GDRC Pretória
| Full name | Grupo Desportivo Recreativo e Cultural Pretória |
|---|---|
| Founded | September 19, 1991 |
| Ground |
Estádio Marcelo Leitão Espargos, Sal, Cape Verde |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| League | Sal Second Division |
| Website | Club website |
Grupo Desportivo Recreativo e Cultural Pretória (short forms: GDRC Pretória and GDRCP) is a sports club based in the neighborhood of Pretória in the east of Espargos on the island of Sal, Cape Verde and participates in the Sal Basketball Championships. Sporting clubs include football (soccer), basketball and football.[1] Pretória's football club is unregistered and does not form one of the twelve registered clubs on the island.
Logo
Its logo color are red and black.
Uniform
Its uniform has nearly the same colors to the football (soccer) club.
History
The sports club was founded on September 19, 1991 and its creation was written on paper on a sporting, social, recreative and cultural area on the island of Sal. GDRC Pretória celebrated its 10th year of foundation in 2001 and 25th year of foundation in 2016.
In 2014, when six new football clubs participated in the Sal Island League, Pretória was not one of them and remained to be unregistered until late 2016, Pretória became the thirteenth club in Sal to participate. In football, the club participated in the regional Second Division and played their first match at the Second Round on March 31, 2017 and lost to Nova Geração 2-0 which is the club's only loss, they were first place in the division, a few weeks later, the club became second, a position that would finish in the division behind ASGUI and failing to qualify into the Premier Division.[2]
Stadium
Estádio Marcelo Leitão is a multi-use stadium in Espargos, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000. The stadium has seat rows in the east side and is east-southeast of the city center and Monte Curral. The stadium is home to the two best football clubs on the island, the other being Académica do Sal, other clubs based in Espargos includes Juventude which is based in Morro Curral and the stadium is being located inside the neighborhood. Other clubs based in Espargos but a neighborhood includes the recently added clubs of Gaviões and Chã de Matias . Clubs playing the stadium but based on other parts of the island include Santa Maria, SC Verdun Pedra de Lume, Palmeira de Santa Maria and ASGUI, Florença.
The club trains both at the stadium and at Patinha in the north (being the main home field for the club).
League and cup history
Island/Regional Championship
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | P | Cup | Tour | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 13 | |||
| Total: | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 13 | |||||
Statistics
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Championship record by opponent
Key
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Teams with this background and symbol in the "Club" column are competing in the 2016–17 Sal Second Division alongside Pretória. - P = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; Win% = percentage of total matches won
All-time championship record
- Statistics correct as of the end of the 2016-17 Sal Regional season
| Club | P | W | D | L | P | W | D | L | P | W | D | L | F | A | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | Away | Total | |||||||||||||
| ASGUI |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0% |
| Chã de Matias |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Jovens Unidos |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 50% |
| Nova Geração |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 50% |
| Total | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 37.5% |
Other sports
Basketball
| GDRC Pretória | |
|---|---|
| Founded | September 19, 1991 |
| Arena | Polidesportivo do Sal |
| President |
 Victor Cardoso |
| Head coach |
Antonio & Emanuel Almeida |
| Website | http://www.grupopretoria.com/ |
The basketball team was founded on September 19, 1991.
The team became a registered basketball team on August 28, 2008 and is written on an official publication.[3]
Arena
The team plays in Polidesportivo Municipal do Sal, the same arena as another basketball club Académica do Sal also plays.
Minibasketball
A mini-basketball club named Pretorinhas exists, one of the projects with huge pedagogic and social value created by the association, essential for the sustainability of youth and junior classes and fundamentally important on the development of taste and pleasure for the sport, learning to play and those who learned how to play.
See also
References
- ↑ Official website of Pretória (in Portuguese)
- ↑ Batalha, José (29 March 2017). "2017 Sal Second Division". RSSSF. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
- ↑ "Official publication of GDRC Pretória for registration" (PDF). 28 August 2009.
External links
- Official website (in Portuguese)
- Page about its mini-basket at the official site (in Portuguese)