Club de Deportes Green Cross

Club de Deportes Green Cross was a Chilean football club based in Santiago de Chile. The club was founded in 1916 and in 1984 dissolved. CD Green Cross in 1945 Chilean football champions.

History

The Club de Deportes Green Cross was founded on 27 June 1916 in the Chilean capital Santiago de Chile. By the year 1965, the club was based in Santiago, before a move to Temuco associated with the merger with a local club called Deportes Temuco happened to Green Cross Temuco. After 1965, Green Cross Temuco then played in 1984 was the dissolution of the association.

Overall, Green Cross spent 43 seasons in Chile's highest football league, La Liga. The greatest success of the club's history succeeded in 1945 when the crew of Green Cross won the Chilean championship. The title win was achieved through a first place in the final table with three points ahead of Unión Española. In addition to winning the title of 1945 Green Cross could also two championships in the second highest Chilean division, the Segunda División, recorded. In the years 1960 and 1963 it was Croesus the second division. During this time, Green Cross was the meeting point for some foreign, especially Argentinian player. The best known of these were Julio Musimessi, Federico Edwards and Eliseo Mouriño, all of them died participant in the World Cup 1958. Latter, before he had made a play for Green Cross, on the third April 1961 in a traffic accident in the Chilean province. Already more than a decade earlier had with José María Minella another famous Argentine player, for its part, ten -time champion as a player and coach with CA River Plate and namesake of the football stadium of Mar del Plata, kicked the ball at the Green Cross.

Achievements

  • Chilean Championship: 1x (1945 )
  • Second division championship: 2x (1960, 1963)

Known player

  • Argentina Gustavo Albella, Argentine player, from 1957 to 1961 in the club, still at the Boca Juniors, Banfield and the Sao Paulo
  • Argentina Ernesto Álvarez, Argentine player, from 1957 to 1958 at Green Cross, later four-time champion with Chilean Universidad de Chile
  • Argentina Federico Edwards, World Cup qualifiers in 1958 with Argentina, 1961 career finale at Green Cross, previously successful with Boca Juniors
  • Uruguay Jorge Fossati, Uruguayan coach today, was active as a player in 1984 in the resolution of the Green Cross in the club, previously successful with Peñarol
  • Chile Honorino Landa, Chilean World Cup participants from 1962, a long time for Unión Española playing from 1966 to 1968 at Green Cross under contract
  • Argentina José María Minella, both as a player and as a coach very successful with River Plate Buenos Aires, in 1944 briefly at Green Cross
  • Argentina Eliseo Mouriño, changed in 1961 from Boca Juniors to Green Cross, but came because of a deadly plane crash in 1961 to no use
  • Argentina Julio Musimessi, Argentine World Cup participants from 1958, active as a goalkeeper at Newell 's Old Boys and Boca Juniors, from 1960 to 1961 at Green Cross
  • Chile Juan Carlos Orellana, two-time Chilean football champion with Colo -Colo and eleven times international, not long in the club
  • Chile Santiago Salfate much time champion of Chile with Colo -Colo, in 1945 a member of the only champion team of Green Cross CD
  • Chile Carlos Schneberger, World Cup participants for Chile in 1930 and one of the first Chilean football stars, some time at Green Cross
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