Imbabura SC
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| Surname | Imbabura Sporting Club | ||
| Seat | Ibarra , Ecuador | ||
| founding | January 3, 1993 | ||
| president | Luis Aguirre | ||
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| Head coach | Sixto Vizuete | ||
| Venue | Estadio Olímpico Ibarra | ||
| Places | 18,600 | ||
| league | Segunda Categoría | ||
| 2018 | 4th place (final round, group D) | ||
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Imbabura Sporting Club is an Ecuadorian football club that plays its home games in Ibarra , the capital of the Imbabura province .
Imbabura SC was founded in 1993 in the Gardenia stocking factory by President Luis Aguirre in Atuntaqui near Ibarra and began to play in local leagues. After a few years in regional competitions, where the club won the championship of the province of Imbabura in 2004 and 2005, the club rose to the second Ecuadorian league, Primera B, by taking second place in the promotion tournaments of the provincial champions for the 2006 season . In the 2006 season they became champions of the Clausura tournament and rose to the first division. The club is the first club from the Imbabura province to compete in the first Ecuadorian league.
Imbabura SC pursues a strategy that consistently relies on players and the environment from the Imbabura province. 95% of the 2006 squad were born in the province, most of them in the poor Chota Valley , which has produced a significant portion of the country's current national team. In this way, the club managed to achieve promotion with the lowest budget in the 2nd division (around 300,000, according to other sources 600,000 dollars). The star of the team at the time was Edmundo Zura , who already played a friendly international match against Brazil on October 10, 2006 as a second division player. The Argentine Daniel Neculman , signed in 2007, was the top scorer of the 2007 main season together with Christian Lara .
The club plays its home games in the Olympic Stadium in Ibarra, which has a capacity of 17,260 spectators. The team remained undefeated 13 times in a row by the end of the 2006 season. The first game in the first division on February 10, 2007 ended without defeat: 1: 1 against Deportivo Azogues . On matchday five (February 25), Imbabura lost 2-1 at home as the undefeated leaders against Barcelona SC Guayaquil . The 2007 Apertura season ended Imbabura in 8th place out of 10 teams. At the end of the season, the club rose as the last of the second half of the season and the overall table due to poorer goal difference against Club Social y Deportivo Macará again from the second division. After relegation Edmundo Zura moved to Barcelona SC Guayaquil, Daniel Neculman to Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia. Zura returned to Ibarra after half a year, but was immediately loaned out again to Newcastle United Jets in Australia. At the beginning of 2009, after lengthy negotiations, he switched to CD El Nacional within Ecuador. The negotiations dragged on because the president of the association, Luis Aguirre, apparently personally benefited greatly financially from Zura's contracts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ AP, Santa Fe contrato a Daniel Neculman , El Comercio , January 6th of 2008.
- ↑ Luis Alberto Otero H., Zura y una historia de neo-esclavitud , futbolecuador.com, January 13, 2009.
Web links
- Galo Vallejos, Imbabura creció rápido , El Comercio, 2007
- Fabricio Zavala García, Imbabura SC Un equipo de obreros , Revista Estadio, edition of March 20, 2007.