Desportivo Maputo
| Desportivo Maputo | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Grupo Desportivo de Maputo | ||
| Seat | Maputo , Mozambique | ||
| founding | 1921 | ||
| Colours | black and white | ||
| Board | Michel Grispos | ||
| Website | desportivo.co.mz | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Antero Cambaco | ||
| Venue | Estádio 1º de Maio de Maputo | ||
| Places | 8000 | ||
| league | Moçambola (Campeonato Moçambicano de Futebol) | ||
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Grupo Desportivo de Maputo , also Desportivo Maputo or GDM for short , is a sports club from Maputo , the capital of Mozambique . The soccer team secured the championship of Mozambique eight times between 1957 and 2006. The club's roller hockey team is also at the forefront, with 15 national championships won between 1976 and 2010. During the colonial era, she also won the Portuguese championship three times.
Desportivo Maputo also has departments for athletics , basketball , five-a-side football , and swimming .
history
The club was founded on May 31, 1921 as Grupo Desportivo de Lourenço Marques by Professor Sá Couto, José Maria Rodrigues, Alfredo Fragoso, Américo Costa, Martinho Carvalho Durão and Professor Cabanelas. After Mozambique gained independence, the association was renamed Grupo Desportivo de Maputo in 1976. The club's logo has also been changed.
In 1925 Desportivo won the city championship of Lourenço Marques , which was held until 1961, his first title. In 1957 the club won its first of eight Mozambican championships. Desportivo celebrated its last success in this competition, which was first held in 1956, in 2006. In 2012, the soccer team fell for the first time in relegation.
The first known Desportivo player to achieve success in metropolitan Portugal was Mário Wilson , who became CP champion with Sporting . He then won titles as a coach with SL Benfica and was also in charge of the national team. Mário Coluna followed in 1954 and won the European Cup with Benfica in 1961 and 1962, among others. With the national team, he was third in the 1966 World Cup.
Stadion
Grupo Desportivo de Maputo plays its home games in the Estádio do Desportivo with a capacity of 4,000.
successes
- Soccer
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Masters of Moçambique :
- Colonial period: 1957, 1964.
- after independence: 1977, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1995, 2006.
- Lourenço Marques City Championship : 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1959.
- Mozambique Cup : 1983, 2006.
- Maputo Cup of Honor : 2007, 2008.
- Roller hockey
- Masters of Mozambique: 1976, 1987, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010.
- Masters of Portugal: 1969, 1971, 1973.
Performing in African competitions
- CAF Champions League : Best result 2006/07, eliminated in the round of 32 against Mamelodi Sundowns (total 1: 3)
- African Cup Winners' Cup : Best result 1989/90 eliminated against BBC Lions (total 3: 7)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Stadiums ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
