Plaza Amador

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Plaza Amador
Full name	Club Deportivo Plaza Amador
Nickname(s)	Los Leones (The Lions), El equipo del pueblo (the peoples team)
Founded	1955
Ground	Estadio Rommel Fernandez, Panama, Panama
Capacity	25,000
Chairman	Juan Felipe De La Iglesia
Manager	Fernando Bolivar
League	ANAPROF
2006 Clausura	5th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Plaza Amador is a Panamanian soccer club, that currently plays in ANAPROF.

Contents 1 History 2 Honors 3 Emblems 4 Current squad 5 External link

[edit] History

The Social Club and Plaza Amador were founded in 1955 by a legendary figure of Panamanian sports, León Cocoliso Tejada (1927-1982), whom through the years developed a team designed to educate and train players that brought them and the team from inferior divisions up to the first division. After León's death, Andrés Villa, Daniel Vàsquez and Enrique Cajar gathered the colors of the club and returned it to the first division, where they won the distritorial championship, Copa JVC and the first ANAPROF championship.

[edit] Honors

• ANAPROF Champions: 5

1988, 1990, 1992, 2002 (C), 2005 (A)

• ANAPROF Runner-up: 4

1995-96, 2001 (C), 2004 (A), 2006 (A)

• ANAPROF Champion of champions: 2 (record)

2002, 2005

[edit] Emblems

The club's colors are the patrios colors, red, white and blue. Plaza Amador was named after the first President of the Republic, Dr. Manuel Amador Guerrero.

[edit] Current squad

As of 24 February 2007^[1]

No. Position Player GK Edgardo Alvarado GK Raul Ernesto Villarreal GK Jose Ortega DF Damaso Torres DF Jose Moran DF Alonso Alleyne DF Joel Jimenez DF Leonel Parris DF Joel Solanilla MF Juan Carlos Riley MF Angel Lombardo MF Engie Mitre

No. Position Player MF Ricardo Buitrago MF Luis Gondola MF Jonathan Bramwell MF Jean McClean MF Ricardo Pascha MF Kairo Martinez FW Julio Castañedas FW Cristian Vega FW Alfredo Hernandez FW Juan Villalobos FW Edgar Omar Hidalgo FW Jean Carlos Estribi

[edit] External link

• Official site

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ANAPROF v • d • e

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Alianza FC | Árabe Unido | Atlético Chiriquí | Atlético Veragüense | Chepo F.C.
Plaza Amador | Municipal Chorrillo | San Francisco FC | Sporting '89 | Tauro FC
ANAPROF Seasons
1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994-1995 | 1995-1996 | 1996-1997 | 1997-1998 | 1998-1999 | 1999-2000 | 2000-2001 | 2001(A) | 2001(C) | 2002(A) | 2002(C) | 2003(A) | 2003(C) | 2004(A) | 2004(C) | 2005(A) | 2005(C) | 2006(A) | 2006(C) | 2007(A)