CD Maxaquene

CD Maxaquene
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Full nameClube de Desportos do Maxaquene
Nickname(s)Maxaca
FoundedMay 20th, 1920
GroundEstádio do Maxaquene
Maputo, Mozambique
Capacity15.000
ChairmanJosé Solomone Cossa
ManagerChiquinho Conde
LeagueMoçambola
201912th (relegation)
WebsiteClub website
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Clube de Desportos do Maxaquene, usually known simply as Maxaquene, is a sports club based in Maputo, Mozambique. The club is nicknamed Maxaca. Currently, besides football (soccer) there are two indoor sports, namely, basketball (CD Maxaquene Basketball) and handball. In such sports Maxaquene is the club with the most national titles after independence.[1] Maxaquene won its first post-independence title in football, the Taça de Moçambique, in 1978. Prior to Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975, CD Maxaquene were known as Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques or simply Sporting de Lourenço Marques (Lourenço Marques being the name for Maputo before independence), and was the branch number 6 of Lisbon-based Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP).[2] Under this name, both the legendary Eusébio and Hilário, played for the club.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Africa UPENN
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Eusébio: "O Sporting de Lourenço de Marques era um clube de elite, um clube da polícia, que não gostava das pessoas de cor"". Tribuna Expresso (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  4. ^ "Antigo "vice" do Sporting sugere destaque a Eusébio no museu do clube". CNN Portugal (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  5. ^ "Não esqueças o meu nome" [Don't forget my name] (in Portuguese). Sindicato dos Jogadores. Retrieved 14 August 2022.