C.S.D. Rangers

Rangers

Full name	Club Social de Deportes Rangers
Nickname(s)	Los piducanos, Los rojinegros
Founded	November 2, 1902
Ground	Estadio Fiscal, Chile (Capacity: 17,020)
Chairman	Ricardo Pini
Manager	Gabriel Perrone
League	Primera B
2009 Apertura	18th
Home colours Away colours

Club Social de Deportes Rangers, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Talca. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the Second division of the Chilean football league. Their home games are played at the Fiscal stadium, which has a capacity of approximately 17,000 seats.

History

The name Rangers (meaning ‘One of the Defending Watchman’) was chosen by a Scotsman, Juan Greenstret, who was one of the founding fathers of the Club.

The origin of the chosen team colours, red and black, are unknown, though one of the possibilities was that some of the first players were also members of the Second Company of Firemen of Talca, whose shield was red and black.

In 1952 was accepted into the Segunda División, and won the runners-up spot after finishing second in the league tournament final, getting the promotion to Primera División.

Rangers qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 1970, being its only participation in a CONMEBOL international tournament.

Throughout their first century of existence, honours have been few and far between, with no Championship successes.

Rangers were relegated in 2009 after being assessed a three-point penalty for using too many non-Chilean players in a November 8 match. The club filed a lawsuit in a Chilean court, leading to a threat from FIFA to throw the Chilean national team out of the 2010 World Cup if the case continued.^[1] Under pressure from creditors, Rangers dropped the lawsuit on November 27, shortly after FIFA's demand. The case delayed the start of the league's playoffs.^[2]

In 2010, the club was auctioned and purchased by a business group called "Piduco SADP".^[3]

National honors

• Second Division: 3

1988, 1993, 1997

• First Division: 0

Runner-up: 1969, Apertura 2002

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 1 appearance

Best: First Round in 1970

1970: First Round

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 Ezequiel Cacace 2 DF Javier Capelli 3 MF Cristián Abarca 4 MF Marco Villaseca 5 DF Manuel Ormazábal 6 DF Cristián Olivares 7 MF Cristian Maidana 8 MF Gabriel Roth 9 FW José Carlos Tabares 10 FW Cristian Milla 11 FW Iván Álvarez (captain) 12 GK Martín Gutiérrez 13 DF Abraham Gómez 14 FW Matías Rubio 15 MF Cristián Durán

No. Position Player 16 MF José Salcedo 17 MF Felipe Díaz 18 MF Elias Sepulveda 19 MF Luis Flores Manzor 20 MF Javier Vatter 21 DF Francisco Orellana 22 MF Luis Rojas 23 GK Juan Luis Mora 24 DF Miguel Ángel Ayala 25 MF Jonathan Moraga 28 MF Camilo Farías 29 DF Nicolás Muñoz 30 MF Miguel Saldía 33 FW Cristóbal Bustamante -- FW Diego Churín

Notable players

Julio César Abatte Vicente Cantatore Gastón Cellerino Gino Clara Gustavo Semino Gonzalo Favre Ángel Labruna Omar Enrique Mallea Cristian Milla Héctor Scandolli Javier Vatter Márcio dos Santos Iván Álvarez Rodrigo Barra Juan Covarrubias Atilio Cremaschi Ismael Fuentes

Carlos Garrido Boris González Marcos Gonzalez Cristián Montecinos Rodrigo Núñez Nicolás Peric Mauricio Pozo Hugo Eduardo Rubio Juan Soto Mura Eberardo Villalobos Marco Villaseca Alex Whiteley Ike Uzoma Patricio Acevedo Bruno Pesce Roberto Moreira Ramón Castro

Managers

Nemesio Lora (1952) Charles Bown (1953) Ladislao Pakozdy (1953–55), (1967) José Luis Boffi (1956–57) Renato Panay (1957), (1960) José Klamar (1958) Guillermo Baeza (195?) Sergio Sagredo (1959) Omar Cabral (1960–61) José Dunevicher (1961) Donato Hernández (1962) Adolfo Rodríguez (1963–66), (1975–76) Hernán Rodríguez (1967) José Santos Arias (1968) Oscar Andrade (1952), (1968–71) Sergio Cruzat (1971) Hernán Gárate (1972) Jorge Reyes (1972) Miguel Ángel Montuori (1972) Pedro Areso (1972–74) Constantino Mohor (1975)

Eladio Benítez (1975–76) Eugenio Jara (1975–76), (1984), (1991–92) Jorge Venegas (1977) Ramón Climent (1978) Carlos Collado (1978) Carlos Contreras (1978) Arturo Rodenak (1978–79), (1982), (1985–86), (1990–91) Antonio Vargas (1980), (1985), (1994) Sacha Mitzjaew (1980) Sergio Gutiérrez (1980), (1991) Alfonso Sepúlveda (1981) Germán Cornejo (1981), (1987) Gastón Guevara (1982) Orlando Aravena (1983) Gustavo Cortés (1984) Armando Tobar (1986) José Lagos (1987), (1989) Hugo Solís (1988–89) (1993–94) Miguel Ángel Leyes (1989) Jorge Luis Siviero (1990)

Patricio Gutiérrez (1990), (1994) Eduardo Prieto (1990–91) Francisco Valdés (1992) Guillermo Páez (1995) Raúl Toro (1996–99) Eduardo Fournier (1999) José Sulantay (1999) Miguel Ángel Castelnoble (2000) Juan Ubilla (2000–01), (2009) Oscar del Solar (2002–03), (2007–08), (2009) Daniel Salvador (2004) Gerardo Reinoso (2004), (2006) Stelios Gianakopoulos (2006) Ramón Castro (2006) Juan Carlos Hernández (2007), (2008) Rubén Vallejos (2010) Fernando Cavalleri (2010) Roberto Mariani (2011) Marcelo Peña (2011) Gabriel Perrone (2011-)

Official sponsors

• Lotto
• Productos Fernández

References

1. ^ "Domestic case jeopardizes Chile's World Cup participation". ESPN Soccernet. 2009-11-26. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=704433&sec=world&cc=5901. Retrieved 2009-11-27. 
2. ^ "Chile OK for World Cup after club backs down". ESPN Soccernet. 2009-11-27. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=704466&sec=worldcup2010&cc=5901. Retrieved 2009-11-27. 
3. ^ "Piduco SADP, los nuevos dueños de Rangers de Talca" (in Español). Solamente Fútbol. 2010-08-26. http://www.solamentefutbol.cl/2010/primera-b/piducanos-sadp-nuevos-duenos-de-rangers-de-talca/. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 

External links

• Rangers Talca Website