C.S. Emelec
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| Full name | Club Sport Emelec | ||
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| Nickname(s) | "El Bombillo", "El Ballet Azul", "Los Eléctricos", "Los Millonarios", "Los Extraterrestres" | ||
| Founded | April 28th, 1929 | ||
| Ground | Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil, Ecuador | ||
| Capacity | 28,000 | ||
| Chairman |  Ferninad Hidalgo | ||
| Manager | Carlos Torres Garces | ||
| League | Copa Pilsener | ||
| 2006 | Torneo Apertura | ||
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Club Sport Emelec is a football club based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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.. He was nicknamed El Gringo. 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 Yu Lee, José Balseca, Cruz Ávila, Mariano Larraz, Carlos 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, but they lost to Grêmio, a team from Porto Alegre, Brazil. In 2001 Emelec was a Copa Merconorte finalist.
Trophies and Achievements
- Ecuadorian Championships: (10) 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002
- Copa Merconorte Finalist: 2001 December
- Highest Fifa ranking position : #28 (December 2001)
- First Ecuadorian team to sell a player to Italian Serie A: Iván Kaviedes
Famous players
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2005 Squad (sorted by last name)
External links
- Emelec, with rich information in Spanish
- Futbol Ecuatoriano, about ecuadorian soccer
- Emelec Derby, with information in English
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