CD Arturo Fernández Vial
| Fernández Vial | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Club Deportivo Corporación Arturo Fernández Vial | ||
| Seat | Concepción | ||
| founding | 1903 | ||
| president | Claudio Vargas | ||
| Website | fernandezvial.cl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | vacant | ||
| Venue | Estadio Municipal de Concepción | ||
| Places | 30,500 | ||
| league | no | ||
| 2013 | 1st place, Tercera División | ||
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The Club Deportivo Corporación Arturo Fernández Vial is a Chilean football club from Concepción . The club was founded in 1903 and plays its home games in the Estadio Municipal de Concepción , which can seat 30,500 spectators. CD Arturo Fernández Vial currently does not belong to any league. Since 2013, the club has been excluded from league operations due to financial problems.
history
In 1897, a football club called Internacional de Concepción was the first such club to be founded in the city of Concepción , which now has around 210,000 inhabitants in western Chile . This can be seen as the predecessor of the later CD Arturo Fernández Vial. In 1903, Internacional de Concepción, whose members were mainly railway workers, was renamed Club Deportivo Corporación Arturo Fernandez Vial during a strike . Arturo Fernández Vial contributed significantly to the positive end of the strike for the workers, which, in addition to his involvement in the naval battles of Iquique and Punta Gruesa , earned him the naming of the club. CD Arturo Fernández Vial was the first major football club in Concepción. Today's strongest associations in the city of Deportes Concepción and CD Universidad de Concepción were founded in 1966 and 1994, respectively.
CD Arturo Fernández Vial also had its greatest peak in the early years of Chilean football. Back then, very popular regionally, Arturo Coddou and Horacio Muñoz, two players from the Chilean squad for the 1930 World Cup, played for the club. Since there was no professional championship in Chile until 1933, CD Arturo Fernández Vial was unable to leave such a permanent mark at its peak as clubs like Badminton FC , CD Magallanes or CD Green Cross were able to do due to their strength at the beginning of the professional league. Arturo Fernández Vial, on the other hand, had already disappeared from the upper range of Chilean football by this time. The club played under class for more than half a century and was only able to build on the successes from the time after the turn of the millennium in the early 1980s.
As the master of the Primera B 1982 CD Arturo Fernández Vial rose to the 1983 season for the first time in the club's history in the Primera División as the highest professional league in Chile. There you finished as a climber in the first season with ninth place in a midfield. Only one year later, however, they had to relegate back to Primera B due to a two-point deficit on Audax Italiano La Florida . There the immediate resurgence succeeded and CD Arturo Fernández Vial played first class from 1986 in a second period. This phase comprised a total of seven seasons, in which the club was able to establish itself for the first and only time in the first division. While one was in the relegation battle for the majority of the years, Fernández Vial 1991 played his best season to date in the club's history. In the Primera División, the team ended up in fifth place and reached the qualifying round for the Copa Libertadores 1992 , in which, however, they finally showed themselves to be defeated.
Only a year later, however, CD Arturo Fernández Vial rose for the second time from the Primera División. They ended the 1992 season as the penultimate only before CD Huachipato but with one point behind the first non- relegated CD Cobresal and had to go back to Primera B after seven years of first class. In the following period the club disappeared again into insignificance and also has to struggle with massive financial problems. After the Tercera División had ended in 2013 in first place and would actually have been promoted, games in the league system had to be stopped due to money problems. The club still exists, only currently without any involvement in the league.
successes
- Primera B : 1 × (1982)
- Tercera División : 2 × (1981, 2013)
Known players
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Edgardo Abdala , former national player of Palestine and player of Unión San Felipe, Deportivo Ñublense and Huachipato, career start and end with Fernández Vial -
Arturo Coddou , who participated in the World Cup in 1930 with the Chilean national football team, spent his entire playing career with Arturo Fernández Vial -
Mario Kempes , world champion and World Cup top scorer from 1978 and long-time player at Rosario Central and Valencia CF, in 1995 at the age of 41 for eleven games for Fernández Vial -
Pablo Marini , Argentine attacker from Instituto Córdoba, Nueva Chicago, Arsenal de Sarandí and San Martín de San Juan, ended his career with Fernández Vial
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Horacio Muñoz , Chilean participant in the Football World Cup in Uruguay in 1930, played for Fernández Vial for a long time and continued to work for Colo-Colo
Trainer
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Nelson Acosta , Uruguayan player and coach in Chile, including Chilean national coach from 1996 to 2001, 1982 to 1984 player and then from 1984 to 1988 coach of Fernández Vial -
Ricardo Ortíz , coach of Fernández Vial for a short time in 1999, continues to be coach at Defensor Sporting, River Plate Montevideo and CA Cerro, among others
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Mario Soto , as a player of Chilean World Cup participants from 1982, later coach of Unión San Felipe, the Santiago Wanderers and Cobreloa, in 2012 brief engagement with Fernández Vial