| G.D. Juventude de Viana | |||
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| Full name | G.D. Juventude de Viana | ||
| Short name | Juventude de Viana | ||
| Arena | Pavilhão da Cidadela, Luanda | ||
| Capacity | 1,500 | ||
| League | 3×Angola League 6×Angola Cup 2×Angola Super Cup 5×The President's Cup 1×African Champions League | ||
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Grupo Desportivo Juventude de Viana, formerly Enama de Viana, is an Angolan sports club based in the municipality of Viana, Luanda. The club has a men's roller hockey team competing at the local level, at the Luanda Provincial Roller Hockey Championship and at the Angolan Roller Hockey Championship. Additionally, the team has been a regular contestant at the African Roller Hockey Clubs Championship.
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a west-coast country of south-central Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa, bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and largest city of Angola is Luanda.
Viana is a town and one of the seven municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province. Viana lies 15 to 30 kilometers east as a suburb of the capital Luanda and is home to 68.000 inhabitants including about 6,000 long-term refugees, primarily from Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Viana is about a 90-minute drive from downtown Luanda.
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In the 2006 world roller hockey club championship held in Luanda, Angola, the club ranked 10th, among 12 teams [1] whereas in 2008, in Reus, Spain, the club ranked 15th, among 16 teams. [2]
The Rink hockey World Club Championship is a worldwide competition with the best rink hockey teams. This competition was held for the first time in 2006, in Luanda, Angola.
Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city in Angola, and the country's most populous and important city, primary port and major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative centre. It is also the capital city of Luanda Province and the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world.
The 2008 Rink hockey World Club Championship was the of the Rink hockey World Club Championship and took place in Reus, Spain from September 22 to 28, 2008.
Juventude de Viana won the second edition of the African Roller Hockey Club Championship held in 2008 in Luanda, Angola whereas in the following edition, in 2010, in Pretoria, South Africa, it ranked second.
The Roller Hockey African Club Championship is the biggest Roller hockey Clubs Championship in Africa.
The III African Roller Hockey Club Championship was the 3rd edition of the African Roller Hockey Club Championship organized by FARS. It was held in July 2010 in Pretoria, South Africa.
Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng province in South Africa. It straddles the Apies River and has spread eastwards into the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the administrative branch of government, and of foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria has a reputation for being an academic city with three universities, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Human Sciences Research Council. The city also hosts the National Research Foundation and the South African Bureau of Standards making the city a hub for research. Pretoria is the central part of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality which was formed by the amalgamation of several former local authorities including Centurion and Soshanguve. There have been proposals to change the name of Pretoria itself to Tshwane, and the proposed name change has caused some public controversy.
