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| Other names | Capital Derby (Derby do Capital) Praia Derby (Derby da Praia) Derby Eterno da Praia (Eternal Derby of Praia) |
|---|---|
| Locale | Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde |
| Teams | Sporting Praia, Travadores |
| Latest meeting | Sporting 2–1 Travadores, March 31, 2018 |
The football rivalry between Sporting and Travadores is considered the hugest rivalry in both Cape Verde and the island of Santiago and the city Praia. One of the largest rivalries in the nation and the region after the Mindelo derby (or São Vicente derby) featuring Mindelense and Derby which is also the longest rivalry. It forms one of the rivalry being called the Capital Derby (Derby do Capital) or the Praia Derby (Derby da Praia).
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Sporting Clube da Praia, short form: Sporting Praia is a professional football club that plays in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde. It is based in the capital city of Praia in the island of Santiago, one of the unrelegated clubs in the south of the island along with three of the city's four historically mightiest clubs including Académica, Boavista and CD Travadores. Along with Académcia, Boavista, Desportivo, Travadores and Vitória, it is one of several teams that share the same ground, Estádio da Várzea, which has a capacity of 8,000. Sporting has won six championships since independence and a few before independence. The first title was won in the summer of 1962 before independence. Sporting recently won the 2017 national title. Its current president is Carlos Daniel Caetano and its manager is Lito, who once played for Portuguese clubs as footballer.
Clube Desportivo Travadores is a football club in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde and are one of the unrelegated clubs of the Premier Division. It is based in the capital city of Praia, on the island of Santiago, and plays in a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. It is affiliated with S.L. Benfica and was the first Benfica affiliate in Cape Verde and the western part of West Africa. Its nicknames are indios and águias
