Atlético Club Mineros de Guayana

Mineros de Guayana

Full name	Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana
Nickname(s)	Los Negriazules, La Pandilla del Sur
Founded	1981
Ground	CTE Cachamay Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela (Capacity: 41,600 [1])
Chairman	Gilberto Velasco
Manager	Carlos Maldonado
League	Primera División Venezolana
Apertura 2010	On disputing
Home colours Away colours

The Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana, usually known as Mineros de Guayana or simply Mineros, is a Venezuelan football (soccer) club based in Puerto Ordaz.

History

The Colegio Loyola Gumilla's field, located in Puerto Ordaz, was used in football matches. The people who played at the field decided to found a football club. On November 11, 1981, the club was founded as Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana.

On November 20, 1981, the club's foundation constitutive act was signed.

On January 3, 1982, the club played its first match, against Villa Colombia FC, a Guayana's amateur club. Mineros won 2-0, both goals scored by José Pacheco.

On September 5, 1982, the club won the Segunda División Venezolana, being promoted to the following year's first division.

In 1989, the club won the first Primera División Venezolana.

Titles

• Primera División Venezolana: 1

Amateur Era (0):

Professional Era (1): 1989

• Segunda División Venezolana: 1

1982

• Segunda División B Venezolana:

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• Tercera División Venezolana: 0

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• Copa de Venezuela: 1

1984

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 4 appearances

1990: First Round

1997: First Round

2005: Preliminary Round

2008: Preliminary Round

• Copa Sudamericana: 2 appearances

2005: Preliminary Round

2006: Second Preliminary Round

• Recopa Sudamericana: 0 appearances

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• Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance

1995: Quarter-Finals

Colors

The club's colors are blue and black.

Current first team 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 2 DF Rodrigo Gómez 3 DF José Manuel Rey 5 MF Agnel Flores 6 DF Luis Vallenilla 7 FW Jose Torrealba 9 FW Orlando Cordero 10 MF Ricardo David Páez 14 DF Jose Manuel Velazquez 15 MF Jhonny Gonzalez 20 FW Iván Velásquez 23 MF Jorge Alberto Rojas 25 GK Rafa Ponzo 28 MF Nicolás Diez GK Euro Guzmán

No. Position Player GK Jose Guzmán DF Francisco Parra DF Rubén Yori DF John Chancellor DF Ramón Russian MF Luis Roberto Seijas MF Carlos Martínez MF Jair Rojas MF Marcos Gutiérrez MF Jose David Moreno MF Edson Castillo FW Armando Maita FW José Alí Meza

Notable players

• Josimar (1986 FIFA World Cup Player)
• Daniel Arismendi
• Juan Enrique García
• Giancarlo Maldonado
• Stalin Rivas

Trivia

• Mineros'blue color was chosen after Grêmio of Brazil.

Logo

The club's logo is composed of a geometrical figure, which is a carbon diamond crystal zoomed millions of times with a microscope.

Stadium

Mineros plays their home matches at CTE Cachamay, which has a maximum capacity of 41,600 people. [2] It was 1 of the 9 venues of the Copa America 2007, for this, US$160,000 were invested for the expansion of the stadium. The stadium has multiple uses, like a special kids area, an indoor gym, basketball and volleyball courts, a racing track, ten media station booths, a commercial center, movie theaters and three enormous parking lots. The stadium is surrounded by the river Caroní and the waterfall of the Cachamay Park.

References

• Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Portuguese-language Wikipedia article and from the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article (retrieved February 19, 2006).

External links

• (Spanish) Official website