Club Sport Emelec
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{{Football club infobox |
clubname = Emelec |
image = [[Image:Emelec football.png|100px|Club logo]] |
fullname = Club Sport Emelec |
nickname = "El [[light bulb|Bombillo]]",<br>"Los Eléctricos", "El Ballet Azul",<br>"Los Millonarios" |
founded = [[April 28]], [[1929]] |
ground = [[Estadio George Capwell]],<br />[[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]] |
capacity = 20,000 |
chairman = [[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuadorian]] [[Elias Wated]] |
manager = [[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Ecuadorian]] [[Anibal Ruiz]] |
league = [[Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol|Serie A]] |
season = 2007-08 |
position = 2nd Stage, '''3rd''' Position |
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'''Club Sport Emelec''' is a [[sports]] club from [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]]. Emelec has won the highest total number of Ecuadorian championship cups if you take into account all sports (boxing, swimming, baseball, basketball, judo, chess, etc.). If we only take into account soccer, then Emelec has not matched the success of their rival, Barcelona SC.
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.]]. 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 Cipriano Yu Lee, José Vicente Balseca, Cruz Ávila, Mariano Larraz, Carlos Alberto 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. Emelec was defeated by the champion of that year Gremio from Brasil. In 2001, Emelec was a [[Copa Merconorte]] finalist playing against [[Millonarios]] from [[Colombia]]. They played 2 finals. The first final was in [[Colombia]], the score was 1-1. The score from the final in [[Ecuador]] was 1-1. They went to penalty kicks and the winner was Millonarios. Emelec only scored 1 from 4 penalty kicks losing the final, and losing the possibility to be the first Ecuadorian team to win an international tournament.
== Trophies and Achievements ==
*'''[[Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol]]: 10'''
**Champion : [[1957]], [[1961]], [[1965]], [[1972]], [[1979]], [[1988]], [[1993]], [[1994]], [[2001]], [[2002]]
**Runners Up: [[1960]], [[1963]], [[1966]], [[1967]], [[1970]], [[1989]], [[1996]], [[1998]], [[2006]]
* Copa Merconorte: Runners Up: [[2001]]
* Copa Guayaquil Championships:[[1956]],[[1957]],[[1962]],[[1964]],[[1966]]
* Campeonato Amateur del Guayas:[[1945]], [[1948]]
== The George Capwell Stadium ==
Several years after the creation of the [[Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador]] sports club, it's founder, George Lewis Capwell, decided that it was time for the club to have its own [[Baseball]] stadium, so in [[1942]] [[Guayaquil]]'s Municipal authorities donated 4 city blocks for the construction of the first private sports stadium in [[Ecuador]]. A year after that, in [[1943]], Emelec's staff officially named and initiated the construction of the George Capwell Stadium.
The beautiful George Capwell Stadium opened its doors for the first time on [[October 21]] of [[1945]], the inaugural game was a Baseball match between Emelec and Oriente, and George Capwell played as a catcher for the "Azules" (Emelec). Although Emelec's president did not like football and their stadium was not initially intended to be a football field, soon after the inauguration the first football match was held. Emelec won 5 - 4 against an all stars team from the cities of Manta and Bahia.
The [[1947]] [[Copa America]] competition was held exclusively at George Capwell Stadium, and an undefeated [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] became South America's champion with an all star team that included names like [[Alfredo Di Stefano]], Lostau, and Mendez. [[Ecuador national football team|Ecuador]] finished in 6th place. (Brazil did not participate on this competition.)
After the birth of Guayaquil's Estadio Modelo Guayaquil "[[Alberto Spencer]]", the George Capwell Stadium was closed for many years because it became obsolete, and in several occasions was almost destroyed for various projects that luckily for the club were never actually completed.
It wasn't until [[1991]] that with the leadership of Nassib Nehme that the George Capwell Stadium was reopened, to become once again the house of Emelec. Since its reopening the stadium has been enlarged twice and a new and final change has been scheduled for [[2008]], to reach a final capacity of 45,000 spectators.
At the moment the official capacity of the stadium according to the FEF ([[Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol]]) is 18,000 spectators. However, that number has not been changed even after the two enlargements were finished. It is said that the true capacity of the stadium at the moment is 20,000 spectators.
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== Top Goal Scorers ==
Emelec is famous in [[Ecuador]] for always having top-scoring forwards, and the team has had the Ecuadorian top scorer of the year in many occasions throughout Ecuadorian championship history. The following is a list of Emelec's top scorers of the year in history:
* 1963 [[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Carlos Alberto Raffo]] 4 goals
* 1979 [[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Horacio Miori]] 26 goals
* 1996 [[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Ariel Graziani]] 29 goals
* 1997 [[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Ariel Graziani]] 24 goals
* 1998 [[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuador]] [[Jaime Ivan Kaviedes]] 43 goals (Topscorer in a single year in Ecuadorian history - Top Scorer of the world on 1998)
* 2000 [[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Alejandro Kenig]] 25 goals
* 2001 [[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Carlos Juarez|Carlos Alberto Juarez]] 17 goals
* 2002 [[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuador]] [[Otilino Tenorio|Otelino Tenorio(+)]] 20 goals
* 2006 [[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Luis Miguel Escalada]] 29 goals
== Famous Players ==
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*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Enrique Alvarez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Mariano Larraz]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Jorge Larraz]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Galo Solis]]
*[[Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg|20px|Venezuela]] [[Manuel Vasquez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Carlos Alberto Raffo]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Enrique Raymondi]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Cipriano Yu - Lee]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jose Vicente Balseca]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jorge Lasso]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Carlos Pineda]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Galo Pulido]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Alfredo Encalada]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jaime Delgado Mena]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jorge Bolaños Carrasco]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Bolivar Merizalde]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Roberto Ortega]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[José Romanely]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Eduardo García]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[José Maria Piriz]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Eduardo de Maria]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Luis Lamberk]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Felix Lasso]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Angel Liciardi]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Americo Paredes]]
*[[Image:Flag of Brazil.svg|20px|Brasil]] [[Nelsinho]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Miguel Angel Onzari]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Carlos Torres Garcés]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jorge Guzman]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jorge Valdez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Lupo Quinonez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Ricardo Armendariz]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Ubaldo Quinteros]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Horacio Miori]]
*[[Image:Flag of Brazil.svg|20px|Brasil]] [[Alcides de Oliveira]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jesús Cárdenas]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Israel Rodriguez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Xavier Baldriz]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Miguel Falero]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Ruben Beninca]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jose Federico Minda]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Enrique Verduga]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Raul Avilés]]
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Juan Carlos De Lima]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Luis Capurro]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Kléber Fajardo]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Ivo Ron]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Jorge Bernabe Vargas]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Iván Hurtado]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Maximo Tenorio]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Dannes Coronel]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Angel Fernandez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Vidal Pachito]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Eduardo Smith]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jorge Batallas]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Marcelo Morales]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Marcelo Benítez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Roberto Oste]]
*[[Image:Flag of Brazil.svg|20px|Brasil]] [[Eduardo dos Santos, EDU]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Juan Carlos Almada]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Pedro Mauricio Muñoz]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Jorge Vasquez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Eduardo Hurtado]]
*[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|American]][[Image:Flag of Greece.svg|20px]] [[Alexi Lalas]]
*[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|American]] [[Joe-Max Moore]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Augusto Poroso]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Ariel Graziani]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Carlos Alberto Juárez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg|20px|Venezuela]] [[José Manuel Rey]]
*[[Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg|20px|Venezuela]] [[Gabriel Miranda]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Iván Kaviedes]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Otelino Tenorio (+)]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Moisés Candelario]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Luis Moreira]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Carlos Hidalgo]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Wellington Sanchez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Daniel Viteri]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Rorys Aragon]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Cristian Gomez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Alejandro Kenig]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Carlos Andrés Quiñonez]]
*[[Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg|20px|Venezuela]] [[Jorge Rojas]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Juan Triviño]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Christian Noboa]]
*[[Image:Flag of Colombia.svg|20px|Colombian]] [[Hamilton Ricard]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Marcelo Elizaga]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Marcos Mondaini]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Luis Miguel Escalada]]
*[[Image:Flag of Colombia.svg|20px|Colombia]] [[Luis Guillermo Rivera]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jorge Guagua]]
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Gabriel Fernández]]
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuatorian]] [[Jorge Ladines]]
*[[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|20px|Romanian]] [[Ovidiu Burcă]]
== Notable Managers ==
{|
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*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Eduardo Spandre]] (1957 Ecuadorian Champions)
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Mariano Larraz]] (1961 Ecuadorian Champions)
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Fernando Paternoster]] (1965 Ecuadorian Champions)
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuador]] [[Jorge Lazo]] (1972 Ecuadorian Champions - 1998 Ecuadorian Runners Up)
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Eduardo Garcia]] (1979 Ecuadorian Champions)
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Juan Ramon Silva]] (1988 Ecuadorian Champions - 1995 Copa Libertadores Semifinalist)
*[[Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg|20px|Uruguay]] [[Angel Castelnoble]](1989 Runners Up)
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Salvador Capitano]] (1992 Ecuadorian Runners Up - 1993 Ecuadorian Champions)
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuador]] [[Carlos Torres Garces]](1994 Ecuadorian Champions - 2006 Ecuadorian Runners Up)
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuador]] [[Ricardo Armendariz]](1996 Ecuadorian Runners Up)
*[[Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg|20px|Ecuador]] [[Carlos Sevilla]](2001 Ecuadorian Champions - 2001 Copa Merconorte Runners Up)
*[[Image:Flag of Argentina.svg|20px|Argentina]] [[Rodolfo Motta]] (2002 Ecuadorian Champions)
|}
==Current Squad==
''As of [[May 13]] [[2008]]''
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=1|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Marcelo Elizaga]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=2|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Juan Triviño]]|pos=DF}}(''[[Captain (football)|Captain]]'')
{{Fs player|no=3|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Luis Ortiz (futbolista)|Luis Ortiz]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=4|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Luis Zambrano]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=5|nat=Ecuador|name=[[José Luis Quiñónez]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=6|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Carlos Andrés Quiñónez]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=7|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Jorge Ladines]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=8|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Freddy Olivo]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=9|nat=Argentina|name=[[Daniel Vega]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=10|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Armando Paredes]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=Argentina|name=[[Livio Prieto]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Robert Angulo]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=13|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Angel Mena]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=Ecuador|name=[[José Aguirre (Ecuadorian footballer)|Jose Aguirre]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Luis Guillermo Rivera]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=16|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Jasson Zambrano]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Michael Arroyo]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Michael Endara]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=19|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Rommel Zura]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=21|nat=Argentina|name=[[Gustavo Ruiz Diaz]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Xavier Guamán]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Francisco Gomez Portocarrero]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=24|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Javier Mercado]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=25|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Pedro Saona]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=50|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Fernando Guerrero]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=51|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Jefferson Pinto]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=52|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Marco Caicedo]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Eduardo Morantes]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Alberto Arboleda]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Silvano Estacio]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Miguel Cortez]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=Peru|name=[[Gustavo Vassallo]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=Ecuador|name=[[Israel Bonnard]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs end}}
*''[[Marcelo Elizaga]] is [[argentinian]] of birth''.
*''[[Luis Guillermo Rivera]] is [[colombian]] of birth''.
== The Cradle of Ecuadorian Football ==
For over many years Emelec has been the leader in [[Ecuador]] for developing new football talents that are discovered and trained in their spectacular youth programs. Emelec has won several titles and recognition because of this and as of 2008 most teams in Ecuadorian first division have players that were trained by Emelec.
List of players trained in Emelec's youth programs playing for Ecuadorian first division teams:
SERIE A
* [[Barcelona SC]]: [[Carlos Hidalgo]]
* [[Deportivo Azogues]]: [[Jaime Caicedo]], [[Junior Ayoví]]
* [[Deportivo Cuenca]]: [[Carlos Morán]], [[Giancarlo Ramos]], [[Cristian Valencia]]
* [[Deportivo Quito]]: [[Franklin Corozo]], [[Luis Moreira]]
* [[Club Deportivo El Nacional|El Nacional]]: [[Walter Ayoví]], [[Pavel Caicedo]], [[Moises Candelario]], [[Darwin Caicedo]], [[Johan Gomez]]
* [[Club Deportivo ESPOLI|Espoli]]: [[Jesse Biojo]]
* [[LDU Quito]]: [[Daniel Viteri]]
* [[Club Técnico Universitario]]: [[David Vilela]], [[Carlos Garcia]]
SERIE B
* [[Grecia de Chone]]: [[Rafael Manosalvas]]
* [[Independiente José Terán]]: [[Jefferson Montero]]
Playing for foreign teams:
* [[Colombia]]-[[Deportivo Pereira]]: [[Augusto Poroso]]
* [[USA]]-[[FC Dallas]]: [[Roberto Mina]]
* [[Germany]]-[[Energie Cottbus]]: [[Ovidiu Burcă]]
==The Fans==
===Boca del Pozo===
The fan group known as "Boca del Pozo" (mouth of the well) was founded [[July 25]], [[1980]] by Giussepe Cavanna Chavez (today part of the club's staff). The group adopted that name because their clubhouse, known as Cavanna's Place, was located in a neighborhood with the same name. The fan base gained recognition and grew in number. The group is known to usually gather behind the goals. It also has several factions in different cities of [[Ecuador]].
===Legión Azul (Blue Legion)===
The group know as Legión Azul was founded in [[2001]] before Emelec won that year's championship. It started with 10 to 15 members. Today, however, there are more or less 250 members of this group now. They are located right in front of "La Boca del Pozo" behind the other goal.
== Facts ==
*Emelec's founder George Capwell did not like football, he was a huge baseball fan and when he created the sports club he intended it to be a Baseball and Boxing club only.
*In [[1957]], many years after sharing titles with the other Team from Guayaquil, [[Barcelona SC]], in the amateur and regional tournaments, Emelec won the first professional Ecuadorian football Championship ever.
*Emelec was the first team in [[Ecuador]] to have its own stadium and was also the first team to make a million-dollar transaction, hiring $1´650.000 for the Argentine player Walter Pico.
*In [[1948]] Emelec became the first Ecuadorian team in history to compete on an international event. They were invited as Guayaquil's champions to represent Ecuador in the "Copa Campeones" in Chile, which in time became the famous "Copa Libertadores de America".
*In [[1962]] Emelec became the first Ecuadorian team to win a match in the "Copa Libertadores de America" when they defeated [[C.D. Millonarios]] from [[Colombia]] 4 - 2. The team also holds the largest score any Ecuadorian team has ever manage to obtain in the "Copa Libertadores", 7 - 2 against Universidad Catolica from Chile, also in [[1962]].
*After winning the [[1979]] championship, in [[1980]] Emelec went to Ecuadorian Second Division, called "Serie B" because they made the worst presentation in played games during that year.
*The late Eduardo "Che" Perez founded the first organized group to follow any Ecuadorian team. He followed Emelec anywhere the team went until his death in 2003. The largely organized group "Boca del Pozo" was the first "Barra Brava" in the country and Emelec's fans are recognized as the most faithful fans in the country.
*Emelec's historical top scorer is Carlos Alberto Juarez with more than 110 goals scored in five years. His runner up is Jesus Cardenas.
==Trivia==
{{Trivia|date=March 2008}}
* In [[1993]], left wing back [[Luis Capurro]] was named best in his position in [[South America]] by the prestigious Uruguayan newspaper, Diario El Pais. Capurro played his best years wearing Emelec's jersey, but he also played for [[Cerro Porteño]] of [[Paraguay]], [[Racing Club de Avellaneda]] of [[Argentina]] and [[Barcelona S.C.]].
* In 1998, Jaime Ivan Kaviedes scored 43 goals and became the all time top scorer in Ecuadorian history and that year's world top scorer. The next year Kaviedes was transferred to [[Perugia]] of the [[Italy|Italian]] [[Serie A]] for USD 5.5M. and after that he played in several teams all over the world including [[Celta de Vigo]], [[Real Valladolid]], [[Puebla]], [[Porto]], [[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]], [[Barcelona S.C.]], [[Deportivo Quito]], and [[Argentinos Juniors]]. Although he has had so many opportunities during his career, and almost nine years after scoring 43 goals in a single year with Emelec, he has not been able to accumulate another 43 goals with both club and country from 1999 to 2006.
* The late forward [[Otilino Tenorio]] became famous with Emelec because every time he scored he celebrated by wearing a blue Spiderman mask to the delight of the fans. Tenorio died in [[2005]] in a tragic traffic accident. During the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]], [[Jaime Ivan Kaviedes]] scored the third goal in Ecuador's victory over Costa Rica, and to celebrate the goal he had just scored, he used a yellow Spiderman mask honoring the memory of [[Otilino Tenorio]].
* Emelec is known for always promoting new exciting young players and during the 1998 season, Emelec used an all new team that included names like [[Moises Candelario]], [[Otilino Tenorio]], [[Jaime Ivan Kaviedes]], [[Carlos Hidalgo]], [[Luis Moreira]], [[Pavel Caicedo]], and a few experienced ones Like [[Carlos Juarez]], [[Marco Etcheverry]], and [[Augusto Poroso]] . In a smart promotional move, the new players were brilliantly baptized as the “extraterrestrials.” The young team qualified for the [[Copa Libertadores 1999]] and reached the Ecuadorian final against Liga de Quito.
* On the final match day of 2002 season three teams were competing for the title. [[El Nacional]] were the favorites as they only had to tie at home against a weak [[Deportivo Quito]] side while [[Barcelona SC]] had to visit [[LDU Quito]] at their stadium and needed a victory to become the champions. The least optioned team was Emelec who played in their stadium against [[Sociedad Deportivo Aucas]]. They needed a win and a [[El Nacional]] and [[Barcelona SC]] loss. Ecuadorian football officials were so convinced that the champion was going to be either El Nacional or Barcelona, that they had the cup in Quito and were ready to send it to either one of the stadiums of the city where the two teams were playing. All 3 games were played simultaneously, and surprisingly El Nacional was soon losing to Deportivo Quito 1 – 4, while Barcelona and Liga were tied at zero. Emelec struggled to score until the last few minutes of the game when defender [[Augusto Poroso]] sent a spectacular volley into the net to beat Aucas. Minutes later, El Nacional and Emelec finished their respective games, but Barcelona's match had a few minutes more to go. In the Capwell Stadium Emelec fans waited anxiously for the match to end when suddenly, at the last minute, Barcelona scored. Tears were starting to fall down when suddenly the ref signaled an offside nullifying the goal. A couple of minutes later the game was over and Emelec had won their 10th and last crown, so far. The team and fans had to wait a few hours on the stadium's pitch for the Cup to arrive from Quito.
* Two-time best goalkeeper in the Ecuadorian championship, [[Marcelo Elizaga]], has shown so much of his skills that Ecuador's former coach, [[Luis Fernando Suarez]], asked him to become an Ecuadorian citizen so he could use him in Ecuador's team for the [[Copa America 2007]] and the [[2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|2010 World Cup qualifiers]]. Ecuadorian law allows foreigners to become Ecuadorian citizens once they have stayed at least 3 years in the country. Ecuadorian president [[Rafael Correa]] granted him with the Ecuadorian citizenship on [[February 7]], [[2007]].
==Fierce Rivals==
*[[Barcelona Sporting Club]], the match between them is know as "Clásico del Astillero" and it is the most important match in the country.
==Other Rivals==
*[[Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito]]
*[[Club Deportivo El Nacional]]
==Other Sports==
Emelec is not only one of the most important football clubs in Ecuador, but it is rated as one of the most important sports club of the country. In their trophy room Emelec has hundreds of cups and medals that have been gained over the years in many different sports. The list includes:
* 33 Consecutive National Boxing Championships
* 13 Baseball National Championships
* 11 Male Basketball National Championships
* 18 Female Basketball National Championships
* 7 Cycling National Champsionships
* 5 Tae Kwon Do National Championships
* 5 Judo National Championships
* 1 Weight Lifting World Championship
==External links==
*[http://www.emelec.com.ec Emelec Official Web Site]
*[http://www.footballderbies.com/honours/index.php?id=119 Emelec Derby], with information in English
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