Rocha FC

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Rocha
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Basic data
Surname Rocha Fútbol Club
Seat Rocha , Uruguay
founding August 1, 1999
president UruguayUruguay Pablo Scaffo
First soccer team
Head coach José Luis Bitabares
Venue Estadio Mario Sobrero (owner: Intendencia Municipal de Rocha)
Rocha , Uruguay
Places 8,000
league Segunda División
2013/14 2. (after completion of the aperture)
home
Away

The Rocha Fútbol Club , shortly Rocha (nicknamed Celeste ), is a football club from the Department of Rocha located namesake Rocha in southeastern Uruguay . He plays in the second-highest Uruguayan league, the Segunda División , in the 2014/15 season .

history

The association was founded on August 1st, 1999. It was an amalgamation of 40 associations from different cities within the Rocha department. The twelve clubs River Plate , Palermo , Tabaré , Plaza Congreso , Lavalleja , Irineo de Espada , Nacional , Deportivo Artigas , Rampla Juniors , Peñarol , Defensor Sporting and Deportivo La Paloma came from the city of Rocha itself, the others were in the cities of Chuy ( San Vicente , Nacional , Deportivo Internacional , Peñarol and Las Piedras ), Cebollatí ( Santos , Deportivo Estero , Colombes , Cebollatí and Deportivo Unión ), Velázquez ( San Lorenzo , Mevir , Racing and Independiente ), La Coronilla ( Santa Teresa , Deportivo Punta del Diablo , Olimpia and Salinas ), Lascano ( Banfield , Deportivo El Can , La Curva and El Molino ) and Castillos ( Nacional , Peñarol , Wanderers , Valizas , Amanecer and Deportivo Uruguay ). Juan Ángel Delgado, a football official from Cologne, was the first president of the new club . Juan Ramón Carrasco took over the role of player-coach.

Since the AUF was keen to see clubs from inside the country represented in the league dominated by Montevidean clubs, they went directly to the Primera División . The first game was then played on February 18, 2000 at the Estadio Luis Tróccoli in Montevideo against Racing . The match ended 1: 1. The first goal in professional football was scored by Daniel "Canario" Roselló for Rocha.

The team in the club's first professional game consisted of the following players:
César Olivera , Julio Lancieri , Enrique Saravia , Angelo Lamanna , Rubén Pereira , Mario Carballo , Martín González , Héctor Méndez , Daniel Rosselló , Juan Ramón Carrasco and Jair Rosa .

In the first half of the 2000 season they finished 13th in the Apertura . The team's most successful goalscorer was tied with coach Carrasco Daniel Roselló with nine goals scored. A 16th place after the end of the Clausura finally meant that the premiere season as a whole as table 14. completed. In the following year, they only finished 18th and thus last place in the Torneo Clasificatorio and finally had to go to the Segunda División . At the beginning of the year, Carrasco was still the coach, but was later replaced by Nelson González from Roche. At the end of the 2002 season, for which a new coach was signed with Carlos Dante Cadoso , they finished seventh overall. In the 2003 season, under coach Alberto Martínez, they first won the Torneo Apertura of the second division, after being first in the playoff final second leg on September 27, 2003 (the first leg they had lost 2-0) against Paysandú FC with 4: 1 prevailed in front of 4,000 spectators.

The following eleven secured the first title win in the history of the club:
Álvaro García , Pablo Seijas , Martín González (son of former coach Nelson González), Charlie Santos , Angelo Lamanna , Matías González (son of former coach Nelson González), Leonardo Maldonado , Luis Maguregui , Sergio Recoba , Heber Caro and Pedro Cardoso .

The most successful scorer of the half series on Rocha's side was Pedro Cardoso (seven goals). In the overall table after the Clausura, as the third-placed and best team from the interior of the country, they were entitled to move up from the second division to the Primera División for the first time, so that after two years of absence they started again from the following year.

In 2004, Julio Acuña Martínez took over as coach, who was soon replaced by Héctor Méndez after they were in danger of relegation. With a victory over Deportivo Maldonado , to which Pedro Cardoso contributed two goals, they narrowly avoided going into the second division, which the defeated opponent had to compete for. 2005 you could win after a fifth place under coach Luis González in the middle season of the changeover of the league host mode to the European system with half-time at the turn of the year, the Torneo Especial , the Apertura of the 2005/06 season.

The Rochas team included: Álvaro García, Matías González, Diego Sosa , Darwin Noguéz , left-back Diego Ciz , who came from the youth of Peñarol in 2005 , Pablo Esquivel , Martín González , Luis Maguregui , Heber Caro , Pedro Cardoso and Mauro Aldave .

The final games for the Uruguayan championship reached with it after completion of the Clausura (in which one was only 15th) on June 22nd and 25th, 2006, however, they lost to Nacional Montevideo , so that in the end only the runner-up title remained. In 2006 , however, they participated in the Copa Libertadores as the only representative from Uruguay who did not come from the capital, Montevideo . After the first round, this so far only appearance at international competition level was over again. The three home games of this group stage were played in the neighboring Maldonado Department in Maldonado .

After you were level on points with Progreso 13th in the final overall table in the 2006/07 season , you had to play two relegation games against this club to stay in class. The 2-0 defeat in the first leg a week earlier was followed by a 3-0 defeat on May 27, 2007. With that, Rocha's second first division relegation was sealed. Since then you have played in the Segunda División, where you are mostly in the midfield in the table.

In the 2013/14 season they are classified in second place in the table after the Apertura. The most successful goalscorer of the current season is Cristian Gutiérrez with six goals.

Oddities

The players of the financially weak club, which according to the club's president has to get by on a monthly budget of US $ 12,000, had to share their training grounds with a herd of cattle even during the club's successful times, so that the players symbolically after winning the Apertura completed a lap of honor with a cow.

Other departments

In addition to the youth football department, there is also a women's football team under the umbrella of the club.

Stadion

The club plays its home games in the Estadio Mario Sobrero, built in 1955 . Depending on the sources, this has an audience capacity of 8,000 or 10,000 people and has twelve press rooms.

successes

  • Torneo Apertura of the Primera División (2005/06 season)
  • Uruguayan runners-up 2005/06
  • Copa Libertadores participation in 2006
  • Torneo Apertura of the Segunda División (2003)
  • Promotion to the Primera División (2003)

Coach history

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Stadiums - Stadiums in Uruguay
  2. ^ Uruguay 2000 Championship at www.rsssf.com, accessed December 26, 2012
  3. ^ Uruguay 2001 Championship at www.rsssf.com, accessed December 26, 2012
  4. ^ Uruguay 2002 Second Level at www.rsssf.com, accessed December 26, 2012
  5. ^ Uruguay 2003 Second Level at www.rsssf.com, accessed December 26, 2012
  6. ↑ Historia (Spanish), accessed December 26, 2012
  7. ^ Uruguay 2006/07 at www.rsssf.com, accessed December 26, 2012
  8. ↑ Goleadores 2013-2014 ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 23, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / elascenso.com
  9. ↑ Article on the website of ESPN Sports (English)
  10. ^ Femenino - Torneo Uruguayo "Azerbaiyán 2012" , accessed on December 26, 2012
  11. ↑ World Stadiums - Stadiums in Uruguay
  12. ^ Club y Autoridades , accessed December 26, 2012
  13. ↑ El recuerdo de los 15 clubes chicos en su 1ª noche de copa (Spanish) on republica.com.uy from August 19, 2014, accessed on October 22, 2016
  14. ↑ Rocha Gano y espera por Miramar o Progreso (Spanish) in La República of 13 March 2007, accessed on February 21, 2015