CR El Salvador

Cetransa El Salvador
Full name Cetransa El Salvador
Founded 1960
Location Valladolid, Spain
Ground(s) Estadio Pepe Rojo (Capacity: 5,000)
Chairman Ernesto Candau
Coach(es) Juan Carlos Perez
Captain(s) Ivan Criado
League(s) División de Honor
Official website
www.rugbycetransaelsalvador.com

Club de Rugby El Salvador is a Spanish rugby union club. The club was established in 1960 and currently competes in the División de Honor de Rugby competition, the highest level of Spanish club rugby. The club are based in Valladolid in central Spain, playing their matches at the Estadio Pepe Rojo. El Salvador play in white and black colours. The team have in the past won both the Spanish League and the Copa del Rey de Rugby.

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History

After spending one season in the First Division, the first team were promoted to Division de Honor again in the 1997/98 season; prelude to the coming season, a fact also unprecedented in a newly promoted, be proclaimed champion for the second time league. The following season was ended with two more titles: Ibero Cup and the Copa del Rey again, awards that came to swell the already lengthy prize of our club. In the 1999/2000 and 2001/02 seasons were in subcampeonatos won two league and one in Cup in 2002/03 and 2003/04 were achieved two new league titles, and in 2004/05 and 2005/06, two Spanish Cups, two League subcampeonatos of a new Ibero Cup and two Spanish Super Cups. All these titles, together with those achieved at lower levels, credited to our club as the entity most honored of our community and one of the most winners of Spain.

In the 2003/04 season for the first time CR El Salvador participated in a European competition, debuting in front of the mythical Harlequins in London and getting beat in 2nd round for the first time in a Spanish club to an Italian team (Rovigo), for the next season as getting milestone being the first Spanish club to move one round of the European Shield.

At present, with over 200 players in total, up from prebenjamines the first team, with the help of key Cetransa main sponsor and the other collaborators, the goal remains the beginnings of more than forty years ago: train players at a young age to know who appreciate the values of rugby, try to remain in the top national and try to return to European competitions.

In the 2006/07 season, they won all three titles at senior level, Division champion Honour, HM King Cup and the Super Cup title.

In the 2007/08 season, it was yet another excellent year for the team who won the Division de Honor and the Super Cup title.

In the Amlin Challenge cup in 2010/2011, they won Petrarca Padova rugby in Pepe Rojo stadium (37-16)

European Challenge Cup Competition 2010/11

Pool 1
Harlequins
Connacht Rugby
Bayonne
Rugby Cavalieri
Pool 2
Sale Sharks
Petrarca Rugby
Brive
Cetransa el Salvador
Pool 3
Bourgoin
Newcastle Falcons
Exeter Chiefs
Montpellier Herault
Pool 4
Leeds Carnegie
Stade Francais
Crociati rugby
Bucharest Oaks
Pool 5
Gloucester
Rugby Rovigo
Agen
La Rochelle

Squad 2010-2011

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under IRB eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-IRB nationality.

Player Position Union
Alfonso Martínez Prop Spain
Marcial Castro Prop Spain
Juan Murré Prop Portugal
Javier Miranda Prop Spain
Manuel Serrano Prop Spain
Jose Maria Sanz Prop Spain
Daniel Marrón Hooker Spain
Luis Del Moral Hooker Spain
Sergio Souto Lock Spain
Victor Sanchez Lock Spain
Jorge Molina Flanker Spain
Carlos Souto Flanker Spain
Alvaro Nuñez Flanker Spain
Kieran Williams Flanker New Zealand
Joe Mamea Number 8 Samoa
Iván Criado Number 8 Spain
Player Position Union
Sale Ibarra Scrum-half Spain
Pablo Feijoo Scrum-half Spain
Uale Mai Fly-half Samoa
Jaime Nava Centre Spain
Manuel Raposo Centre Spain
Jose Maria Revilla "Toche" Centre Spain
Pedro Rodriguez Wing Spain
David Martin Wing Spain
Eduardo Fernandez la Mela Wing Spain
Esera Lauina Wing Samoa
Jaike Carter Wing England
Luis Gascón Fullback Spain
Chuchi Sarmento Fullback Spain
Ian Davey Fullback England

International honours

Other notable players

Notable Signings

Honors

See also

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