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 | Champions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or Los Rojos (the Reds), are a Guatemalan professional football club based in Guatemala City. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top division in the nation, and play their home matches in the Estadio Mateo Flores. The club was founded in 1936, and are the nation's most successful team, having won 24 domestic league titles, and being the only Guatemalan club to win the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. They are considered to be the most popular club in the country,[1][2][3] and are traditional arch-rivals of club CSD Comunicaciones, also from the capital city. As of 2006, Municipal are the team that has competed the most years at the top level in Guatemala.
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[edit] History
The club was founded in May 17, 1936 by workers of the Ayuntamiento (city hall) of the Guatemala City municipality, hence the name Municipal, earning promotion to the maximum division (then called Liga Capitalina) in 1938. They finished in second place in their debut season.[4] They have since remained in the top division, the longest streak of any Guatemalan team.
The team won its first national league title in the 1942-43 tournament, the first official national league championship. They won three of the following six tournaments, the other three being won by club Tipografía Nacional, whom which they had their first known rivalry. Municipal were coached by Manuel F. Carrera, one of the original founders of the club, and whose name was later given to the stadium where the team currently trains.
From its beginnings to 1955, the club's most emblematic player was the forward Carlos "Pepino" Toledo, who helped the team win its first four league titles, the last of them in his retirement season, 1954-55. Toledo was one of the first nationally-recognized players, being also a member of the national team. He scored 129 career goals for Municipal, remaining the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the club. He later became the coach of the team.
At the end of the 1950s, as Comunicaciones emerged as one of the top contenders for the league title – winning it three years in a row –, Municipal went 8 years without a championship, but then won three of them in the 1963-64, 1965-66, and 1969-70 seasons. These titles alternated with three titles won by Aurora FC – another club from the city – and coincided with a decline for Comunicaciones in that decade. When Tipografía Nacional faded as one of the top clubs of the nation, a fierce rivalry originated between Municipal and Comunicaciones, especially after the latter became the second most successful club, having won 7 of 14 league tournaments from 1956 to 1972. Both teams have been classic rivals ever since, with the matches between them usually attracting the most spectators of any local club football event.
[edit] 1970s: International success
Starting in 1973, Municipal obtained a series of titles under Uruguayan coach Rubén Amorín, who took the team to league titles in successive years for their first time ever. Coach Amorín managed a notable group of players, on a team that included defender Alberto López Oliva, midfielders Benjamín Monterroso and Emilio Mitrovich, and forward Julio César Anderson (who would become the highest goalscorer ever for the club, until surpassed in the 2000s by Juan Carlos Plata). Amorín managed Municipal to their first international title, winning the 1974 Copa Fraternidad.
Municipal's greatest achievement occurred in 1974, when they won the IV CONCACAF Champions' Cup, becoming the first and only Guatemalan team to date to have won the confederation's top club competition. The rojos then went on to play the Copa Interamericana against Argentina's "red team", CA Independiente, on a two-leg playoff celebrated in the Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala. The first leg, played November 24, 1974, was won by Independiente 1-0, on a goal by Ricardo Bochini. Two days later, Municipal, in need of a win, beat the Argentines 1-0, thanks to a goal by the Argentine-born Mitrovich in the second half. With the teams equal in points and goal difference, the match went to extra time, where there was no change in the score. The winner of the continental title was then decided on penalty kicks. After misses by Anderson and Monterroso, Independiente won the shootout 4-2, and ended Municipal's international run.
[edit] 1980s: almost relegated
After winning another league title in 1976 and the 1977 Copa Fraternidad, the club faced their worst period, unable to win any titles and even being close to dropping from the top division, playing a relegation mini-tournament in the 1981 season – which saw Tipografía Nacional go down to the Division B. In 1982, Municipal struggled again, this time finishing ahead of the relegated team on goal differential.
[edit] Return to the top
Success came again in 1987, with the first league title in 11 years, won under Argentine coach Miguel Angel Brindisi. This time, the team won three consecutive championships for the first time ever, the first two being coached by Brindisi, and the third one by Walter Ormeño. In the 1991-92 season, almost two decades after his last title with the club, Rubén Amorín, on his second tenure, took Municipal to another league title.
A fifth league championship in seven years came in the 1993-94 season, under Argentine coach Horacio Cordero. Cordero's team was notable for its offensive style, scoring 83 goals in 32 matches in the tournament.[5] 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. That time, Municipal played against Mexican club León, Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica and SV 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 Robinhood in the last matchday, beat the Surinamese team 9-0 and won the title on goal differential.
In 2000, after the league's competition format was changed to the double Apertura and Clausura tournaments, Municipal won another title after Comunicaciones had set a record by winning the previous four; Municipal tied that record in 2006, winning their fourth consecutive title under coach Enzo Trossero. They have won 9 of the 14 titles in dispute since the current tournament's format was introduced.
[edit] Crest
The club's logo is based in the emblem of the Municipalidad de Guatemala, which is itself based in the original coat of arms of the city of Santiago de Los Caballeros de Guatemala, with the image of Santiago (Saint James) over the stylized scenery of the region. The team's version includes an image of the type of ball used at the time the club was founded, next to a blue and red striped canton in between the former two elements. The circular field is surrounded by the name of the team on a red background. It is not confirmed whether the team logo is copyrighted or not.
[edit] Colours
Initially, the uniform of the team consisted of a red-and-black striped shirt and black shorts.[6] The colours soon changed to the current red shirt and blue shorts for home matches, and all blue for away matches, although other colors have been used for away matches.
[edit] Stadium
Throughout the years, Municipal has used the Estadio Mateo Flores as their home ground, sharing it with Comunicaciones since the 1950s until 1991, and again starting in 2005. Other stadiums hosted Municipal in the beginning, namely the Estadio Autonomía. The Estadio La Pedrera has been used when the Mateo Flores has not been available. The Estadio Manuel Felipe Carrera, also known as "Estadio El Trébol", has been the training venue for the team, and it has been occasionally used for official matches by the club, being undefeated in this ground.
[edit] Supporters
Municipal is believed to have the largest fan base of all Guatemalan clubs, and the their popularity have earned them nicknames like El equipo mimado de la afición (Fans' beloved team) and El equipo del pueblo (People's team). An organized group of supporters known as ultra roja (originally porra roja) has become notable since the early 1990s due to their constant chanting and their loudness; they have also been criticized due to confrontations with fans of other teams, especially of Comunicaciones.
[edit] Statistics and records
Municipal is the club that has spent the most consecutive seasons at the top level in Guatemala, having remained in it since 1938.
Juan Carlos Plata is the all-time top goalscorer for the team in league matches and overall.
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[edit] Notable players
Former[7]
Carlos Toledo, forward 1938-1955- Julio César Anderson, forward 1969-1984
Omar Larrosa, midfielder, 1971- José Emilio Mitrovich, midfielder, 1970s
- Benjamín Monterroso, defender/midfielder 1971-1981
- Juan Manuel Funes, midfielder 1983-1997
- Carlos Ruiz 1995-2002
Active
- Juan Carlos Plata 1990-
- German Ruano 1993-
- Guillermo Ramírez 1996-
[edit] Honours
- League titles: 24 (most ever by any team)
- 1942, 1947, 1050-51, 1954-55, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1987, 1988, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1993-94, 2000 Apertura, 2000 Clausura, 2001, 2002 Clausura, 2003 Apertura, 2004 Apertura, 2005 Clausura, 2005 Apertura, 2006 Clausura
- Domestic Cup titles: 8
- 1960, 1967, 1969, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2004
- CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 1
- 1974
- Torneo Fraternidad/UNCAF Club Championship: 4
- 1974, 1977, 2001, 2004
[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.
- ^ (Spanish) Guatemala, 100 años de fútbol - Municipal. Prensa Libre. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
- ^ Source: http://www.rsssf.com/tablesg/guat94.html
- ^ (Spanish) Historia, Rojos del Municipal. Retrieved on 2006-12-10. - Note: Unable to retrieve direct link. Click on "Historia" on the main menu to access.
- ^ Player years, except for Carlos Toledo's and Juan Manuel Funes', are taken from (Spanish) http://www.angelfire.com/ms/rojosoasis/page5.html
[edit] Further reading
- Guatemala, 100 años de fútbol - Municipal. Prensa Libre. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Official web site
- Official fan site
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