CD Aviación
| Aviación | |||
| Full name | Club de Deportes Aviación | ||
| place | Santiago de Chile | ||
| Founded | 1957 | ||
| Dissolved | 1982 | ||
| Club colors | Red Blue | ||
| Stadion | Estadio Reinaldo Martín Muller | ||
| Top league | Primera División | ||
| successes | 8th place in 1977 and 1978 | ||
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The Club de Deportes Aviación was a Chilean football club from Santiago . The club was founded in 1957, dissolved again in 1982 and played its home games at the Estadio Reinaldo Martín Muller . Aviación never became Chilean football champion. but played from 1974 to 1980 for seven years in the Primera División .
history
The Club de Deportes Aviación was founded on December 12, 1957 in the Chilean capital Santiago . When it was founded, the club was owned by the Fuerza Aérea de Chile , the Chilean air force. This did not change over the years, until its dissolution in 1981 CD Aviación belonged to the Air Force, which can already be read from the club name, because the Spanish term Aviación stands for aviation in German .
The first few years after the club was founded, the military club bobbed around in the lower leagues of Chilean football. His rise, however, came in the early 1970s, although politically motivated. When the military around General Augusto Pinochet launched a coup against the socialist President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 , the Chilean Air Force was right in the middle. The Fuerza Aérea de Chile flew attacks from Talcahuano on Santiago de Chile, in particular on the La Moneda presidential palace , which was massively destroyed in the course of these actions. The military seized power and turned Chile into a right-wing dictatorship. In the same year, the rise of the Aviación Air Force Association reached its preliminary climax. In the 1973 second division season they finished first and rose for the first time to the Primera División , the top division in Chilean football. There Aviación was able to establish itself relatively safely as a newcomer and subsequently found itself in the first division for seven years from 1974 to 1980. The club achieved its greatest success when it reached second eighth places in the 1977 and 1978 seasons.
Two years later, however, the rapid end of CD Aviación began. The club rose in the Primera División 1980 as thirteenth of the regular season after losing playout games against Deportes Iquique , Deportes La Serena and Santiago Morning from the Primera División. After that, the club played another year in the second Chilean league, Primera División B, before the Club de Deportes Aviación was dissolved in January 1982.
successes
- Primera División B : 1 × (1973)
- Campeonato de Apertura de la Segunda División de Chile : 1 × (1973)
- Campeonato Regional de la Zona Central : 1 × (1971)
- Copa Ciudad de La Serena : 1 × (1980)
Known players
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Roberto Hodge , Chilean World Cup participant from 1966, active at club level for Universidad de Chile for a long time, from 1978 to 1979 at the end of his career at Aviación -
Honorino Landa , famous striker for Unión Española and the Chilean national team, was the last career station at Deportes Aviación in 1974
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Guillermo Páez , 1974 World Cup participant with the Chilean selection and part of the successful Colo-Colo team in the 70s, briefly active at Aviación in 1976
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Roberto Rojas , began his playing career at Aviación, where he played from 1975 to 1981, then at Colo-Colo and São Paulo FC, and 49 international matches for Chile
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Guillermo Yávar , well-known Chilean footballer of the 1970s, under contract for a long time at Universidad de Chile and Unión Española, in 1981 at the end of his career at Aviación
