CD Motagua
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| Surname | Club Deportivo Motagua | ||
| Seat | Tegucigalpa | ||
| founding | August 29, 1928 | ||
| Colours | blue-carmine | ||
| president |
.svg){kind=small} Pedro Atala
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| Website | motagua.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Ramón Maradiaga
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| Venue | Nacional | ||
| Places | 35,000 | ||
| league | Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras | ||
| 2008/09 | 8th place | ||
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The Club Deportivo Motagua is a football club from Tegucigalpa , the capital of the Central American country Honduras . He has been a member of the national professional league since 1965. Due to its club color, the club also operates as el Azul in the Vernacular .
The club was founded on August 29, 1928 under the leadership of Marco Antonio Ponce , first president of the club, and Marco Antonio Rosa on the basis of the dissolved clubs América, Honduras Atlética and Aguila. The association was named in a patriotic gesture after the former border river Río Motagua , which was contested between Honduras and Guatemala .
In 1965 the association was a founding member of the national Honduran professional league . In the 1968/69 season Motagua became champions for the first time under coach Rodolfo Godoy and also won the Honduras Cup when the competition was first played . Since then, the club has won more than ten other championship titles, making it the most successful football club in Honduras after city rivals CD Olimpia .
Motagua - like arch rival Olimpia - plays its home games in the capital's national stadium, which is often referred to as the Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino after the former President of Honduras . The stadium was opened in 1948 and holds around 35,000 spectators. Tiburcio Carías Andino - in office in 1924 and from 1933 to 1949 - was also a great friend and supporter of the club, and, for example, employed many of the club's players in the state vehicle fleet, the Garaje Nacional , as an amateur .
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