CSD Municipal
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| Full name | Club Social y Deportivo Municipal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Rojos (Reds) Máquina Escarlata (Scarlett Machine) |
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| Founded | May 17, 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio Mateo Flores and El Trébol, Guatemala City |
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| Capacity | 30,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Gerardo Villa |
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| Manager |  Enzo Trossero |
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| League | Liga Nacional de Guatemala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 Clausura | 1st place | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club Social y Deportivo Municipal is a football club from Guatemala, the nation's most successful football team. They are based in Guatemala City and play their home matches in the Estadio Mateo Flores. The club was founded May 17, 1936, and is considered to be the most popular in Guatemala.[1][2][3] The players, the fans, and the team itself are commonly called Los Rojos ("the reds"), due to their traditional shirt color.
The team won its first national league title in 1942, and have since won a total of 24, the most by any club in the Guatemalan top division. The club's greatest achievement occurred in 1974 when they won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup and went on to play the Copa Interamericana, losing to Argentina's CA Independiente.
Municipal were close to repeating the CONCACAF success of 1974 when the Champion's Cup finals were played in the Mateo Flores in Guatemala City in December 1993. High expectations preceded those matches, as Municipal was in good form in the local tournament, unbeaten and at the top of the table. In that occasion, Municipal played against Mexican club León, Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica and Robinhood of Suriname in a single round-robin tournament; all matches between the former three teams ended in draws, and Saprissa, who played against the weak Robin Hood in the last matchday, beat the Surinamese team 9-0 and won the title on goal differential.
In 2006, they became the 2nd team in the national league history to obtain 4 consecutive national titles, tying a mark established by their arch-rival CSD Comunicaciones.
[edit] Notable players
Former players[4]
- Carlos Toledo, forward 1938-1954
- Julio César Anderson, forward 1969-1984
Omar Larrosa, midfielder, 1971- Benjamín Monterroso, defender/midfielder 1971-1981
- Juan Manuel Funes, midfielder 1983-1997
Active players
- Juan Carlos Plata 1990-
- German Ruano 1993-
- Carlos Ruiz 1995-2002 (joined Major League Soccer)
- Guillermo Ramírez 1996-
[edit] References and notes
- ^ MLS report - mlsnet.com, Major League Soccer, USA, 2002.
- ^ (Spanish) Team report - laprensahn.com - newspaper La Prensa, Honduras, 2000.
- ^ (Spanish) Guatemala national league news - latribunahispana.com - La Tribuna Hispana, USA, 2006.
- ^ Player years, except for Juan Manuel Funes', are taken from (Spanish) http://www.angelfire.com/ms/rojosoasis/page5.html
[edit] External links
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| Comunicaciones | CD Heredia | CD Jalapa | CD Marquense | CD Mictlán CSD Municipal | CD Petapa | CD Suchitepéquez | CD Xelajú | CD Zacapa |
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