Club Sport Emelec
The Club Sport Emelec is a sports club based in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador. It was founded in 1929 in the Barrio Astillero, the historic wharf area, under the leadership of the North American George Capwell. The first football team plays in the Serie A, the first Ecuadorian league.
- 4.1 Current (2011)
- 4.2 Former
History
On April 28 In 1929 George Capwell, an American, the director of Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador Electricity Company ( EMELEC ) was, together with friends, servants of his company and other athletes the sports club EMELEC. Besides football, which initially was not one of the favorite sports of the North American Capwell, the club swimming, baseball, boxing, basketball and athletics departments.
Capwell decided that for the club its own stadium was necessary, which was opened in 1945, and was initially for the baseball team Emelec. Since 21 October 1945, the football team wore their games there, from, the only one with its own stadium at that time in Ecuador. In Capwell Stadium 1947 all matches of the Copa America this year were held.
Since 1946, Emelec played in the first regional league and participated as Guayaquil Champion of 1946 for Ecuador at the Copa de Campeones de América, a once discharged precursor of the Copa Libertadores, and finished in the discharged in Santiago, Chile tournament after a draw against Colo Colo Santiago and five defeats the last place.
In 1948 the first official meeting between Emelec and Barcelona SC took place during the tournament " Torneo del Pacifico ". These encounters between according to the riches of its founder, surnamed cuadro millonario (Eng. " millionaire Self" ) took team Emelec and those coming from a traditionally poor district team of Barcelona still form the most important derby of the Ecuadorian League, the Clasico del Astillero.
1951 Emelec belonged to the founders of professional football in Ecuador and came to the conference organized by the newly founded Asociación de Fútbol del Guayas regional league. 1956 and 1957 Emelec won his first two professional championships of the province of Guayas. In 1957, an Ecuadorian Championship was held for the first time, Emelec won with two professional teams from the provinces of Guayas and Pichincha discharged finals against Barcelona SC, Deportivo Quito and SD Aucas decided for themselves.
With the start of regular national championships (1960 ) Emelec consolidated itself as one of the most successful clubs in Ecuador. During her first "Golden Era" 1961-1972 the team was three more times champion (1961, 1965 and 1972) and four times runner-up (1962, 1966, 1967 and 1970 ). The mid-1960s took coached by the Argentine Fernando Paternoster so-called "Blue Ballet" Emelec repeated at the tournament for the Copa Libertadores in part, where, among other things, in 1962, 1967 and 1968 victories against Universidad Católica (Chile) arrive. 1968 Emelec was the first Ecuadorian team that survived the first round of the Copa Libertadores. In friendly games you defeated in those years, among other Chacarita Juniors (Argentina ), the reigning Copa Libertadores winners Peñarol Montevideo, Velez Sarsfield, Corinthians and Borussia Dortmund.
A second golden era had Emelec in the 1990s and 2000s, when the team in ten years, won four championships ( 1993, 1994, 2001 and 2002). In 1995, Emelec the semi-finals at the Copa Libertadores, but was eliminated by Gremio. 2001 Emelec was from Colombia Vice- champion of the Copa Merconorte after final defeat on penalties against Millonarios.
In the seasons 2009 and 2010 Emelec won each of the first round series and reached the summed table of all the games with the most points, but had to be in the championship round only settle for the third and second place. 2013 could Emelec celebrate the eleventh championship in its history.
Stadium
Emelec plays its home games at the Estadio George Capwell, which was inaugurated on 21 October 1945 and the nickname La Caldera (engl. " The Soup Bowl " ) bears. In 1991, the stadium was re-opened after renovation, 1993 Games played here at the Copa América. The stadium currently has capacity for 28.000 spectators, but will be expanded to 50,000 seats in the long term. It is located south of the center of Guayaquil in Barrio Astillero on the main road Avenida Quito.
Achievements
National
- Amateur champion Guayaquil: 1945, 1948
- Professional Championship Guayaquil / Coast Region: 1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1966
- Ecuadorian champion: 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2013
Internationally
- Runner-up 2001 Copa Merconorte
- Semifinal Copa Libertadores 1995 quarterfinals in 1968, 1990
Known player
Current (2011)
- Ecuador Gabriel Achilier
- Ecuador Oscar Bagüi
- Ecuador Paúl Cetre
- Ecuador Silvano Estacio
- Uruguay / EcuadorMarcelo Fleitas
- Ecuador Fulton Francis
- Ecuador Fernando Gaibor
- Fernando Giménez
- Ecuador Walter Iza
- Argentina / Ecuador Javier Klimowicz
- Ecuador Edison Méndez
- Argentina Cristian Menéndez
- Ecuador Roberto Mina
- Ecuador Wilson Morante
- Ecuador Carlos Andres Quinonez
- Ecuador José Luis Quinonez
- Ecuador Pedro Quinonez
- Ecuador David Quiroz
- Argentina Eial Strahman
- Ecuador Leandro Torres
- Ecuador Enner Valencia
- Ecuador Polo Wila
- Ecuador Luis Zambrano
- Ecuador Wilmer Zumba
Former
- Ecuador Marino Alcívar
- Ecuador Enrique Álvarez
- Ecuador Raúl Avilés ( " Turco " )
- Ecuador José Vicente Balseca
- Ecuador Jorge Bolaños
- Ecuador Luis Capurro
- Argentina / Ecuador Marcelo Elizaga
- Marco Etcheverry of Bolivia
- Ecuador Kléber Fajardo
- Ecuador Ángel Fernández
- Argentina / Ecuador Ariel Graziani
- Ecuador Jorge Guagua
- Iván Hurtado Ecuador
- Argentina / Ecuador Carlos Alberto Juarez
- Ecuador Iván Kaviedes
- Ecuador Jorge Ladines
- United States Alexi Lalas
- Argentina Miguel Ángel Onzari
- Argentina Roberto Ortega
- Ecuador Armando Paredes
- Ecuador Carlos Pineda
- Ecuador Augusto Poroso
- Argentina / Ecuador Carlos Alberto Raffo
- Ecuador Enrique Raymondi
- Ecuador Wellington Sánchez
- Ecuador Otilino Tenorio