuevo Estadio De Malabo
Estadio de Malabo is a multi-purpose stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. Overview The stadium holds 15,250 and opened in 2007. It is currently the home ground of the Equatorial Guinea national football team. One of the host stadiums for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, it hosted the final of the Women's African Nations Football cup in 2008. Equatoguinean Premier League sides Atlético Malabo, Atlético Semu, Deportivo Unidad, Sony Elá Nguema, The Panthers and Vegetarianos all play their league games at this stadium. In the original national stadium, on Christmas Eve of 1969, political opponents of President Francisco Macías Nguema were executed by a firing squad dressed as Santa Claus in the stadium, while Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days" was played on the stadium's speakers. References External links Pictures at cafe.daum.net/stadePictures of new stadiumStadium picturesat Stadiumguide.com Football venues in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malabo
Malabo ( , ; formerly Santa Isabel) is the capital of Equatorial Guinea and the province of Bioko Norte. It is located on the north coast of the island of Bioko, ( bvb, Etulá, and as ''Fernando Pó'' by the Europeans). In 2018, the city had a population of approximately 297,000 inhabitants. Spanish is the official language of the city and of the country as well, but Pichinglis is used as a language of wider communication across Bioko island, including Malabo. Malabo is the oldest city in Equatorial Guinea. Ciudad de la Paz is a planned community under construction in mainland Equatorial Guinea which was designed to replace Malabo as the capital. The institutions of governance of Equatorial Guinea began the process of locating to Ciudad de la Paz in February 2017. History European discovery and Portuguese occupation In 1472, in an attempt to find a new route to India, the Portuguese navigator Fernão do Pó, encountered the island of Bioko, which he called ''Formosa''.Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equatoguinean Premier League
Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoriale, pt, link=no, República da Guiné Equatorial), *french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoriale * pt, link=no, República da Guiné Equatorial is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of . Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name evokes its location near both the Equator and the Gulf of Guinea. , the country had a population of 1,468,777. Equatorial Guinea consists of two parts, an insular and a mainland region. The insular region consists of the islands of Bioko (formerly ''Fernando Pó'') in the Gulf of Guinea and Annobón, a small volcanic island which is the only part of the country south of the equator. Bioko Island is the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea and is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equatoguinean Cup
The Equatoguinean Cup (Spanish: ''Copa de Su Excelencia'') is the top knockout tournament of the Equatoguinean football. Its full name is Equatoguinean Cup - King's Cup Abudunal Sun. It was created in 1974. Winners *1978 : Union (Mongomo) *1979 : Akonangui FC *1980 : CD Elá Nguema *1981 : CD Elá Nguema *1982 : CD Elá Nguema *1983 : CD Elá Nguema *1984 : GD Lage (Malabo) *1985 : Atlético Malabo *1986 : Junevil Reyes (Bata) *1987 : Atlético Malabo *1988 : Atlético Malabo *1989 : Union Vesper (Bata) *1990 : Atlético Malabo *1991 : Atlético Malabo *1992 : CD Elá Nguema ''unknown winner between 1993 and 1995'' *1996 : Akonangui FC *1997 : CD Elá Nguema 1-0 Deportivo Mongomo *1998 : Union Vesper *1999 : CD Unidad Malabo *2000 : CD Unidad Malabo *2001 : Atlético Malabo *2002 : Akonangui FC bt Sony Elá Nguema *2003 : '' unknown'' *2004 : Sony de Elá Nguema 1-0 Akonangui FC ''unknown winner between 2005 and 2006'' *2007 : Akonangui 2-0 Atlético Malabo *2009 : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Cup Winners' Cup
The African Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup. It was a competition between the winning clubs of domestic cups in CAF-affiliated nations and was modelled after the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. History The competition was founded at the beginning of 1975 by the Confederation of African Football, following the example of UEFA in Europe, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. For the first edition, fifteen teams took part registered and it was the Cameroonian club of Tonnerre Yaoundé who were the first winners, after defeating the Ivorians Stella Club d'Adjamé Stella Club d'Adjamé is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan. History It was founded in 1953 in a fusion between ''Red Star'', ''Etoile d'Adjamé'' and ''US Bella''. They play at the Stade Robert Champroux. Current squad ... in the final. Records and statistics Finals Performance by club Performance by country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 African Cup Winners' Cup
The 2001 African Cup Winners' Cup was the twenty-seventh season of Africa's second oldest club football tournament organised by CAF. South African club Kaizer Chiefs appeared in and won their first African club final, defeating Angolan club Inter de Luanda 2–1 on aggregate in the two-legged final. ''Kaizer Chiefs'' were also named 2001 African Club of the Year at the conclusion of the African football season. For ''Kaizer Chiefs'' the year 2001 included the highs of being crowned ''African Club of the Year'' and lifting the ''African Cup Winners' Cup'', but it also included the lows of the Ellis Park Stadium disaster in which 43 South African football fans lost their lives. Association team allocation A total of 37 teams from 36 CAF associations qualified for the tournament after winning their respective premier domestic cups. Of the 37 teams that qualified 1 withdrew before fulfilling all of its fixtures in the preliminary round, 1 withdrew after fulfilling its Preliminar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Clubs In Equatorial Guinea
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in North America and Australia); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby union and rugby league; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century. The expansion and cultural influence of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
