Everton de Viña del Mar

Corporacion Deportiva Everton de Viña del Mar is a Chilean football club based in Viña del Mar which was launched in 1909 by English immigrants. Everton won four times so far, the Chilean championship and once to the national cup competition. Everton's archrival is the CD Santiago Morning from which only about 10 kilometers away Valparaíso.

The stadium of the club is the Estadio Sausalito, which was opened in 1929 and now holds around 18,000 spectators. It has been to Sausalito, the U.S. partner city of Viña del Mars, named.

History

On 24 June 1909, founded the house of David Foxley in Cerro Alegre de Valparaíso by British students a football club, which was named in memory of his previous performances in Argentina after the English Everton FC, as a theory. 1912, the club took first in the championship of the Liga de Valparaíso ' part.

First major athlete of the association, in which offers soccer, athletics, swimming, badminton, rugby, gymnastics, basketball were operated throughout history, was the short-distance hurdler Harald Rosenqvist, who won three titles at the South American Championships in 1919 and 1920.

The club joined in 1944, the Asociación Central de Fútbol and acquired in this way the right to participate in the Primera División, where the club was consistently represented from 1944 to 1972. In 1950 he became the first club outside the capital, the championship; a success which made ​​him repeat two years later.

After the descent from 1972 Everton spent two seasons in the second division and won in the second year of his return to the first division in 1976 his third championship. This title entitled the club in 1977 for first-time participation in the Copa Libertadores, in which the third place in Group 4 was occupied, so you already retired in the first round.

After another second league 1982 season in which tried and failed to resurgence, Everton played 1983-1995 again in the first division and won at this stage in 1984 only time the Chilean Cup competition.

Between 1996 and 2003, Everton was with the exception of the 2000 season, when they played first class, represented only in the second division. The most successful period of the recent past, the membership in the first division between 2004 and 2010, which was crowned in the Apertura 2008 with the fourth league title in club history. On the way to this success Everton won against the two most successful teams in the country through: the semi-final they beat the CF Universidad de Chile with the total score of 4-2 ( 3-1 in the first leg and 1-1 in the return match ), and in the final sat down with the total score of 3-2 ( the 0-2 first leg defeat was followed by a 3-0 win in front of their home crowd ) through against the Chilean giants Colo -Colo. The most successful striker Everton in these encounters was the Argentine Ezequiel Miralles, who scored in the semi-final first leg at Universidad all the goals for a 3-1 victory to his team and scored twice in the final against Colo -Colo.

By a 2-1 win at Lanus on 17 March 2009 in the Copa Libertadores 2009 Oro y Cielo became the first Chilean team a victory in Argentina. Because they came not in their final group match against the Mexican representative Chivas Guadalajara to a 1-1 draw, they failed again in the first round of this tournament.

Major Players

Already at the first FIFA World Cup 1930, with Casimiro Torres, who played two games there, a player from Everton in part.

Guillermo Clavero 1945 was the first player Everton on a South American championship. Clavero, who played seven times for the national team, was at the tournament with four goals in the third place in Chile. Fernando Hurtado came in 1953 with two games to use. Forward René Meléndez came to the tournament of 1956, in which Chile was third, four times, goalkeeper Carlos Espinoza twice to train. Meléndez is with 47 games between 1950 and 1960, in which he scored 12 goals, Everton's most-capped player, he also was 1952 best scorer with 30 goals in South America. Eladio Rojas took part in the South American Championship in 1959 and at the 1962 FIFA World Cup. At the World Cup he scored the only goal in the match for third place. Later he played with CA River Plate and then the capital club Colo -Colo.

At the Copa America in 1987 Ivo Basay stood with Chile in the final, but lost there 0-1 against Uruguay. His career led the two-time tournament goal scorers then to France, Mexico and Argentina.

Achievements

• Chilean Champion: 1950, 1952, 1976, Apertura 2008
• Chilean Cup Winners: 1984