Club Sport Emelec

• Enrique Alvarez
• Mariano Larraz
• Jorge Larraz
• Galo Solis
• Carlos Alberto Raffo
• Enrique Raymondi
• Cipriano Yu - Lee
• Jose Vicente Balseca
• Jorge Lasso
• Carlos Pineda
• Galo Pulido
• Alfredo Encalada
• Jaime Delgado Mena
• Jorge Bolaños Carrasco
• Bolivar Merizalde
• Roberto Ortega
• José Romanely
• Eduardo García
• José Maria Piriz
• Eduardo de Maria
• Luis Lamberk
• Felix Lasso
• Angel Liciardi
• Americo Paredes
• Nelsinho
• Miguel Angel Onzari
• Carlos Torres Garcés
• Jorge Valdez
• Lupo Quinonez
• Ricardo Armendariz
• Ubaldo Quinteros
• Horacio Miori
• Alcides de Oliveira
• Jesús Cárdenas
• Israel Rodriguez
• Xavier Baldriz
• Miguel Falero
• Ruben Beninca
• Jose Federico Minda
• Enrique Verduga
• Raul Aviles
• Juan Carlos De Lima
• Luis Capurro
• Kléber Fajardo
• Ivo Ron
• Jorge Bernabe Vargas
• Holger Quinonez
• Iván Hurtado
• Maximo Tenorio
• Dannes Coronel
• Angel Fernandez
• Vidal Pachito
• Eduardo Smith
• Jorge Batallas
• Marcelo Morales
• Marcelo Benitez
• Roberto Oste
• Eduardo dos Santos, EDU
• Walter pico
• Juan Carlos Almada
• Pedro Mauricio Muñoz
• Jorge Vasquez
• Eduardo Hurtado
• Alexi Lalas
• Joe-Max Moore
• Augusto Poroso
• Ariel Graziani
• Carlos Alberto Juárez
• Jose Manuel Rey
• Gabriel Miranda
• Martin Zapata
• Iván Kaviedes
• Marco Etcheverry
• Otilino Tenorio (+)
• Moises Candelario
• Walter Ayovi
• Carlos Hidalgo
• Wellington Sanchez
• Daniel Viteri
• Rorys Aragon
• Cristian Gomez
• Alejandro Kenig
• Carlos Quiñonez
• Jorge Rojas
• Juan Triviño
• Cristian Noboa
• Hamilton Ricard
• Marcelo Elizaga
• Marcos Mondaini
• Luis Miguel Escalada
• Luis Guillermo Rivera

[edit] Notorious Managers

[edit] Current Squad

As of February 14, 2007

No. Position Player 1 GK Marcelo Elizaga 2 DF Eduardo Morante 3 DF Marco Quiñónez 4 DF Facundo Corozo 5 MF José Luis Quiñónez 6 DF Carlos Quiñónez 7 FW Jorge Ladines 9 FW Silvano Estacio 10 MF Sebastián Hernández 11 FW Israel Rodríguez 12 GK Robert Angulo 13 DF Javier Mercado

No. Position Player 14 FW Maximiliano Asís 15 MF Luis Rivera 16 MF Michael Arroyo 17 MF Jaime Caicedo 18 MF Wimper Guerrero 19 FW Jaime Ayoví 20 MF Lucas Viatri 21 FW Jeronimo Morales Neumann 22 GK Xavier Guamán 23 DF Geovanny Caicedo 24 MF Oswaldo Minda 25 DF Luis Zambrano

[edit] The Cradle of Ecuadorian Football

Emelec is widely known in Ecuador for having the best youth department of the country. Every year Emelec promotes new exiting new talents to their first team and their youth teams have dominated Ecuadorian football for many years in their respective age range. An example of how important Emelec´s youth department is for Ecuadorian football is the fact that 7 out of 9 teams of Ecuadorian first division in 2007 (excluding Emelec, Ecuadorian firts division has 10 teams) have at least one player that was either born in Emelec or that gained fame and recognition playing for the "Electricos".

SERIE A

Deportivo Azogues:

* Franklin Corozo (DF)
* Moises Cuero (FW)

Depotivo Cuenca:

* Carlos Moran (GK)
* GianCarlo Ramos (MF)

Deportivo Quito:

* Daniel Viteri (GK)
* Manuel Mendoza (DF)
* Juan Triviño (DF)

El Nacional:

* Pavel Caicedo (DF)
* Walter Ayovi (MF)
* Carlos Hidalgo(MF)
* Angel Fernandez(FW)
* Jaime Ivan Kaviedes (FW)

Liga de Quito:

* Moises Candelario (MF)
* Luis Miguel Escalada (FW)

Macara:

* Jacinto Espinoza (GK)

Imbabura:

* Segundo Mercado (DF)

SERIE B

Aucas:

* Cristian Valencia (FW)

Delfin:

* Luis Moreira (MF)

Manta FC:

* Leyton Arroyo (DF)

[edit] 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 (Cavanna's place) was located in a neighborhood with the same name. In the beginning, the club consisted of around 15 people that went to the team's every match, but soon the group gained recognition and grew in number. The group usually gathers behind the goals and it has several factions in different cities of Ecuador.

In Emelec's stadium, George Capwell, Boca del Pozo always gathers behind the goal that faces Quito Avenue. In 2005 the club even had to enlarge that part of the stadium because the Boca del Pozo was so big that they did not fit on the old stadium's tribune.

[edit] The Fans - Legion Azul (blue legion)

The group know as Legion Azul was founded in the year 2001 before we got the championship. It started with 10 to 15 members. 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.

[edit] 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.

• It is common knowledge that in the club's early days the only way to become a member was to fight at least once on a boxing ring against one of the club's best boxers.

• After years of sharing Titles with the another Team of Guayaquil, Barcelona SC in the amateur and regional tournaments, in 1957 Emelec won the first professional Ecuadorian football Championship ever.

• Emelec was the first team in Ecuador to have its own stadium.

• Emelec was the first team making a millionare hiring $1´650.000 for the Argentina player from Boca Juniors Walter Pico, this transaction has not been passed already, not even by this year's most announced transaction when Luis Miguel Escalada's (Emelec's last year top scorer) soccer rights were bought by Liga de Quito in $1,000.000.

• 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", they won 4 - 2 against C.D. Millonarios from Colombia. 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.

• In the year 1988 when Barcelona opened their new stadium, Isidro Romero Carbo, they made a small tournament. They invited the recent world champion Peñarol from Uruguay, F.C. Barcelona from Spain and Emelec. The tournament was a small playoff, losers out. Emelec played their first game against Peñarol. Emelec won and advanced to the final. Then Barcelona played the other match becoming the other finalist from Ecuador in the tournament. The final match was a “Clasico del Astillero” (the official name of this derby) and Emelec won the game 1 - 0 with a goal of Ruben Beninca and won the championship, being the first team to defeat Barcelona in their own new stadium and the first team that becomes champion in that stadium.

• Emelec golden years were in the decades of the 60’s when they won the Ecuadorian League in the years 1961, 1965 and 1972 and they were in second place in the years 1962, 1966, 1967 and 1970.

• 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 the Emelec fan is commonly referred to as the most faithful fan in the country.

• Another fact from Emelec is that they won two times the Championship twice in a row. In the years 1993 - 1994 and in the years 2001-2002.

• Emelec's historical top scorer is Carlos Alberto Juarez with more than 110 goals scored in five years. His runner up is Jesus Cardenas.

[edit] Curiosities and Trivia

• On 1993 left wing back Luis Enrique Capurro Bautista was named best in his position in South America by the prestigious uruguayan newspaper, Diario El Pais. Capurro played his best years defending the Emelec shirt, he also played for Cerro Porteno, and Barcelona S.C.. Capurro is the best left wing back in Ecuador's history and along side center back Ivan Hurtado, the best defender Emelec has ever had.

• On 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 sold to Perugia for USD 5.5M. and after that he played in several teams all over the world including Celta de Vigo, Valladolid, Puebla, Porto, 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. With 28 years of age, Kaviedes is considered an underachiever, and many believe his career is over, although there are unwelcomed rumors that he might use the blue and grey uniform once again for the 2007 season.

• The late forward Otilino Tenorio became famous with Emelec not only because of his goals that helped the club win the 2001 Ecuadorian Championship and reach the Copa Merconorte final, but also because every time he scored a goal, Otilino took out a blue Spiderman mask from his pants and wore it to celebrate with the fans. Otilino died on 2005 in a tragic traffic accident, and since many forwards all over the world adopted the Spiderman celebration in his honor. His last game was against Emelec, his beloved team, were during the game a penalty kick was sanctioned against Emelec and in favor of El Nacional, where he was playing. He asked to kick it and before the referee blew his whistle he looked up to the sky. He missed the shot and the whole stadium (Emelec was local) sang his name. During the 2006 World Cup, Jaime Ivan Kaviedes scored the third goal in Ecuador's victory over Costa Rica and to celebrate it he used a yellow Spiderman mask honoring once again the great Otilino Tenorio.

• Emelec is known for always promoting new exiting young players and during the 1998 season, Emelec used an all new team consisting in a large base of young players 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 1999 Copa Libertadores and reached the Ecuadorian final against Liga de Quito. The next year archrivals Barcelona attempted to do the same, and baptized their own group of young players as the “Mutants” . The group was a fiasco and Barcelona was barely able to stay in Ecuadorian first league that year.

• The final match day of 2002 season will always be remembered as a miracle day for Emelec fans. 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. Barcelona had to visit Liga de Quito at their stadium and needed a victory to become the champions, while the least optioned team was Emelec that played in their stadium against Aucas and needed to win and El Nacional and Barcelona to lose. 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 Emelec 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. Minutes later, El Nacional and Emelec finished their game, 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 come from Quito to Guayaquil.

• Two times consecutive best goalkeeper in the Ecuadorian championship, Marcelo Elizaga, has shown so much of his skills that Ecuador's coach, Colombian 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 World Cup Qualifiers. Ecuadorian law allows foreigners to become Ecuadorian citizens once they have stayed at least 3 years in the country. Elizaga has played in Ecuador only two seasons so far, however he openly declared his love to the country and his intention to become an Ecuadorian, he also has an Ecuadorian son, Ignacio Elizaga (born in Guayaquil, November 16, 2005) and he is known as a respected member of the community. For all of these reasons, Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa granted him with the Ecuadorian citizenship on February 7, 2007.

• Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa is a devoted Emelec fan, and has openly promised to help the club with their current financial situation, and also push forward several projects regarding Emelec's stadium and training ground.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Other Rivals

• Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito

• Club Deportivo El Nacional

[edit] Other Sports

Emelec is not only one of the most important football clubs in Ecuador, but it is by far 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 disciplines. 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 by Johnny Constante

[edit] External links

• Emelec, with rich information in Spanish
• Club Sport Emelec, with rich information in Spanish
• Todo sobre el futbol ecuatoriano Todo sobre el futbol ecuatoriano
• Futbol Ecuatoriano, about Ecuadorian soccer
• Emelec Derby, with information in English

Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol 2007
Sporting Club Imbabura | Barcelona S.C. | Deportivo Cuenca | Deportivo Quito | Emelec | Deportivo Azogues | Liga de Quito (L.D.U.) | Macará | Nacional | Olmedo edit