Club Deportivo Motagua

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Motagua
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Full name Club Deportivo Motagua
Nickname(s) Aguilas Azules
Ciclón Azul
Los Mimados
Founded August 29, 1928
Ground Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
(Capacity 35,000)
Chairman Flag of Honduras Pedro Atala
Manager Flag of Colombia Jaime de la Pava
League Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras
07-08 Clausura 4th
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Club Deportivo Motagua is a Honduran football club, located in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, and plays in the Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino. The club is one of the most successful and renowned of Honduras. The club was founded 29 August 1928.

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[edit] History

[edit] Foundation

The club was founded on 29 August 1928 as the idea of Marco Antonio Ponce and supported by Marco Antonio Rosa in meeting celebrated at home of Widowed Mrs. Martha Vélez de Ramos; located at side of the Bank of London and Montreal, taking advantage of the clubs America, Honduras, Athletic and Aguila disintegrating, they decided to call to all the players of these teams forming thus the joint one Motagua. In the same meeting the Board of directors headed by Marco Antonio Rose and the doctor Alejandro Lara followed by another group of personalities were elected. This board of directors supported the Female Basketball, Baseball and Athletics teams.

[edit] First Game

Against the Tejeros del España of the Neighborhood Guanacaste 25 November 1928 in the soccer pitch the Island the result was 1:1. The referee of the encounter was Herasmo Velásquez and the captain of the Motagua was Constantine Gálvez "Tatino".

First Coach: Daniel Bustillo

[edit] Club History

The club "blue", was founded 29 August, 1928 by idea of the poet Marco Antonio Ponce and supported by Marco Antonio Rosa, and is a fusion of the disintegrated teams America, Honduras, Atlético and Aguila; that being inspired in the Motagua River that in those times was in dispute with Guatemala they gave origin to the "Cyclone", and is nowadays one of the teams with mosr achievements, popular and oldest of Honduras.

The metropolitan club is one of the best of Honduras and Central America and already has accumulated many championships, being also an old acquaintance of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, where has participated in diverse opportunities although yet has not been able to arrive a final hostess; in 1986 had her but noticeable action al to achieve the fifth position.

In season 1965-66 it debuted in National League, on 18 July in the city of La Ceiba against the "reds" of the Vida, where they succumbed 1:4. It was to 3 years later of the inauguration of the Professional League that achieved their first national title in 1968-69 under the management of the Honduran coach Rodolfo Godoy. This year Motagua also obtained the first ever Honduran Cup, winning the double that season.

It repeated in 1970-71 and 1973-74, being this one of the better times of the "Ciclón Azul". Pitifully in 1972-73 the national championship was declared nil, depriving him to Motagua to be judged the title that it had almost in the market, since carried an almost insurmountable advantage on its escort to few dates of the end.

After having achieved the title of the regular season in 1978-79, Motagua classifies to the playoffs, obliged to play the finals where they raise their fourth cup.

The Honduras national football team sees its dream carried out and classifies to a world cup of soccer where does history, carrying as base to Motagua and Real España.

They passed 13 long years until in the season 1991-92 savored again a championship in one of the ends but recalled by the standard "blue". In 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1998 it achieves four subtitles of the discontinued Honduran Cup.

Júnior Izaguirre celebrates after scoring a goal that gave Motagua the title on December 2001
Júnior Izaguirre celebrates after scoring a goal that gave Motagua the title on December 2001

In the season 1997-98 the league brings to our feet the innovative opening tournaments system and closure, and Motagua he manages to judge both, being this the first one double championnship in the history of the motagüenses, double championship that was repeated barely 2 years but late achieving the opening and closure of 1999-2000. Some months before in January of 1999 there was crowned as champion of the Honduran Super Cup after beating in the final Platense of Puerto Cortes.

In the 2000 again Motagua is base of the selection, in this occasion of the Sub-23 and Honduras achieves for the first time in its history its pair to some Olympic games.

The last title, Motagua achieved it on 17 December, 2006 (2006-2007 Apertura season) after defeating Olimpia and not letting them win their 4th consecutive final. One year later in December 2007, they won their first international competition in Copa Interclubes UNCAF 2007, but three weeks later Motagua lost the domestic title in the 2007-08 Apertura season.

In their football record, Motagua was crowned in 27 opportunities, this number includes amateur and professional tournaments, and is one of the clubs that has given more glory to Honduran football by forming players of high level that have known to behead in our different national selections, as in foreign clubs.

Motagua's main rival is Olimpia.

[edit] League and cups performance

Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA PTS Cup SuperCup
1965-66 9th 18 03 04 11 14 25 10 Not held Not held
1966-67 9th 18 05 03 10 24 31 13 Not held Not held
1967-68 6th 18 06 05 07 22 21 17 Not held Not held
1968-69 Champion 27 17 05 05 45 23 39 Champion Not held
1969-70 2nd 27 13 09 05 38 26 35 Not held Not held
1970-71 Champion 28 13 12 03 44 19 38 Not held Not held
1971-72 3rd 27 14 05 08 37 23 33 Not held Not held
1972-73 abandoned - - - - - - - ? Not held
1973-74 Champion 27 13 13 01 39 15 39 Not held Not held
1974-75 2nd 40 18 17 05 44 21 53 Not held Not held
1975-76 3rd 34 11 18 05 32 22 40 Not held Not held
1976-77 2nd 35 17 11 07 38 22 45 Not held Not held
1977-78 3rd 35 14 12 09 38 30 40 Not held Not held
1978-79 Champion 37 19 13 05 51 24 51 Not held Not held
1979-80 6th 28 09 09 10 30 31 27 Not held Not held
1980-81 6th 27 06 15 06 32 31 27 Not held Not held
1981-82 3rd 39 19 11 09 49 33 49 Not held Not held
1982-83 2nd 35 11 18 06 45 36 40 Not held Not held
1983-84 5th 36 14 09 13 36 35 37 Not held Not held
1984-85 5th 36 11 13 12 30 33 35 Not held Not held
1985-86 3rd 24 07 11 06 18 23 25 Not held Not held
1986-87 6th 28 08 12 08 30 31 28 Not held Not held
1987-88 6th 27 09 08 10 32 37 26 Not held Not held
1988-89 3rd 36 11 18 07 30 26 40 Not held Not held
1989-90 3rd 35 11 13 11 34 31 35 Not held Not held
1990-91 2nd 38 11 18 09 34 28 41 Not held Not held
1991-92 Champion 37 17 08 12 43 33 42 Not held Not held
1992-93 4th 35 12 13 10 51 47 37 ? Not held
1993-94 2nd 33 09 15 09 34 31 33 2nd Not held
1994-95 5th 29 15 09 05 44 27 54 ? Not held
1995-96 4th 33 14 07 12 44 36 49 2nd Not held
1996-97 6th 29 11 10 08 40 29 43 ? Did not enter
1997-98 A Champion 26 13 09 04 31 21 48 2nd Champion
1997-98 C Champion 26 17 07 02 50 21 58 - Not held
1998-99 3rd 22 09 07 06 29 27 34 2nd Not held
1999-00 A Champion 24 12 11 01 45 19 47 Not held Not held
1999-00 C Champion 24 11 11 02 34 23 44 Not held Not held
2000-01 A 5th 20 07 09 04 22 18 30 Not held Not held
2000-01 C 7th 20 02 13 05 25 29 19 Not held Not held
2001-02 A Champion 22 10 08 04 29 19 38 Not held Not held
2001-02 C 8th 18 04 07 07 12 16 19 Not held Not held
2002-03 A 5th 18 07 05 06 24 23 26 Not held Not held
2002-03 C 2nd 22 08 09 05 24 19 35 Not held Not held
2003-04 A 5th 18 07 03 08 22 22 24 Not held Not held
2003-04 C 5th 16 06 05 05 22 20 23 Not held Not held
2004-05 A 9th 18 04 06 08 20 25 18 Not held Not held
2004-05 C 5th 18 04 11 03 18 18 23 Not held Not held
2005-06 A 10th 18 03 05 10 16 26 14 Not held Not held
2005-06 C 3rd 20 09 05 06 27 23 32 Not held Not held
2006-07 A Champion 22 11 05 06 37 26 38 Not held Not held
2006-07 C 4th 20 10 01 09 32 30 31 Not held Not held
2007-08 A 2nd 22 10 07 05 31 22 37 Not held Not held
2007-08 C 4th 20 08 03 09 25 26 27 Not held Not held

[edit] All time top scorers

  • As of 2007-08 Clausura
No. Player Goals
1 Flag of Honduras Angel Antonio Obando 73
2 Flag of Honduras Oscar "Martillo" Hernández 62
3 Flag of Honduras Luis Alberto "Chito" Reyes 51
4 Flag of Honduras Jairo Manfredo Martínez 50
5 Flag of Honduras Amado "Lobo" Guevara 50
6 Flag of Honduras Mario Blandón Artica 46
7 Flag of Honduras Edwin Geovani Castro 40
8 Flag of Honduras Salvador Bernárdez Blanco 37
9 Flag of Chile Mario Hernán Juvini Carreño 37
10 Flag of Brazil Roberto Abrussezze 34

[edit] Records

[edit] Performance in Copa Interclubes UNCAF

Year GP W T L GF GA PTS +/- Place
1999 7 1 4 2 4 6 7 -2 8th of 11
2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Didn't enter
2001 3 0 1 2 1 3 1 -2 7th of 8
2002 6 3 1 2 10 11 10 -1 3rd of 12
2003 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Didn't enter
2004 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Didn't enter
2005 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Didn't enter
2006 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Didn't enter
2007 8 7 1 0 15 5 22 +10 1st of 16
Totals 24 11 7 6 30 25 40 +5 5th of 48

[edit] Appearances in International Tournaments

[edit] Motagua versus

All time Motagua's series against other clubs as of 2007-08 Clausura.

Versus P W D L F:A PTS +/-
Atlético Olanchano 16 9 4 3 26:18 31 +8
Deportes Savio 12 4 7 1 13:11 19 +2
Hispano 14 6 4 4 16:19 22 -3
Honduras Salzburg 4 4 0 0 9:4 12 +5
Marathón 161 58 54 49 202:188 228 +14
Olimpia 178 39 72 67 142:191 189 -49
Palestino 4 3 1 0 10:5 10 +5
Real España 176 62 55 59 191:187 241 +4
Valencia 8 2 5 1 6:6 11 0
Victoria 124 43 47 34  ?:? 176  ?

[edit] Achievements

Motagua is the second most successful club in Honduras having won 11 tournaments of the current format, long behind Olimpia that has won 20 tournaments.

[edit] The Club

[edit] Colours and badge

Motagua's traditional colour is dark blue representing the blue waters of the Motagua River. This is because that at the time the club was founded, the Motagua River was in dispute between Honduras and Guatemala

The Motagua badge has a blue eagle. This is because one of the desitengrated club that united to become Motagua was Aguila which translates to Eagle.

[edit] Stadium

Main article(s): Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa

Motagua plays their home matches on estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino. The stadium is named after the Honduran president Tiburcio Carias Andino. The stadium is divided into Sol Norte, Sol Sur, Sol Centro, Preferencia, Silla and Palco. The Motaguan supporters "La Revo" are located at Sol Norte and the "Macro Azurra" sit in Sol Centro.

[edit] Supporters

Motagua has many supportes throughout Honduras. Motagua has one Barra Brava and three other supporters. The barra brava is "Los Revolucionarios del Motagua 1928", which they call themselves "La Revo". This fan groups has "bandas" or smaller groups inside La Revo such as (from Tegucigalpa) "Los Fuser", "Los Dementes", "Escuadron 57", "Comando 21", "Los Poltershe", "Irreverentes", "Capone", "Infernales", "Danger's", "Anarkia", (from Comayagua) "C26", (from San Pedro Sula) "Los Del Norte", (from La Ceiba) "Revo Ceiba", (from Choluteca) "Revo Choluteca", (from El Progreso) "Revo Progreso". All of the "bandas" hang "mantas" or huge pieces of cloth saying their banda's name inside the stadium. They also hang one with the barra's website and many of Che Guevara. Matches from Motagua against Olimpia it's illegal to hang these mantas because some of the members go to steal them and cause great scandal so police prefer banning this. La Revo don't cause many scandals between other barras bravas in Honduras only with Olimpia's Ultra Fiel. Throughout 2006-2007 La Revo had problems with Marathon's Furia Verde but they came to peace under the same belief in all of Honduras. "Por Una Honduras Libre De Chucos" which translates to "For a Honduras free of Dirtbags" (Chucos being Olimpia). Marathon, Real España and Motagua's barra bravas all have a manta with this phrase.

Another of the biggest fan group is named "Macro Azurra" which is supported by the club. They can be easily be spotted in the stadium because they generally have always blue ballons. This group is bigger in the northern territory and is sponsored by the club and by Fed-Ex.

There are also two smaller groups one being "Fortaleza Azul" and "JAH" which stands for "Justicia Amor y Humildad" which means "Justice Love and Humbleness". JAH is a religious based fan group which was founded by seven members of the Jehová es Nuestro Pastor church. JAH say that their trips are paid by God.

[edit] Rivalries

Motagua's main rival is Olimpia. Their matches are known as the Superclasico (Super Classic), Clasico Local (Local Classic) or Clasico Capitalino (Capital's Classic). They are rival since both clubs are from the same city and are the top two most prestigous clubs in the nation.

Other rivalries include the Classic of the M's which is the matches played against Marathon.

The Motagua - Real Espana classic is not as fierce as the other two already mentioned as these both teams are very good with each other from the players, the board and the fans.

The smallest rivalry which might be called extinct was with Universidad since in the beginning this team was also from Tegucigalpa. Universidad in various occasions let Motagua out of the play-offs. It might be called extinct since Universidad relegate two second division and is in serious financial crisis.

[edit] Presidents

  • Marco Antonio Rosa
  • Edgardo Zúniga
  • Manuel Cáceres
  • Celestino Cáceres
  • Gonzalo Carías
  • Cesar Romero
  • Antonio Urquía
  • Juda Guzmán
  • Silverio Henríquez
  • Lurio Martínez
  • Carlos Arriaga
  • Carlos Amador
  • Carlos Cruz
  • Mario Rivera López
  • Joaquín González
  • Octasiano Valerio
  • Horacio Fortín
  • Saturnino Vidaurreta
  • Heriberto Gómez
  • Tulio Bueso
  • Fausto Flores
  • Gustavo Adolfo Alvarado
  • Pedro Atala Simón
  • Salvador Lamas
  • Juan Angel Arias
  • Cristóbal Simón
  • Francisco Zepeda
  • Leónidas Rosa Bautista
  • Jorge Abudoj
  • Eduardo Atala
  • Marco Tulio Gutiérrez
  • Javier Atala
  • Pedro Atala (current)

[edit] Managers

  • Flag of Honduras Ernesto Henríquez
  • Flag of Honduras Rodolfo Godoy
  • Flag of Honduras Carlos Padilla
  • Flag of Honduras Angel Ramón Rodríguez
  • Flag of Honduras Hermes Romero
  • Flag of Chile Néstor Matamala
  • Flag of Uruguay José Luis Materas
  • Flag of Honduras Oscar Nolasco
  • Flag of Honduras Rubén Guifarro
  • Flag of Honduras Gonzalo Zelaya
  • Flag of Uruguay Carlos Jurado
  • Flag of Brazil Roberto Abrussezze
  • Flag of Honduras Ramón Maradiaga
  • Flag of Uruguay Ernesto Luzardo
  • Flag of Mexico José Treviño
  • Flag of Honduras Luis Reyes
  • Flag of El Salvador Oscar Benítez
  • Flag of Honduras Oscar Salgado
  • Flag of Uruguay Julio González
  • Flag of Honduras Gilberto Yearwood
  • Flag of Mexico Alejandro Domínguez
  • Flag of Honduras Hernaín Arzú
  • Flag of Honduras Edwin Pavón
  • Flag of Honduras Javier Padilla
  • Flag of Honduras Jorge Ernesto Pineda
  • Flag of Honduras Reynaldo Clavasquín
  • Flag of Colombia Jaime de la Pava (current)

[edit] Notable former players

See also Category:Motagua players

Flag of Honduras Honduras
  • Ruben Guifarro
  • Zacarías Arzú
  • Armando Sosa
  • Alfonso Uclés Sierra
  • Nery Medina
  • Armando Caceres Vijil
  • Raul Barahona
  • Rigoberto Castro
  • Rodolfo Trinidad Ramírez Godoy
  • Ernesto Henríquez

[edit] Current Season

(MM/DD/YY format)

[edit] Regular Season 2007-08 Clausura

[edit] Semifinals 2007-08 Clausura

[edit] CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2008

[edit] Current Squads

[edit] Current technical staff

President Flag of Honduras Pedro Atala
Vice-President Flag of Honduras Javier Atala
Secretary Flag of Honduras Fernando Cevallos
Threasurer Flag of Honduras José Arturo Alvarado
Counselor Flag of Honduras Camilo Atala
Counselor Flag of Honduras Edy Atala
Counselor Flag of Honduras Marco Tulio Gutiérrez
Director of Football Flag of Honduras Hector Zelaya
Head Coach Flag of Honduras Reynaldo Clavasquin

[edit] 2008-09 Apertura

The players in bold have senior international caps

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Honduras GK Ricardo Canales
2 Flag of Honduras DF Steven Morris
4 Flag of Honduras DF Roy Posas
5 Flag of Honduras MF Milton Reyes
6 Flag of Honduras DF Oscar Bernárdez
7 Flag of Costa Rica MF Steven Bryce
8 Flag of Honduras MF Miguel Castillo
9 Flag of Honduras FW Jairo Martínez
10 Flag of Brazil FW Jocimar Nascimento
11 Flag of Uruguay FW Oscar Torlacoff
12 Flag of Honduras MF Rubén Matamoros
13 Flag of Honduras MF Ronald Martínez
14 Flag of Honduras MF Luis Guzman
15 Flag of Honduras MF Walter López
17 Flag of Honduras MF Fernando Castillo
19 Flag of Honduras DF Osman Chávez
21 Flag of Honduras DF Emilio Izaguirre
22 Flag of Honduras GK Donaldo Morales
23 Flag of Honduras MF Dani Lloyd
24 Flag of Honduras DF Víctor Bernárdez (Captain)
No. Position Player
25 Flag of Honduras GK Rony García
26 Flag of Honduras DF David Molina
27 Flag of Honduras FW Jefferson Bernárdez
28 Flag of Honduras DF Samir García
29 Flag of Honduras FW José Carlos Rivera
30 Flag of Honduras MF Rubén Darío Rivera
31 Flag of Honduras FW Luis Rodas
32 Flag of Honduras MF Jorge Claros (vice-captain)
33 Flag of Honduras DF Marlon Cruz
34 Flag of Honduras DF Aaron Bardales
35 Flag of Honduras FW José Valladares
36 Flag of Honduras MF Kevin Osorio
Flag of Honduras GK Wilmer Cruz Jr.
Flag of Honduras GK Marlon Licona
Flag of Honduras GK Levon Smith
Flag of Brazil FW Edmilson da Silva
Flag of Brazil MF Nilberto da Silva
Flag of Honduras MF Edras Padilla
Flag of Honduras MF Rigoberto Padilla

[edit] Squad Changes For 2007-08 Clausura Season

In:

Out:

[edit] Retired numbers

16Flag of Honduras Edy Vasquez, retired for 2 years in commermoration of Edy Vasquez's death

[edit] Statistics 2007-08 Clausura

As of 10 May 2008

Pos Regular Season Clausura GP GW GD GL G:G PTS DF
4 Club Deportivo Motagua 18 8 3 7 23:19 27 +4
Pos Semifinals Clausura GP GW GD GL G:G PTS DF
2 Club Deportivo Motagua 2 0 0 2 2:7 0 -5
  • Scorers:
    • Flag of Brazil Jocimar Nascimento: 9 goals
    • Flag of Uruguay Oscar Torlacoff: 5 goals
    • Flag of Honduras Luis Rodas: 2 goals
    • Flag of Honduras Fernando Castillo: 2 goals
    • Flag of Honduras Víctor Bernárdez: 2 goals
    • Flag of Honduras Amado Guevara: 1 goal
    • Flag of Honduras Emilio Izaguirre: 1 goal
    • Flag of Honduras José Valldares: 1 goal
    • Flag of Honduras Rubén Matamoros: 1 goal
      • Flag of Honduras Esdras Padilla: 1 owngoal (from Hispano)
  • Top Goalkeepers
    • Flag of Honduras Rony Garcia: 1 goal conceded in 1 match (1.00 goal per match)
    • Flag of Honduras Donaldo Morales: 9 goals conceded in 7 matches (1.29 goals per match)
    • Flag of Honduras Ricardo Canales: 16 goals conceded in 12 matches (1.33 goals per match)

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