Santos Laguna

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Santos
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Basic data
Surname Club Santos Laguna
Seat Torreón , Mexico
founding 1983
Colours Green white
president Alejandro Irrarragori
Website clubsantoslaguna.com.mx
First soccer team
Head coach Guillermo Almada
Venue Estadio TSM Corona ,
Torreón , Coahuila
Places 30,000
league League MX
Clausura 2019 11th place
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The club Santos Laguna , also known as Santos Laguna or shortly Santos , is a Mexican football club from Torreon , Coahuila . Since November 11, 2009, Santos has been playing at the Estadio TSM Corona . The six-time champion plays in Liga MX , the highest league in Mexico.

history

After the 1981/82 season, the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), the Mexican Institute for Social Security, acquired the club Tuberos de Veracruz , which had just been relegated from the second-rate Segunda División , and transplanted it to Santa Cruz Tlaxcala , Tlaxcala , where the IMSS one Resort called La Trinidad . Therefore, the newly formed team joined the Segunda División 'B' in the 1982/83 season under the name Santos de la Trinidad . Before the following season 1983/84, the team was transferred to Torreón , Coahuila , and was given the new name Santos Laguna. This name is made up of the old and new homeland: Santos is a derivative of the name for the inhabitants of Santa Cruz Tlaxcala and Laguna, a name for the Comarca Lagunera; the district whose center is the city of Torreón. The name "Laguna" comes from two - in the meantime dried up - lagoons in the vicinity. The city of Torreón likes to refer to itself as "Perla de la Laguna" (the pearl of the lagoon) and has also integrated this motto into its coat of arms.

After several unsuccessful attempts to achieve promotion to the top division in a sporting way, the Club Santos Laguna acquired the license of the Angeles de Puebla to be allowed to play in the Primera División in the 1988/89 season.

After its sporting predecessors from the city, CF Laguna and CF Torreón , had sold their first division licenses after a few years of playing in the top division, Club Santos Laguna in northern Mexico - a region in which baseball and basketball are at a higher level Enjoying popularity as football - asserting itself and since then has been a constant in Mexican club football and an integral part of the Primera División.

After narrowly escaping relegation at the end of the 2006/07 season , the team, led by experienced coach Daniel Guzmán and studded with stars like Oswaldo Sánchez , Fernando Arce , Daniel Ludueña and Cristian Benítez , won the Clausura in 2008 . It was the third championship title in the club's history, followed by further triumphs in the Clausura 2012 , the Clausura 2015 and the Clausura 2018 .

successes

The championship teams

Known players

Trainer

Celebrity fans

The most famous fans of the club include:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fundación del Santos Laguna; historia de una pasión (Spanish; article from July 24, 2013)
  2. ^ The 1982/83 season at RSSSF.com
  3. ↑ Sergio Luis Rosas: Preparan duelo del recuerdo (Spanish; article from June 29, 2008)
  4. ^ The 1983/84 season at RSSSF.com
  5. ↑ Historia del Club Santos (Spanish; accessed January 19, 2020)
  6. ↑ ¿A quién le van los famosos en el futbol? (Spanish; article from June 3, 2015)
  7. ↑ "¿Por qué le vas al Santos?": Aquí la increíble respuesta de Raquel Garza (Spanish; article from May 14, 2018)
  8. ↑ Marisol González, la fan número 1 de Santos (Spanish; article of May 28, 2015)
  9. ↑ Hiromi, te vamos a recordar como gran Guerrera: Santos Laguna (Spanish; article from September 27, 2017)
  10. ↑ Raúl Méndez envía contundente mensaje a la afición del Santos Laguna (Spanish; article from May 14, 2018)
  11. ↑ Pocos famosos felicitan al Santos Laguna (Spanish; article from June 1, 2015)
  12. ↑ #SEXY: Cynthia, la seguidora más sensual de Santos Laguna (Spanish; article from October 23, 2016)