Club Deportivo Olimpia

The Club Deportivo Olimpia is a football club based in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. The club was founded in 1912 as a baseball club and operates since 1927 in football, these days the only raison d'être of Olimpia. In 1928, the club won its first competition and has since been the most successful club in the country. International Olimpia took attention from his two triumphs in the Concacaf Champions League in 1972 and 1988 - the first and only Honduran club who was able to reussieren here. Whether its white play clothes, reference is made ​​to the club often referred to as los Merengues ( " meringues " ) and off Albos ("white ").

The club legends include the record striker Wilmer Velásquez and the naturalized Brazilian Denilson Costa. Maynor Figueroa, Wilson Palacios and David Suazo are among the players who could prevail in Europe since 2000. With six, or five tracks Carlos Padilla Velasquez and Jose de la Paz Herrera are the most successful champion coach of the club's history.

Olimpia bears - as well as the archrival CD Motagua - its home games at the National Stadium in the capital, 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.

Achievements

  • CONCACAF Champions League: 1972, 1988
  • Copa Inter Clubes Copa Centroamericana: 1999, 2000; Runners-up: 2005, 2006
  • Torneo Fraternity: 1980, 1981
  • Cup of Honduras: Father Time: (6) 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1960/61, 1962/63, 1963/64,
  • Professional era: (27 ) 1966/67, 1967/68 1969 /70 1971/72 1977 /78 1982/83, 1984/85, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1989/90, 1992/93, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1998/99 Apertura 2000/ 01, Ap. 2002/ 03, Clausura 2003/ 04, Cl. 2004/ 05, Ap. 2005/ 06, Cl. 2005/ 06, Cl. 2007-08, Ap. 2008-09, Cl. 2009/10, Ap. 2011/12, Cl. 2011/12, Ap. 2012/13, Cl. 2012/13

Known player

  • Maynor Suazo Honduras
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