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Sports In Sal, Cape Verde
The island of Sal in Cape Verde in the east of the Barlavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major professional club may now be Académico do Aeroporto do Sal, the remaining clubs are amateur or beginners. In 1976, Sal would have its own island championships of each sport. The football competition was the third along with Fogo to have its own first held in 1976 after the nation's independence. Since 2014, the football (soccer) was the only competition divided into two divisions. Football (soccer) Football (soccer) remains to be the most popular sport both in the island and the nation. The island has 13 football (soccer) clubs in two divisions governed by the Sal Regional Football Association. Sal was the third island to have a football (soccer) club known as SC Santa Maria, founded in what was the island capital in 1939. SC Verdun, based in Pedra de Lume was founded in 1945. At the time, Sal was the least inhabited island in the archipelago, with a populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Leitao
Marcelo is a given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellus. The Italian version of the name is Marcello, differing in having an additional "l". Marcelo may refer to: *Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile *Marcelinho Carioca (Marcelo Pereira Surcin born 1971 in RJ), Brazilian international midfielder in 1990s *Marcelinho Machado (born 1975), Brazilian professional basketball player *Marcelinho Paraíba (Marcelo dos Santos b. 1975 in Paraíba state), Brazilian international midfielder *Marcelinho Paulista (Marcelo José de Souza born 1973 in SP state), Brazilian youth international in 1996 Olympics *Marcelo (footballer, born January 1987), Brazilian footballer *Marcelo (footballer, born May 1987), Brazilian footballer, who played for Lyon *Marcelo (footballer, born 1988), Brazilian footballer, who played for Real Madrid *Marcelo (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian footballer, who plays for Paços Ferreira *Marcelo Arriagada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juventude (Sal)
Futebol Clube Juventude (Capeverdean Crioulo, also in the Sal Crioulo language, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Juventudi'') is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the subdivision of ''Morro de Cural'' in the city of Espargos in the island of Sal. Juventude is the fifth successful football (soccer) club on the island, having won 7 official regional titles. As of the 2016–17 season, its chairman is David Brito and its coach is Djulhiano (not as Djuliano) Santos. History The club was founded on February 26, 1962 and is the oldest club in Espargos, it was also the first to be founded outside Santa Maria, the north of the island and a neighborhood. The club celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1972 and its 25th anniversary in 1987 and 50th anniversary 2012. The team entered the national division for the first time after independence in 1976 and lost a match there. Their second appearance was in 1990, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports In Santo Antão, Cape Verde
The island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde in the west of the Barlavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major amateur clubs are Sporting Clube do Porto Novo, Académica Porto Novo and Paulense. Its first football championship was founded in 1996 and from 2002, 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 and athletics and may have futsal today. Other than football, it has a single regional association covering the island. Football (soccer) Football (soccer) remains to be the most popular sport both in the island and the nation. The island has 20 football (soccer) clubs, of which 9 are in the North Zone (6 in the Premier Division and 5 in the Second Division) and nine in the South Zone. Unlike other parts of Cape Verde, Santo Antão was the last inhabited island to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports In Fogo, Cape Verde
The island of Fogo in Cape Verde in the westcenter of the Sotavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major professional clubs is Botafogo, semi-pro teams includes Académica do Fogo and Vulcânicos, the remainder including the youth club Juventude and Spartak d'Aguadinha are amateur. The football competition was the third along with Sal to have its own first held in 1976 after the nation's independence. From its foundation to 2005, the island had a single league of each sport, it is currently divided into two divisions, the Premier and the Second. Football (soccer) Football (soccer) remains to be the most popular sport both in the island and the nation. It is governed by the Fogo Regional Football Association, the association has the third most clubs in Cape Verde, though less populated than São VIcente today, but has more registered clubs than that island. The island has 20 football (soccer) club, each has 12 in the Premier and Second Divisions. There is on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport In Cape Verde
Cape Verde has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades. History The first sport began in the island of São Vicente in the start of the 20th century, one of the first sports brought to the island was tennis and golf brought by the British and passengers visiting through Cape Verde. Later it spread to Santiago where the colonial capital was located and Sal. Kite surfing, windsurfing has recently increased in use and popularity in Cape Verde today. Football Football is the most popular sport in Cape Verde and has been for many years. Today it is one of the few countries that does not use the common division system (e.g. the Gambia, another small country uses the national division system and has the Premier and Second Divisions), another small country smaller in size is São Tomé and Príncipe who uses the same system as Cape Verde, but the system which Cape Verde used up to the 1990s having only a national championship match, the winner of each isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria, Cape Verde
Santa Maria (Portuguese for Saint Mary) is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the southern part of the island municipality of Sal, . It is located on the south coast, about 16 km south of the |
Estádio Marcelo Leitão
Estádio Marcelo Leitão is a multi-use stadium in Sal Island, Cape Verde. It is used mostly for football matches and now track and field and has a capacity of 8,000 people. It is named for Marcelo Leitão, one of the two main features on the island, the other is a square located in Santa Maria. The stadium is owned by the municipality of Sal and still does as the municipality has yet to split into two. The stadium are operated by the Sal Regional Football (Soccer) and Athletic associations. It is the home stadium of Espargos teams, Académico do Aeroporto and others based in a neighborhood Juventude and recently Chã de Matias, Gaviões, Jovens Unidos of Ribeira Funda (the three since 2014) and Pretória (since 2017), it is also home to the island's club Académica do Sal. The ground is made of artificial grass, its area is 105 x 68 meters. Its location is south of the road connecting the east of the city with the road encircling most of the city. The stadium also had rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Da Fragata
Costa may refer to: Biology * Rib (Latin: ''costa''), in vertebrate anatomy * Costa (botany), the central strand of a plant leaf or thallus * Costa (coral), a stony rib, part of the skeleton of a coral * Costa (entomology), the leading edge of the forewing of winged insects, as well as a part of the male clasper Organisations * Costa Coffee, a British coffee shop chain, sponsor of the book award * Costa Cruises, a leading cruise company in Europe * Costa Del Mar, an American manufacturer of polarized sunglasses * Costa Group, Australian food supplier Places * Costa, Haute-Corse, a commune on the island of Corsica *Costa Head, prominent headland on the Orkney Islands * Costa Rica, a country in Central America * Costa Mesa, California, a city in Orange County * Costa, Lajas, Puerto Rico, a barrio Other uses * Costa (surname), including origin of the name and people sharing the surname * ''Costa!'', a 2001 Dutch film from BNN * Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Académica Do Sal , a fo ...
Académica may refer to: * Academica a Miami, Florida-based charter school operator * Associação Académica de Coimbra (Coimbra Academic Association), the students' union of the University of Coimbra * Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F., an autonomous professional football organization of the Associação Académica de Coimbra and Portuguese football club * Académica do Mindelo, a football organization in São Vicente Island, Cape Verde * Académica do Sal, a football organization in Espargos, Sal Island, Cape Verde * Academica (Gyldendal), a publisher in the Gyldendal Akademisk Group, a Danish publishing house * Académica da Praia, a football organization in Santiago Island, Cape Verde * Académica Maputo Associação Académica de Maputo, usually known as Académica, is a sports club from Maputo, Mozambique. It features teams in football (soccer), Roller hockey (quad) and volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espargos
Espargos (Portuguese for "asparagus") is the capital and main commercial centre of the island and municipality of Sal, Cape Verde. The cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 is situated in the heart of the island. Geography The highest point of Espargos is , elevation 109 meters, where the radar station and the control tower for the airport are located. The |
