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Boa Vista Island Cup
The Boa Vista Island Cup, also known as Bubista Cup under the Boa Vista Creole name (ALUPEC: ''Taça da Dja da Boa Bista or Bubista'') is a regional cup competition played during the season in the island of Sal, Cape Verde, it consists of all eight clubs of the island and are divided into three or four rounds. The competition is organized by the Boa Vista Regional Football Association. The cup competition was founded in 2008 and first played in 2009 and is the third youngest in the country. The cup winner competes in the regional super cup final in the following season, when a cup winner also won the championship, a runner-up competes. For several seasons, the winner qualified into Cape Verdean Cup which has been cancelled due to financial and scheduling reasons. Its recent cup winner is Sport Sal Rei Club and is the club who won the most cup titles numbering six. The upcoming cup final will be on March 31, another Boa Vista Derby will appear as it will feature Sal Rei and A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Boa Vista (Portuguese language, Portuguese for "good view"), sometimes incorrectly spelled Boavista, is a desert-like island that belongs to the Cape Verde Islands. At , it is the third largest island of the Cape Verde archipelago. The island of Boa Vista is closer to the African continent than all the other islands in Cape Verde, being the easternmost island of all. The distance between Boa Vista and Senegal is only 450 km. The capital of Boa Vista, Sal Rei, is located in the north-western part of the island. Boa Vista is mainly known for its beaches, turtles and traditional music. Geography Boa Vista is the third largest island after Santo Antão and Santiago, with an area of 631.1 square kilometres. It is situated south of Sal and north of Maio. The island is generally flat, but it has numerous hills like Monte Estância (the highest point of the island at 387 m), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bofareira
Bofarreira is a village in the northern part of the island of Boa Vista in the Cape Verde archipelago. The village is around 10 km east of the island capital of Sal Rei. Gallery Image:Bofarreira_School_2012.jpg, Village school (2012) Image:Bofarreira_Square_2012.jpg, Village square (2012) Image:Bofarreira_Local_2012.jpg, Local resident of Bofarreira (2012) Image:Bofarreira_Street_2012.jpg, Main street of Bofarreira (2012) See also *List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde This is a list of villages and smaller settlements in Cape Verde: Boa Vista, Cape Verde (municipality), Boa Vista * Bofarreira * Cabeça dos Tarrafes * Curral Velho, Cape Verde, Curral Velho - abandoned settlement * Espingueira - Abandoned Settl ... References {{Boa Vista, Cape Verde Villages and settlements in Boa Vista, Cape Verde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Football Cup Competitions In Cape Verde
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally 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 Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, 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 ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sport In Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Boa Vista Opening Tournament
The Boa Vista Island Opening Tournament ( Portuguese: ''Torneio de Abertura da Boa Vista'', Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Turnéu di Abertura di Bubista''), is an opening tournament competition (equivalent to a league cup) played during the season in the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ... The competition is organized by the Boa Vista Regional Football Association. 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 seven rounds, a meeting with another club once. The winner with the most points (sometimes in the final) is the winner. The first edition took place in 2000 and was the second regional c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Boa Vista Island Super Cup
The Boa Vista Super Cup, also known as Bubista Cup under the Boa Vista Creole name (ALUPEK: ''Taça da Dja da Boa Bista or Bubista'') is a regional super cup competition played during the season in Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde. The super cup competition is organized by the Boa Vista Regional Football Association (Associação Regional da Boa Vista de Futebol, ARBVF). Its current winner is Académica Operária who won their second super cup title. The competition first took place in 2010. Until 2015, no club qualified as runner-up into the super cup and were the two in the nation (the other was São Nicolau). Second straight time that the Boa Vista derby will appear in the upcoming 2018 super cup with Académica Operária and Sal Rei. With Sal Rei being both champions and cup winner for the season, Académica Operária will qualify as runner up in the cup final. Winners :1Runner-up in the cup competition as the season's champion was also a cup winner :1Onze Estrelas was award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Boa Vista Island League
The Boa Vista Island League or Championships is a regional championship played in Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde. The winner of the championship plays in the Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. It is organized by the Boa Vista Regional Football Association (''Associação Regional de Futebol da Boa Vista'', abbreviation: ''ARFBV''). Since 2010, it has the largest regional football association governing body in area in the nation. Académica Operária won the most titles numbering nineteen, Sal Rei is second now numbering ten with their recent championship win. During the 2004-05 season as Sal-Rei was also the national winner and received automatic qualification (the first to do so), second place Desportivo Estância Baixo qualified into the 2005 National Championships, the only time a second place club qualified from Boa Vista. History The island league was founded around 1978. The regional association started out with four clubs in 1978, together with Brava and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rabil
Rabil is a townCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 on the island of Boa Vista, . It was the island's former capital. Rabil is the island's second largest town, located southeast of the island capital of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fundo Das Figueiras
Fundo das Figueiras is a village in the eastern part of the island of Boa Vista. The village is around 21 km east of the island capital of Sal Rei. It is the seat of the civil parish of São João Baptista. 2 km to the south is the village Cabeça dos Tarrafes and 8 km southeast is Ponta Meringuel, the easternmost point in Cape Verde. The village has a church of Saint John Baptist (São João Baptista).Cape Verde Islands pocket guide, Emma Gregg, ''Berlitz'', 2009. Since 2008, an NGO has been active protecting turtle egg laying sites on the Porto Ferreira beach, east of Fundo das Figueiras. See also *List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde This is a list of villages and smaller settlements in Cape Verde: Boa Vista, Cape Verde (municipality), Boa Vista * Bofarreira * Cabeça dos Tarrafes * Curral Velho, Cape Verde, Curral Velho - abandoned settlement * Espingueira - Abandoned Settl ... References {{Boa Vista, Cape Verde Villages and settlements in Boa Vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sal Rei
Sal Rei is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 on the northwestern coast of the island of Boa Vista in eastern . Sal Rei is the island's main urban settlement, and the seat of the Boa Vista Municipality. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands lie between west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa. The List of islands of Cape Verde, Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles. The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese Empire, Portuguese explorers colonized the islands, establishing one of the first Age of Discovery, European settlements in the tropics. Due to its strategic position, Cape Verde became a significant location in the Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade during the 16th and 17th centuries. The islands experienced economic growth during this period, driven by their role by the rapid emergence of merchants, priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Onze Estrelas Boa Vista
Onze Estrelas Boa Vista or Onze Estrelas Clube de Bofareira (Portuguese meaning ''Eleven Stars'') is a football (soccer) club that currently plays in the Campeonato Nacional de Cabo Verde and in the Boa Vista Island League in Cape Verde. It is based on the island of Boa Vista and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 1,000 though the village they play is for Bofareira. Its current manager is Tó Monteiro. Logo Its logo color is light green with a green flower in the middle and the middle, outside the eleven stars representing the main islands of Cape Verde and on the bottom reads ''unidos para vencer'' (''union for winning''). History The club was founded on 5 April 1976 by a group of young people from an abandoned village named Espingueira. In July 2010, they would form an association to compete in regional matches. Their first appearance into the insular division was during the 2010–11 season and is the island's most recent appearance of any new team today, the club fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
