Rangers de Talca
| Rangers de Talca | |||
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Club Social de Deportes Rangers | ||
| Seat | Talca | ||
| founding | 1902 | ||
| president |
 Felipe Muñoz
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| Website | rangersdetalca.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Luis Marcoleta
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| Venue | Estadio Fiscal de Talca | ||
| Places | 8,200 | ||
| league | Primera B de Chile | ||
| 2019 | 13th place | ||
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The Club Social de Deportes Rangers is a Chilean football club from Talca . The club was founded in 1902 and plays its home games at the Estadio Fiscal de Talca , which can seat 8,200 spectators. Rangers de Talca, who has never been a Chilean football champion before, currently plays in the Primera División , the top division in Chile .
history
The Club Social de Deportes Rangers , also known as Rangers de Talca , was founded in 1902 in the city of Talca , the capital of the Región del Maule in the center of the country. The name of the club refers to an idea of one of the founding fathers, a Scotsman, based on the Glasgow Rangers club there .
Initially, the Rangers de Talca were not to be found in professional football in Chile for a long time. It was not until 1952 that he was promoted to the Segunda División, the second highest division in the country. There they immediately finished second and qualified for the Primera División for the first time in 1953 . In the period that followed, the club repeatedly experienced phases in which you could establish yourself in the top division and achieve decent placements, but also phases that brought the team back into second or even third division. Probably the greatest success in the club's history was achieved by the Rangers de Talca in 1969, when they finished second in the Primera División, only two points separated the Rangers from CF Universidad de Chile , which was able to secure the championship. But by this second place in the table, the team was eligible to start the Copa Libertadores 1970 . Here, however, they retired in the first group stage as the last of group three behind Club Guaraní , Universidad de Chile, Club Olimpia and the two Colombian representatives Deportivo Cali and América de Cali . To this day, this participation in the Copa Libertadores is the only one for the club, which soon went downhill again after the runner-up, only a few years later they played second class again.
The Rangers de Talca have been playing in the first Chilean football league again since 2012. Previously, they had prevailed in November 2011 in relegation games against CD Everton de Viña del Mar and achieved promotion to the Primera División. In 2012, with eighth place in the overall statement, not only did they more than secure relegation, they could even take part in the playoff games for the championship by finishing fifth in the Torneo Clausura. There, however, CD Huachipato turned out to be too big a hurdle in the semi-finals, after having previously eliminated Deportes Iquique .
successes
- Chilean runner-up : 2 × (1969, Apertura 2002)
- Chilean second division championship : 3 × (1988, 1993 and 1997)
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores : 1 ×
- 1970 : first group stage
Known players
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Vicente Cantatore , who coached the big CD Cobreloa team in the early 1980s and played for the Rangers de Talca for some time -
Atilio Cremaschi , participant in the soccer world championship 1950 with the selection of Chile, from 1959 to 1964 last career stadium with the Rangers de Talca -
Ismael Fuentes , Chilean World Cup participant in 2010, with Jaguares de Chiapas in Mexico for a long time, began his career in Talca
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Ángel Labruna , member of the famous and extremely successful maquina from CA River Plate in Argentina, at the end of his career in 1961 with the Rangers de Talca
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Cristian Maidana , currently active for CF Atlante in Mexico, from 2011 to 2012 with the Rangers, previously with CA Banfield and Spartak Moscow
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Nicolás Peric , five-time Chilean international; the goalkeeper began his career with Rangers de Talca and has been under contract there since 2012
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Hugo Rubio , Chilean international; the center forward began his career in 1979 with the Rangers de Talca. In the Chilean national football team , he came to 36 games in which he scored 12 goals.
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Eberardo Villalobos , Chilean participant in the first football World Cup in Uruguay in 1930, was active with the Rangers de Talca at the time of the World Cup
Trainer
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Miguel Montuori , Argentine-Italian player at Fiorentina, was briefly responsible for Rangers de Talca as coach in 1972 -
Armando Tobar , two-time World Cup participant as a player in 1962 and 1966, briefly coached the Rangers de Talca on the sidelines in 1986
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Francisco Valdés (1996)
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