Academia Quintana
Academia Quintana F.C. are an Association Football club from San Juan, Puerto Rico. They were founded in 1969, making them one of the oldest clubs still in existence in Puerto Rico. They are one of the founding members of the Puerto Rico Soccer League, the island's first nationwide league. The reserve team plays in the Liga Nacional. The club plays their home games at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium, sharing the facility with Atléticos de San Juan. The team currently plays in the Liga Puerto Rico. History The team was founded in 1969, playing in a baseball field. The team was named after a public housing project, also known as ''Residencial César Cordero'', since it served to develop several players that lived there. The team has won 15 national titles during its four decades of existence making it the most successful club in Puerto Rico. 2008 season Before the beginning of the season the team participated in exhibition games against college teams. Academia Quintana played their de ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hiram Bithorn Stadium
Hiram Bithorn Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Hiram Bithorn) is a baseball park in San Juan, Puerto Rico, built in 1962 and designed by Puerto Rican architect Pedro Miranda. It is operated by the municipal government of the city of San Juan. Its name honors the first Puerto Rican to play in the major leagues, Hiram Bithorn, who first played with the Chicago Cubs in 1942. Built in 1962, under the mayoral administration of Felisa Rincón de Gautier, replacing Estadio Sixto Escobar, the stadium is home to the Santurce Crabbers, of the Puerto Rico Baseball League. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Dimensions The stadium has approximately 18,000 seats. The stadium is 325 feet (99 m) down the left-field line, 325 feet (99 m) down the right-field line and 404 feet (123 m) to center field. The fences are 8 feet (2.5 m) high. When the Expos played home games at Hiram Bithorn, the field dimensions were set to match Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Hi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Caguas Huracán
Caguas (, ) is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey. Caguas was founded in 1775. The municipality had a population of 127,244 at the 2020 census. Caguas is located from San Juan. It is located in the ''Valle de Caguas'' or Caguas Valley (also known as ''Valle del Turabo'' or the Turabo Valley), at the eastern ranges of the Central Mountain Range. It is known as ''La Ciudad Criolla'' ( Criollo City), ''Valle del Turabo'' (the Turabo Valley) and ''La Cuna de los Trovadores'' (The Cradle of the ''Trovadores''). Its name originates from the Taíno cacique Caguax, who was a regional chief. Caguas is a principal city of both the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area and the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. History The area of the Valley of Caguas was first settled by the Sa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Football Clubs In Puerto Rico
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in North America and Australia); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby union and rugby league; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century. The expansion and cultural influence of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Association Football Clubs Established In 1969
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Liga Metropolitana Futbol De Puerto Rico
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Campeonato Nacional De Fútbol De Puerto Rico
Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Puerto Rico is an amateur football league in Puerto Rico. As of 2008 it has been replaced as the highest level football league in the country by the Puerto Rico Soccer League. It was created in 2005 by the Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol to unify the domestic football scene (but only managed to get the attention of Liga Mayor teams, whilst most teams chose to stay in La Liga Premier, another amateur league). It does not include the Puerto Rico Islanders, who for historical reasons played in the United Soccer Leagues, the second division in the United States of America and Canada. 2005 season Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Puerto Rico, became the first organised tournament to unify the domestic football scene established by the Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol. 2 groups of 8 teams participated: Tables Third-place match Final Location: Estadio Juan Ramón Loubriel, Bayamón Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Puerto Rico - 20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liga Mayor De Fútbol Nacional
Liga Mayor de Fútbol Nacional, known more commonly as just Liga Mayor was one of the two amateur football leagues in Puerto Rico played during the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2005 the league became defunct as the Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol The Puerto Rican Football Federation ( es, Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol) is the governing body of association football in Puerto Rico. It was founded in 1940 and became affiliated to FIFA in 1960, one of the last to do so in the Wester ... unified the domestic football scene in the country to form the Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol. Champions * 1997 - Leones * 1998 - Islanders * 1999 - Islanders * 2000 - Vaqueros * 2001 - Islanders * 2002 - Vaqueros * 2003 - Sporting * 2004 - Sporting * 2005 - Real Quintana External links Puerto Rico - List of Champions RSSSF.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Liga Mayor de Futbol Nacional Defunct football leagues in Puerto Rico ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Atlético De San Juan
Atlético, Spanish for ''athletics'', or Athletico in English, may refer to: Sports Teams Athletico * Athletico SC (Lebanon), a Lebanese football academy *Athletic Bilbao, or Atletico Bilbao, Basque students athletic club (also forming Athletic Club Madrid, which later evolved into Atlético Madrid) *Athlético Marseille (formerly Groupe Sportif Consolat and sometimes referred to as Marseille Consolat), French amateur football club *Avendale Athletico, South African football club from Cape Town Atletico / Atlético *Atlético Albacete, Spanish football team based in Albacete, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha *Atletico Arezzo, or S.S. Arezzo, Italian association football club based in Arezzo, Tuscany *Atlético Arteixo, Spanish football team based in Arteixo, A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia *Atlético Astorga FC, Spanish football team based in Astorga in the autonomous community of Castile and León * Atlético Bahía, Mexican football club in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hiram Bithorn Stadium 2
Hiram may refer to: People * Hiram (name) Places * Hiram, Georgia ** Hiram High School, Hiram, Georgia * Hiram, Maine * Hiram, Missouri * Hiram, Ohio ** Hiram College, a private liberal arts college located in Hiram, Ohio *** Hiram Terriers, the school's sports teams * Hiram, Texas * Hiram, West Virginia * Hiram Township, Cass County, Minnesota Other uses * ''Hiram'' (TV series), a TV drama series in the Philippines * Hiram's Highway, a road in Hong Kong * Hiram House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States * Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7, a gothic revival building in Franklin, Tennessee; also the oldest masonic lodge in Tennessee * Operation Hiram, a three-day military operation in the Upper Galilee launched by the Israeli army at the end of October 1948 See also * * * Hyrum (other) Hyrum is the name of: People * Hyrum Rex Lee, Governor of American Samoa * Hyrum Smith, an early leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints reli ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joseph Marrero
Joseph Yamil "Jackie" Marrero García (born April 9, 1993) is a Puerto Rican footballer who plays for Academia Quintana San Juan as a midfielder. Career Marrero has played professional football for Conquistadores de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Islanders, Academia Quintana and Kultsu. He made his senior international debut for Puerto Rico in 2011, and has appeared in FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. International goals References 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from San Juan, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican footballers Puerto Rico international footballers Association football midfielders Puerto Rico Islanders players Academia Quintana players Kultsu FC players North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players Kakkonen players Puerto Rican expatriate footballers Puerto Rican expatriate sportspeople in Finland Expatriate footballers in Finland Puerto Rico FC players {{PuertoRico-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hector Ramos
In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors. He was ultimately killed in single combat by Achilles, who later dragged his dead body around the city of Troy behind his chariot. Etymology In Greek, is a derivative of the verb ἔχειν ''ékhein'', archaic form * grc, ἕχειν, hékhein, label=none ('to have' or 'to hold'), from Proto-Indo-European *'' seɡ́ʰ-'' ('to hold'). , or as found in Aeolic poetry, is also an epithet of Zeus in his capacity as 'he who holds verything together. Hector's name could thus be taken to mean 'holding fast'. Description Hector was described by the chronicler Malalas in his account of the ''Chronography'' as "dark-skinned, tall, very stoutly built, strong, good nose, wooly-haired, good beard, s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |