Cobresal

Club de Deportes Cobresal is a Chilean football club based in El Salvador. The club was founded in 1979, has never been Chilean football champions to date, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home matches at the Estadio El Cobre, which seats 20,800 spectators.

History

The Club Club de Deportes Cobresal was founded on 5 May 1979 in the Chilean city of El Salvador in the region of Atacama. One year later, the future venue of the association, the Estadio El Cobre was completed. Though it is clear that the stadium with its more than 20,000 spectators, almost three times as many seats as has the city of El Salvador inhabitants.

CD Cobresal reached only three years after the founding of the club the first promotion to the Primera División, the top division in Chilean football. After the rise in 1982 could be in the premier league establish, just two years later, the Chilean was runner-up, only two points behind Universidad Católica. This feat repeated the not yet ten -year-old club in 1988, when it ranked second in La Liga behind CD Cobreloa, a club with a similar history, similar name and a similar logo as Cobresal occupied. A year earlier, also managed CD Cobresal the greatest success to date in their history, when they won 2-0 against today 's most successful club Colo -Colo for the final of the Copa Chile and cup winners of the South American country was. With the end of the eighties, the success of CD Cobresal went back more and more. 1992 overtook the club, the descent into the Primera División B, after they had previously held for eight years in the first division. Although succeeded the immediate resurgence, even as newly promoted missed one in 1994 in the league and were relegated again. Well, it took until 1999 before we again got to see major league football in El Salvador. However, immediately followed by the re descent. 2001 then managed to return to the utmost level of Chilean football club, and this time managed Cobresal also become sustainable. Since 2002, the club now plays in the Primera División.

Cobresal could in the years following the rise in the upper third of the Primera División set and reached over seasons away appealing placements. In recent years, however, things went from bad to worse and the club moved closer and closer to the relegation regions. After they had finished the 2012 season on the seventeenth place, it was a year later even very last and avoided direct relegation only due practiced in Chile, as in most South American countries descent rule according to which the losers by their achievements in the past years be determined. The now necessary qualification game against Curico Unido CDP is then won 3-0 on aggregate and leg and remained in the Primera División.

Achievements

• Chilean Cup win: 1x (1987 )

• Primera División B: 2x (1983, 1998)

Known player

• Ronald Fuentes Chile, Chilean World Cup participants from 1998, as a player from 1987 to 1993 at Cobresal, and later the rest of his career at Universidad de Chile
• Uruguay Pablo Pallante, former Uruguayan youth international, currently at Miramar Misiones under contract 2011-2012 with CD Cobresal
• Chile Franklin Lobos Ramírez, one of the victims in the mining accident in San José, in the course of his playing career total of two times in Cobresal active
• Chile Iván Zamorano, youth Cobresal, later 69 times national player of Chile and players comes from, among others, FC Sevilla, Real Madrid and Inter Milan

Known coach

• Ricardo Ortíz Uruguay, Uruguayan migrant bird in the guild trainer in 1998 briefly at Cobresal, otherwise, for example in CA Cerro and Universitario de Deportes
• Chile Manuel Rodríguez, as a player of the World Cup of 1962, and later from 1983 to 1989 at Cobresal trainer and coach of Pokalsiegerelf 1987
• Chile Jorge Socías, in its active time of the World Cup in 1974, and later as head on the sidelines 2001-2002 with CD Cobresal