Grupo Desportivo dos Pescadores da Costa de Caparica
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Grupo Desportivo dos Pescadores da Costa de Caparica is a football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, an institution and a public utility that is based in the city of Costa da Caparica
Costa da Caparica
Costa da Caparica is a Portuguese city and a parish, located in the municipality of Almada. It has a population of 11,707 inhabitants and a total area of 10.88 km². Costa da Caparica is a city since December 2004.-Beaches:...

, Almada
Almada
Almada is a municipality in Portugal, covering an area of 70.2 km² located on the southern margin of the Tagus River. Its municipal population in 2008 was 164,844 inhabitants; the urbanized center had a population of 102,357.The seat is the city of Almada....

 in Portugal
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. It was founded on January 1, 1944.

In 1995, it made a Rugby
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 equipment in Costa da Caparica, tried for its first institution, equipped this form for ex-international Vitor de Sousa, Carlos Moita and António Moita. It was disputed with the regional championship ascended to the second division in the 1996-97 season.

In the 1998-99 season, it won the second division championship, in the 1996-97 season, it lost only one game. It objected the ninth place in the National Championship of the Premier Division during the 1999-2000 season.

These equipments used on international athletes:
  • Juniors: Bruno Figueiredo, "B" - Gonçalo Osório, "A" - Pedro Murinello.
  • International U-18 players: Allblack Mickael Noble


In the spring of 2000, the 6 Beach Rugby was created serbing its necessary funds for the substitution of the club. It began in 2001 and with Halcon Viagens organized the Beach Rugby tournament in Porto Santo
Porto Santo Island
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 1,000 km west into the Azores
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.
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