2007–08 C.D. Motagua season

Motagua

2007–08 (A & C) season
Chairman	Pedro Atala
Manager	Maradiaga, Pineda, and Clavasquín
Apertura	Runner–up
Clausura	4th
Copa Interclubes UNCAF	Champion
CONCACAF Champions' Cup	Eliminated in Quarterfinals
Top goalscorer	League: Nascimento (10) All: Nascimento (14)
Highest home attendance	35,000~
Home colours Away colours
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 season will be well remembered for the Motagua fans, after having achieved their first international trophy in the Copa Interclubes UNCAF 2007; the team also became the league's runner-up in the Apertura tournament being beaten by C.D. Marathón. They were also the only team capable of beating C.D. Victoria, not only once, but twice. In the Clausura tournament they reached the Semifinals.^[1] In addition to playing the Honduran league and the Copa Interclubes they also competed in the last CONCACAF Champions' Cup dispute.

Apertura

Motagua played its first official game of the season at home with a 2–0 victory over Atlético Olanchano.

Squad

• The players in bold have senior international caps.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Ricardo Canales 2 DF Steven Morris 3 DF Javier Martinez 4 DF Roy Posas 5 MF Milton Reyes 6 DF Oscar Bernárdez 7 MF Steven Bryce 8 MF Miguel Castillo 9 FW Jairo Martínez 10 FW Jocimar Nascimento 11 FW Oscar Torlacoff 12 MF Rubén Matamoros 13 MF José Grant 14 MF Luis Guzmán 15 MF Walter López 17 MF Fernando Castillo 19 DF Osman Chávez

No. Position Player 20 MF Amado Guevara 21 DF Emilio Izaguirre 22 GK Donaldo Morales 23 MF Pedro Santana 24 DF Víctor Bernárdez (C) 25 GK Rony García 26 DF David Molina 27 FW Jefferson Bernárdez 28 DF Samir García 29 FW José Rivera 30 MF Rubén Rivera 31 FW Luis Rodas 32 MF Jorge Claros (VC) 33 DF Marlon Cruz 34 DF Aaron Bardales 35 FW José Valladares 36 MF Kevin Osorio

Transfer in

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

No. Position Player 4 DF Roy Posas (From Hispano) 2 DF Steve Morris (From Motagua B) 7 MF Steven Bryce (From Marathón) 15 MF Walter López (From Olimpia) 19 MF Osman Chávez (From Platense)

No. Position Player 20 MF Amado Guevara (From Chivas USA) 29 MF José Rivera (From Motagua B) 30 MF Rubén Rivera (From Motagua B) 31 FW Luis Rodas (From Achuapa)

Transfer out

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

No. Position Player 7 FW Saul Martínez (Released) 13 MF Víctor Mena (Released) 16 MF Edy Vásquuez (Died)

No. Position Player – MF Juan Tablada (Released) – MF Marvin Paz (Released) – MF Meylin Soto (Retired)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Marathón	18	10	5	3	27	16	+11	35
2	Motagua	18	9	5	4	28	19	+9	32	Qualified to the Final round
3	Victoria	18	7	10	1	22	12	+10	31

Matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H
Result	W	L	W	D	W	W	L	L	D	W	D	D	W	L	D	W	W	W
Position	1	3	3	2	2	2	3	5	6	2	2	4	3	3	4	4	3	2

Last updated: 2007-11-25.
Source: 2007–08 Apertura
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Regular season

Round 1 2007-08-12	Motagua	2 – 0	Atlético Olanchano	Tegucigalpa
	Nascimento Guevara			Attendance: 3,460

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Round 2 2007-08-19	Hispano	2 – 1	Motagua	Comayagua
	Jiménez  35'  39'		Guevara  68'	Attendance: 3,722

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Round 3 2010-08-26	Motagua	1 – 0	Deportes Savio	Tegucigalpa
	Rodas  57'			Attendance: 3,026

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Round 4 2010-08-30	Vida	0 – 0	Motagua	La Ceiba
19:30				Attendance: 3,355

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Round 5 2007-09-02	Motagua	4 – 1	Marathón	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Castillo  1' Rodas  23' Guevara  66' Bernárdez  77'		Martínez  53'	Attendance: 5,541

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Round 6 2007-10-04	Olimpia	1 – 2	Motagua	Tegucigalpa
19:30	Núñez  24'		López  7' Nascimento  73'	Attendance: 17,799

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Round 7 2007-09-15	Motagua	2 – 4	Real España	Tegucigalpa
19:30	Rodas  10' Guevara  23'		Peña  1' Fretes  44' Ferreira  60'  87'	Attendance: 5,651

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Round 8 2007-09-23	Platense	3 – 2	Motagua	Puerto Cortés
15:00	Cabrita  24'  75' Zelaya  85'		Santana  52' Rodas  70'	Attendance: 2,081

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Round 9 2007-10-01	Victoria	2 – 2	Motagua	La Ceiba
	Solís  89'  90+3'		Nascimento  16' Matamoros  84'	Attendance: 5,020

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Round 10 2007-10-07	Atlético Olanchano	1 – 2	Motagua	Catacamas
	Salinas  15'		Torlacoff  25' Nascimento  74'	Attendance: 3,082

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Round 11 2007-10-16	Motagua	1 – 1	Hispano	Tegucigalpa
	Rodas  6'		Güity  40'	Attendance: 1,675

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Round 12 2007-10-20	Deportes Savio	1 – 1	Motagua	Santa Rosa de Copán
	Róchez  60'		Santana  44'	Attendance: 3,850

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Round 13 2007-10-27	Motagua	2 – 0	Vida	Tegucigalpa
19:30	Torlacoff  3'  4'			Attendance: 1,737

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Round 14 2007-11-07	Marathón	1 – 0	Motagua	San Pedro Sula
19:30	Brown  23'			Attendance: 4,603

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Round 15 2007-11-04	Motagua	0 – 0	Olimpia	Tegucigalpa
16:00				Attendance: 15,950

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Round 16 2007-11-10	Real España	1 – 2	Motagua	San Pedro Sula
19:30	Valladares  58'		Martínez  70' Nascimento  78'	Attendance: 1,945

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Round 17 2007-11-18	Motagua	3 – 1	Platense	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Martínez  44' Bryce  61' Santana  82'		Cabrita  3'	Attendance: 2,050

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Round 18 2007-11-25	Motagua	1 – 0	Victoria	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Nascimento  72'			Attendance: 5,014

Semifinals

1st leg 2007-12-01	Victoria	1 – 1	Motagua	La Ceiba
19:30	Rosales  20'		Guevara  2'	Attendance: 9,634 Referee: José Gaspar Molina

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2nd leg 2007-12-09	Motagua	2 – 0	Victoria	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Rodas  42' Guevara  75'			Attendance: 11,899 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya

• Motagua won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

1st leg 2007-12-16	Motagua	0 – 0	Marathón	Tegucigalpa
16:00				Attendance: 16,042 Referee: José Gaspar Molina

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2nd leg 2007-12-22	Marathón	2 – 0	Motagua	San Pedro Sula
19:30	Brown  1' Scott  78'			Attendance: 26,596 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya

• Motagua lost 0–2 on aggregate.

Clausura

After having achieve the silver medal in the Apertura tournament, Motagua were looking to improve its previous campaign for the second half of the season. However they managed only to reach the semifinals. The team had to play some of their home games at Estadio Marcelo Tinoco in Danlí due to major repairs to the Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino for the 2010 World Cup qualification.

Squad

• The players in bold have senior international caps.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Ricardo Canales 2 DF Steven Morris 3 DF Santiago de Alba 4 DF Roy Posas 5 MF Milton Reyes 6 DF Oscar Bernárdez 7 MF Steven Bryce 8 MF Miguel Castillo 9 FW Jairo Martínez 10 FW Jocimar Nascimento 11 FW Oscar Torlacoff 12 MF Rubén Matamoros 13 MF Ronald Martínez 14 MF Luis Guzmán 15 MF Walter López 17 MF Fernando Castillo 18 MF José Justavino

No. Position Player 19 DF Osman Chávez 21 DF Emilio Izaguirre 22 GK Donaldo Morales 23 MF Daniel Facussé 24 DF Víctor Bernárdez (C) 25 GK Rony García 26 DF David Molina 27 FW Jefferson Bernárdez 28 DF Samir García 29 FW José Rivera 30 MF Rubén Rivera 31 FW Luis Rodas 32 MF Jorge Claros (VC) 33 DF Marlon Cruz 34 DF Aaron Bardales 35 FW José Valladares 36 MF Kevin Osorio

Transfer in

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

No. Position Player 3 DF Santiago de Alba (From San Francisco) 18 MF José Justavino (From San Francisco)

No. Position Player 23 MF Daniel Facussé (From Motagua B)

Transfer out

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

No. Position Player 3 DF Javier Martínez (To Vida) 7 MF Steven Bryce (Free agent) 13 MF José Grant (To Victoria)

No. Position Player 20 MF Amado Guevara (To Toronto FC) 23 MF Pedro Santana (Retired)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Real España	18	8	4	6	26	22	+4	28
4	Motagua	18	8	3	7	23	19	+4	27	Qualified to the Final round
5	Hispano	18	7	5	6	24	25	−1	26

Matches

Matches by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ground	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H
Result	W	W	W	D	L	D	W	L	L	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	W	W
Position	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	5	7	4	7	6	6	6	4	4

Last updated: 2007-11-25.
Source: 2007–08 Clausura
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Regular season

Round 1 2008-01-13	Motagua	2 – 0	Atlético Olanchano	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Torlacoff  64' Rodas  90+4'			Attendance: 1,909

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Round 2 2008-01-20	Motagua	2 – 0	Hispano	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Bernárdez  2' Nascimento  74'			Attendance: 2,529

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Round 3 2008-01-27	Olimpia	0 – 1	Motagua	Tegucigalpa
16:00			Nascimento  54'	Attendance: 11,934

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Round 4 2008-01-30	Motagua	1 – 1	Victoria	Tegucigalpa
19:30	Nascimento  89'		Morán  30'	Attendance: 2,441

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Round 5 2008-02-02	Marathón	2 – 1	Motagua	San Pedro Sula
19:30	de Vasconselos  68' Ferreira  90+2'		Nascimento  50'	Attendance: 2,475

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Round 6 2008-02-10	Deportes Savio	0 – 0	Motagua	Santa Rosa de Copán
				Attendance: 4,033

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Round 7 2008-02-17	Motagua	2 – 1	Real España	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Torlacoff  73' Rodas  79'		Caetano  87'	Attendance: 4,473

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Round 8 2008-02-23	Vida	2 – 1	Motagua	La Ceiba
19:30	Hernández  12' Cardozo  87'		Nascimento  90+1'	Attendance: 3,347

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Round 9 2008-03-02	Platense	1 – 0	Motagua	Puerto Cortés
15:00	Cabrita  58'			Attendance: 3,793

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Round 10 2008-03-08	Atlético Olanchano	1 – 0	Motagua	Catacamas
	Marín  78'			Attendance: 3,574

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Round 11 2008-04-02	Hispano	2 – 0	Motagua	Comayagua
	Jiménez  30' Morales  69'

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Round 12 2008-03-16	Motagua	2 – 1	Olimpia	Tegucigalpa
16:00	Torlacoff  27' Bernárdez  65'		Velásquez  32'	Attendance: 15,627

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Round 13 2008-03-29	Victoria	2 – 0	Motagua	La Ceiba
	Chávez

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Round 14 2008-04-06	Motagua	3 – 3	Marathón	Danlí
16:00	Guevara  36' Izaguirre  76' Torlacoff  90'		Furtado  47' Mayorquín  59' da Silva  71'	Attendance: 4,716

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Round 15 2008-04-13	Motagua	2 – 0	Deportes Savio	Danlí
	Castillo Nascimento

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Round 16 2008-04-19	Real España	2 – 1	Motagua	San Pedro Sula
19:30	Pavón  32'  81'		Nascimento  16'

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Round 17 2008-04-27	Motagua	2 – 0	Vida	Danlí
15:00	Nascimento Castillo			Attendance: 2,099

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Round 18 2008-05-03	Motagua	3 – 1	Platense	Danlí
15:00	Torlacoff  6' Valladares  9' Bernárdez  21'		Córdova  4'	Attendance: 4,217

Semifinals

1st leg 2008-05-07	Motagua	1 – 4	Olimpia	Danlí
15:00	Matamoros  47'		Bruschi  21' Thomas  49' Núñez  54' Núñez  76'	Attendance: 5,291 Referee: Mario Moncada

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2nd leg 2008-05-10	Olimpia	3 – 1	Motagua	Comayagua
19:00	Turcios  19' Bruschi  42' Velásquez  62'		Nacimento  37'	Referee: Beningno Pineda

• Motagua lost 2–7 on aggregate.

2007 Copa Interclubes UNCAF

As champions in the 2006–07 Apertura season, C.D. Motagua had the right to participate in the Central American club championship in 2007. Under the management of DT Ramón Maradiaga, the team imposed a record of 7 wins and 1 drawn in a total of 8 games, and lifted their first international trophy in their history.^[2]

Matches

First round

1st leg 2007-08-07	Real Estelí	0 – 2	Motagua	Estelí
			Matamoros  8' Nacimento  76'	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Gerald Henry (BLZ)

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2nd leg 2007-08-16	Motagua	3 – 1	Real Estelí	Tegucigalpa
	Castillo  30' Torlacoff  45' Rodas  54'		Vega  86'	Attendance: 3,254 Referee: Elmer Bonilla (SLV)

• Motagua won 5–1 on aggregate.

Quarterfinals

1st leg 2007-09-18	Motagua	1 – 0	San Francisco	Tegucigalpa
	Bryce  32'			Attendance: 2,515 Referee: Walter Lopez (GUA)

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2nd leg 2007-09-26	San Francisco	0 – 1	Motagua	La Chorrera
			Rodas  85'	Referee: Alexandro Jiménez (CRC)

• Motagua won 2–0 on aggregate.

Semifinals

1st leg 2007-10-23	Municipal	1 – 3	Motagua	Guatemala City
	Ponciano  56'		Guevara  27'  86' Nascimento  73'	Referee: Alexandro Jiménez (CRC)

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2nd leg 2007-10-30	Motagua	3 – 2	Municipal	Tegucigalpa
	Nascimento  10' Chávez  41' Bernárdez  65'		Ramírez  11' Romero  36'	Attendance: 6,784 Referee: Roberto Moreno (PAN)

• Motagua won 6–3 on aggregate.

Final

1st leg 2007-11-28	Saprissa	1 – 1	Motagua	San José
	Alpízar  8'		García  49'	Referee: Carlos Batres (GUA)

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1st leg 2007-12-05	Motagua	1 – 0	Saprissa	Tegucigalpa
	Nascimento  60'			Attendance: 34,254 Referee: Joel Aguilar (SLV)

• Motagua won 2–1 on aggregate.

2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

After winning the Copa Interclubes UNCAF 2007, Motagua obtained one of the three Central American tickets to the 2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup. On 17 December 2008 CONCACAF announced the pairs for the Quarterfinals, leaving Motagua in the bracket against reigning champions C.F. Pachuca.^[3]

Matches

Quarterfinals

1st leg 2008-03-11	Motagua	0 – 0	Pachuca	Tegucigalpa
				Attendance: 35,846 Referee: Elmar Rodas (GUA)

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2nd leg 2008-03-19	Pachuca	1 – 0	Motagua	Pachuca
	Montes  43'			Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Ricardo Salazar (USA)

• Motagua lost 0–1 on aggregate.

References

External links

• Motagua Official Website

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