Atlético Club Mineros de Guayana
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| Full name | Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Los Negriazules, La Pandilla del Sur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | CTE Cachamay Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela (Capacity 41,300 [1]) |
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| Chairman |  Sabatino Cenci |
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| Manager | Alí Cañas |
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| League | Primera División Venezolana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | 11th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana, usually known as Mineros de Guayana or simply Mineros, is a Venezuelan football (soccer) club based in Puerto Ordaz.
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[edit] History
The Colegio Loyola Gumilla's field, located in Puerto Ordaz, was used in football matches. The people who played at the field decided to found a football club. On November 11, 1981, the club was founded as Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana.
On November 20, 1981, the club's foundation constitutive act was signed.
On January 3, 1982, the club played its first match, against Villa Colombia FC, a Guayana's amateur club. Mineros won 2-0, both goals scored by José Pacheco.
On September 5, 1982, the club won the Segunda División Venezolana, being promoted to the following year's first division.
In 1989, the club won the Venezuelan league.
[edit] Titles
- Primera División Venezolana: 1989
- Segunda División Venezolana: 1982
- Copa de Venezuela: 1984
[edit] Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
- Copa Libertadores: 4 appearances
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- Best: First Round in 1990, 1997
- Copa Sudamericana: 2 appearances
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- 2005: First Round
- 2006: First Round
- Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance
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- 1995: Quarter-Final
[edit] Colors
The club's colors are blue and black.
[edit] Current first team squad
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[edit] Trivia
- The club's name means Miners of Guayana.
- Minero's blue color was chose after Cruzeiro of Brazil.
[edit] Logo
The club's logo is composed of a geometrical figure, which is a carbon diamond crystal zoomed millions of times with a microscope.
[edit] Stadium
Mineros plays their home matches at CTE Cachamay, which has a maximum capacity of 41,300 people. [2] It was 1 of the 9 venues of the Copa America 2007, for this, US$160,000 were invested for the expansion of the stadium. The stadium has multiple uses, like a special kids area, an indoor gym, basketball and volleyball courts, a racing track, ten media station booths, a commercial center, movie theaters and three enormous parking lots. The stadium is surrounded by the river Caroní and the waterfall of the Cachamay Park.
[edit] References
- Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Portuguese-language wikipedia article and from the the equivalent French-language wikipedia article (retrieved February 19, 2006).
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Official website
