Sociedad Deportiva Aucas

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Aucas

Full name

Nickname(s)

"Orientales"

Founded

1945

Ground

Estadio La Caldera del Sur,
Chillogallo, Quito, Ecuador

Capacity

approx. 20,000

Chairman

Ec.Fernando Hinojosa

Manager

Juan Amador Sánchez

League

Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol

2006 season

2006 closing tournament, 9nd





Home colours





Away colours

The Sociedad Deportiva Aucas is a soccer club from the city of Quito in northern Ecuador. The team is named after the Auca tribe, who are also called Huaorani, because it originally belonged to Royal Dutch/Shell, which had been operating oil fields in the east of Ecuador where the Aucas live. That is why the main uniform's colors, yellow and red, were taken from the colors used by Shell to market their products and services. The alternate uniform is completely white, except for the commercial advertisements and numbers and names of players, which are red.

Despite the team's popularity, Aucas has never won an Ecuadorian championship. Players who have played for Aucas include Argentinian and nationalized Ecuadorian forward Ariel Graziani, forward Nicolás Ascencio, who also played for the Club Deportivo Cuenca, forward Edison Maldonado, defender Geovanny Espinoza , and the 1990 FIFA World Cup Colombian goalkeeper René Higuita, famous for his risky, playful plays in which he went out of the goal area and for his penalty-kick saves and free-kick goals.

Aucas has recently dropped to the Serie B for the 2007 season, competeing against teams such as Espoli and LDU de Loja. Aucas has already played and won exibiton games before the season and is starting the season off well by defeating Espoli ouside of home 2-0.

The colors of Aucas's main uniform are based on the colors of Shell.

Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol 2007
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