Marte Quezaltepeque

Football club infobox
fullname = Club Deportivo Marte Quezaltepeque


clubname = Marte Quezaltepeque (Atlético Marte)
nickname = Los Marcianos, el Equipo bandera
founded = 22 April, 1950
ground = Estadio Jorge "Mágico" González
capacity = 32,000
chairman = Felix Guardado
manager = flagicon|Argentina Ramiro Argueta Zepeda
league = Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño
season = Apertura 2007
position = 1st (Group A)
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Club Deportivo Atletico Marte Quezaltepeque is a football club from San Salvador, El Salvador. The club's former name was Atletico Marte, for a couple of years it changed to Arabe Marte. The club has changed it's name again to Atletico Marte Quezaltepeque in the 2006/2007 season, this because the team moved to the city of Quezaltepeque. The club currently plays in Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño of El Salvador.

The club was once a prominent team in the top-tier Primera División de Fútbol Profesional winning eight championships while in the league. The team won titles in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1969, 1970, 1980-81, 1982, and 1985. [http://www.clima.com.sv/campeones.php] In those years, Salvadoran football legend Luis Ramírez Zapata and Norberto Huezo were among their stars. The team was relegated to the second division after the 2002 Clausura season, where it has remained since.

In 1981, the team was runner-up of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup losing to SV Transvaal of Surinam.

In 1991 the club won the CONCACAF Cup Winners Tournament in Guatemala.

History

Atlético Marte came to life on April 22, 1950, when the Alacranes, which was managed by some of the military, were given promotion to the Primera División de Fútbol Profesional.Atlético Marte arrival in the first division coincided with the disappearance of Libertad F.C., both players and staff were absorbed into Atlético Marte as a sign of respect.

The team were made up of great players such as the goalkeeper Ovidio López, defenders Antonio “El Chino” Montes, Isaías Choto, Alvaro Alarcón and Roberto “Venado” Barrios, Midfielders Luis Regalado and Conrado Miranda, and finally the strikers Carlos “La Rata” Gálvez, Armando “El Potro” Ruano, Obdulio Vásquez and Mario Aguila.

The original team colours were camisola cream and ochre calzoneta. In 1959 the team colours was changed to blue and white.

In the 1955-56 season, reinforced with players of the stature of Gustavo Lucha, Manuel Garay, Armando Rivas, Miguel “El Pibe” Vásquez, René “Pelón” García and Abraham “El Carabina” Jiménez, Atlético Marte won its first championship, and remained champion in the tournament 1956-57 and 1957-58. In other words, three consecutive years of being champions.

After ten years of drought in terms of titles, but always with the label of a prestigious and dangerous team, the Martian returned to the glory of winning successive championships in 1969-70 and 1970-71. It was the fourth and fifth titles respectively in its history.

From 1972 to 1979, The Martian continued fighting for the title with the teams of the primera Division, but it was not until the 1980-81 season could they raise their sixth title. They were able to reclaim the title by winning 1982-83 season, and continued with their Eighth and what would turn out to be their last title.

However, their teams quality were finally recognised internationally, when in 1992 they were crowned champion of CONCACAF Cup Winners Tournament, a contest held in Guatemala and with the presence of so many strong teams in the regions such as University of Guadalajara, Mexico; Communications, Guatemala; Saprissa, Costa Rica; and Real Estelí, Nicaragua.

They had previously made the final of Concacaf champions cup in 1981 however losing to SV Transvaal of Surinam over two leg series.

They failed to reach the final of the primera division, but maintained its strength by making two semifinal both times defeated by Aguila.The team of 1995 was directed by Reno and Renucci contained great foreigners players such as Rodinei Martins, el “ostrero” Alberi Dos Santos y Agustin Alberto “La Chochera” Castillo. The players of 1999 finished second on the table, mainly due to Emiliano Pedrozo, Ernesto Góchez, Cristian Lopez, Chepe Martínez, Mario Pablo Quintanilla and Guillermo Morán.

Achievements

*Primera División: 81955, 1956, 1957, 1969, 1970, 1980-81, 1982, 1985

*CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1981 - Runner-up
** Round 1 v. Juventud Retalteca (GUA)-- 2:2, 3:1
** Round 2 v. UANL Tigres (MEX)-- 1:1, 1:0
** Round 3 v. C.D. Marathón (HON) -- not played
** Final v. SV Transvaal (Sur) -- 0:1, 1:1, 1:2

Performance in CONCACAF competitions

*CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup (2 appearances)::1991 - Champion::1994 - Quarter-Final

Recent Updated squad

Current squad

"As of 2007"

quad Changes for the Clausura 2008

In:
*flagicon|Argentina Javier Gómez
*flagicon|El Salvador Elias vladmir Montes
*flagicon|Panama Rodrigo Tello - "signed from" Sporting '89
*flagicon|El Salvador Rafael Fuentes

Out:

Notable players

El Salvador
* Ramón Fagoaga
* José Luis Rugamas
* Norberto Huezo (1976, 1985-86)
* Conrado Miranda
* Luis Ramírez
* Guillermo Ragazzone
* Wilfredo Iraheta
* Miguel Ángel Díaz
*flagicon|Uruguay Alberto Fay(1976-1980)
* Roberto Rivas
* Santiago Cortés
* Salvador Cabezas
* Ernesto Aparicio
* Guillermo Castro
* Sergio Méndez
* Alberto Villalta
* Ernesto Gochez (1995-2001)
* Carlos Alfonso 'El Papo' Castro Borja
* Santana Cartagena
* Jose Maria Rivas
* Marcial Turcios
* Luis Ricardo Guevara Mora
* Mauricio 'Pachin' Gonzalez

Sierra Leone
* Abdul Thompson Conteh (1994-95)

Argentina
* flagicon|El Salvador Emiliano Pedrozo (2000-2002)
* Juan Fullana
* Andrés Puig

Dominican Republic
* Oscar Mejia (2001-2003)

Uruguay
* Alejandro Larrea (1994-96)

Brazil
* Nildeson de Mello (1990-1991)
* Rodinei Martins (1995-1996)

Panama
* Luis Ernesto Tapia (1970-71)

Paraguay
* Irineo Núñez

Italy
* flagicon|Mexico Ricardo Bellancanzone (2002)

Honduras
* Fabricio Pérez
* Nicolas Suazo

Mexico
* Roberto Clemente
* Ramón Rodríguez (2001)
* Andrés Ortega (2001)
* Francisco Vargas (2001)

Notable Coaches

Chile
* Hernán Carrasco Vivanco (1968-70), (2002)Uruguay
* Juan Carlos Masnik (1994-1995)
* Carlos Daniel Jurado Roman (1986-87)

El Salvador
* Armando Contreras Palma
* Juan Ramón Paredes (2001)
* Luis Ángel León (2002)
* Rene Rucci Badiali
* Rigoberto Guzmán

Argentina
*Marcelo Estrada

Peru
* Agustin Castillo (1990-93)

Mexico
* Jorge Martinez (2001)

Paraguay
* Nelson Brizuela

Guatemala
* Jorge Roldan

External links

* http://www.fesfut.org.sv/cd_atletico_marte.html
* http://www.clima.com.sv/campeones.php
* http://www.elsalvador.com/enlajugada/13edicion/nota2.html
* http://www.elsalvador.com/enlajugada/13edicion/nota1.html
* http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/atleticomarte/
* http://www.diariocolatino.com/es/20050319/deportes/deportes_20050319_1678/?tpl=69