Boavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste

Boavista FC
Full name Boavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste
Nickname(s) youth from where the sun rises
Founded 1986 (1986)
as Kumpulan Anak Remaja Lorosae[1]
2018 (2018)
as Boavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste[2]
Ground Municipal Stadium, Dili
Capacity 5,000
Owner Pedro Carrascalão
Chairman Pedro Carrascalão
Manager Joao Pedro Dos S. S. Da C. Ribeiro
League Liga Futebol Amadora
2017 2nd

Boavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste or Boavista FC is a football club of East Timor based in Dili.[3] The team plays in the Liga Futebol Amadora. The team was formerly known as Carsae Futebol Clube until 2017.[2]

History

Originally the club formed in 1986 when Pedro Carrascalão was a high school student during the period when East Timor was still under Indonesian occupation.[4] But he closed it just after the incident at Santa Cruz, which refer to as the 12 November massacre. Originally the name of the club was based on a cultural expression, Kumpulan Anak Remaja Lorosae, which in Indonesian means the youth from where the sun rises. But he had trouble when he used that name as some of players were active in the clandestine movement and were being chased by Indonesian intelligence forces, so he decided to simplify things and base the new name off an abbreviation of my surname. His father was working as a governor at the time and it was the only way for him to protect his friends and keep the Indonesian military off.

It would be almost two-and-a-half decades before the chance arose for Carrascalao to revive the club and, despite some reservations with how football was being run in the country, he decided it was the right time to try to give young Timorese footballers a stage on which to display their talents. He decided to open the club again in 2015 when there was a clear sign that there was going to be a national league in place for the very first time. In less than four months the club was reassembled, staff was hired and players were recruited to participate in the top flight of the new government-funded Liga Futebol Amadora or LFA the first official league in the nation’s history. The club's goal for the next three years is to become the biggest club in East Timor just as we were when the club was first founded from 1986 to 1991; then we started with football, then volleyball, then basketball for both men and women and we were pretty much number one year after year.

The maiden season of the LFA began in late February with eight teams scheduled to play each other in a home and away format, all matches held at the centralised Dili Municipal Stadium. Carsae made a winning start by defeating D.I.T 1-0. With another division below the top flight there will also be a cup competition, aptly named the 12th November Cup, and then a Super Taça which will pit both the league and cup champions against each other. The hope is this can be a new dawn for the sport, which is easily the most popular throughout the nation.

Squad

As of 28 June 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 East Timor GK Diamantino Leong
2 East Timor GK Celestino Baptista Pinto
3 East Timor GK Mariano da Assuncao Martins
4 East Timor DF Nelson Sarmento Viegas
5 East Timor DF Contantino Guterres
7 East Timor DF Joao Coreia Pereira
8 East Timor MF Nataniel de Jesus Reis (Captain)
9 East Timor FW Edit Romanos C Savio
10 East Timor FW Henrique W. da C. Martins
11 East Timor MF Galucho M.G. de Carvalho
12 East Timor MF Gelvanio A. Da C. M. Alberto
No. Position Player
13 East Timor FW Januario da C.M.C de Jesus
14 East Timor MF Joao Ximenes Pinto
15 East Timor DF Fernando de J. Soares Freitas
16 East Timor MF Miguel da Silva Araujo
17 East Timor DF Jose Guterres Silva
18 East Timor MF José Vide
19 East Timor DF Feliz d. Santos d.C. Gama
20 East Timor DF Theodoro Soares Bau
21 East Timor MF Nidio Octavio da Dores Neto
22 East Timor MF Juvito Correia da Silva
24 Indonesia FW Yulius Mau Loko
99 East Timor FW Emilio Ribeiro Neves da Silva

Competition records

Liga Futebol Amadora

Taça 12 de Novembro

Former players

Former coaches

  • Hugo da Silva

References

  1. ↑ Untold Stories, Southeast Asian Clubs: Carsae FC, Timor Leste published by fourfourtwo.com on 7 June 2016
  2. 1 2 "CARSAE FC MUDA NARAN BA BOAVISTA FUTEBOL CLUBE TIMOR LESTE". 29 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Profile on NFT
  4. ↑ Untold Stories, Southeast Asian Clubs: Carsae FC, Timor Leste at fourfourtwo.com by Scott McIntyre on 7 June 2016.
  5. ↑ 2016 Liga Futebol Amadora Primeira Divisaun
  6. ↑ 2016 Taça 12 de Novembro
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