C.S.D. Rangers

Rangers
Full name Club Social de Deportes Rangers
Nickname(s) Los piducanos, Los rojinegros
Founded November 2, 1902
Ground Estadio Fiscal, Chile
(Capacity: 17,020)
Chairman Ricardo Pini
Manager Gabriel Perrone
League Primera División
2011 2nd Primera B
Home colours
Away colours

Club Social de Deportes Rangers, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Talca. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the First division of the Chilean football league. Their home games are played at the Fiscal stadium, which has a capacity of approximately 17,000 seats.

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History

The name Rangers (meaning ‘One of the Defending Watchman’) was chosen by a Scotsman, Juan Greenstret, who was one of the founding fathers of the Club.

The origin of the chosen team colours, red and black, are unknown, though one of the possibilities was that some of the first players were also members of the Second Company of Firemen of Talca, whose shield was red and black.

In 1952 was accepted into the Segunda División, and won the runners-up spot after finishing second in the league tournament final, getting the promotion to Primera División.

Rangers qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 1970, being its only participation in a CONMEBOL international tournament.

Throughout their first century of existence, honours have been few and far between, with no Championship successes.

Rangers was relegated in 2009 after being assessed a three-point penalty for using too many non-Chilean players in a November 8 match. The club filed a lawsuit in a Chilean court, leading to a threat from FIFA to throw the Chilean national team out of the 2010 World Cup if the case continued.[1] Under pressure from creditors, Rangers dropped the lawsuit on November 27, shortly after FIFA's demand. The case delayed the start of the league's playoffs.[2]

In 2010, the club was auctioned and purchased by a business group called "Piduco SADP".[3]

On November 27, 2011, Rangers was promoted to Primera División after beating to Everton de Vina del Mar in the final match.

National honors

1988, 1993, 1997
Runner-up: 1969, Apertura 2002

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Best: First Round in 1970
1970: First Round

Current squad

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

No. Position Player
1 GK Ezequiel Cacace
2 DF Javier Capelli
3 MF Cristián Abarca
5 DF Manuel Ormazábal
6 DF Cristián Olivares
8 MF Gabriel Roth
9 FW José Carlos Tabares
10 FW Cristian Milla
11 FW Iván Álvarez (captain)
12 GK Martín Gutiérrez
15 MF Cristián Durán
16 MF José Salcedo
17 MF Felipe Díaz
No. Position Player
21 DF Francisco Orellana
22 MF Luis Rojas
23 GK Juan Luis Mora
25 MF Jonathan Moraga
28 MF Camilo Farías
29 DF Nicolás Muñoz
30 MF Miguel Saldía
33 FW Cristóbal Bustamante
-- DF Gonzalo Abascal
-- DF Damián Ledesma
-- MF Carlos López
-- MF Milton Caraglio
-- FW Felipe Reynero

Notable players

Managers

  • Nemesio Lora (1952)
  • Charles Bown (1953)
  • Ladislao Pakozdy (1953–55), (1967)
  • José Luis Boffi (1956–57)
  • Renato Panay (1957), (1960)
  • José Klamar (1958)
  • Guillermo Baeza (195?)
  • Sergio Sagredo (1959)
  • Omar Cabral (1960–61)
  • José Dunevicher (1961)
  • Donato Hernández (1962)
  • Adolfo Rodríguez (1963–66), (1975–76)
  • Hernán Rodríguez (1967)
  • José Santos Arias (1968)
  • Oscar Andrade (1952), (1968–71)
  • Sergio Cruzat (1971)
  • Hernán Gárate (1972)
  • Jorge Reyes (1972)
  • Miguel Ángel Montuori (1972)
  • Pedro Areso (1972–74)
  • Constantino Mohor (1975)
  • Eladio Benítez (1975–76)
  • Eugenio Jara (1975–76), (1984), (1991–92)
  • Jorge Venegas (1977)
  • Ramón Climent (1978)
  • Carlos Collado (1978)
  • Carlos Contreras (1978)
  • Arturo Rodenak (1978–79), (1982), (1985–86), (1990–91)
  • Antonio Vargas (1980), (1985), (1994)
  • Sacha Mitzjaew (1980)
  • Sergio Gutiérrez (1980), (1991)
  • Alfonso Sepúlveda (1981)
  • Germán Cornejo (1981), (1987)
  • Gastón Guevara (1982)
  • Orlando Aravena (1983)
  • Gustavo Cortés (1984)
  • Armando Tobar (1986)
  • José Lagos (1987), (1989)
  • Hugo Solís (1988–89) (1993–94)
  • Miguel Ángel Leyes (1989)
  • Jorge Luis Siviero (1990)

Official sponsors

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