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Estádio Aquiles De Oliveira
Estádio Aquiles de Olveira, also as Aquilo de Oliveira is a multi-use stadium in Nova Sintra on the island of Brava, Cape Verde, as the island size is small, it is the only sports venue on the island. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Académica, Benfica and Sporting, clubs based from other parts of the municipality outside Nova Sintra plays at the stadium including SC Juventude da Furna and SC Morabeza. The stadium holds 1,000 people and its ground is artificial grass. The stadium is operated by the Brava Regional Football Association (ARFB). Location Its location is southeast of the city center at the foot of a hill and is just north of the boundary with João de Noly. About the stadium All of its regional football competitions including the Brava Island League, along with its cup, super cup and the opening tournament competitions. Each year in June during the Saint John the Baptist festival, the Tournament of Saint John the Baptist (São Joà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Sintra, Brava, Cape Verde
Nova Sintra is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 , Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica, p. 32-33 in the central part of the island of in southwestern Cape Verde. It serves as the seat of the Brava Municipality. The settlement is named after |
Académica Da Brava
Associação Académica da Brava ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Akadémika da Brava'') is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Brava Island League in Cape Verde. The logo and the uniform as well as other teams with the name Académica and Académico in Cape Verde is identical to Académica de Coimbra. It has a small "Br" on the bottom of the left letter A (standing for Associação, Association in Portuguese), the first two letters, the island of the club being based, Brava. About the club Their first island title was won in 2002 and their recent in 2012. The club appeared in the national championships for the first time in 2002. They never won a single match, they had their only draw with Onze Unidos and scored two goals, one with Sanjoanense of Santo Antão, the other with Onze Unidos, the club lost 7 matches which was the worst of any club at the national championships, even with the reformatted 2017 season into three groups and an extension of a week t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporting Clube Da Brava
Sporting Clube da Brava ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Sporting Klubi da Brava'') is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Brava Island Division in Cape Verde. It is based in Nova Sintra the island of Brava with its offices located in nearby Lem. Its current coach is Ney Loko. Its nickname is ''Leões'' equalling the nickname to Sporting Lisbon and many other Sporting clubs. Its current president is Francisco Oliveira and its coach is Ney Loko (Emanuel de Pina). Sporting Brava is the second most successful football (soccer) club on the island, having won 10 official regional titles. History The club was founded in the 1988 and is affiliate number 166. The name is identical to the Sporting Clube de Portugal along with its logo which uses its current form. At the start of the 21st century, the club's success ranged from moderate to last place. Sporting's success at the start of the 2010s were moderate, and gained, believed to be i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multi-use Stadium
A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multifunctionality over specificity. It is used most commonly in Canada and the United States, where the two most popular outdoor team sports – Canadian football/American football and baseball – require radically different facilities. Football uses a rectangular field while baseball is played on a diamond and large outfield. Since Canadian football fields are larger than American ones, the design specifications for Canadian facilities is somewhat less demanding. The particular design to accommodate both is usually an oval, although some later designs use an octorad. While building stadiums in this way means that sports teams and governments can share costs, it also imposes some challenges. In North America, multipurpose sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Sintra
Nova Sintra is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 , Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica, p. 32-33 in the central part of the island of in southwestern . It serves as the seat of the Brava Municipality. The settlement is named after |
Brava, Cape Verde
Brava (Portuguese for "wild" or "brave") is an island in Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. At , it is the smallest inhabited island of the Cape Verde archipelago, but at the same time the greenest. First settled in the early 16th century, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1680. For more than a century, its main industry was whaling, but the island economy is now primarily agricultural. History Brava was discovered in 1462 by the Portuguese explorer Diogo Afonso.Valor simbólico do centro histórico da Praia Lourenço Conceição Gomes, Universidade Portucalense, 2008, p. 97 There is no evidence of human presence on the Cape Verde islands before the arrival of the Portuguese. Around 1620 the population of Brava started with the arrival of settlers from |
Football (soccer)
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] |
SC Morabeza
Sport Clube Morabeza is a football club in Cape Verde that plays in the Brava Island Division in Cape Verde. It is based in Nova Sintra the island of Brava and plays at Estádio Aquiles de Oliveira where all the clubs from Brava even those based outside the capital play. The club name's etymology is the name predominantly used in Cape Verde and it is used in other music albums and the hotel in the island of Sal. Its current coach is Alfredo Moreira, himself a former player. Together with Sporting, it is Brava's most successful teams. History The club was founded in 1980 and was Brava's first club, the club name's etymology is the nickname for Cape Verde ''Ilhas de morabeza''. Morabeza is the Portuguese word for hospitality and ''Ilhas de morabeza'' means the "Islands of hospitality"'. Their first appearance was in 1982 and won four straight in 1985. In 1982, no national championships took place due to the 1982 AmÃlcar Cabral Cup taking place in Praia's stadium now Estádio da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brava Island League
The Brava Island League is a regional championship played in Brava Island, Cape Verde. The championships are organized by Brava Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol da Brava, ARFB). The winner of the championship plays in the Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. History The league was founded around the 1980s. It has the fewest teams in the Capeverdean football or soccer and is also the smallest in area. From 2005 to 2010, it shared the fewest teams with the island of Sal, in 2011, Brava had the 10th fewest clubs until Sal added more clubs in 2014 and put the competition into two divisions. Title history Nô Pintcha has the most number of island titles with 11, Morabeza with 9, Académica and Sporting with two and Corôa and Juventude da Furna with only one title. The first club to win the island title was Nô Pintcha in 1994 and was eight-time champion in 2001, one of the most to win eight consecutive titles of any island leagues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brava Island Cup
The Brava Island Cup (Portuguese: ''Taça (Copa) da Ilha da Brava'', Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Tasa da Braba'' or ''Tasa dja Braba'', Brava Creole: ''Taça dja Braba'') is a regional cup competition and is played during the season in the island of Brava, Cape Verde, it consists of all the clubs from all the two regional divisions and are divided into about four to five rounds, for some seasons, a group stage was featured. The cup competition is organized by the Brava Regional Football Association (Associação Regional do Fogo, ARFB).The cup winner competes in the regional super cup final in the following season when a cup winner also wins the championship, a runner-up competes. The winner qualifies into Cape Verdean Cup, since 2013, it has been canceled due to financial and scheduling reasons. Its last cup winner was Sporting Clube da Brava, the 2016-17 edition was not held. The first cup competition took place around 1982 with Morabeza winning the title. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brava Super Cup
The Brava Super Cup (Portuguese: Super Taça da Brava, Capeverdean Creole: ALUPEK: ''Super Tasa da Braba'', Brava Creole: ''Super Taça Dja Braba'') is a regional super cup competition played during the season in the island of Brava, Cape Verde. The competition is organized by the Brava Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol da Brava, ARFB). Its current champions is Académica da Brava who won their only title in 2016. The regional champion competes with the cup champion. If a champion also has a cup title, a cup club who is runner-up qualifies. Several cancellations occurred including in 2011 when all of the regional football competitions were canceled. The 2015 regional cup competition was not held and recently the 2017 competition was canceled due to that the 2016-17 Brava Cup did not take place due to financial or scheduling problems. The 2018 edition will take place later in the season. It will feature Morabeza and Sporting Brava Winners :1Runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brava Opening Tournament
The Brava Island Opening Tournament (Portuguese: ''Torneio de Abertura da Brava'', Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Turnéu di Abertura da Braba''), is an opening tournament competition (equivalent to a league cup) played during the season in the island of Brava, Cape Verde The competition is organized by the Brava Regional Football Association (''Associação Regional de Futebol da Brava, ARFB''). Some seasons featured rounds of one portion, some seasons featured three rounds and two groups with the top club of each group in the final match. It currently consists of six rounds, a meeting with another club once. The winner with the most points (sometimes in the final) is the winner. Recently Sporting Brava won four straight titles for 2017 and is the current winner. The opening tournament were cancelled in 2011 (along with other sports competitions) and in 2015. Winners See also *Brava Island League *Brava Island Cup *Brava Island Super Cup The Brava Super Cup ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
