Académica da Praia
| Full name | Associação Académica da Praia |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Micá, Briosa, Estudiantes |
| Founded | 15 December 1962 |
| Ground |
Estádio da Varzea Praia |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Chairman |
 Kiki |
| Manager |
Janito Carvalho |
| League | Santiago Island League (South) |
| 2015–16 | 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
Associação Académica da Praia is a football club that plays in the Premier division of the Santiago Island League (South) in Cape Verde. It is played along with Praia's three other famous teams in Estádio da Varzea, the club also practices at the stadium and over a kilometer east in Achada Grande Frente (or Leite). Its current president is Kiki and manager is Janito Carvalho who coached Sporting Praia in the previous season.
Académica Praia is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in the island of Santiago and the South Zone, having won about 11 official titles, 2 are national and the remaining 9 are regional titles. It won several championship titles before and after independence. The team never won any national championship titles since independence. It also had won five insular titles, three island cup title and a national cup title.
Its nicknames are "Mica", the short of Académica used in many of other Académica clubs around the world, "Briosa", which has recently become rarely used today and "Estudiantes" which means students (students of the academy), used in several other Académica clubs elsewhere.
Today's uniform has now added stripes and changed its home sock color to black.
Académica won the first upper level title in 1965 by defeating FC Derby from Mindelo 3–2 in extra time, they would win the only national title won before independence. Later, the team won the 1968 Santiago regional title at the time included other islands after beating Os Garridos a gigantic 21–0, 9 of which were scored by Luís Bastos. They challenged against Mindelense and lost 0–1 in the final round.
Académica Praia won their first regional cup title in 1986. Académica celebrated their 25th anniversary in 1987.
Académica celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012.
Académica had 16 goals in the 2014/15 regional season, with the extended 2015/16 season, their goal total doubled to 32, the club finished fourth with 43 points, 13 wins and 4 draws. Júlio Cesar Tomar was president and Zé Piguita was the coach up to 2016.
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