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GDRC Pretória

GDRC Pretória
Pretória do Espargos
Full name Grupo Desportivo Recreativo e Cultural Pretória
Founded September 19, 1991
Ground Estádio Marcelo Leitão
Espargos, Sal, Cape Verde
Ground Capacity 8,000
League Sal Second Division
Website Club website
GDRC Pretória
Founded September 19, 1991
Arena Polidesportivo do Sal
President Cape Verde Victor Cardoso
Head coach Cape Verde Antonio & Emanuel Almeida
Website http://www.grupopretoria.com/

Grupo Desportivo Recreativo e Cultural Pretória (short forms: GDRC Pretória and GDRCP) is a sports club based in the neighborhood of Pretória in the east of Espargos on the island of Sal, Cape Verde and participates in the Sal Basketball Championships. Sporting clubs include football (soccer), basketball and football. Pretória's football club is unregistered and does not form one of the twelve registered clubs on the island.

Its logo color are red and black.

Its uniform has nearly the same colors to the football (soccer) club.

The sports club was founded on September 19, 1991 and its creation was written on paper on a sporting, social, recreative and cultural area on the island of Sal. GDRC Pretória celebrated its 10th year of foundation in 2001 and 25th year of foundation in 2016.

In 2014, when six new football clubs participated in the Sal Island League, Pretória was not one of them and remained to be unregistered until late 2016, Pretória became the thirteenth club in Sal to participate. In football, the club participated in the regional Second Division and played their first match at the Second Round on March 31, 2017 and lost to Nova Geração 2-0 which is the club's only loss, they were first place in the division, a few weeks later, the club became second, a position that would finish in the division behind ASGUI and failing to qualify into the Premier Division.

Estádio Marcelo Leitão is a multi-use stadium in Espargos, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000. The stadium has seat rows in the east side and is east-southeast of the city center and Monte Curral. The stadium is home to the two best football clubs on the island, the other being Académica do Sal, other clubs based in Espargos includes Juventude which is based in Morro Curral and the stadium is being located inside the neighborhood. Other clubs based in Espargos but a neighborhood includes the recently added clubs of Gaviões and Chã de Matias . Clubs playing the stadium but based on other parts of the island include Santa Maria, SC Verdun Pedra de Lume, Palmeira de Santa Maria and ASGUI, Florença.


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