Cruz Azul Hidalgo

Cruz Azul Hidalgo

Full name	Club Deportivo Social y Cultural Cruz Azul Hidalgo
Nickname(s)	La Maquina
Founded	1993
Ground	Estadio 10 de Diciembre Cd. Cooperativa Cruz Azul, Hgo. México (Capacity: 17,000)
Chairman	Guillermo Álvarez Cuevas
Manager	Carlos Jara Saguier
League	Liga de Ascenso
Apertura 2008	10th
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Cruz Azul Hidalgo also known as Cruz Azul is a professional football club in Mexico currently playing in Liga de Ascenso. Their stadium is Estadio 10 de Diciembre located in Ciudad Cooporativa Cruz Azul (before Jasso) in Hidalgo and is the Affiliate team of Cruz Azul.

History

past badge.

The club started playing in the 3a División professionally under the name Cruz Azul Hidalgo, then some seasons later got promoted to 2a División B then in one single season got promoted to 2a División A. Finally the team successfully got promoted to Primera División A or now known as Liga de Ascenso. After Some seasons playing in Primera División A and disputing one finals, the team changed their name to Cruz Azul Oaxaca and move to Oaxaca under Directive orders. After some seasons it was decided to move back to Jasso,Hidalgo and brought back the name Cruz Azul Hidalgo

Stadium

The Estadio 10 de Diciembre was created for Cruz Azul until they moved to Mexico City leaving it without a team. Cruz Azul Hidalgo then started playing there. The stadium can hold 17,000 comfortably and the stands offer some good shade.

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 13 MF Alam Bello 16 DF Jair Pereira 17 DF Manuel Mariaca 20 GK Javier Caso 31 DF Jorge Argumaniz 32 MF Jairo César Villeda 33 MF Leonardo Casanova 34 DF Raúl Bustamante 35 MF Jesús Eduardo Compeán 36 DF Giovanni Marín 37 FW Víctor García 38 MF Omar Alberto López 39 DF Omar Israel Mendoza 40 FW Edgar Enrique Martíni 41 DF José Cruz Santiago 42 MF Alberto Villagómez 43 FW Eloy Alonso González

No. Position Player 44 MF Diego de la Cruz 45 MF Omar Mendoza 46 MF Juan Fernando Méndez 47 FW Martín Galván 48 DF Gienir García 49 DF Alberto Rodríguez (Captain) 50 FW Juan Diego González 51 MF Jafet Misraim Camou 52 MF Ricardo Gutiérrez 53 MF Josimar Antonio Larios 54 DF Hiram Mondragón 55 GK Marcos Alán Patista 56 DF Francisco Javier Sartiaguin 57 DF Germán Rodríguez 58 MF Luis Guillermo Trillo 59 MF Pedro Valverde 60 FW Omar Arroyo

Club Honours

• Segunda División de México: 1

1994-95

External links

• Current Players (Spanish)