Dorados de Sinaloa

Dorados

Full name	Club Social y Deportivo Sinaloa
Nickname(s)	Dorados
Ground	Estadio Banorte Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico (Capacity: 21,000[1])
Chairman	José Antonio Núñez
Manager	Francisco Palacios
League	Liga de Ascenso
Clausura 2011	Runner Up
Home colours Away colours

Club Social y Deportivo Sinaloa, or simply Dorados, is a Mexican professional football club. The club plays its home games in Culiacán, Sinaloa, in the northwest of Mexico. Dorados was the youngest franchise to play in the Primera División de México, having joined the division for the first time for the Apertura 2004 tournament, when Dorados was only one year old. In the Clausura 2006 tournament Dorados was relegated to Primera División A when their rival San Luis F.C. maintained in the Primera División de México. Dorados reclaimed glory as the team reached the Clausura 2007 championship on May 19, 2007 defeating Club León with an aggregate score of 5-4. They were then able to play for a spot in the Mexican First Division facing Puebla F.C. but went on to lose the two-legged series by an aggregate score of 4-3. Later, in the Apertura 2007 tournament Dorados earned their way to the league final for second time in one year, although, Indios de Ciudad Juárez, the rivals, obtained the victory of the two legged series by 7-0. After the second game of the Clausura 2008 tournament, the Dorados board of directors and the former manager,Hugo Fernandez, made an agreement to end their contract, and signed the return of Juan Carlos Chavez who was the man to ascend the franchise to the Primera División de México in the summer of 2004. In 2008, Dorados broke a record of three consecutive finals in Primera División A, to Dorados' dismay, they lost this final 3-2 against their archival Club León. This victory was a form of retribution now that they made up for losing to Dorados last year.

Rivalry with Club Leon

Since Dorados de Culiacán's arrival to Primera División A in 2003, a rivalry was born. When the franchise was first created, in the year 2003, Dorados became champions on their first tournament, becoming the first team to ever accomplish such a thing in the Primera A. In their second tournament, they made it to the final once more, against Club Leon though they lost. Despite losing this final, Dorados and Leon, played the promotion game to Primera División de México where Dorados were victorious; they ascended. Since Dorados descended from Primera Division these two teams have played two finals, where the teams have won a final each. Dorados and Leon have played a total of 4 finals, where Dorados have won 2, and Leon as well. With these outstanding numbers, Dorados de Sinaloa vs. Club Leon has become one of the biggest rivalries in Primera Division A in the 21st century.

Honors

• Primera División de Mexico: 0

• Primera División A Championships: 2

Apertura 2003, Clausura 2007

• International Copa Ricard: Second Place

Current roster

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 Jesús Miguel García 2 DF Alejandro Mercado 4 DF Sergio Roberto Quiróz 5 DF Elías Alejandro García 6 DF Edgar Orlando Pineda 7 FW Melvin Valladares 8 MF Javier Güemez 9 MF Natividad Carrasco 10 MF Mateo Figoli (Captain) 11 FW Pablo Gabriel Torres 12 GK Miguel Marín 13 MF José Luis Castro 14 MF Ernesto Bravo

No. Position Player 16 DF Luis Mario Ávila 17 MF Mario Osuna 18 MF Juan Carlos Castro 19 MF Héctor Isidro Velázquez 20 DF Melchor Gaspar Cerda 22 DF Guillermo Chávez 23 MF Christian Javier López 24 FW Mario Padilla 25 GK José Castro 26 MF Jesús Arturo Gaxiola 27 MF Ezequiel López 28 MF Tomás Quiñones 30 MF Juan Francisco Flores

Notable players

Martín Andrizzi Pablo Facundo Bonvín Carlos Casartelli Roberto Cornejo Jonathan Fabbro Mauro Néstor Gerk César Gradito Diego Latorre Germán Leonforte Sebastián Matos Ángel Morales Leonardo Tambussi Mariano Torresi Arlindo Maracanã Flavio Rogerio Iarley Lucas Silva

Paulinho Sandro Sotilli Valdir Papel David Henriquez Patricio Ormazábal Víctor Bonilla Andrés Orozco Alex Madrigal Óscar Rojas José Enrique Madrid Jefferson Montero Adrián Aldrete Sergio Arias Tomás Banda Miguel Becerra Everaldo Begines Jared Borgetti

Omar Briceño Guadalupe Castañeda Jorge Iván Estrada Hugo García Rafael Gaytán Margarito González Carlos Alberto Hurtado Héctor López David Mendoza Aurelio Molina César Morales Daniel Osorno Luis Alberto Padilla Mario Padilla Christian Patiño Carlos Heriberto Pinto Aldo Polo

Sergio Quiroz Lorenzo Ramírez Jaime Ruiz Joel Sánchez Cirilo Saucedo Christian Valdéz Víctor Hugo Ortiz Josep Guardiola Sebastian Abreu Héctor Acuña Sergio Blanco Bosco Frontán Héctor Giménez Nelson Sebastián Maz Damián Rodríguez

Coaches

• Juan Carlos Chávez
• Alexandre Guimarães
• José Luis Real
• Carlos Bracamontes
• Juanma Lillo
• José Luis Saldivar
• Jaques Passy
• Hugo Fernández
• Jorge Almiron
• Ricardo Rayas
• Francisco Palacios

References

1. ^ doradosfc.com.mx

External links

• Official site
• Unofficial site
• Primera División
• nofficial
• nofficial forum