C.D. Platense

For other uses, see Platense (disambiguation).

Platense

Full name	Club Deportivo Platense
Nickname(s)	Tiburón Los Escualos Los Selacios Los Platanitos
Founded	4 July 1960
Ground	Estadio Excelsior, Puerto Cortés, Honduras (Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman	Allan Ramos
Manager	Roque Alfaro
League	Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras
10-11 Apertura	6th
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Platense is a Honduran football club, located in Puerto Cortés, Cortés. The club was founded on 4 July 1960.^[1]

History

According to the records available, the following people attended Club Platense: René Paíz, Roger Riera, Roberto Mejía, Roosevelt Garbut, Manuel Flores, Héctor Sánchez, Rolando Méndez, Samuel Williams, Rodolfo Williams, Ricardo Fúnez, Nelson Larios, Julio Linares, Oscar Pineda, Raúl Betancourt, Armando López "Babalaba" Bodden, Francisco Maldonado, Humberto Dole, Rolando Zavala and Reginaldo Guevara, with the best goals in their individual seasons.All together making their teams make it to history of platense.

In the first meetings of Club Platense, the names of vaious international soccer clubs were included among the choices, from which the official name of the team was taken. Among the choices available were: Leyland, Banfield, Magallanes, and Platense of Argentina; being this last one, the most likable among the founder members of the Club.

In its beginnings, this team had the fortune to include the support of the Tela Railroad Company. The members of Club Platense where for the most part, hired by this company, while they participated with the club. This benefited them a great deal, because in addition to their salary with Tela Railroad Co. Where they received a special treatment for being soccer stars, they also received a salary from the ticket sales, as part of their contracts with Club Platense. That motivated these players, to give 100% in training, as well as in the official games.

After the Honduran National Soccer League was founded in 1964; Club Deportivo Platense became one of its '10 Original Club Members', and one of the most important Clubs of all Honduran Soccer.

By 1965, Club Deportivo Platense already possessed the great and only honor, of being the first champion of the Honduran National Football League. Among the members of the famous team, that won the first championship, were: Gilberto Zavala, Tomas Maximo, Ricardo 'Cañon' Fúnez, Felix 'Mantequilla' Guerra, Raúl Betancourt, Santos 'Kubala' Díaz, Miguel 'El Chino' Hernandez, 'Pichingo' Crosdaile, Francisco Brocatto, Carlos "Care" Alvarado, "Chita" Arzú, León Victor "Escalera" Jallú, among others.

Second Championship

Training session at Excelsior Stadium in 2005.

After having obtained the first championship of National League, Club Deportivo Platense, had to wait 36 years to win its second championship. The new format of short tournaments (opening – closure) disputed through semifinals, allowed Platense to dispute the championship; even though it finished second on the final standings. The title was to be fought out, in a series of two games against the most popular team of the country: Club Deportivo Olimpia. The first game disputed in Puerto Cortés, finished with triumph for the 'Tiburón' by scoreboard of 1-0; with goal netted by the Argentine Marcelo Verón. The return game, was won by Club Olimpia by the same scoreboard.- This forced the teams to go to over-time. The champion would be the team that scored the first goal (Golden goal). It was this way, how, with goal of Rony Morales, Club Platense conquered its second championship of National League; to win the global series by scoreboard of 2-1

Club honours

National Level

• Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: 2

1965-66, 2000-01 Clausura

Runners-up (3): 1996-97, 2000-01 Apertura, 2002-03 Apertura

• Liga de Ascenso de Honduras: 1

1982

• Champions at Honduran Cup: 2

1996, 1997

Runners-up (2): 1996-97, 1997-98

Other Facts

• First Football Champion of Honduras (1965-66).

League and Playoffs Performance

(1994–Present)[1]

Season	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	PTS	Playoffs	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	PTS
1994-95	8th	27	5	10	12	18	28	25	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995-96	4th	27	10	7	10	29	31	37	First Round	2	1	0	1	2	3	3
1996-97	3rd	27	13	8	6	28	20	34	Runners-up	8	4	2	2	13	10	14
1997-98 Apertura	1st	20	12	2	6	42	26	38	Semi-Finals	4	0	3	1	3	5	3
1997-98 Clausura	3rd	20	8	8	4	36	30	32	Semi-Finals	4	0	3	1	5	6	3
1998-99	6th	18	7	4	7	23	31	25	First Round	2	0	1	1	0	3	1
1999-00 Apertura	5th	18	6	7	5	24	24	25	First Round	2	0	2	0	2	2	2
1999-00 Clausura	2nd	18	10	4	4	39	21	34	First Round	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
2000-01 Apertura	3rd	18	7	7	4	30	21	28	Runners-up	6	1	3	2	6	6	6
2000-01 Clausura	2nd	18	11	4	3	26	13	37	Champions	6	3	2	1	9	6	11
2001-02 Apertura	2nd	18	7	6	5	16	14	27	Semi-Finals	2	0	1	1	2	3	1
2001-02 Clausura	3rd	18	9	4	5	35	25	28	Semi-Finals	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
2002-03 Apertura	1st	18	12	5	1	42	14	41	Runners-up	4	1	1	2	4	4	4
2002-03 Clausura	6th	18	4	8	6	18	20	20	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003-04 Apertura	6th	18	5	7	6	20	23	22	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003-04 Clausura	6th	16	6	2	8	18	22	20	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004-05 Apertura	6th	18	6	3	9	21	28	21	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004-05 Clausura	6th	17	5	6	6	23	19	21	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2005-06 Apertura	4th	18	8	3	7	28	34	27	Semi-Finals	2	1	0	1	1	2	3
2005-06 Clausura	7th	18	5	7	6	19	21	22	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006-07 Apertura	5th	18	7	8	3	32	29	29	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006-07 Clausura	6th	17	7	2	8	17	22	23	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007-08 Apertura	9th	18	3	6	9	17	28	15	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007-08 Clausura	8th	18	5	5	8	18	24	20	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008-09 Apertura	7th	18	6	5	7	22	26	23	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008-09 Clausura	9th	17	4	6	7	20	26	18	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009-10 Apertura	6th	18	6	6	6	23	25	24	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

All-Time Table

(From 1965-66 to 2007-08)

Seasons	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
42	1637	1269	394	455	420	1409	1415	-6

36 Game Average

Points	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
46	11	13	12	41	40	+1

International competition

CONCACAF Champions' Cup

• 1975 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

First Round v. Aurora FC -- 4:3, 0:1 (Aurora advance on away goals rule)

• 1998 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

First Round v. Aurora FC -- 2:1

First Round v. Aurora FC -- 2:1

First Round v. Real Verdes -- 0:0

First Round v. Real Verdes -- 6:0

First Round v. C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo -- 0:1

Second Round v. Deportivo Saprissa -- 1:3

Second Round v. CSD Comunicaciones -- 3:1

Second Round v. Deportivo Saprissa -- 0:0

Second Round v. CSD Comunicaciones -- 1:2

CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup

• 1997 CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup

First Round v. Juventus -- 0:1, 4:1 (Platense advance 4:2 on aggregate)

Second Round v. CRKSV Jong Colombia -- 3:1, 7:0 (Platense advance 10:1 on aggregate)

Final Round v. CD Olimpia -- 3:3

Final Round v. CSD Municipal -- 0:0

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 José Mendoza 2 DF Nahún Solís 4 DF Berny Peña 5 MF Hendry Córdova 9 FW John Beaumont 10 MF Alexander Aguilar 11 FW Juan Manuel Cárcamo 13 MF Byron Méndez 16 MF Míchel Rivera 19 FW Eddie Hernández 20 MF David Meza 21 FW Ramón Castillo 25 DF Jorge Cardona

No. Position Player 27 DF Francisco José Díaz 28 GK Víctor Coello 30 FW Ian Osorio DF Ángel Hill DF Nahún Ávila DF Luis Duarte DF Rony Morales MF Olman Romero MF Christian Batiz MF Edgard Crisanto FW Abidán Solís FW Elvis Scott FW Luis Fuentes

List Of Coaches

• Jaime Hormazábal
• Carlos Padilla
• Alberto Romero (2001–2003)
• Héctor Vargas (2009-)
• Ariel Senna (1996–1997)

Trivia

- Honduran Carlos Padilla was the coach when the team won its first championship.

- Argentine Alberto Romero was the coach when the team won its second championship.

All time top goal scorers

#	Player	Goals
1	Raúl Centeno Gamboa	53
2	Juan Manuel Cárcamo	52
3	Francisco Ramírez	47
4	Eduardo Laing	41
5	Oscar Piedrahita	33
6	Marcelo Ferreira	28
7	Carlos "Care" Alvarado	27
8	Dennis Caballero	26
9	Luis Alonso Perdomo	25
10	Marcelo Andres Verón	23

References

1. ^ "Juventud y esperanza" (in Spanish). Diario La Prensa. 2007-08-10. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928075712/http://www.laprensa.hn/especiales/2007/torneo_apertura_2006_2007/juventud_y_esperanza. Retrieved 2007-08-11. 

External links

• History of Platense