CD Cobresal

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Cobresal
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Basic data
Surname Club de Deportes Cobresal
Seat El Salvador
founding 1979
president Rodrigo Vargas
Website cdcobresal.cl
First soccer team
Head coach José Cantillana
Venue Estadio El Cobre
Places 20,752
league Primera División
2015 Clausura master
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CD Cobresal (officially Club de Deportes Cobresal ) is a Chilean football club from El Salvador . The club, which was founded in 1979 and became Chilean football champions for the first time in 2015, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio El Cobre , which can seat 20,800 spectators.

history

The Club de Deportes Cobresal association was founded on May 5, 1979 in the Chilean city of El Salvador in the Atacama region . A year later, the club's future venue, the Estadio El Cobre, was completed. It is noticeable that the stadium with its 20,000 seats has almost three times as many seats as the city of El Salvador residents.

CD Cobresal achieved its first promotion to the Primera División , the top division in Chilean football , just three years after the club was founded . After promotion in 1982 they were able to establish themselves in the first division, just two years later they became Chilean runner-up, just two points behind Universidad Católica . In the subsequent participation in the Copa Libertadores 1986 Cobresal was eliminated unbeaten in the first group stage.

In 1987 CD Cobresal managed to win the first title in the club's history when they won the Copa Chile final 2-0 against today's record champions CSD Colo-Colo and won the cup for the South American country. The following year, the less than ten-year-old club again won the runner-up in the league when they finished second in the Primera División behind CD Cobreloa , a club with a similar history, name and logo to Cobresal. With the end of the eighties the success of CD Cobresal also declined more and more. In 1992, the club suffered relegation to Primera División B, after having been in the first division for eight years. Although the immediate re-promotion succeeded, still as a climber missed the league in 1994 and had to relegate again. It was not until 1999 before El Salvador saw first division football again. However, the relegation followed immediately. In 2001 they returned to the highest level of Chilean club football, and this time Cobresal also managed to establish themselves permanently. The club has played in the Primera División since 2002.

Cobresal was able to establish himself in the upper third of the Primera División in the years after promotion and achieved attractive placements over seasons. In recent years, however, things got worse and worse and the club moved closer and closer to the relegation regions. After finishing the 2012 season in seventeenth place, one year later they even finished last and avoided direct relegation only because of the relegation rule practiced in Chile as in most South American countries, according to which the relegated due to their performances in previous years be determined. The now necessary relegation game against CDP Curicó Unido was then won 3-0 after two legs and remained in the Primera División. In 2015, winning the Clausura, won the first title in the Chilean league.

successes

Trainer

Known players

  • ChileChile Ronald Fuentes , Chilean World Cup participant from 1998, as a player from 1987 to 1993 with Cobresal, later the rest of his career with Universidad de Chile
  • UruguayUruguay Pablo Pallante , former Uruguayan youth international player, currently under contract with Miramar Misiones, 2011 to 2012 with CD Cobresal
  • ChileChile Franklin Lobos Ramírez , one of the people buried in the mine disaster in San José, played a total of two times at Cobresal in the course of his playing career
  • ChileChile Iván Zamorano , comes from the youth of Cobresal, later 69-time national player of Chile and player among others at FC Sevilla, Real Madrid and Inter Milan

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