CD Green Cross
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| Full name | Club de Deportes Green Cross | ||
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| Founded | 1916 | ||
| Dissolved | unknown | ||
| Club colors | green white | ||
| Stadion | Estadio Germán Becker | ||
| Top league | Primera División | ||
| successes | Chilean champion 1945 | ||
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Club de Deportes Green Cross was a Chilean football club from Santiago de Chile . The association was founded in 1916 and dissolved in 1984. CD Green Cross was Chilean football champion in 1945.
history
The Club de Deportes Green Cross was founded on June 27, 1916 in the Chilean capital Santiago de Chile . The club was based in Santiago until 1965, before moving to Temuco and merging with a local club called Deportes Temuco to become Green Cross Temuco . After 1965 Green Cross played in Temuco, in 1984 the club was dissolved.
In total, Green Cross spent 43 seasons in Chile's highest football league, the Primera División . The greatest success in the club's history came in 1945 when the Green Cross team won the Chilean championship. The title win was achieved by a first place in the final table with three points ahead of Unión Española . In addition to winning the title in 1945, Green Cross was also able to book two championships in the second highest Chilean division, the Segunda División. In 1960 and 1963 one was Croesus of the second division. During this time, Green Cross was the meeting point for some foreign, especially Argentine, players. The most famous of these were Julio Musimessi , Federico Edwards and Eliseo Mouriño , all of whom took part in the 1958 World Cup . The latter died before he had even played a game for Green Cross, along with part of the team on April 3, 1961 in the crash of the LAN-Chile flight 210 . More than a decade earlier, another famous Argentine player, José María Minella , who himself was a ten-time champion as a player and coach with CA River Plate and namesake of the Mar del Plata football stadium , had kicked the ball at Green Cross.
successes
- Chilean Championship : 1 × (1945)
- Second division championship : 2 × (1960, 1963)
Known players
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Gustavo Albella , Argentine player, with the club from 1957 to 1961, continued with Boca Juniors, Banfield and São Paulo FC -
Ernesto Álvarez , Argentine player, from 1957 to 1958 with Green Cross, later four-time Chilean champion with Universidad de Chile
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Federico Edwards , 1958 World Cup participant with Argentina, 1961 at the end of his career with Green Cross, previously successful with the Boca Juniors
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Jorge Fossati , today's coach from Uruguay, was active as an active member of the club in 1984, the year Green Cross was dissolved, previously successfully with Peñarol -
Honorino Landa , Chilean World Cup participant from 1962, played for Unión Española for a long time, under contract with Green Cross from 1966 to 1968 -
José María Minella , very successful both as a player and as a coach with River Plate Buenos Aires, briefly with Green Cross in 1944
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Eliseo Mouriño , who moved from Boca Juniors to Green Cross in 1961, was not used because of a fatal plane crash in 1961
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Julio Musimessi , Argentine World Cup participant from 1958, active as a goalkeeper at Newell's Old Boys and Boca Juniors, from 1960 to 1961 at Green Cross
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Juan Carlos Orellana , two-time Chilean football champion with Colo-Colo and eleven-time national player, not long in the club
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Santiago Salfate , multiple champion of Chile with Colo-Colo, 1945 member of the only championship team of CD Green Cross
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Carlos Schneberger , who participated in the World Cup for Chile in 1930 and one of the first Chilean soccer stars, spent some time with Green Cross
