Semen Padang F.C.

Semen Padang Football Club is an Indonesian professional football club, based in Indarung, Padang, Indonesia, that plays in the Indonesian Super League. The club was established on 30 November 1980.

History

Semen Padang Football Club is a professional football club founded at 30 November 1980 by Mr. Azwar Anas and owned by PT. Semen Padang, which is the oldest cement companies in Indonesia. This football club based in Indarung, Padang, West Sumatra and called Kabau Sirah or Red Bull. Before the creation of Liga Indonesia, as a professional club owned by a company, they competed at Galatama. Their first title was winning the Piala Galatama on 1992, by a vital goal from Delfi Adri into Arema Malang net, thus qualified them for their first appearances at Asia level, the 1993-94 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. At that competition, they fought until reach the quarterfinal.

Semen Padang F.C. also known as Indonesia's team which combined local talent from Sumatra, mixed with Papua. One of memorable moment in 2002, when they went into 2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division before defeated by champion's Petrokimia Putra in penalty shoot-out. At that season, coach Suhatman Imam brought Ellie Aiboy, Paulus Krey, Erol Iba (all of them were former of Papua 2000 Pekan Olahraga Nasional Football team), and blend them with local talent such as Hengky Ardiles, Rommy Diaz Putra, Nico Susanto, Kusdiyanto, Effendi Ibrahim, and flamboyan goalkeeper Zulkarnain Zakaria. In their journey, they beat favorite team such as Persija Jakarta, PSM Makassar, Barito Putra, Arema Malang, Persib Bandung, and their nemesis, PSMS Medan.

Padang

Padang (Indonesian pronunciation: [ˈpadaŋ]) is the capital of the province of West Sumatra in Indonesia. It is the largest city on the western coast of Sumatra. Before Indonesia's independence, Padang was one of the major cities in the Dutch East Indies and nowadays the fifth largest city in Sumatra behind Medan, Batam, Palembang and Pekanbaru. It has an area of 695 square kilometres (268 sq mi) and the population of 876,678 in 2013.

Padang is one of the cleanest big cities in Indonesia. Up to 2009, Padang has received the "Adipura" (cleanest and greenest city) award in the category of large city 17 times and the "Adipura Kencana" award 3 times.

Padang is exactly at the antipodes of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

History

Since the 16th century Padang has been a trade centre. During the 16th and 17th centuries pepper was cultivated and traded with India, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In 1663 the city came under the authority of the Dutch and a trading post was built here in 1680. The city came under British authority twice, the first time from 1781 to 1784 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and again from 1795 to 1819 during the Napoleonic Wars. Afterwards the city was transferred back to the Netherlands. Up to approximately 1780 the most important trade product was gold, originating from the gold mines in the region. When the mines were exhausted, the emphasis turned to other products such as coffee, salts and textiles.

Padang people

Padang is an ethnic group in Sudan, a subgroup of the Dinka. They speak Padang, a Dinka language. Many members of this ethnicity are Christians. The population of this ethnicity exceeds 100,000.

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Padang (disambiguation)

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