Cobreloa

Cobreloa

Full name	Club de Deportes Cobreloa
Nickname(s)	Mineros, Loínos , Zorros del desierto, Huracan Naranja, Zorros, Zorreros
Founded	1977
Ground	Estadio Municipal de Calama Calama, Chile (Capacity: 20,180)
Chairman	Juan George
Manager	Nelson Acosta
League	Primera División
2011 Apertura	15th
Home colours Away colours

Club de Deportes Cobreloa is a Chilean football club from the Atacama Desert mining city of Calama which has established itself as one of the country's most competitive clubs. The club was founded on January 7, 1977 and play in the Chilean top flight, the Primera División, where they have played since 1979. Cobreloa play in Municipal de Calama stadium, which has a capacity of 20,180. Their main rivals are Colo-Colo, Deportes Antofagasta, and Cobresal. They wear an all-orange home kit.

History

Cobreloa is a relatively new club, having been founded on January 7, 1977. The name Cobreloa comes from combining the Spanish word for copper (Cobre), and Loa, after the Loa River, the longest river in Chile, which is located near Calama and Chuquicamata, the world's largest open pit copper mine.

The club was able to establish itself in Chile's top flight very quickly, earning promotion after its first season, where they have stayed ever since. Only four years after their foundation, Cobreloa reached the finals of the Copa Libertadores in 1981, losing in a third match to Brazilian club Flamengo. Cobreloa reached the Copa Libertadores final the following year, losing to Peñarol of Uruguay. The club also reached the semi-final of the Copa Libertadores in 1987.

They have competed in the Copa Sudamericana once in 2002 when they were eliminated in the first round and twice in the Copa CONMEBOL: In 1995 they reached the quarter-finals and the following year were eliminated in the first round.Cobreloa have 8 Primera División titles and 1 Copa Chile title making them the most successful side outside Santiago in Chile.

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 Sebastián Contreras 3 DF Miguel Sanhueza 4 DF Rodolfo González 5 MF Cristian Rojas 6 DF Boris González 7 MF Juan Silva 9 FW Javier Elizondo 10 MF Hugo Lusardi 11 FW Diego Barrios 14 DF Felipe Rojas 15 GK Luciano Palos 17 DF Sebastián Rocco 18 FW Patricio Schwob 19 MF Nicolás Leiva

No. Position Player 20 MF Carlos Gomez 21 DF Bryan Cortés 22 GK Nicolás Peric 23 MF Paulo Rodríguez 24 FW Sebastián Zúñiga 25 MF Andrés Oroz 26 MF Pedro Vera 27 FW Nicolás Trecco 28 DF Álvaro López 29 MF Alexander Corro 31 DF Cristian Suárez 32 DF Ivan Cantillana -- DF Ngouloure Mahamat -- FW Gustavo Ponce

Retired Number(s)

8 – Fernando Cornejo former captain, died in January 2009.

Honours

National honours

• Primera División: 8

1980, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1992, 2003-A, 2003-C, 2004-C

• Copa Chile: 1

1986

International honours

• Copa Libertadores de América: 0

Runners-up (2): 1981, 1982

Records

• Club records
  • Largest victory: 10-0 (v. O'Higgins in the Copa Chile, 1979)
  • Largest Primera División victory: 9-0 (v. Regional Atacama in 1983)
  • Heaviest Primera División defeat: 1-6 (v. Huachipato in 1998)

• Individual records
  • Most league goals in a single season: 42 (Patricio Galaz in 2004)
  • Most league goals in total: 104 (Juan Covarrubias)
  • Most goals in total: 144 (Juan Covarrubias)
  • Most Primera División appearances: 446 (Hector Puebla from 1980 to 1996)
  • Most appearances in total: 662 (Hector Puebla from 1980 to 1996)

Notable players

José Luis Díaz Rodrigo Mannara Nicolás Tagliani Marcelo Trobbiani Julio César Baldivieso José Milton Melgar Ngouloure Mahamat Armando Alarcón Charles Aránguiz Mauricio Aros Jean Beausejour Fernando Cornejo Juan Covarrubias César Díaz Ítalo Díaz Mauricio Donoso Enzo Escobar Luis Pedro Figueroa Marco Antonio Figueroa Eduardo Fournier

Edgardo Fuentes Luis Fuentes Patricio Galaz Eduardo Gómez Rubén Gómez Aníbal González Boris González Daniel González Hugo González Juan Luis González Pedro González Vera Fernando Hurtado Francisco Ibáñez José Luis Jerez Juan Carlos Letelier Fernando Martel Rodrigo Meléndez Victor Merello Arturo Norambuena Juan Olivares

Andrés Oroz Mario Osbén Esteban Paredes Rodrigo Pérez Nicolás Peric Jean Paul Pineda Camilo Pino Mauricio Pozo Hector Puebla Jaime Riveros Sebastián Rocco Alexis Sánchez Mario Soto Hugo Tabilo Nelson Tapia Carlos Tejas Francisco Valdés Rubén Vallejos Eduardo Vargas Adán Vergara

Eduardo Vilches José Luis Villanueva Paolo Vivar Alex Whiteley Oscar Wirth Guillermo Yávar Nicolas Asencio Eduardo Bennett Pablo Abdala Lucas Barrios Pablo Caballero Marco Lazaga Darío Verón Alex Magallanes Osvaldo Canobbio Luis Garisto Baudilio Jáuregui Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Washington Olivera Jorge Luis Siviero

Sources

• (Spanish) Libro Oficial Cobreloa Un Impacto en el Desierto (2007), Carlos Gómez/Cedep, Chile
• (Spanish) Official site