C.D. Motagua

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Motagua

Full name	Club Deportivo Motagua
Nickname(s)	Ciclon Azul (Blue Cyclone), Aguilas Azules (Blue Eagles), Los Mimados (The Loved Ones)
Founded	29 August 1928
Ground	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Tegucigalpa (Capacity: 35,000)
Owner	Pedro Atala
Coach	Ramón Maradiaga
League	Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras
2008-09 C	8th
All-time top scorer	Angel Obando (77)
Supporters groups	La Revo 1928 Macro Azurra
Honours	LINA (11) UNCAF (1)
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Club Deportivo Motagua is a Honduran football club, located in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, and plays in the Honduran top division at the Estadio Nacional. The club is one of the most successful and renowned of Honduras. The club was founded 29 August 1928.

[edit] History

[edit] Foundation

The club was founded on 29 August 1928 as the idea of Marco Antonio Ponce and supported by Marco Antonio Rosa in meeting celebrated at home of Widowed Mrs. Martha Vélez de Ramos; located at side of the Bank of London and Montreal, taking advantage of the clubs America, Honduras, Atlético and Aguila disintegrating, they decided to call to all the players of these teams forming thus the joint one Motagua. In the same meeting the Board of directors headed by Marco Antonio Rose and the doctor Alejandro Lara followed by another group of personalities were elected. This board of directors supported the Female Basketball, Baseball and Athletics teams.

[edit] First Game

Against the Tejeros del España of the Neighborhood Guanacaste 25 November 1928 in the soccer pitch the Island the result was 1:1. The referee of the encounter was Herasmo Velásquez and the captain of the Motagua was Constantine Gálvez "Tatino".

First Coach: Daniel Bustillo

[edit] Club History

Bagde used in the 1980s and 1990s.

The club "blue", was founded 29 August, 1928 by idea of the poet Marco Antonio Ponce and supported by Marco Antonio Rosa, and is a fusion of the disintegrated teams America, Honduras, Atlético and Aguila; that being inspired in the Motagua River that in those times was in dispute with Guatemala they gave origin to the "Cyclone", and is nowadays one of the teams with most achievements, popular and oldest of Honduras.

The metropolitan club is one of the best of Honduras and Central America and already has accumulated many championships, being also an old acquaintance of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, where has participated in diverse opportunities although yet has not been able to arrive a final hostess; in 1986 had her but noticeable action al to achieve the fifth position.

In season 1965-66 it debuted in National League, on 18 July in the city of La Ceiba against the "reds" of the Vida, where they succumbed 1:4. It was to 3 years later of the inauguration of the Professional League that achieved their first national title in 1968-69 under the management of the Honduran coach Rodolfo Godoy. This year Motagua also obtained the first ever Honduran Cup, winning the double that season.

It repeated in 1970-71 and 1973-74, being this one of the better times of the "Ciclón Azul". Pitifully in 1972-73 the national championship was declared nil, depriving him to Motagua to be judged the title that it had almost in the market, since carried an almost insurmountable advantage on its escort to few dates of the end.

After having achieved the title of the regular season in 1978-79, Motagua classifies to the playoffs, obliged to play the finals where they raise their fourth cup.

The Honduras national football team sees its dream carried out and classifies to a world cup of soccer where does history, carrying as base to Motagua and Real España.

They passed 13 long years until in the season 1991-92 savored again a championship in one of the ends but recalled by the standard "blue". In 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1998 it achieves four subtitles of the discontinued Honduran Cup.

In the season 1997-98 the league brings to our feet the innovative opening tournaments system and closure, and Motagua he manages to judge both, being this the first one double championship in the history of the motagüenses, double championship that was repeated barely 2 years but late achieving the opening and closure of 1999-2000. Some months before in January 1999 there was crowned as champion of the Honduran Super Cup after beating in the final Platense of Puerto Cortes.

In the 2000 again Motagua is base of the selection, in this occasion of the Sub-23 and Honduras achieves for the first time in its history its pair to some Olympic games.

The last title, Motagua achieved it on 17 December, 2006 (2006-2007 Apertura season) after defeating Olimpia and not letting them win their 4th consecutive final. One year later in December 2007, they won their first international competition in Copa Interclubes UNCAF 2007, but three weeks later Motagua lost the domestic title in the 2007-08 Apertura season.

In their football record, Motagua was crowned in 27 opportunities, this number includes amateur and professional tournaments, and is one of the clubs that has given more glory to Honduran football by forming players of high level that have known to behead in our different national selections, as in foreign clubs.

[edit] League and cups performance

[edit] All time top scorers

• As of 2009-10 Apertura

No.	Player	Goals
1	Angel Obando	77
2	Oscar "Martillo" Hernández	68
3	Luis Alberto "Chito" Reyes	51
4	Jairo Manfredo Martínez	50
5	Amado "Lobo" Guevara	50
6	Mario Blandón Artica	46
7	Edwin Geovani Castro	40
8	Mario Hernán Juvini Carreño	38
9	Salvador Bernárdez Blanco	37
10	José Francisco Ramírez	36

[edit] Records

• As of 2009-10 Apertura

[edit] Performance at Copa Interclubes UNCAF

[edit] Appearances in International Tournaments

[edit] All-time record vs. opponents

[edit] Domestic level

• As of 2009-10 Apertura

• Other teams statistics missing.
• Games decided in penalty kicks are counted as ties.
• Postseason matches are included.

[edit] International level

• As of 4 September 2008

Opponent	First Meeting	Last Meeting	G	W	D	L	F	A	PTS	+/-
Comunicaciones (GUA)	27 - Jul - 1986	20 - Dec - 2002	15	4	9	2	15	15	21	0
Municipal (GUA)	21 - Jun - 1974	30 - Oct - 2007	8	3	2	3	7	9	11	-2
Juventus (BLZ)	26 - Jun - 1993	18 - Jul - 1999	4	2	2	0	9	2	8	+7
Saprissa (CRC)	25 - Apr - 1969	05 - Dec - 2007	15	1	5	9	7	24	8	-17
Real Estelí (NCA)	07 - Aug - 2007	16 - Aug - 2007	2	2	0	0	5	1	6	+4
Cartaginés (CRC)	05 - May - 1974	19 - May - 1974	2	2	0	0	3	0	6	+3
San Francisco (PAN)	18 - Sep - 2007	26 - Sep - 2007	2	2	0	0	2	0	6	+2
Olimpia (HON)	?? - ??? - 1979	?? - ??? - 1979	2	1	1	0	2	1	4	+1
Atlético Marte (SLV)	04 - May - 1986	18 - May - 1986	2	1	0	1	4	2	3	+2
Marathón (HON)	01 - Nov - 2002	01 - Nov - 2002	1	1	0	0	2	1	3	+1
Firpo (SLV)	24 - Feb - 1999	25 - Jul - 1999	2	1	0	1	2	2	3	0
Tauro (PAN)	17 - Aug - 2001	23 - Oct - 2002	2	1	0	1	2	2	3	0
Alianza (SLV)	?? - ??? - 1979	03 - Apr - 1997	4	0	3	1	5	6	3	-1
Pancyprian-Freedoms (USA)	10 - Apr - 1983	26 - Apr - 1983	2	1	0	1	3	4	3	-1
Pembroke Hamilton (BER)	31 - Aug - 1986	06 - Sep - 1986	2	1	0	1	3	5	3	-2
Real España (HON)	29 - Nov - 1997	29 - Nov - 1997	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Galaxy (USA)	16 - Mar - 2003	16 - Mar - 2003	2	0	1	1	2	3	1	-1
Pachuca (MEX)	11 - Mar - 2008	19 - Mar - 2008	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	-1
Aurora (GUA)	?? - ??? - 1979	20 - Nov - 1997	3	0	1	2	3	6	1	-3
Alajuelense (CRC)	25 - Apr - 1992	22 - Dec - 2002	4	0	1	3	3	11	1	-8
Arabe Unido (PAN)	18 - Dec - 2002	18 - Dec - 2002	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	-1
Santiagueño (SLV)	?? - ??? - 1979	?? - ??? - 1979	2	0	0	2	2	6	0	-4
Arsenal (ARG)	19 - Aug - 2008	04 - Sep - 2008	2	0	0	2	1	6	0	-5
Totals			82	23	27	32	83	109	96	-26

• Friendly matches not included.
• Games decided by penalty shootout are counted as ties.

[edit] Achievements

Motagua is the second most successful club in Honduras having won 11 tournaments of the current format, long behind Olimpia that has won 20 tournaments.

• Professional Leagues: 11

1968-69

1970-71

1973-74

1978-79

1991-92

1997-98 A

1997-98 C

1999-00 A

1999-00 C

2001-02 A

2006-07 A

• Amateur Leagues: 1

1949-50

• Honduran cups: 1

1968-69

• Honduran Supercups: 1

1997-98

• Central American cups: 1

2007

[edit] The Club

[edit] Colours and badge

Home: 1928 - present

Home: 1988

Away: 2003

Away: 2007 - present

Motagua's traditional colour is dark blue representing the blue waters of the Motagua River. This is because that at the time the club was founded, the Motagua River was in dispute between Honduras and Guatemala

The Motagua badge has a blue eagle. This is because one of the desitengrated club that united to become Motagua was Aguila which translates to Eagle.

[edit] Stadium

Main article(s): Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa

Motagua plays their home matches on estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino. The stadium is named after the Honduran president Tiburcio Carias Andino. The stadium is divided into Sol Norte, Sol Sur, Sol Centro, Preferencia, Silla and Palco. The Motaguan supporters "La Revo" are located at Sol Norte and the "Macro Azurra" sit in Sol Centro.

[edit] Traditions

There are some traditions within the Motagua institution.

Debuting players- When a new player debuts, the next day he must shave his head. This is optional, most of the players that do shave are recently promoted from the reserve team or are young of age.

New Signings- USually on the first day of training of new players they are surrounded by his teammates and they start kicking him.

[edit] Supporters

Motagua has many supporters throughout Honduras. Motagua has one Barra Brava and three other supporters' groups. The barra brava is "Los Revolucionarios del Motagua 1928", who call themselves "La Revo". This fan group has "bandas" or smaller groups inside La Revo such as (from Tegucigalpa) "Los Fuser", "Los Dementes", "Escuadron 57", "Comando 21", "Los Poltershe", "Irreverentes", "Capone", "Infernales", "Danger's", "Anarkia", etc. (from Comayagua) "C26", (from San Pedro Sula) "Los Del Norte", (from La Ceiba) "Revo Ceiba", (from Choluteca) "Revo Choluteca", (from El Progreso) "Revo Progreso", (from Siguatepeque) "Revo Sigua". All of the "bandas" hang "mantas" or huge pieces of cloth saying their banda's name inside the stadium. They also hang one with the barra's website and many of Che Guevara. Matches from Motagua against Olimpia it's illegal to hang these mantas because some of the members go to steal them and cause great scandal so police prefer banning this. La Revo don't cause many scandals between other barras bravas in Honduras only with Olimpia's Ultra Fiel. Throughout 2006-2007 La Revo had problems with Marathon's Furia Verde but they came to peace under the same belief in all of Honduras. "Por Una Honduras Libre De Chucos" which translates to "For a Honduras free of Dirtbags" (Chucos being Olimpia). Marathon, Real España and Motagua's barra bravas all have a manta with this phrase.

Another of the biggest fan group is named "Macro Azurra" which is supported by the club. They can be easily be spotted in the stadium because they generally have always blue ballons. This group is bigger in the northern territory and is sponsored by the club and by Fed-Ex.

There are also two smaller groups one being "Fortaleza Azul" and "JAH" which stands for "Justicia Amor y Humildad" which means "Justice Love and Humbleness". JAH is a religious based fan group which was founded by seven members of the Jehová es Nuestro Pastor church. JAH say that their trips are paid by God.

[edit] Rivalries

Motagua vs Olimpia:Their matches are known as the clasico capitalino, Clasico Local (Local Classic) or Clasico Capitalino (Capital's Classic). They are rival since both clubs are from the same city.

Motagua vs Marathón: Other rivalries include the Classic of the M's which is the matches played against Marathon.

Motagua vs Real España: The Motagua - Real Espana classic is not as fierce as the other two already mentioned as these both teams are very good with each other from the players, the board and the fans.

The smallest rivalry which might be called extinct was with Universidad since in the beginning this team was also from Tegucigalpa. Universidad in various occasions let Motagua out of the play-offs. It might be called extinct since Universidad relegate two second division and is in serious financial crisis.

[edit] Presidents

[edit] Managers

[edit] Notable former players

See also Category:Motagua players

Honduras

[edit] Current Season

[edit] Squad

[edit] First-team squad

• As of 2009-12-17
• The players in bold have senior international caps

No. Position Player 1 GK Ricardo Canales 2 DF Gustavo Alvarado 3 DF Guillermo Díaz 4 DF Johnny Leverón 5 DF Milton Reyes 6 MF Mauricio Weber 7 FW Georgie Welcome 8 MF Jorge Claros 9 FW Shannon Welcome 10 FW Sergio Diduch 11 FW Marcelo Cabrita 12 DF Iván Guerrero 13 MF Ronald Martínez 14 MF Luis Guzman 18 FW Meller Sánchez 19 MF Emilson Cruz 21 DF Emilio Izaguirre

No. Position Player 22 GK Donaldo Morales 23 MF Dani Lloyd 26 DF David Molina 27 DF Mario Gómez 28 DF Samir García 30 MF Rubén Rivera 31 MF Carlos Cruz 33 DF Esdras Padilla 35 FW José Valladares 36 MF Javier Portillo 43 FW Jairo Martínez FW José Rivera DF Eleazar Padilla DF Carlos Pineda DF Sergio Mendoza MF Amado Guevara

[edit] Current technical staff

President	Pedro Atala
Vice-President	Javier Atala
Director of Football	Héctor Zelaya
Head Coach	Ramón Maradiaga

[edit] Retired numbers

16 – Edy Vasquez, retired for 2 years in commermoration of Edy Vasquez's death

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• LaRevo1928 Oficial Supporters Site
• Fan Site - Ciclonhn.com
• Fan site - Ciclconazul.com