Monagas Sport Club
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| Full name | Monagas Sport Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio Monumental de Maturín Maturín, Venezuela (Capacity 52,000) |
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| Chairman |  Nelson Rodríguez |
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| Manager | Darío Martínez |
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| League | Primera División Venezolana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apertura 2007 | 12th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Monagas Sport Club is a Venezuelan football team playing at the top level, the Primera División Venezolana. It is based in Maturín. Their home stadium is the Estadio Monumental de Maturín. The club received the nickname of “Los Guerreros del Guarapiche” (The Warriors from the Guarapiche), because of the never giving up mentality of its players and the name of the river which crosses the city where the team has its headquarters (River Guarapiche).
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[edit] History
Monagas Sport Club was founded on 23 September 1988 by Joaquín (Fariñas) Da Silva, Ramón Ramírez and others. Its first official match was against "Union Deportivo Puerto la Cruz" on 22 May 1988; however the club had had friendly matches against the teams "Atlético Cumaná”, “Cachorros del Tigrito” and “Mariscales de Sucre”. The team started as a second division team and its first official league game, which it won with a final score of 4-0, was against the ""Union Deportivo Puerto La Cruz."
The team participed in the Venezuelan second division until 1990 when the club was promoted to the first division. Since then Monagas Sport Club have tried to remain in this division. For the moment the team has not won a championship although it has qualified twice for the South American Cup.
[edit] Sponsor
La Lotería de Oriente (a public lottery from Maturín) is the main sponsor of Monagas Sport Club. For last years the president of the lottery has been in charge of the presidency of the club.
[edit] Controversy over the uniform, the logo and the name of the club
The colors of the Monagas Sport Club’s uniform are blue and red. The uniform and the logo are very similar to the uniform and the logo of the Spanish team FC Barcelona. These colors were proposed by Francisco "Paco" Espinoza, a former vice-president of the club, in 1988.
In 2006 Ramón Caballero, the former president of the team, and other members of the board of directors suggested the colors of the uniform, the logo and the name of the club should be changed. According to them the uniform and the logo can not be a copy of the uniform and the logo of a foreign club and the name of the team should be written in Spanish. Many supporters of Monagas Sport Club are opposed to this idea for they consider the red and blue colors, the logo and the actual name as a part of the team’s identity.
[edit] Participations in international competitions
Monagas Sport Club qualified to the South American Cup in 2002 and 2003. In 2002 Monagas Sport Club won two matches against Deportivo Táchira from Venezuela during the first round: (2-0) in San Cristóbal; (3-0) in Maturín. In the second round the club from Maturín was defeated by San Lorenzo de Almagro and was eliminated from the competition: (0-3) in Puerto Ordaz; (1-5) in Buenos Aires.
In 2003 Monagas Sport Club was quickly beaten and eliminated from the South American Cup by Deportivo Italchacao from Caracas in the first round: (1-2) in Maturín; (0-1) in Caracas.
[edit] Crisis in the season 2006/07
Monagas Sport Club obtained awful results in the season 2006/ 2007 of Venezuela’s first division. As the consequence of this bad patch three previous coaches (Franco Fasciana, Del Valle Rojas and Bernardo Redín) had led the club before the arrival of Alí Cañas. Some football players resigned to the team before the conclusion of the tournament and Ramón Caballero, president of the club, gave up.
Monagas Sport Club finished in the relegation places at the end of the season, but the club won a reprieve when the Primera División Venezolana decided to expand from 10 to 18 teams, thus allowing the two teams in the relegation places to remain in the league.
[edit] Stadium
Monagas Sport Club played from 1987 to 2007 at Estadio Alexander Bottini in Maturín. Since 2007 the Estadio Monumental de Maturin, with a capacity for 52.000 people, is the new ground of the club.
[edit] Current first team squad Apertura 2007
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[edit] Presidents
- Rubén León (1988-92)
- Rumualdo Romero (1993-95)
- Jesús Salgado (1995-96)
- Rafael Castellín Osuna (1997)
- Claudio González (2000-2001)
- Roicis Pérez (2001-2003)
- Antonio del Moral
- Antonio Núñez
- Manuel Villalba
- Ramón Caballero (-2006)
- Nelson Núñez (2006-)
[edit] Coaches
Joaquín (Fariñas) Da Silva
Víctor Pignanelli- Luis Fernández
Antonio Mejías- Radamel García
- Manolo Contreras
- Eduardo Borrero
- Luis Mendoza
- Daniel Lanata
- Alí Cañas
- Franco Fasciana
- Del Valle Rojas
- Bernardo Redín
[edit] Famous players
- Alexander Bottini
- José (Cuervito) Rivas
- Rafael Castellín
- José Fasciana
- Franco Fasciana
- César González
- José (el Papi) Rivas
- Carlos (Pomada) Bravo
[edit] External links
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