Lusitânia
Full nameSport Clube Lusitânia
Founded1922
GroundEstádio João Paulo II,
Angra do Heroísmo, Azores Islands
Capacity7,000
ChairmanPortugal João Orlando Rebelo
ManagerPortugal João Eduardo Alves
League47
2020–21Liga Meo Azores, 1st, Promoted

The Sport Clube Lusitânia (commonly shortened to S.C. Lusitânia) is a sports club located in Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

History

In 1922, a group of enthusiastic footballers met in the Recreio dos Artistas, and founded the Sporting Clube Lusitânia, naming it for the airplane of the same name, used by Portuguese trans-Atlantic pioneers Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral.

Their highest achievement is reaching the semifinals of the Taça de Portugal in 1964. They had defeated Ferroviário Lourenço Marques in the quarterfinals, the highest a Portuguese colony club ever reached in the Portuguese Cup (and only because the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar allowed them to play as a means of demonstrating that Portugal's African possessions were provinces and not colonies).

The headquarters of the club is in the historic manorhouse of Dona Violante do Canto.

Current squad

As of 12 April 2017

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Portugal POR Diogo Medeiros
2 DF Portugal POR Filipe Mendonça
3 DF Portugal POR Celso Silva
5 DF Portugal POR Duarte Cordeiro
6 MF Portugal POR Pedro Melo
7 MF Portugal POR Diogo Picanço
8 MF Portugal POR José Dias
9 FW Portugal POR Ivo Tavares
10 FW Portugal POR Miguel Ficher
11 MF Portugal POR Vasco Pereira
12 GK Portugal POR Gonçalo Toste
13 FW Portugal POR Evandro Marreta
14 DF Portugal POR André Catorze
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF Portugal POR Samuel Moniz
16 DF Portugal POR Tomás Medeiros
17 DF Portugal POR Cris Silveira
18 FW Portugal POR Dário Simão
19 MF Portugal POR João Melo
20 FW Portugal POR Marco Spencer
21 MF Portugal POR Manuel Mont'Alverne
23 MF Portugal POR Pedro Rocha
24 GK Portugal POR Vítor Vieira
25 MF Portugal POR Ricky Costa
27 FW Portugal POR Tiago Vieira
28 FW Portugal POR Papixa
30 DF Portugal POR Alex Spencer

Basketball team

The men's basketball team is part of the Portuguese Basketball League (LCB).[1]

References


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