Deportes Aviación

The Club de Deportes Aviación was a Chilean football club based in Santiago. The club was founded in 1957, disbanded again in 1982 and was its home games at the Estadio Reinaldo Martin Muller. Aviación was never Chilean football champions. but played from 1974 to 1980 for seven years in the Primera División.

History

The Club Club de Deportes Aviación was founded on 12 December 1957 in the Chilean capital Santiago. Even at its inception, the club was owned by the Fuerza Aérea de Chile, the Chilean Air Force. This also did not change over the years, until its dissolution in 1981 belonged CD Aviación the Air Force, which already can be seen from the association name, because the Spanish term Aviación is in German for aviation.

The first years after the club was founded bobbing around the military club in the lower leagues of the Chilean football. His rise came, however, in the early seventies, though politically motivated. On September 11, 1973, the Military to General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist president Salvador Allende, the Chilean Air Force was in the middle. The Fuerza Aérea de Chile flew from Talcahuano from attacks on Santiago de Chile, and in particular the presidential palace La Moneda, which was heavily destroyed in the course of these actions. The military seized power and turned Chile into a right-wing dictatorship. In the same year the rise of the Air Force Association Aviación reached its climax. In the second division season 1973 we won the first place and rose for the first time in the Primera División, the top division in Chilean football, on. There Aviación has established itself as a relatively safe Movers and found himself in the episode for seven years from 1974 to 1980 in the first division again. The greatest successes of the club ended up taking with the achievement of the second eighth places in the seasons 1977 and 1978.

But two years later began the fast end of CD Aviación. The club grew in La Liga in 1980 as the Thirteenth the regular season for lost playout games against Deportes Iquique, Deportes La Serena and Santiago Morning of the Primera División. After that, the club played one more year in the second Chilean league, the Primera División B, was before the dissolution of the Club de Deportes Aviación in January 1982.

Achievements

  • Primera División B: 1x (1973 )
  • Campeonato de Apertura de la Segunda División de Chile: 1x (1973 )
  • Campeonato Regional de la Zona Central: 1x (1971 )
  • Copa Ciudad de La Serena: 1x (1980 )

Known player

  • Chile Roberto Hodge, Chilean World Cup participants from 1966 to 1974, at club level for a long time for Universidad de Chile active from 1978 to 1979 for career finale at Aviación
  • Chile Honorino Landa, famous striker for Unión Española and the Chilean national team, in 1974 as a last career stop at Deportes Aviación
  • Chile Guillermo Páez, World Cup participants active in 1974 with the Chilean selection and part of the successful team Colo -Colo in the 70s, in 1976 briefly at Aviación
  • Chile Roberto Rojas, his playful career began at Aviación and played there from 1975 to 1981, then at Colo- Colo and FC São Paulo, also 49 caps for Chile
  • Chile Guillermo Yávar known Chilean footballer in the 1970s, long time at Universidad de Chile and Unión Española under contract 1981 for career finale at Aviación
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