Jose de Creeft years of age, de Creeft took his first job earning pennies by carrying stone and sand at the construction site of "La Sagrada Familia", designed and built by the architect Antonio Gaudi. In 1895, de Creeft began modeling religious figures in clay to sell at the Festival Santa Lucia, Barcelona, which he fired at home in his kiln and sold near the steps of the Cathedral of Barcelona. Two years later he began his first apprenticeship with the craftsman and imagier, Barnadas who carved religious figures in wood. A year later, he was apprenticed at the Artistic Foundry of Masriera
G.D. Sagrada Esperança disputed the CAF Champions League, but was eliminated in the 1/16 Finals by ASEC Abidjan of Ivory Coast, after a 2–2 draw at home in the first leg, and a 1–0 defeat in the second leg, played in Abidjan . Sagrada Esperança's season-by-season performance since 2011: The club plays their home matches at formerly Quintalão do Dundo, now Estádio Sagrada Esperança, which has a maximum capacity of 8,000 people . The stadium underwent a major rehabilitation and was renamed and reinaugurated in 2008. G.D. Sagrada Esperança Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, usually known as Sagrada Esperança, is a football (soccer) club