Deportes Melipilla

Deportes Melipilla

Full name	Corporacion de Deportes Melipilla
Nickname(s)	Potros, Caballos
Founded	January 24, 1992
Ground	Estadio Municipal Roberto Bravo Santibáñez Melipilla, Chile (Capacity: 6,000)
Chairman	Juan Sandoval
Manager	Guillermo Páez
League	Chilean Tercera División A
2011	10th
Website	Website Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Deportes Melipilla is a Chilean Football club, based on Melipilla, in the Metropolitan Region of Chile. It was founded on January, 24 1992 as a successor of Club Deportivo Soinca Bata. Currently the team competes in the Primera Division B after coming back up to this division due to financial problems faced in 2009, which lead the team to go to Tercera Division A for the 2010 season. The club has its classic rival, Provincial Talagante, however they haven't played each other in a couple of years.

Deportes Melipilla has its own stadium called Estadio Municipal Roberto Bravo Santibáñez situated in the its city with a capacity of 6,000.

Titles

• Primera Division B: 2

2004, 2006

Notable players

• Rodrigo Barrera
• José Luis Cabión
• Diego de Gregorio
• Javier di Gregorio
• César Díaz
• Fernando Solís
• Arturo Vidal (former)
• Héctor Pericás
• Christian Traverso
• José Carlo Fernández

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 Franco Velázquez 2 DF Gonzalo Iturbe 3 DF Sergio Mejías 4 DF Daniel Castillo 5 DF Cristian Cofré 6 DF Franco Valencia 7 MF Franco Gómez 8 MF José Durán 9 FW Javier Parraguez 10 MF Sebastián Ampuero 12 GK Sebastián Perez

No. Position Player 13 DF Cristian Gajardo 14 DF Jaime Cisternas 15 MF Orlando Santis 16 FW Raúl Gutiérrez 17 FW Fernando Henríquez 18 MF Erickson Carcamo 19 FW Benjamín Adriasola 20 MF Francisco Tapía 21 MF Eduardo Atabales 22 MF Camilo Aguilar 23 MF Manuel Magaña

Managers

• 2000 - 2002 Gustavo Huerta
• 2002 - 2005 Juan Ubilla
• 2005 Guillermo Páez
• 2006 - 2007 Luis Musrri
• 2007 - 2008 Ronald Fuentes
• 2008 José Díaz (intern)
• 2008 Ricardo Dabrowski
• 2008 José Díaz
• 2009 Jorrit Smink
• 2009 Emiliano Astorga
• 2010 - 2011 Luis Abarca
• 2011 - Guillermo Páez

See also

• Chilean football league system

External links

• Club Website (Spanish)
• Current Squad (Spanish)
• Team's Division (Spanish)