Nacional Potosí

Nacional Potosí

Full name	Club Atlético Nacional Potosí
Founded	March 24, 1942
Ground	Estadio Victor Agustín Ugarte (Capacity: 30,000)
Chairman	Emilio Alave
Manager	Julio Zamora
League	Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano
Adecuación 2011	10th
Home colours Away colours

Nacional Potosí is one of Bolivia's oldest football clubs, it was founded on March 24, 1942. The team played in second division football most of its years. When in 2004 it came under the ownership of Emilio Alave, the team embarked on a serious attempt to win promotion to the professional league, coming close in 2007 when losing to Aurora on the relegation play-off. The following year Nacional came back and won the Copa Simon Bolívar, gaining promotion to first division. In 2009 Nacional made his debut in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano. However, the club couldn't survive its first season and was relegated.

Achievements

National Honours

• First Division - Professional Era: 0

• First Division - Semiprofessional Era: 0

• Second Division, Copa Simón Bolivar: 1

2008

Runners-up (1): 2007

Current squad 2011

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 Eder Jordán 2 DF Miguel Hurtado 3 DF Vinicius 5 DF Santo Armador 6 MF Joe Escobar 7 MF Helmut Gutiérrez 8 MF Didi Torrico 9 FW Cristian Badaracco 10 MF Ronald Puma 11 FW Gabriel Ríos 12 GK Bernardo Leyenda 13 MF Nicolás Canalis 14 MF Pablo Fernanadez

No. Position Player 15 MF Saúl Montoya 16 MF Roly Urdininea 17 MF Marcelo Vildoso 18 MF Bryan Aldave 19 MF Brolin Jordan 20 FW Gustavo Padilla 21 MF Jhosimar Prado 22 MF Edgar Escalante 23 MF Juan Pablo Aponte 24 MF Henry Bazan 25 MF Henry Machado 26 MF Roy González MF Álex da Rosa

References

• clubnacionalpotosi
• [1] Ascenso a Primera División

Taylor, Chris. (1998) The Beautiful Game: A Journey Through Latin American Football.