San Salvador F.C.
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| Full name | San Salvador Futbol Club | ||
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| Founded | 2002 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador | ||
| Capacity | 58,360 | ||
| Chairman |  Marcos Flores | ||
| Manager | Hugo Coria | ||
| League | Primera División de Fútbol Profesional | ||
| Clausura 2007 | 7th | ||
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San Salvador Futbol Club is an Salvadoran football club, which currently plays in San Salvador, El Salvador in the Estadio Cuscatlán.
The team currently plays in the country's top tier league, the Primera División de Fútbol Profesional.
The club was founded in 2002, and currently has won one Primera División de Fútbol Professional championship, the 2003 Clausura.
History
San Salvador F.C. is the youngest team that isn't or was owned by the military in the First Division of Salvadorian Soccer, It was constituted on January 7, 2001, when the executives of the Club, bought the rights of ADET, by a total of $100,000, assuming a new challenge: to create a new club of the capital that represented a different option for the fans.
The new board of directors of the team, changed the traditional uniform colors of the ADET, including black and white colors, to resemble Italians teams, specifically Juventus.
As well as the old staff of the ADET, suggestion were made to be called San Salvador F.C., In his first season in the first Division was directed by the former-footballer Jaime Rodriguez and helped signed players Jorge "Mágico" González and Norberto Huezo Montoya.
The new San Salvador capital team played in the Championship of Clausura in the penultimate position of 14.. up the points of the C.D. Atletico Marte and one points above of Dragon of San Miguel. Nevertheless San Salvador F.C. managed to maintain their position in the First Division.
Despite being a young team with a new manager, Rubén Alonso, San Salvador made history when it won the Apertura 2002 by defeating FAS 3-1. On June 15, 2003 in their home stadium, just 18 months after being founded, San Salvador beat C.D. Luis Angel Firpo 3-1 to win the Salvadoran Championship.
Current squad
As of Apertura,2007: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Squad Changes for the Apertura 2007
In:
Out:
Ramon Sanchez - Transferred To C.D. Chalatenango
Notable players
El Salvador:
- Jorge "Mágico" González
- Eliseo Quintanilla
- Jose Ernesto Ochoa
- Juan Jose Gomez
- Miguel Montes
- Dennis Jonathan Alas
- Ronald Cerritos
- Norberto Huezo Montoya
- Victor Hugo Merino Dubon
- Ramón Alfredo Sánchez
Nicaragua
External links
- http://www.sansalvadorfc.com (official links) (Spanish)
- http://www.laprensagrafica.com/Lmf/Equipos/SanSalvador.asp