Club Sport Emelec
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Club Sport Emelec is a football club based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
An assembly of employees of the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador (an electric company in Guayaquil) founded the club on 1929-04-28. The assembly was directed by George Capwell, an executive officer of the company who came from the U.S.. He was nicknamed El Gringo. The club was initially a baseball and boxing club.
The club got involved in football during the 1947 Copa América, the South American national-team competition, which was played in Ecuador. Back then the Copa América was known as Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol. Emelec was the first champion of Ecuador in 1957, with a "dream team" that included Yu Lee, José Balseca, Cruz Ávila, Mariano Larraz, Carlos Raffo, Jaime Ubilla, Daniel Pinto, Rómulo Gómez and Suárez-Rizzo. They were coached by Eduardo "Tano" Spandre.
The club has won championships in 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002. In 1995 Emelec was a Copa Libertadores semi-finalist, but they lost to Grêmio, a team from Porto Alegre, Brazil. In 2001 Emelec was a Copa Merconorte finalist.
Trophies and Achievements
- Ecuadorian Championships: (10) 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002
- Copa Merconorte Finalist: 2001 December
- Highest Fifa ranking position : #28 (December 2001)
- First Ecuadorian team to sell a player to Italian Serie A: Iván Kaviedes
Famous players
Luis CapurroJesús Cárdenas (nicknamed "Jechu") "Edu" Eduardo García (nicknamed "El Ñato") Jorge Bolaños Carrasco (nicknamed "El Pibe") Iván Hurtado (nicknamed "Bamm-Bamm") Iván Kaviedes Carlos Alberto Juárez (nicknamed "El Cuqui") Kléber Fajardo Carlos Alberto Raffo Enrique Raymondi (nicknamed "El Maestrito") Otelino Tenorio Enrique Verduga |
2005 Squad (sorted by last name)
José AguirreMauricio Banquera John Barreto Oscar Burgos John Cagua Darwin Caicedo Jaime Caicedo Moisés Candelario Moisés Cuero Marlon Díaz Juan Echeverría Michael Endara Marcelo Elizaga Guillermo Rivera Michael Arroyo |
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External links
- [Emelec], with rich information in Spanish
- [Futbol Ecuatoriano], about ecuadorian soccer
- [Emelec Derby], with information in English
| Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol 2006 |
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| Aucas | Barcelona S.C. | Deportivo Cuenca | Deportivo Quito | Emelec | Espoli | Liga de Quito (L.D.U.) | Macará | Nacional | Olmedo [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit] |
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