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Sports In Santiago, Cape Verde
The island of Santiago in Cape Verde in the middle of the Sotavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major professional clubs are Sporting Praia, Boavista Praia and CD Travadores, semi-pro teams includes Académica da Praia and Desportivo da Praia. From its foundation in 1953 to 1999, the island had a single league of each sport. Since that time, the association and competition are currently divided into two zones, the north (the championships and the association) and the south (the championship and the association) and includes all sports including football, basketball, volleyball, futsal and athletics, the only island to have nearly all the sport competitions into two zones. As Praia is the Capverdean capital, the Capeverdean Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Athletics and Futsal Federations are headquartered in the city, much of them in the neighborhood of Várzea and nearby Chã das Areias. Football (soccer) Football (soccer) remains to be the most popu ...
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Grémio Nhágar
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense is a Brazilian football club based in Porto Alegre, with an affiliated women's team. Gremio, Grémio or Grêmio (Portuguese word for "guild") may also refer to: Sport clubs Rio Grande do Sul state *Grêmio Atlético Farroupilha, Brazilian football club based in Pelotas *Grêmio Esportivo Bagé, Brazilian football club based in Bagé *Grêmio Esportivo Brasil, Brazilian football club based in Pelotas *Grêmio Esportivo Glória, Brazilian football club based in Vacaria * Grêmio Esportivo São José, Brazilian football club based in Cachoeira do Sul * Grêmio Esportivo Sapucaiense, Brazilian football club based in Sapucaia do Sul *Grêmio Foot-Ball Santanense, Brazilian football club based in Antana do Livramento São Paulo *Grêmio Barueri Futebol, Brazilian football club based in Barueri *Grêmio Catanduvense de Futebol, Brazilian football club based in Catanduva *Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense, defunct Brazilian football club * Grêmio Esportivo ...
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Estrela Dos Amadores
Clube de Futebol Estrela dos Amadores ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Strela dus Amadoris'' and the São Vicente Crioulo: ''Estrela dos Amadores'') is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League North Zone in Cape Verde. The team is based in the town of Tarrafal in the northern part of the island of Santiago and are one of the oldest clubs in the area. Since the implementation of the two tier regional system in 2015, Estrela dos Amadores are one of ten unrelegated clubs of the North Zone of Santiago. History The club was founded in 1992 and became registered in 1998. The team won three regional titles in 2004, in 2009 and in 2012 and possessing the second most titles in the region since 2009, from 2012 to 2013, its titles were shared with Scorpion Vermelho of Pedra Badejo. Estrela dos Amadores celebrated its 5th anniversary in 1997 and later its 10th anniversary in 2002. The club's successful years Estrela dos Amadores was the second club fro ...
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Benfica (Santa Cruz)
Grupo Desportivo Benfica de Santa Cruz, sometimes as Grupo Desportivo Benfica, is a professional football club that plays in the Santiago Island North League in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Calheta de São Miguel in the island of Santiago and plays at Estádio Municipal 25 de Julho located northwest of the city center. Since the implementation of the two tier regional system in 2015, the club are one of ten unrelegated clubs of northern Santiago. The club is an affiliate to Portugal's S.L. Benfica of Lisbon. It is the only one affiliated to in the North Zone and one of the three on the island. The others are Praia's CD Travadores and Benfica FC da Praia. History The club was founded on 25 November 2005 and first competed in the regional competitions in the late 2000s. In 2011, they got their greatest position of first place of the final phase and won the North Zone's regional championships and qualified into the Nationals. Their first national level challenge was fr ...
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Beira-Mar (Tarrafal)
Sport Clube Beira-Mar do Tarrafal is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island North League in Cape Verde. It is based in the village of Chão Bom nearly 2 km south of Tarrafal in the northernmost part of the island of Santiago and plays in the Estádio de Mangue. Since the implementation of the two tier regional system in 2015, Beira-Mar is one of ten unrelegated clubs of the north of the island Santiago. Along with Varandinha and Santa Cruz's Scorpion Vermelho, it is considered being the most popular club of the north of the island. History The club is registered as the oldest in the municipality of Tarrafal, it was formed by the union of several sporting groups ''Voz de de África'', ''Astros'' and ''Moscal''. The name of the club name after the beauty of crystal waters of the bay. The club celebrated its 29th anniversary on 7 December 2014. Beira Mar finished 4th in the first phase and qualified into the second phase later the club won their only ti ...
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AJAC (São Miguel)
AJAC or AJAX, full name Associação Juvenil Amigos de Calheta (or da Calheta), also as Associação Juvenil Amigos de Calheta de São Miguel (Capeverdean Creole, ALUPEK: ''AJAK'') is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island North League in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Calheta de São Miguel in the island of Santiago and plays at Estádio da Calheta located north of town center. Since the implementation of the two tier regional system in 2015, AJAC is one of ten unrelegated clubs of the North Zone of Santiago. The club is the only in Cape Verde that is affiliated to a Dutch club, it is an affiliate of Ajax Amsterdam. Its logo is the same as Ajax Amsterdam's, a thick red circle and the names AJAX on the top left. Not in Africa as another affiliate is in Cape Town, South Africa, it is Ajax Cape Town. History The club was founded by young children and friends. The club first competed in the regional competitions in the 1990s. In recent history, the ...
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Santiago South Second Division
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balmaceda Park. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most point ...
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Delta (Santiago)
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Santiago South Premier Division
The Santiago South Premier Division is a regional championship played in Santiago Island, Cape Verde and is a part of the Santiago South Zone Football Association. The winner of the championship plays in Cape Verdean football Championships of each season while the last two placed clubs relegates in the following season. In 2007 and 2013 when Sporting Praia automatically qualified in the championships as they won their national titles in the previous season, a second place club qualified to the national championships. The division features 12 clubs in the premier division for the second time, Varanda and Delta were relegated into the Second Division, Tchadense and Benfica were promoted last season. History The league was formed after the split of the Santiago Island League into the north and south zones in 2002 and the two are the youngest island leagues in Cape Verde, it featured clubs only from the municipality of Praia, Ribeira Grande de Santiago split in 2005 and featured fro ...
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Vitória FC (Praia)
Vitoria or Vitória may refer to : People * Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483–1546), a Spanish Renaissance theologian * Alberto Vitoria (1956–2010), Spanish footballer * Rui Vitória (born 1970), Portuguese retired footballer * Steven Vitória (born 1987), Canadian-born Portuguese footballer Places Brazil * Vitória, Espírito Santo, capital city of the state of Espírito Santo * Vitória (island), on which the city in Espírito Santo is located * Vitória de Santo Antão, city in Pernambuco * Vitória da Conquista, city in the state of Bahia * Greater Vitória, an administrative unit of Brazil * Vitória Brasil, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil * Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vitória, Brazil * Vitória, Salvador, a neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Salvador in the state of Bahia Portugal * Vitória (Porto), a parish of the Portuguese city of Porto Spain * Roman Catholic Diocese of Vitoria, Spain * Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital city of the province of Ál ...
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