Clube Ferroviário de Maputo
The Clube Ferroviário de Maputo, shortly called Ferroviário, is a sports club based in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. The Railway Club is one of the biggest sports clubs in the country with numerous branches in other cities. Football, athletics, basketball, cycling, gymnastics, hockey, swimming and table tennis are among the sports that are practiced at Ferroviário.
The football team is among both historical and current top clubs of Mozambique. after eight championships of the colonial period until 2009 followed nine more since the country's independence. The roller hockey players - the sport is both the former mother country Portugal as well as in today's Mozambique important - Ferroviário won numerous championships, including the Portuguese title of 1962
History
The Railway Club was founded in 1924 as Clube de Lourenço Marques Ferroviário and received in 1976 after the independence of Mozambique, the currently valid name.
In the 1922-1961 discharged city championship of Lourenço Marques Ferroviário won 1931-1958 14 times the title was the most successful team of the city.
In 1956 a national championship was held in the former Portuguese colony for the first time, won Ferroviário win the first title. Until the independence of Mozambique in 1975, followed by seven more championships. After the independence, it took until 1982 before the first title in the new state. Since 2009 Ferroviário with nine titles together with Costa do Sol The champions of modern Mozambique.
International made the club the first time in 1992 talked about, as the capital city moved in the semi-finals of the CAF Cup, where the Ugandan representative Nakirubo Villa SC Kampale subject to a penalty shoot only in semi-finals. 1997 Ferroviário was then the first Mozambican club to qualify for the group stage of the African Champions League.
Significant athletes
Alberto da Costa Pereira joined in 1954 by Ferroviário to SL Benfica, after winning in the heyday of the association with the Lissa Bonners among other things, twice the European Champions Cup. In addition, it was 22 times in goal for the Portuguese national team. With Acúrsio Carrelo changed in 1955, another goalkeeper in the Portuguese mainland. When FC Porto he was both in football and in roller hockey Portuguese international. 1962/63 he served as player-coach for Ferroviário Roller Hockey Championship of Mozambique.
The 77 - times capped player Jojó Larrouy, the continued his career even after Portugal and Australia, in the beginning of the 1990s, played one season with the club. The 30- times capped goalkeeper João Rafael Kapango brought it through a spectacular somersault torverhindernden at the African Cup of Nations 2010 recently fame on Youtube.
Simão Mate Junior, between 2003 and 2007 at Ferroviário, in 2010 with Panathinaikos champion and cup winner of Greece. Dario Kahn left the club in 2003 to play in the Arab world and drew attention to himself by two own goals at the African Cup of Nations 2010.
Achievements
Football
- Master of Mozambique: Colonial times: 1956, 1961, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972.
- After independence: 1982, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009.
Roller Hockey
- Master of Moçambique: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1988, 2005, 2008, 2009.
- Master of Portugal: 1962.
Placements
Placements since the introduction of the single-track national league in 1999.
Performance in African competitions
- CAF Champions League: 8 participations
- CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances
- African Cup Winners' Cup: 1 participation
- CAF Cup: 7 participations
Stadium
Ferroviário plays in the Estádio da Machava, which stands since 1944 and in 1968 was developed with the support of the railway company CFM on a spectator capacity of 45,000. In addition, the Machava home stadium of the national team of Mozambique.
Swell
- World Football Encyclopedia. Volume 2 America, Africa, Oceania, The Workshop, Göttingen, 2009. ISBN 978-3895336409
- Mozambique - List of Champions at rsssf.com, spotted June 19, 2010