CD Motagua

The Club Deportivo Motagua is a football club based in Tegucigalpa, the capital of the Central American Republic of Honduras. Since the establishment of the national professional league in 1965, he heard this on uninterrupted. Because of its color club, the club operates in the vernacular as el Azul.

The club was founded on August 29, 1928 under the leadership of Marco Antonio Ponce, first Präser of the association, and Marco Antonio Rosa on the basis of the dissolved clubs América, Honduras Atlética and Aguila. The club was named in a patriotic gesture after the formerly fought between Honduras and Guatemala border river Río Motagua.

1965, the club was a founding member of the Honduran national professional league. In the 1968/69 season under coach Rodolfo Godoy Motagua was the first champion and won in the competition Erstausspielung also the cup of Honduras. Since then, the club won more than ten other titles and is thus behind city rivals CD Olimpia of the most successful football club of Honduras.

Motagua bears - as well as the arch rival Olimpia - its home games in the state capital from National Stadium, which is often referred to by the former president of Honduras as Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino. The stadium was opened in 1948 and holds 35,000 spectators. Tiburcio Carias Andino - in office in 1924 and 1933 to 1949 - was also a great friend and supporter of the club, and employed for example in the amateur time, numerous players of the club at the state fleet, the Garaje Nacional.

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