ANGOLA WORLD CUP TEAM 2006

 

HOME | BIOLOGY | FILMS | GEOGRAPHY | HISTORY | INDEX | MUSIC | SOLAR BOATS | SPORT | SPONSORS 

 

 

 

 

The Angola national football team, nicknamed Palancas Negras, ("Black Impalas") is the national team of Angola and is controlled by the Federação Angolana de Futebol. On October 8, 2005, Angola qualified for the World Cup for the first time ever.

 

Luis Oliveira Goncalves took over as coach of the Angola national football team in 2003, after successful appearances with the Angola Under-20 national football team. The coach is the nation's favourite and the team managed to finish in first place of Group 4 Football World Cup 2006 (qualification), ahead of traditional African football powers like the Nigeria national football team and the Zimbabwe national football team. Group 4 was considered one of the toughest during the Qualifiers.

 

Captain Fabrice Akwa scored some crucial goals, including the winners against Rwanda in the last game, and in the game against the Nigeria national football team. Akwa is the fans' favourite having scored 30 goals in 67 international appearances. "This is the first time we are in the finals and we want to show off our football. We also want to show there is more to Angola than just war and oil," Akwa said.

 

Angola's best known player is the striker Pedro Mantorras, who plays for the Portuguese team Benfica.

 

 

Shirt badge/Association crest

Nickname

Palancas Negras

Association

Federação Angolana
de Futebol

Coach

Luis Oliveira Goncalves

Most caps

Fabrice "Akwa" Maieco (68)

Top scorer

Fabrice "Akwa" Maieco (30)

Team colours

Team colours

Team colours

Team colours

Team colours

Home colours

Team colours

Team colours

Team colours

Team colours

Team colours

Away colours

First international
Angola 1 - 0 Cuba
(Angola; 1 June 1977)

Largest win
Angola 7 - 1 Swaziland
(Luanda, Angola; 23 April 2000)

Worst defeat
Portugal 6 - 0 Angola
(Lisbon, Portugal; 23 March 1989)

World Cup

Appearances

1 (First in 2006)

Best result

-

African Nations Cup

Appearances

3 (First in 1996)

Best result

Round 1, all

 

 

Key Players

 

  • Pedro Mantorras - SL Benfica

  • Rui Manuel Marques - Leeds United

  • Nando Rafael - Borussia Monchengladbach

  • Marco Airosa - FC Barreirense

  • Kali - FC Barreirense

  • Fabrice Akwa - Al Wakra

  • Sergio Lomba - FC Penafiel

 

 

World Cup record

  • 1930 to 1982 - Did not enter

  • 1986 to 2002 - Did not qualify

  • 2006 - Qualified

 

 

African Nations Cup record

 

  • 1957 to 1980 - Did not enter

  • 1982 - Did not qualify

  • 1984 - Did not qualify

  • 1986 - Did not enter

  • 1988 to 1992 - Did not qualify

  • 1994 - Did not enter

  • 1996 - Round 1

  • 1998 - Round 1

  • 2000 to 2004 - Did not qualify

  • 2006 - Round 1

 

 

2006 World Cup Squad

 

Head coach: Luis Oliveira Goncalves


No.

Pos.

Player

DoB/Age

Caps

Club

1

GK

Joao Ricardo

7 January 1970

24

 free agent

2

DF

Marcos Airosa

6 August 1984

1

 FC Barreirense

3

DF

Jamba

10 July 1977

33

 AS Aviacao

4

DF

Lebo Lebo

29 May 1977

15

 Petro Atletico

5

DF

Kali

11 October 1978

19

 FC Barreirense

6

MF

Miloy

27 May 1981

10

 InterClube

7

MF

Figueiredo

28 November 1972

20

 Varzim

8

MF

Andre

14 May 1978

31

 Kuwait SC

9

FW

Mantorras

18 March 1982

9

 Benfica

10

FW

Akwa

30 May 1977

75

 free agent

11

MF

Mateus

7 March 1983

2

 Gil Vicente

12

GK

Lama

1 February 1981

9

 Petro Atletico

13

MF

Edson

2 March 1980

5

 Pacos Ferreira

14

MF

Mendonca

9 October 1982

32

 Varzim

15

DF

Rui Marques

3 September 1977

1

 Hull City

16

FW

Flavio

30 December 1979

45

 Al Ahli

17

MF

Ze Kalanga

12 October 1983

21

 Petro Atletico

18

FW

Love

14 March 1979

34

 AS Aviacao

19

FW

Andre Titi Buengo

11 February 1980

1

 Clermont Foot

20

DF

Loco

25 December 1984

9

 Primeiro Agosta

21

DF

Luis Delgado

1 November 1979

15

 Petro Atletico

22

GK

Mario

1 June 1985

0

 InterClube

23

DF

Marco Abreu

8 December 1974

 

 

 

LINKS:

 

 

 

WORLD CUP TEAMS 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOP UK FOOTBALL CLUBS

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

HASTINGS DIRECT.COM

 

 

The well known designer of exotic vehicles such as the Borzoi, Bluebird Electric and Solar Navigator, knows when he's on to a good thing.  Nelson previously insured his vehicles with the Royal for about 10 years then General Accident for another 10 years.  Which just shows we tend to be loyal to our insurers - but are they loyal in return? 

 

 

 

Nelson Kruschandl - "Best value and service."

 

 

These days there is a good choice of insurers each competing to save you money, so why not shop around.  When about 3 years ago Nelson's policy went up dramatically by about 30% he decided to check out the market.  He obtained quotations from most of the firms advertising savings such as Churchill and Direct Line, but was pleasantly surprised to find his local company could beat the best quote he'd obtained by quite a bit and offer a better policy.  Sold.  Nelson says:  "Why don't you give Hastings Direct a try online."  Move up to a better service and help keep this website active.  For every policy sold through us, Hastings Direct will contribute to our running costs - with no extra cost to you.  Please help us if you can. Applies in the UK only.

 

 

Hastings Direct image     Hastings Direct image      Hastings Direct image

 

 

UK Car, Van and Motorcycle insurance

 

 

 


 

 

 

LINKS and REFERENCES

 

 

  1. During the World Cup, many of the stadiums will be officially known by different names, as FIFA prohibits sponsorship of stadium names unless the stadium sponsors are also official FIFA sponsors. For example, Allianz Arena will be known during the competition as "FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich" (or in German: "FIFA WM-Stadion München"). These new names are reflected in the table. Of the twelve hosting stadia, all but one (Leipzig) are in the former West Germany.

  2. Draw seedings

  3. http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/eu/fifa/regen.pdf FIFA official tournament rules (PDF)

  4. Guardian article on 'Group of Death'

  5. FOX Sports article on 'Group of Death'

  6. Official 2006 FIFA World Cup rules

  7. FIFA report on official song

  8. World Cup ticket sales, Which?

  9. ESPN Star broadcasts in Asian countries such as Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.

  10. STAR TV description of ESPN

  11. ESPN Star corporate information

  12. For the first time ever, the state broadcaster RAI lost the bid for broadcasting. However, by law, it must broadcast all of the Italy national team games.

  13. HD will be available for free both in the terrestrial network and by Canal Digital satellite

 



 

 

A taste for adventure capitalists

 

 

Solar Cola - a healthier alternative

 

 

This website is Copyright © 1999 & 2006  NJK.   The bird logo and name Solar Navigator are trademarks. All rights reserved.  All other trademarks are hereby acknowledged.       Max Energy Limited is an educational charity.

 AUTOMOTIVE  |  BLUEBIRD  |  ELECTRIC CARS  |  ELECTRIC CYCLES  |  SOLAR CARS