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Full Name:
Clube Desportivo Nacional
Nickname: Os Alvinegros (The White-and-Black)
Founded:
December 8, 1910
Location:
Funchal (Madeira)
Stadium:  
Estádio da Madeira (5,000)
Inauguration: 2000
Honors:  

 

1 - Campeonato nacional da 2ª Divisão B
1999/00
Roster:  

Goalkeepers
1 Diego Benaglio
12 Rafael Bracalli
24 Belman

Defenders
2 Patacas
3 Fernando Cardozo
4 Ávalos
5 Alonso
33 Felipe Lopes
40 Halliche
44 Ricardo Fernandes
49 Igor Pita
55 Bruno Basto

Midfielders
6 Cléber Oliveira
8 Bruno Amaro
10 Juliano Spadacio
16 Fábio Coentrão
22 José Vítor
23 Juninho
26 Edson Sitta
27 Gonçalo
28 João Coimbra
66 Pedro Pita

Forwards
7 Fellype Gabriel
9 Rodrigo Silva
11 Edu Sales
17 Adriano
18 Cássio
20 Fabiano Oliveira
21 Ricardo Pateiro
31 Lipatin
88 Reinaldo
99 Geufer

Personnel:  

President
Rui Antonio Macedo Alves

Coach
José Castro

Contact:  

Address
Rua do Esmeraldo, n.º 46
9060 Funchal

Telephone
+351 291 227324

Fax
+351 291 225590

Website:
http://www.nacional-da-madeira.com/
 
Additional Information

Clube Desportivo Nacional, founded in 1910, is a Portuguese football club, that plays in Funchal, Madeira Islands. It is commonly known as Nacional da Madeira. Nacional shares a rivalry with fellow Madeira club C.S. Marítimo.

History
The Madeira derby is often associated with the clubs' followers' differing culture and way of life. The fans of Nacional, being of a higher socio-economic status than those of Marítimo, were mainly lobbyists for the commercial expansion of Madeira, but the working class Marítimo followers were keen to preserve Madeira. This only exacerbated the ill-feeling between the clubs. The rivalry heightened when Portuguese starlet Cristiano Ronaldo declined an offer from Marítimo in favour of CD Nacional, where his godfather was a member of the board.

Politics plays a part in the Madeira and Azores derby because Madeira's controversial regional governor Alberto João Jardim is a self-confessed C.S. Marítimo supporter. He doesn't have a good relationship with Carlos César, the regional governor of the Azores and avowed C.D. Santa Clara fan.

The club are also undergoing a project for a new stadium with a new 40,000 all-seated stadium in the Praia Formosa district in Funchal that will be shared with their arch-rivals C.S. Marítimo. It should be completed in time for the 2008-09 season.

 

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