Deportivo Irapuato

Football club infobox
clubname = Irapuato


fullname = Club Deportivo Irapuato A.C.
nickname = La Trinca, Freseros
founded = 1911
ground = Estadio Sergio León Chavez
capacity = 33,000
chairman = Aurelio Hernandez Arriaga
manager = Juan Manuel Rivera
league = Primera Division A
season = 2006 clausura
position = did not qualify for the playoffs
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Club Deportivo Irapuato A.C. , also known as La Trinca Fresera("The Strawberry Lashers") is a team that has mostly played in the second tier of Mexican football (Now called the Primera División A). From 2000 to 2004, the team briefly rose to prominence and to the first division reaching the playoffs or liguilla. Historically, Irapuato has spent 26 years in the first division never quite excelling to challenge for the title.

The team was relegated in 2004 but not because of their on-field performance but because of financial irregularities. The team then took a turn for the worse being relegated to its current position in the regionalized third division or Segunda Division.

The team finally returned to Primera División A when the filial team of Pachuca, Pachuca Juniors, decided to move to Irapuato, and also change their name to Irapuato FC, once again giving Irapuato a soccer team for them to stay behind. However, there is no indication of how this move or name change might have taken place. But it is known that such action has happened when Pachuca Juniors won promotion to Primera División A, and, as stated on the FMF website, moved to Irapuato and changed their name to Irapuato FC.

Current squad

Former players

*flagicon|Mexico Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales
*flagicon|Mexico Ariel Gonzales
*flagicon|Mexico Fernando Arce
*flagicon|Mexico Fernando Lopez
*flagicon|Paraguay Aureliano Torres
*flagicon|Paraguay Bernardino Aguilar
*flagicon|Paraguay Aldo Adorno
*flagicon|Costa Rica Mauricio Solís
*flagicon|Costa Rica Rónald Gómez
*flagicon|USA Yari Allnutt
*flagicon|Zambia Kalusha Bwalya
*flagicon|Peru Germán Carty
*flagicon|Brazil Edson Marcelo de Faria
*flagicon|Uruguay Carlos Miloc
*flagicon|Japan Kenji Fukuda
*flagicon|Jamaica Peter Isaacs
*flagicon|Ecuador Edison Méndez
*flagicon|Argentina Antonio Mohamed
*flagicon|Honduras Ninrod Medina

References

Links

"Clubs Giveaway" [http://www.esmas.com/deportes/futbol/373983.html] Irapuato Anthem - [http://www.futbolfemenil.org/Clubes-Irapuato.html]