Club Sport Emelec
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| Full name | Club Sport Emelec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | "El Bombillo", "Los Eléctricos", "El Ballet Azul", "Los Millonarios" |
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| Founded | April 28, 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil, Ecuador (Capacity 20,000) |
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| Chairman |  Elias Wated |
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| Manager |  Anibal Ruiz |
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| League | Serie A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | 2nd Stage, 3rd Position | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club Sport Emelec is a sports club from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Emelec has won the highest total number of Ecuadorian championship cups if you take into account all sports (boxing, swimming, baseball, basketball, judo, chess, etc.). If we only take into account soccer, then Emelec has not matched the success of their rival, Barcelona SC.
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.. 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 Cipriano Yu Lee, José Vicente Balseca, Cruz Ávila, Mariano Larraz, Carlos Alberto 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. Emelec was defeated by the champion of that year Gremio from Brasil. In 2001, Emelec was a Copa Merconorte finalist playing against Millonarios from Colombia. They played 2 finals. The first final was in Colombia, the score was 1-1. The score from the final in Ecuador was 1-1. They went to penalty kicks and the winner was Millonarios. Emelec only scored 1 from 4 penalty kicks losing the final, and losing the possibility to be the first Ecuadorian team to win an international tournament.
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[edit] Trophies and Achievements
- Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol: 10
- Copa Merconorte: Runners Up: 2001
- 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 Eléctrica del Ecuador sports club, it's founder, George Lewis 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" (Emelec). 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 an all stars team from the cities of Manta and Bahia.
The 1947 Copa America competition was held exclusively at George Capwell Stadium, and an undefeated Argentina became South America's champion with an all star team that included names like Alfredo Di Stefano, Lostau, and Mendez. Ecuador finished in 6th place. (Brazil did not participate on this competition.)
After the birth of Guayaquil's Estadio Modelo Guayaquil "Alberto Spencer", 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 Emelec. Since its reopening the stadium has been enlarged twice and a new and final change has been scheduled for 2008, 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 20,000 spectators.
[edit] Top Goal Scorers
Emelec is famous in Ecuador for always having top-scoring forwards, and the team has had the Ecuadorian top scorer of the year in many occasions throughout Ecuadorian championship history. The following is a list of Emelec's top scorers 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
- 2002 Otelino Tenorio(+) 20 goals
- 2006 Luis Miguel Escalada 29 goals
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[edit] Current Squad
[edit] The Cradle of Ecuadorian FootballFor over many years Emelec has been the leader in Ecuador for developing new football talents that are discovered and trained in their spectacular youth programs. Emelec has won several titles and recognition because of this and as of 2008 most teams in ecuadorian first division have players that were trained by Emelec. List of players trained in Emelec's youth programs playing for ecuadorian first division teams: SERIE A
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Playing for foreing teams:
[edit] The Fans[edit] Boca del PozoThe fan group known as "Boca del Pozo" (mouth of the well) was founded July 25, 1980 by Giussepe Cavanna Chavez (today part of the club's staff). The group adopted that name because their clubhouse, known as Cavanna's Place, was located in a neighborhood with the same name. The fan base gained recognition and grew in number. The group is known to usually gather behind the goals. It also has several factions in different cities of Ecuador. [edit] Legión Azul (Blue Legion)The group know as Legión Azul was founded in 2001 before Emelec won that year's championship. It started with 10 to 15 members. Today, however, there are more or less 250 members of this group now. They are located right in front of "La Boca del Pozo" behind the other goal. [edit] Facts
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[edit] Other Rivals[edit] Other SportsEmelec is not only one of the most important football clubs in Ecuador, but it is rated as one of the most important sports club of the country. In their trophy room Emelec has hundreds of cups and medals that have been gained over the years in many different sports. The list includes:
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