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Sport In Sal, Cape Verde
The Sal, Cape Verde, 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, ...
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Marcelo Leitao
Marcelo is a given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellus (name), Marcellus. Marcelo may refer to: Given name *Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile *Marcelo Arriagada (born 1973), Chilean road cyclist *Marcelo Barovero (born 1984), Argentine football goalkeeper *Marcelo Barticciotto (born 1967), Argentine-born Chilean former footballer and manager *Marcelo Bordon (born 1976), Brazilian footballer *Marcelo Cabo (born 1966), Brazilian football manager *Marcelo Carrusca (born 1983), Argentine-Australian professional footballer *Marcelo Cassaro (born 1970), Brazilian author of comics *Marcelo Chamusca (born 1966), Brazilian professional football manager and former player *Marcelo Chierighini (born 1991), Brazilian competitive swimmer *Marcelo Cirino (born 1992), Brazilian footballer *Marcelo D'Andrea, Argentine film actor *Marcelo Del Debbio (born 1974), Brazilian architect and writer *Marcelo Demoliner (born 1989), Brazilia ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 o ...
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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 i ...
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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 recent ...
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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 Arts and entertainment * ''Costa!'', a 2001 Dutch film * ''Costa!!'', a 2022 Dutch film * Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Award, a literary award in the UK Organisations * Costa Caribe, a Nicaraguan basketball team * 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, France, a commune on the island of Corsica * Costa, Lajas, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Costa, West Virginia, US, or Brushton, a community * Costa Head, a headland on the Orkney Islands * Departam ...
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Académica Do Sal
Associação Académica do Sal (Capeverdean Crioulo, also in the Sal Crioulo language, ALUPEC or ALUPEK, ''Akadémika'') is a Association football, football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Espargos in the island of Sal, Cape Verde, Sal and its location is on Palmeira Road (''Caminho da Palmeira'') next to the city library. It is one of many teams that only won one title since independence. Its current proprietor is Mário Ramos. It is played along with Sal's famous teams including Académico do Aeroporto. Académica Sal is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde, having won about 17 List of football clubs in Cape Verde by honours won, official titles, only one is national and the remaining 16 are regional titles. Logo and uniform The logo and the uniform as well as other teams with the name Académica and Académico in Cape Verde is identical to Associação Acadé ...
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Espargos
Espargos (Portuguese language, Portuguese for "asparagus") is the capital and main commercial centre of the island and municipality of Sal, Cape Verde, Sal, Cape Verde. The cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde), Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33
is situated in the heart of the island.


Geography

The highest point of Espargos is Monte Curral, elevation 109 meters, where the radar station and the control tower for the airport are located. The Amílcar Cabral International Airport is situated directly southwest of the city centre. The head offices of Cabo Verde Express are located at the airport. The national road EN1-SL01, a dual carriageway, connects Espargos with Santa Maria, Cape Verde, Santa Maria in ...
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