Audax Italiano La Florida
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| Surname | Audax Italiano La Florida | |||
| Seat | La Florida | |||
| founding | November 30, 1910 | |||
| Colours | White / green | |||
| president | Lorenzo Antillo | |||
| Website | audaxitaliano.cl | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Francisco Meneghini | |||
| Venue | Estadio Municipal de La Florida | |||
| Places | 12000 | |||
| league | Primera División | |||
| 2019 | 7th place | |||
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Audax Italiano La Florida SADP , known as Audax Club Sportivo Italiano until 2007 , is a football club from the La Florida district in the Chilean capital Santiago de Chile . Founded in 1910 by Italian immigrants for the purpose of cycling, the colors of the club are green and white. The four-time national champion was one of the eight founding members of the Chilean professional league in 1934.
The association took on its current name when it was converted into a corporation and since then has also borne the name of the home district to express its solidarity. The club's coat of arms kept the historical initials ACSI.
history
The club was founded in October 1910 in Alberto Caffi's hat shop by Italian immigrants as the Audax Club Ciclista Italiano (→ Audax ) cycling club . Alberto Caffi himself remained president for over 23 years and a bicycle tire is still in the center of the club's coat of arms.
Football has been played at Audax since 1917. However, it was not until 1922 that a corresponding department of the club was launched, which also led to the club being renamed Audax Club Sportivo Italiano . As early as 1921, the club entered the capital league, Liga Metropolitana , where it celebrated its first major success in 1924. Audax continued to be one of the leading clubs in the following years. In 1931, the team won the title of the Primera División de la Liga Central , which was held by the Asociación de Football de Santiago .
December 9, 1932 marked a dark point in Audax's history. In a grandstand collapse in the Estadio Italiano during the championship final against Colo-Colo , three people died and 130 others were injured, some seriously. The fact that the game that was abandoned when Colo-Colo was 2-1 was counted for the opponent, was irrelevant under these circumstances.
From January to October 1933, the Audax team went on a three-America tour , a journey through North, Central and South America. Of the 68 games completed during the tour, the team won 48 and suffered only 9 defeats.
When the Chilean professional league started playing in 1933, the team was initially still traveling. She finished fifth of the eight teams that formed the league. The next season the first runner-up followed with two points behind defending champion CD Magallanes . In 1935 both teams were tied in the end. Magallanes was able to win another point at the green table and thereby achieved a championship trick.
In 1936 Audax finally managed to win the championship. In 1937 Audax reached the final of the pre-season tournament Campeonato de Apertura , but was defeated there by arch-rival Magallanes 0-2. Before the following season there was a 1: 3 defeat in the final of the same tournament against Colo-Colo. In 1941 Audax moved into the final of the competition for the third time and this time after a 2-1 win against Magallanes, he was able to win the first title of this tournament. In 1943 and 1944 the Audinos reached two more finals, but lost each time against Santiago Morning , one of the top teams of that era.
After rather mixed years in the championships of the late 1930s and early 1940s, Audax won the Chilean championship title in 1946 and 1948, the latter being secured three game days before the end of the season. Juan Zárate scored 22 goals for Audax that year and became the top scorer. With the championship of 1948, the golden era of the club came to an end, although in 1957 it was possible to build on it again with the fourth championship title.
From then on, mostly Colo-Colo and the university teams of the Universidad de Chile and the Catholic University made the championship among themselves. Audax sank into mediocrity and finally got down for the first time in 1971. After the 1976 season, the promotion succeeded. The absence lasted longer when you had to start your way back to the second division in 1986 and the renewed comeback in the first division was nine years away.
The Paraguayan Salvador Cabañas 2003 and Carlos Villanueva 2007 from Audax became Audax's first top scorer since Carlos Reinoso in 1968. Villanueva was also named Footballer of the Year in Chile that same year . But the most important was the runner-up in the Clausura tournament in 2006.
Audax Italiano was also rewarded for its recent successes in 2007 and 2008 with its first two Copa Libertadores participations.
Stadion
The home stadium of Audax is the multi-purpose stadium Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida . The community-owned stadium was inaugurated in 1986 and holds around 12,000 seats. It has an artificial turf playing surface. The stadium is part of a larger sports complex that also has training fields, pools and the like.
The stadium was modernized for the 2008 U-20 women's football championship. The opening game was a friendly international football match on November 13, 2008 between the women's teams of Chile and France, which the host women won 3-0. Marie Laure Delie scored the first goal in stadium history.
successes
- Masters of Chile : 1936, 1946, 1948, 1957
- Campeonato de Apertura : 1941
Trainer
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Luis Álamos (1967–1968)
Audax's top scorer in the first division
- 2007 C / 20 goals: Carlos Villanueva
- 2003 A / 18 goals: Salvador Cabañas
- 1968/21 goals: Carlos Reinoso
- 1951/21 goals: Carlos Tello
- 1948/22 goals: Juan Zárate
- 1945/17 goals: Hugo Giorgi
- 1944/19 goals: Juan Alcántara
- 1937/16 goals: Hernán Bolaños
- 1936/14 goals: Hernán Bolaños
- 1934/19 goals: Carlos Giúdice
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