| Full name | Gruppo Sportivo Asmara FC |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1936 |
| Ground | Cicero Stadium Asmara, Eritrea |
| Capacity | 6,000 |
| Chairman | Francesco Cicero (1936-1945) |
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Asmara Calcio was the Italian Eritrea football team of Asmara (capital of Eritrea), created during colonial times.
The Asmara Calcio (also called "Gruppo Sportivo Asmara" or GS Asmara) was created in the late 1930s, by Italian entrepreneur Cicero (who also made the Cicero Stadium) as the representative football team of the Italian colonists in Asmara. [1]
The football in Eritrea was started during colonial times, when the Italians ruled the country. The first championship (amateur) was in 1936: [2] the most important teams were "Gruppo Sportivo Cicero" (later Asmara Calcio), "Gruppo Rionale Neghelli", "GS Zuco", "GS Melotti", "GS Ferrovieri", "GS Marina' and the "GS Decamerè".
The team won the first Eritrean championship, done in 1940, but was not officially finished, because of the beginning of WW2. In the late 1940s the "GS Asmara" [3] won the Eritrean Championship in 1945-1947-1949.
"GS Asmara", the mainly Italian players only team, survived until early sixties. In early sixties or sometime before, the Eritrean Football Federation was reorganized. In the reorganization process, at least three teams were dissolved and ceased to exist (GS Stella Eritrea, GS Barattolo, may be Qestedemana from police/customs); one of them was, the mostly Italian team GS Asmara. Some of the remaining teams were renamed. GS Seraie became GS Mendefera, GS Hamasien became GS Asmara, and GS Akeleguzai became GS Amabasoira.
Asmara, or Asmera, is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region. It sits at an elevation of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft), making it the sixth highest capital in the world by altitude and the second highest capital in Africa. The city is located at the tip of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Eritrean Highlands and the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Ethiopia. In 2017, the city was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved modernist architecture. The site of Asmera was first settled in 800 BC with a population ranging from 100 to 1,000. The city was then founded in the 12th century AD after four separate villages unified to live together peacefully after long periods of conflict. Under Italian rule the city of Asmara was made capital of Eritrea in the last years of the 19th century.
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