Scorpions

Clube Desportivo Scorpions Vermelho de Santa Cruz is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League North Zone of the Grupo Centro Sul in Cape Verde. The team is based in the town of Santa Cruz in the southeastern part of the island of Santiago and plays at Estádio Municipal 25 de Julho west of town. Since the implementation of the two tier regional system in 2015, Scorpion Vermelho are one of ten unrelegated clubs of northern Santiago. Along with Tarrafal's Beira-Mar and Varandinha, it is considered being the most popular club of the North Zone. It may became the North Zone's top five clubs in 2016. History The club was founded in 2003, the club was formed in the late 1990s. It is named after a red scorpion as there is on the island, the Cape Verde red scorpion (Hottentotta caboverdensis) which is the island's and the country's only endemic scorpion and listed in the list of endangered species. The first club of the name is not the Portuguese name for scorpion which is escorpião, it is the English name, the last name is Portuguese for red. Its English name is not known as the Red Scorpions, especially translingual, but Scorpion Vermelho. The Capeverdean Creole of ALUPEC is called Scorpion Bermedju and not Skorpion Bermedju. Regional competitions The club was registered in 2006 and participated their first season in 2007. In April 2007, the team won their first zonal (now regional) title in the team's history, they won their second straight in 2008. The club would play in the first and second phases for some seasons. Later, two more titles were won in 2010 and 2013.