Nicaragua (R)

[Garcia]

Primera División 2002-2003
Este 4 de agosto inicia XX Campeonato de Fubtol, Cmte.Ricardo Morales Aviles" con la participacion de 10 equipos.

[Garcia]

PRIMERA DIVISION
Estadisticas 2002-2003

Primera Fase
Jornada 01 Jornada 02 Jornada 03 Jornada 04
Jornada 05 Jornada 06 Jornada 07 Jornada 08
Jornada 09 Jornada 10 Jornada 11 Jornada 12
Jornada 13 Jornada 14 Jornada 15 Jornada 16
Jornada 17 Jornada 18

Segunda Fase - Hexagonal
Jornada 19 Jornada 20 Jornada 21 Jornada 22
Jornada 23 Jornada 24 Jornada 25 Jornada 26
Jornada 27 Jornada 28

Tercera Fase - Semifinal
SEMIFINAL

Cuarta Fase - Final
FINAL

[Garcia]

Primera Fase
LG CLUB JJ JG JE JP GA GP DIF Pts

1 Jalapa 4 3 1 0 8 4 4 10
2 Real Estelí 4 2 2 0 6 2 4 8
3 Parmalat 4 2 2 0 4 1 3 8
4 Diriangén 4 2 1 1 7 2 5 7
5 Walter Ferreti 4 2 0 2 5 5 0 6
6 San Marcos 4 2 0 2 4 4 0 6

7 Real Madríz 4 2 0 2 3 7 -4 6
8 Bluefields 4 1 1 2 4 5 -1 4
9 Masachapa 4 0 1 3 1 6 -5 1
10 Barrio Cuba 4 0 0 4 1 7 -6 0

Total 40 16 8 16 43 43

Primera Fase: 18 partidos
1er al 6to. avanzan a la Hexagonal

[Garcia]

Primera Fase
Nombre Club Goles Nacionalidad

Miguel Cruz Diriangen 2
Martin Molina Diriangen 2
Jose Rocha Parmalat 2

[Garcia]

Domingo 4 de Agosto del 2002

Jalapa 3-1 Barrio Cuba
Jalapa: Lster Ramos '2, Salvador Garcia '29 y Porfirio Pastrana
Barrio Cuba: Rolando Garcia '77

Walter Ferreti 1-0 Masachapa
Tyron Acevedo '89

San Marcos 2-0 Bluefields San Marcos
Alex Mejia '30 (hond) y Pedro Garcia '60

Real Estelí 1-0 Diriangén Real Esteli
Carlos Alonso '75

Real Madriz 0-2 Parmalat Parmalat
Wesley West y German Salinas

[Garcia]

Domingo 11 de Agosto del 2002

Barrio Cuba 0-1 Real Madriz
Real Madriz: Rommel Bonilla (hond) '33

Masachapa 1-1 Jalapa
Masachapa: Ivan Ramirez '25
Jalapa: Tomas Centeno '40

Bluefields 3-1 Walter Ferreti
Bluefields: Rudel Calero '75, Patrick Hooker '37 y Edwin Hodgson '52
Walter Ferreti: Wilber Sanchez '69

Diriangén 2-0 San Marcos
Diriangen: Sergio Gago '53 y Jose Maria Bermudez '82

Parmalat 1-1 Real Esteli
Parmalat: Jose Rocha '84
Real Esteli: Hamilton West '31

[BOSSABRAVA]

Hi garcia
Forgive me using English only.
I reserch leagues all over the world.
So I have several question about Liga Nicaragua.

1 Is Liga Nicaragua a full-time professional league
or semi-professional league?

2 Are there any full-time professional football clubs in Nicaragua?

3 How many spectators are there in a game of Liga Nicaragua?

4 Are there any foreign footballers in Liga Nicaragua?
If so,where are they from?
Do they play as full-time professionals or semi-professionals or amateur players?

5 which is more popular in Nicaragua,football or baseball?

I would be grateful if someone give me about these.

[efernandez9]

garcia, here are some great questions about the extensive research and field trip you took to learn about Nicaragua (in order to be an active Mod here)

bossabrava, I only have answers for questions 1 and 5

1/ the league is just like MLS - same thing
5/ Baseball rules in the largest centralamerican country


gacia is all yours.....U are the man in nica soccer!

[Garcia]

OK

[Garcia]

Domingo 18 de Agosto del 2002

Barrio Cuba 0-1 Parmalat
Parmalat: Jose Rocha '1

Masachapa 0-1 San Marcos
San Marcos: Alster Palacios '24

Bluefields 1-1 Real Esteli
Bluefields: Armando Reyes '24
Real Esteli: Víctor Webster '57

Diriangén 5-1 Real Madriz
Diriangen: Martin Molina '70 y '89, Miguel Cruz '17 y '74; y Jose Morales '5
Real Madriz: Alvaro Castro '72

Jalapa 2-1 Walter Ferreti
Jalapa: Jairo Soza (Hond) '73 y Edgard Rochez (hond) '75
Walter Ferreti: Milton bustos '15

[Garcia]

1 Is Liga Nicaragua a full-time professional league
or semi-professional league?

They have Three Divisions and a Female pro league, so it is pretty big and full-time.

Primera División 10 teams
Segunda División 10 teams
Tercera División 9 teams (believe it is for U 21)
Fútbol Femenino de Nicaragua Primera División 10 teams
and my favorite, Liga de Futbol Papyfutbol (for over 35 year old players) with 9 teams

Here is a sample from one of the biggest clubs:

Thank you for your interest in the Real Estelí Fútbol Club. (http://www.realesteli.com/index-en.html) We are the foremost football club in the First Division in the northern part of Nicaragua and the second oldest club in the country. Since 1961 we have been leading the sport of football in the Estelí province. Real Estelí FC is a First Division club formed mostly by youths from the Estelí area, as well as some from other regions of Nicaragua, loyal and brave representatives of Estelí.

We have competed for more than four decades at the highest sporting levels in Nicaragua as well as in the Central American area, with dedication, hard work, passion, and committed to all the brave "white and red" fans from Estelí that have allowed us to grow and keep a great team from the beginning of our history. Our club has notably influenced Nicaraguan football and has contributed good players and emotion inside the national teams.

Please come and learn about our team, our players, and the people that makes possible such a wonderful history. Thank you for your visit and we wait for you again!

If you wish to contact us, please write to ivnkg@ibw.com.ni.

Francisco Valenzuela Blandón
President of the Board
Real Estelí FC

2 Are there any full-time professional football clubs in Nicaragua?
Full-time.
See above.
3 How many spectators are there in a game of Liga Nicaragua?

Not sure, as I can't seem to find stadium details or attendance figures.

For an example, this is the newest stadium.

Name: Estadio Independencia
Built: 1999
Capacity: 7.900
Pitch size: 115 x 74 meters
Location: Estelí (Estelí)

Stadiums in
Nicaragua

A 3 Club City Stadium Capacity Built Seats

NIC NATIONAL STADIUM Managua Estadio Dennis Martinez 45.000 - -
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/middle_america/nicaragua/managua_martinez.jpg
(Notice the Baseball feel to the National stadium)

NIC Real Estelí Estelí Estadio Independencia 15.000 - -
NIC Diriangén FC Diriamba Estadio Cacique Diriangén 11.000 - -

NIC León León Héroes y Mártines 8.000 - -
NIC Granada Granada For de Cana 6.000 - -
NIC Masaya Masaya Roberto Clemente 6.000 - -
NIC San Marcos San Marcos Estadio Olimpico 5.000 - -
NIC HC Carazo Jinotepe Estadio Carazo 5.000 - -
NIC Chinandega Chinandega Germán Pomarez 5.000 - -
NIC Rivas Rivas Jamil Ríos Hugarte 5.000 - -
NIC Jinotega Jinotega Estadio Municipal 5.000 - -
NIC Estelí Estelí Noel Gamez 4.500 - -
NIC Matagalpa Matagalpa Chale Solís 4.500 - -
NIC HC Chontales Juigalpa Estadio Chontales 4.000 - -
NIC HC Atlantic Coast Bluefields Estrellas de la Costa 4.000 - -
NIC HC City Darío Darío Estadio Municipal 4.000 - -
NIC - Managua Estadio Thomas Crashaw 2.000 - -

NIC Deportivo Jalapa Jalapa Estadio Alejandro Ramos - - -
NIC - Somoto Estadio Santiago - -


4 Are there any foreign footballers in Liga Nicaragua?
If so,where are they from?
Do they play as full-time professionals or semi-professionals or amateur players?

Local talent, Honduras, El Salvador and from Costa Rica. Here some others to note:
Barú (Peru)
Francisco Pérez Baho (Spain)
Santiago Otero Díaz (Spain)
Jonas Matersson (Sweden)
Milciades Mines (Colombia)
Fernando Marques (Brazil)
Henry Barrientos (Chile)

All types of players from real pros to amateurs, depending on which division and if you are with a big club or even in the national team pool.

5 which is more popular in Nicaragua,football or baseball?

Corporación Deportivas Las Segovias S.A. runs the baseball team (which makes money) and the soccer team in Estelí (which was losing money). That tells you something, no?

Not sure, probably depends who you ask.
Heck, they even play international "american" football know in Central America, really, and basketball.

At the very least, try to email this guy:
Francisco Hernández Hidalgo
futboldenicaragua@yahoo.com :)

[BOSSABRAVA]

Hi there,
MUcho Gracias Garcia.e efernandez.
I appreciate Gracias reply my questions to such details.
I am very glad to get these information.
And I surprised to hear Female pro-league also exists in Nicaragua.
When did it start?

And May I ask you one more question?
Does Haiti have a full-time professional league?
If you know ,tell me something about it,please.

[efernandez9]

anytime


the place for nica futbol

[Crazy_Yank]

What is up with them? Is it not a very populous country? Do people there not play soccer? Losing by 17 goals to a Panamainian (sp?) club is a horrible result. Does anyone know anything about this country?

[costarica]

they dont care much about soccer, they love baseball, thats what they're good at. they're also good at boxing, but other than that, nope.

[The Creeper]

Originally posted by BOSSABRAVA
Hi there,
MUcho Gracias Garcia.e efernandez.
I appreciate Gracias reply my questions to such details.
I am very glad to get these information.
And I surprised to hear Female pro-league also exists in Nicaragua.
When did it start?

And May I ask you one more question?
Does Haiti have a full-time professional league?
If you know ,tell me something about it,please.


http://www.sakapfet.com/sports/SoccerLeague/soccer_league_Class_p_2002_D1.tpl

[italchacao]

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