Madeira Andebol SAD, known until 1998 as Academico Funchal, is a Portuguese handball club from Funchal. Its women's team has won the national championship a record 15 times since 1994, and it is a regular in the EHF Cup and Cup Winners' Cup's early stages. The male team has won the national league and national cup once, and it has also made several appearances in EHF competitions.
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“In this world of overrated pleasures,
Of underrated treasures.”
—Paul Madeira (b. 1904)
“It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)