Ñublense

This article is about the Chilean soccer team. For the province in Chile, see Ñuble Province.

Ñublense

Full name	Deportivo Ñublense S.A.D.P.[1]
Nickname(s)	Diablos Rojos Longaniza Mecánica
Founded	August 20, 1916
Ground	Estadio Municipal Nelson Oyarzún Arenas Chillán (Capacity: 12,000)
Chairman	Alex Kiblisky
Manager	Jorge Garcés
League	Primera División
Primera A 2010	13th
Home colours Away colours

Deportivo Ñublense S.D.A.P (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɲublense]) is a professional football team based in Chillán, Ñuble Province. The club was formed in 1916 under the name of Liceo Fútbol Club. They compete in the Primera División Chilena, in which they have been playing since their promotion from Primera B in 2006.

History

Amateur Era

Ñublense was formed on 1916 by a group of teenagers led by the Chillán lyceum men's teacher, Manuel Lara Gutiérrez, that decided to found a sports club, which serve as a haven for sports activities in Chillán. On 20 August of the same year, in the men's lyceum of the city, the club was named as Liceo Fútbol Club, in the ramas of the club were basketball, boxing, football and others.^[2]

The football team, remained for a long time participating in the local leagues, where highlighting be champions during 11 years consecutive (1938-1949). Among their ranks, passed many players, the most noted players were Eduardo Sanhueza Martín, Candelario Sepúlveda, Tomás Figueroa Bravo, Carlos González Utreras, Humberto Fagnilli Fuentes. One of player that passed for the club, Humberto Fagallini, renamed the name of the club calling it Liceo Ñublense.

On 1942, with Lautaro Vásquez Landa as the coach of the team, the team was renamed as Club de Deportes Ñublense. The club continued in the local leagues until 1957, but the president of the club and former boss of civil registry of the city in this time, Moisés Noriega Alarcón, made that the team pass to amateur football joining to the Regional Championshisp of Concepción, playing with teams like Lord Cochrane, Universitario, Gente de Mar, Galvarino and Fernández Vial.

Ñublense in the professional football

In 1959, after of a management of the coach in this time, Mario Avedaño, the football committee accepted the postulation of Ñublense for play in the professionalism, and Ñublense entered to the professional football of Chile.^[3] In the first year of Ñublense in the professional football, the team was prepared and training. In the club, the Argentine coach Martín García arrived to the club, also arrived many youth players, and the goalkeeper of Universidad de Chile, Luis Venzano Justiniano, whom was the first professional football player in the team.

In 1961, with Renato Sánchez Solar as the coach, was realizated a most memorable club contract, José Borello, the player of Boca Juniors and also the Argentina national football team. In this occasion, the team was ubicated in the fourth position of the tournement. During this moment, passed many important dirigents in the club like Carlos Abel Jarpa Vallejos, Vicente Cox Vial, Luis Fischer, and the sirs Cusacovich, Foster, this dirigents achieved the stability of the club.^[4] The first two years Ñublense played in the only hardback football field in Chillán, the stadium of Seminario School, whilst the grass was sown, was constructed the gallery and the dressing room.

In 1976, the team realizated one its best seasons, with Pedro Guzmán Alvarez in the presidence and Isaac Carrasco as the coach of club, the team won the Primera B (Second Division), and the team was promoted to the Primera División Chilena of 1977. The second year in Primera División, Ñublense had among they ranks the most important coach of the team history, Nelson Oyarzún Arenas, nicknamed consommé, because to that he forced to players to savor a consommé after of the games, shortly after he win the respect of the fans. Unfortunately, on 10 September 1978, Nelson Oyarzún died of cancer, in the afternoon of the same year Ñublense won 2−1 to Colo-Colo in a memorable game. Shotrly after, the Estadio Municipal de Chillán was renamed as Estadio Municipal de Chillán Nelson Oyarzún, in his honor.

The fall of Ñublense

In 1979, Ñublense was relegated to Primera B with Hernan Godoy as the coach, but one year later, Ñublense newly was promoted to Primera División, occupying the second place of the promotion, as runner-up. But the but the joy was short-lived, because the was newly relegated to segunda and after to Tercera División, and also the team had financial problense and the team loss his name of Ñublense, now calling it Ñuble Unido. During three years of the team in tercera, arrived many coachs and dirigents, but not achieved good results.

In 1985, the ex-player of the team Esaú Bravo arrived to the team as the coach, and the team won the Tercera División title, being undefeated during all games, and the team newly promoted to the Primera B. Whilst the coach of the time, Héctor Canahuete, renegotiated the debt that had the club, recovering the name of Ñublense. In 1991, Ñublense refused to sign the squad, and the team newly was relegated to Tercera División.

In 1992, Esaú Bravo rerturned to Ñublense's bench, and newly he made the promotion of Ñublense to Primera B, after beating San Luis Quillota 4–2 for the Primera B promotion playoffs. Ñublense newly had serius problems, even so, in 1995, Ñublense made a good performance in Copa Chile 1995, eliminating to Colo-Colo in quarterfinals, but being eliminated for Universidad Católica in semifinals. In 1996, was a chaos for the club, being a unpublished fact of the team of this year, taking the decision of dismissed themselves for refusing to pay the squads, but the dirigents of the team in this moment, saved to Ñublense of the auto-relegate for squad no-pay.

In 2000, the team newly was relegated to Tercera, and in 2001 Ñublense was nearly relegated to the Cuarta División Chilena against C.D. General Velásquez, the team was to 30 seconds to relegated to Cuarta, but with a goal of Edgardo Medina, the team was remained in Tercera División.

Recent seasons

Club Deportivo Ñublense's home, ubicated in Bulnes 377, Chillán.

The former sportscaster and employer of the zone, Sergio Zarzar, acquired the club in 2004. In the same year, the club was promoted to the Primera B, after of win the Tercera División title, under the coach Luis Marcoleta.

Ñublense was runner-up of the Primera B of 2006 and returned to the Primera División Chilena in 2007. In this year, the club was ubicated in the ninth position of the Primera División Chilena 2007 annual table. During the summer of 2008, Fernando Díaz assumed as the coach of the club, because the departure of Marcoleta to Curicó Unido.

Under the management of Díaz in the Torneo de Apertura, Ñublense realized the most notable season in its history, the club finished in the first place of the regular fase with 41 points over Universidad Católica and O'Higgins, both clubs with 36 points. Now in the playoffs, Ñublense was eliminated in semifinals by Colo-Colo. Because the first place obtained, Ñublense qualified the Copa Sudamericana 2008 for first occasion in the club's history. In this tournement, Ñublense was immediately eliminated by the Peruvian club Sport Áncash, in an aggregated of 4-1.

Currently the club has not good campaigns, because that in the Primera División Chilena 2009 season, Ñublense finished in the 13th position in the Annual table with 39 points, nearly going to the promotion playoffs. The club once finished in the 13th position in the Primera División Chilena 2010, newly nearly going to the promotion playoffs.

Stadium

Main article: Estadio Municipal Nelson Oyarzún Arenas

Official inauguration of the stadium in 2008.

Estadio Municipal de Chillán Nelson Oyarzún Arenas is a stadium located in Chillán, Chile and owned by the Chillán municipality. It is home to Ñublense football club. It is named after Nelson Oyarzún Arenas, a Ñublense coach. It was inaugurated in 1961 and has a capacity of 12,000.

In 2007 the stadium was selected as a venue for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and to comply with FIFA standards, it was completely demolished and rebuilt (even the direction the pitch is facing was altered), its capacity was decreased from 17,500 to 12,000; and a roof covering all seats was built. The renovation of the stadium cost a fee of 12.000 million pesos ($26 million) The stadium was re-inaugurated on 2 November 2008, including the former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet went to the event.

On 27 February 2010, during the 2010 Chile earthquake, the "pacific" gallery suffered a collapse, falling almost the entire gallery.

They have played at the Estadio Municipal Nelson Oyarzún Arenas since 1961, the stadium was totally reconstructed in 2008 for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the reconstruction cost a fee of 12.000 million pesos ($26 million)^[5] and includying the stadium was officially presented by the former president Michelle Bachelet.^[6] On the 2010 Chile earthquake, the stadium suffered many damages, among they, were the destruction of the "pacific" gallery.^[7]

Supporter and Rivalries

In 2007, Ñublense's fans were frequently to support to the team, and the team's fans achieved the fourth position in the public average of Torneo de Apertura de Chile 2007, under the "three giants of Chile", Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica and Colo-Colo.

Ñublense's fans and Ñublense people in general are known as 'red devils' or 'reds' which is reference to the same color of Premier League team Manchester United F.C., the fans also called "La Longaniza Mécanica" (The mechanical sausage), this nicknames occur after the good season in 2008, because in the Torneo de Apertura de Chile 2008, Ñublense realized a notable season ending first, qualifying to the playoffs and the Copa Sudamericana 2008, for first time in the history of the club. In these moments the team was frequently compared with Manchester United.

In 21 May 2008, the fans marked the highest assistance of Ñublense's history against Colo-Colo with 25,000 spectators, for the second leg of the semifinals of the Torneo de Apertura de 2008.

Ñublense apparently has no rivals. But it seems that Curicó Unido, Deportes Concepción, Universidad de Concepción and Universidad Católica are Ñublense rival teams. These rivalries are still not official.

Players

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 Alexis Viera 2 DF José Herrera 3 DF Alí Manouchehri 4 DF Sebastián Montecinos 5 DF Julio Barroso 6 DF Eros Pérez 7 FW Adrián Faúndez 8 MF Nicolás Núñez 9 FW Jaime Grondona 10 MF Pablo González 11 FW Reinaldo Navia 12 GK Diego Fuentes 13 MF Mathías Riquero 15 FW Gonzalo Vásquez 16 FW Lucas Concistre 17 MF Jonathan Cisternas

No. Position Player 18 DF Diego Olate 19 MF Alejandro Vásquez 20 MF Roberto Luco 21 DF Benjamín Ruiz 22 MF Nicolás Díez 23 GK Miguel Jiménez 24 MF Gerardo Basaes 25 FW Marcelo Ibáñez 26 GK Donald Segura 27 DF Raimundo Torrealba 28 DF Andrés Sepúlveda 29 FW Yashir Pinto 30 MF Eric Olivares 31 MF Pablo Parra -- MF Ubaldo Núñez

Notable players

José Borello (1962-64) Bruno Martelotto (2008) Néstor Zanatta (2005-07) Mauricio Arias (2006) Rodrigo Barra (2007) Jaime Bravo (2008-09) Carlos Arturo Cáceres (2000-03), (2004-05) Carlos Cisternas (2007) Jonathan Cisternas (2008-) Gerardo Cortés (2006) Juan Covarrubias (1996) Luis Flores Abarca (2007-) José Luis Jerez (1998-99) Cristobal Jorquera (2007)

Fernando Martel (2008) Álvaro Ormeño (2000) Mario Osbén (1971) Alejandro Osorio (2008) Alfonso Parot (2010) Renato Ramos (2009-2010) Joel Reyes (2008-2010) Humberto Suazo (2000) Manuel Villalobos (2005-07) Danilo Aceval (2007) Edgardo Abdala (2006-08) Leonardo Zamora (2007-09) Chase Hilgenbrinck (2006-07) Gabriel Migliónico (2007)

Honours

• Primera B: 1

1976

• Primera B Apertura: 1

1971

• Tercera División: 3

1986, 1992, 2004

Club records

• Record League victory: 5–0 vs. Deportes Antofagasta in Primera División (24 April 1977)
• Record League defeat: 1–8 vs. Deportes Naval (2 January 1982)
• Record attendance: 25,000 v Colo-Colo, (21 May 2008)
• Most League goals scored: total, 47, Manuel Villalobos (2005–2007)
• Most goals scored, season: 23, Luis Flores Abarca (Apertura 2008)
• Highest league position: 1st, Apertura 2008
• Lowest league league: 18th, Primera División Chilena 1979
• Copa Chile best: Semifinalists 1995

References

1. ^ http://anfp.cl/portal1a.php?equipo=5
2. ^ "Historia Roja". Historia Roja.cl. http://www.historiaroja.cl/modules.php?name=historia. 
3. ^ "Historia Roja: Los 50'". Historia Roja.cl. http://www.historiaroja.cl/modules.php?name=los50. 
4. ^ "Historia Roja: Los 60'". Historia Roja.cl. http://www.historiaroja.cl/modules.php?name=los60. 
5. ^ "Red de Estadios Bicentenario". Chiledeportes.cl. http://www.chiledeportes.cl/estadiosmundialsub20/chillan.php. Retrieved 2009-07-12. 
6. ^ "Bachelet inauguró el nuevo Estadio "Nelson Oyarzún" de Chillán". Cooperativa.cl. http://www.cooperativa.cl/prontus_nots/site/artic/20081102/pags/20081102133716.html. Retrieved 2008-07-12. 
7. ^ "Techumbre del estadio se vino abajo". Diario la discución.cl. http://www.diarioladiscusion.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7684:techumbre-del-estadio-se-vino-abajo&catid=50:futbol&Itemid=59. Retrieved 2009-03-01. 

External links

• Fans Website (Spanish)