CD Travadores

CD Travadores
Full name Clube Desportivo Travadores
Nickname(s) Indios
Águias
Founded 15 October 1930
Ground Estádio da Varzea,
Praia, Cape Verde
Ground Capacity 8,000
Chairman Cape Verde Armindo Oliveira[1]
Manager Cape Verde Tazinho
League Santiago Island League (South)
2016–17 7th
Website Club website

Clube Desportivo Travadores (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC: Klubi Desportivu Travadoris) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and the Santiago Island League (South) in Cape Verde. It is based in the capital city of Praia in the island of Santiago and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 8,000 It is one of the teams that won the most cups before and after independence. They are affiliated with S.L. Benfica and being the first Benfica affiliate in Cape Verde and the western part of West Africa. Its nicknames are indios and águias

Travadores is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde, having won about 12 official titles, 3 are national titles and 9 are regional titles.

Along with Sporting and Boavista, they form the Big Three of Praia (until 2003, the Big Three or Santiago) and being more popular than Mindelense today, it could be the Big Three of the nation.

Its logo is with a white crest (not fully circular) with a golden bird above, a green-red ribbon reading the Latin name "E pluribus unum", a red and white shield with a ball and a blue ribbon with the club name acronym in the middle. Its logo is nearly the same as Benfica's but the outer circle is white, Other logos are approximately the same but with some similarity are Paulense, Sport Sal Rei Club, Benfica of Brava and Benfica da Praia (Benfiquinha). Travadores' parent club is Benfica Praia which is another club who uses the same logo to Benfica's but slightly different.

Uniform

Its uniform color are colored red with a white collar used for home games and a white t-shirt and socks with red shorts used for away games. Its former uniform was a red t-shirt and socks with white shorts used for home games.

Home uniform up to the 2014 season

History

The club was founded on 15 October 1930 in the capital Praia (then colonial), it is the island's second oldest club and Cape Verde's fourth oldest. CD Travadores was officially registered on 25 May 1939. Their first title was won in the early years of the club, title wins were achieved in 1960, 1968 and 1972, their greatest appearance in the colonial competition was in 1972 when they won their only colonial title. After independence, the club won two national titles in 1994 and in 1996. Travadores would enter African competitions three times. Their first continental competition was the CAF Cup in 1993 and advanced up to the preliminaries, their first appearance at the upper level was in 1995 and faced with Real de Banjul from the Gambia and their last was in 1997 when it became the CAF Champions League and participated up to the first round, this was their recent appearance in the continental level, in Travadores' last match at the CAF Champion's league which was on March 8, they lost the match 1-6 in Algiers, the club conceded six goals to three players including Nacer Zekri, Billel Dziri and Tarek Hadj Adlane, also it was the highest of any Cape Verdean club who conceded that many goals in a continental match.

Its greatest players of Travadores mainly during the 20th century including Casos de Mota Gomes, Sabino, Nicou, Nutcha (ALUPEK: Nutxa), Rubóm (now as Rubom), Mariozinho, Vu (then spelt as Vú), Raulinho, Bala, Flávio, Abel Barreto, Zé Maria, Zé Galado, Lemos, Tazinho Né, Zé di Loja, Cotchi (ALUPEK: Kotxi), Capuz and Tchacula. Its greatest players later included Tchesco and Loloti.

Travadores celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1980.

On August 11, 1987, the club was elevated to a statute of the "Institution of Public Utilities".

Head of Benfica Lisbon honoured Travadores the 6th best of its affiliates.

Also the club as also won eight regional titles, of which seven are of Santiago and one of the island's South Zone. Travadores' recent appearances at the national championships were in 2001 where they had only a draw and got a point and scored only a goal and in 2003 where the club took part in Group A, the club finished with two wins and a draw and scored seven goals and had seven points and qualified up to the semis.

In 2005, Travadores celebrated its 75th annviersary of the club's and sports' foundation

The club finished at low to moderate positions in recent years, 8th place they finished in 2009, 2011 and in 2013. Travadores cup a regional cup title for 2013. In 2014, the club finished as runner up in the South Zone and had 37 goals scored and made 43 points, another one with the same in eleven years. For the next two seasons, the club finished 7th with 28 points and seven wins in 2016 and scored 26 goals. They also finished 7th in 2017 but were less successful, with 25 points 7 wins and four draws, one part became the worst and was goal concessions, 48 goals conceded and became the worst in the region. The worst was three matches where they conceded a total of 19, first on a first match to ADESBA 3-5 on February 3, then the unusual, losing to a club with moderate popularity, Os Garridos 0-7 on April 7 and the worst match of the season for Travadores and the final match of the season, another loss to ADESBA and larger and superseded Garridos' most goals conceded. Most of the later part, Anilton led the region in goal totals.

Playoff participation

Travadores first participated in the playoffs in 1960 and lost to CS Mindelense, this would repeat in 1968, they would win their first title in 1972 after defeating Académica from Mindelo, the first leg was tied and won the second 1–0, this was their only colonial title. After the end of colonial rule in Cape Verde, they participated in the finals for the first time as an independent nation, they lost to Mindelense in 1992, two years later in 1994, they would win their first title as an independent nation after defeating SC Atlético from the island of São Nicolau 2–0 and 2–1, they won their second and recent title in 1996. Their recent playoff participation was in 2003 and the club lost to Académico do Aeroporto 0-1 in the first match and the second match was scoreless and the club was out of the national championships and making it Travadores's recent appearance.

Stadium

Estádio da Várzea, the home field of CD Travadores

It is played at Estádio da Várzea along with Praia's three other famous teams including Académica and Sporting Praia in the same stadium, the club also practices at the stadium and also at Sucupira just northwest, the club rarely practices at Complexo Desportivo Adega in Achada Grande Tras.

The club played at the Sucupira Field between 2001 and 2006 when they moved to the current Estádio da Várzea.

Rivalry

The club's main rivalry[2] is with Sporting forming the Derby Eterno da Praia (Eternal Derby of Praia). Travadores is also rivalry to Desportivo Praia.

Honours

Before independence: 1
1972
After independence: 2
1994, 1996
1959/60, 1967/68, 1971/72, 1991/92, 1993/94, 1995/96, 1999/2000
2002/03
2013

League and cup history

Performance in African competitions

Travadores's results in CAF competition
Season Competition Qualification method Round Opposition Home Away Aggregate
1993 CAF Cup Runner-up in the
Cape Verdean National Championships		 First Round Mauritania ASC Air Mauritanie 0–0 0–0 0–0 (5–6 p)
1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs Cape Verdean champions Preliminary Round The Gambia Real de Banjul 0–0 1–0 0–1
1997 CAF Champions League Cape Verdean champions Preliminary Round Algeria USM Alger 1–3 6–1 2–9

Colonial era

Year Final(s) Club
1 2
1960 Lost CS Mindelense
1966 Lost CS Mindelense
1972 2–2 1–0 Académica (Mindelo)

National championship

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P Notes Playoffs
2000 1A 4 2011 23-11 Did not advance Did not participate
2003 1B 2 4211 74+37 Promoted into playoffs Semifinalist

Island/Regional Championship

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P Cup Tour Notes
2007–08 2 4 18846 2319+428
2008–09 2 8 18279 1026-1613
2010–11 2 8 18558 1433-1920
2011–12 2 5 18738 2121024
2012–13 2 8 18468 1921-218 Winner
2013–14 2 2 181341 3710+2743
2014–15 2 8 185112 1738-2116
2015–16 2 7 22778 2631-528 Semifinalist
2016–17 2 7 227411 3448-1425 Round of 8

Statistics

Players

Current squad

As of 30 April 2017[3][4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Cape Verde Claudino Évora Almeida
Cape Verde Carlos Andrade
Kadu Barreto
Cape Verde Jorge Alexandre Cardoso
Cape Verde Celso Mendes
Cape Verde Bruno Miguel Correia
Cape Verde DF Djimmy (Admar de Jesus Lopes[lower-alpha 1])
Edmilson Varela
Cape Verde Eusébio Tavares
Cape Verde DF João Paulo Ferreira
Cape Verde Genilson Sena Monteiro
Cape Verde Gilson Silva Gonçalves
Cape Verde Fortunato Gonçalves
Cape Verde Ildemar Gomes
Cape Verde Ivandro Correia
Cape Verde Ivandro Pereira Cabral
No. Position Player
Cape Verde Keven Alves
Cape Verde Adilson Lopes
Cape Verde Ivan Bruno Lopes
Cape Verde Euclides Mascarenhas
Cape Verde José Carlos Mendes
Cape Verde Lucas Cabral Mendes
Cape Verde Carlos Alberto Moreno
Cape Verde Paulo Ricardo Natividade
Cape Verde Nilton Cesar Paiva Tavares
Gbemisola Ogundele
Nigeria MF Chibike Okoronkwo
Cape Verde José Pereira
Cape Verde Clarimundo Stevon P. Mendes
Cape Verde António Paiva Tavares
Cape Verde Walter António Fernandes
  1. ↑ Also as Admir de Jesus Lopes

Former players

Other sports

Travadores also had a basketball, boxing and a volleyball team, bue due to the economic crisis and low arena visits had to close two clubs. The teams once played at Gimnodesportivo Vavá Duarte.[5] Travadores also has an athletic team and plays at Complexo Desportivo Adega.

References

  1. ↑ "Nova Direcção Dos Travadores Promete Continuidade De Tazinho Na Equipa Técnica". Criolosport (in Portuguese). 21 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  2. ↑ ""Clássicos" na Praia, Sal, São Vicente e São Nicolau". ASemana.com. 10 January 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
  3. ↑ CD Travadores's Facebook Pages
  4. ↑ CD Travadores article on the Spanish Wikipedia
  5. ↑ "Travadores em profunda crise" [Travadores in Deep Crisis]. A Semana (in Portuguese). 14 January 2005. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
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