Club Sport Emelec
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| Full name | Club Sport Emelec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "El Bombillo", "El Ballet Azul", "Los Eléctricos", "Los Millonarios", "Los Extraterrestres" |
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| Founded | April 28, 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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| Capacity | 32,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Ferninad Hidalgo |
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| Manager | Carlos Torres Garces |
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| League | Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Torneo Apertura | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club Sport Emelec is a sports 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.
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[edit] Trophies and Achievements
- Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol: 10
- Copa Merconorte: Runners Up: 2001
- Highest Fifa ranking position : #28 (December 2001)
- Copa Libertadores Semifinalist: 1995
- Copa Merconorte Semifinalist: 2000
- Copa Guayaquil Championships:1956,1957,1962,1964,1966
- Campeonato Amateur del Guayas:1945, 1948
[edit] The George Capwell Stadium
Several years after the creation of the Empresa Electrica del Ecuador sports club, it´s founder Mr. George Capwell decided that it was time for the club to have its own Baseball stadium, so in 1942 Guayaquil´s Municipal authorities donated 4 city blocks for the construction of the first private sports stadium in Ecuador. A year after that, in 1943, Emelec´s staff officially named and initiated the construction of the George Capwell Stadium.
The beautiful George Capwell Stadium opened its doors for the first time on October 21 of 1945, the inaugural game was a Baseball match between Emelec and Oriente, and George Capwell played as a catcher for the "Azules". Although Emelec´s president did not like football and their stadium was not initially intended to be a football field, soon after the inauguration the first football match was held. Emelec won 5 - 4 against a all stars team from the cities of Manta and Bahia.
The 1947 Copa America competition was held completely in the George Capwell Stadium, and a undefeated Argentina became America´s champion with an all star team that included names like Alfredo DiStefano, Lostau, and Mendez. Ecuador finished on 6th place, Brazil did not participated on this competition.
After the birth of Guayaquil´s Estadio Modelo, the George Capwell Stadium was closed for many years because it became obsolete, and in several occasions was almost destroyed for various projects that luckily for the club were never actually completed.
It wasn´t until 1991 that with the leadership of Nassib Nehme that the George Capwell Stadium was reopened, to become once again the house of the great Emelec. Since its reopening the stadium has been enlarged twice and a new and final change has been scheduled for 2007, to reach a final capacity of 45,000 spectators.
At the moment the official capacity of the stadium according to the FEF (Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol) is 18,000 spectators. However, that number has not been changed even after the two enlargements were finished. It is said that the true capacity of the stadium at the moment is 32,000 spectators.
[edit] Top Goal Scorers
Emelec is famous in Ecuador for always having fierce forwards, and the team has had the ecuadorian topscorer of the year in many ocacions through out ecuadorian championship history. The following is a list of Emelec's topscorers of the year in history:
- 1963
Carlos Alberto Raffo 4 goals - 1979 Horacio Miori 26 goals
- 1996 Ariel Graziani 29 goals
- 1997 Ariel Graziani 24 goals
- 1998 Jaime Ivan Kaviedes 43 goals (Topscorer in a single year in ecuadorian history - Top Scorer of the world on 1998)
- 2000 Alejandro Kenig 25 goals
- 2001 Carlos Alberto Juarez 17 goals
- 2006 Luis Escalada 27 goals +
[edit] Famous Players
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[edit] Notorious Managers
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[edit] Current Squad
As of 26 September 2006 Template:Emelec Squad
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[edit] The Fans - Boca del Pozo
. The fan group know as "Boca del Pozo" was founded the 25 of July of 1980 by Giussepe Cavanna Chavez (today part of the club's staff) the group adopted that name because their club house (Cavanna's place) was located on a neighborhood with the same name. In the beginning they were around 15 people that went to the team's every match, but soon the group gained recognition and everyday since more and more people wants to be part of it. The group usually gathers behind the goals and it has several factions in different cities of Ecuador.
In Emelec's stadium, George Capwell, Boca del Pozo always gather behind the goal that faces the Quito Avenue. In 2005 the club even had to enlarge that part of the stadium because the Boca del Pozo was so big that they did not fit on the old stadium's tribune.
[edit] Facts
- Emelec's founder George Capwell did not like football, he was a huge baseball fan and when he created the sports club he intended it to be a Baseball and Boxing club only.
- It is common knowledge that in the club's early days the only way to become a member was to fight at least once on a boxing ring against one of the club's best boxers.
- After years of dominating the amateur and regional tournaments, in 1957 Emelec won the first professional Ecuadorian football Championship ever.
- Emelec was the first team in Ecuador to have its own stadium.
- Emelec was the first team in Ecuador to sign foreign players.
- In 1948 Emelec became the first ecuadorian team in history to compete on an international event. They were invited as Guayaquil's champions to represent Ecuador in the "Copa Campeones" in Chile, which in time became the famous "Copa Libertadores de America".
- In 1962 Emelec became the first ecuadorian team to win a match in the "Copa Libertadores de America", they won 4 - 2 against C.D. Millonarios from Colombia. The team also holds the largest score any ecuadorian team has ever manage to obtain in the "Copa Libertadores", 7 - 2 against Universidad Catolica from Chile, also in 1962.
- After winning the 1979 championship, in 1980 Emelec went to Ecuadorian Second Division, called "Serie B" because they made the worst presentation in played games during that year.
- In the year 1988 when Barcelona opened their new stadium, Isidro Romero Carbo, they made a small tournament. They invited the recent world champion Peñarol from Uruguay, F.C. Barcelona from Spain and Emelec. The tournament was a small playoff, losers out. Emelec played their first game against Peñarol. Emelec won and advanced to the final. Then Barcelona played the other match becoming the other finalist from Ecuador in the tournament. The final match was a “Clasico del Astillero” (the official name of this derby) and Emelec won the game 1 - 0 with a goal of Ruben Beninca and won the championship, being the first team to defeat Barcelona in their own new stadium and the first team that becomes champion in that stadium.
- Emelec golden years were in the decades of the 60’s when they won the Ecuadorian League in the years 1961, 1965 and 1972 and they were in second place in the years 1962, 1966, 1967 and 1970.
- The late Eduardo "Che" Perez founded the first organized group to follow any ecuadorian team. He followed Emelec anywhere the team went until his death in 2003. The largely organized group "Boca del Pozo" was the first "Barra Brava" in the country and the Emelec fan is commonly reffered to as the most faithfull fan in the country.
- Another fact from Emelec is that they won two times the Championship twice in a row. In the years 1993 - 1994 and in the years 2001-2002.
[edit] Curiosities and Trivia
- On 1998 Jaime Ivan Kaviedes scored 43 goals and became the all time top scorer in Ecuadorian history and that year´s world top scorer. The next year Kaviedes was sold to Perugia for USD 5.5M. and after that he played in several teams all over the world including Celta de Vigo, Valladolid, Puebla, Porto, Crystal Palace, Barcelona S.C., Deportivo Quito, and Argentinos Juniors. Although he has had so many opportunities during his career, and almost nine years after scoring 43 goals in a single year with Emelec, he has not been able to accumulate another 43 goals with both club and country from 1999 to 2006. With 28 years of age, Kaviedes is considered an underachiever, and many believe his career is over, although there are unwelcomed rumors that he might use the blue and grey uniform once again for the 2007 season.
- The late forward Otilino Tenorio became famous with Emelec not only because of his goals that help the club win the 2001 Ecuadorian Championship and reach the Copa Merconorte final, but also because every time he scored a goal, Otilino took out a blue Spiderman mask from his pants and wore it to celebrate with the fans. Otilino died on 2005 in a tragic traffic accident, and since many forwards all over the world adopted the Spiderman celebration in his honor. During the 2006 World Cup, Jaime Ivan Kaviedes scored the third goal in Ecuador´s victory over Costa Rica and to celebrate it he used a yellow Spiderman mask honoring once again the great Otilino Tenorio.
- Emelec is know for always promoting new exiting young players and during the 1998 season, Emelec used an all new team consisting in a large base of young players that included names like Moises Candelario, Otilino Tenorio, Jaime Ivan Kaviedes, Carlos Hidalgo, Luis Moreira, Pavel Caicedo, and a few experience ones Like Carlos Juarez, Marco Etcheverry, and Augusto Poroso . In a smart promotional move, the new players were brilliantly baptized as the “extraterrestrials” . The young team qualified for the 1999 Copa Libertadores and reached the Ecuadorian final against Liga de Quito. The next year archrivals Barcelona attempted to do the same, and baptized their own group of young players as the “Mutants” . The group was a fiasco and Barcelona was lucky to stay in Ecuadorian first league that year.
- The final match day of 2002 season will always be remembered as a miracle day for Emelec fans. 3 teams were competing for the title, El Nacional were the favorites they only had to tie at home against a weak Deportivo Quito team. Barcelona had to visit Liga de Quito at their stadium and needed a victory to become the champions, while the least optioned team was Emelec that played in their stadium against Aucas and needed to win and El Nacional and Barcelona to loose. Ecuadorian football officials were so convinced that the champion was going to be either El Nacional or Barcelona, that they had the cup in Quito and were ready to send it to either one of the stadiums of the city were the two teams were playing. All 3 games were played simultaneously, and surprisingly El Nacional were soon loosing 1 – 4, while Barcelona and Liga were tied at zero, Emelec however struggled to score until the last few minutes of the game when defender Augusto Poroso sent an spectacular volley into the net. Minutes later, El Nacional and Emelec games were over, but Barcelona´s match had a few minutes more to go, in the Capwell Stadium Emelec fans waited anxiously for the match to end when suddenly at the last minute Barcelona scored, tears were starting to fall down when suddenly the ref signaled an offside nullifying the goal, a couple of minutes later the game was over and Emelec had won their 10th and last crown so far. The team and fans had to wait a few hours on the stadium´s pitch for the Cup to come from Quito to Guayaquil.
[edit] Fierce Rivals
- Barcelona Sporting Club, the match between them is know as "Clasico del Astillero" and it is the most important match in the country.
[edit] Other Rivals
[edit] Other Sports
Emelec is not only one of the most important football clubs in Ecuador, but it is by far the most important sports club of the country. In their trophy room Emelec has hundreds and hundreds of cups and medals that have been gained over the years in many different sports disciplines. The list includes:
- 33 Consecutive National Boxing Championships
- 13 Baseball National Championships
- 11 Male Basketball National Championships
- 18 Female Basketball National Championships
- 7 Cycling National Champsionships
- 5 Tae Kwon Do National Championships
- 5 Judo National Championships
- 1 Weight Lifting World Championship by Johnny Constante
[edit] External Links
- Emelec, with rich information in Spanish
- [1] Todo sobre el futbol ecuatoriano
- 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 | Deportivo Azogues | Liga de Quito (L.D.U.) | Macará | Nacional | Olmedo edit |
