Lota Schwager

The Club de Deportes Lota Schwager is a Chilean football club based in Coronel. The club was founded in 1966 and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal Federico Schwager from, which seats 5,700 spectators. Lota Schwager, which has never been Chilean football champion, currently plays in the Primera División B, the second division in Chile.

History

The Club Club de Deportes Lota Schwager was founded on May 10, 1966 in the city of Coronel, a port city in the central Chile. The name of the club goes back to one of the founding fathers, his character Federico Schwager hot end. The newly founded association first started out in amateur leagues of the Concepción region, but soon managed a steep climb up to the Primera División, the top division in Chilean football.

1970 was found Lota Schwager first time in that league after 1969 by a first place in the Primera División B, the rise has been reached. Already in 1967 it had become second in the second division, but just missing out on promotion. After the initial jump in the Primera División be held the young club there for ten years. 1980 was followed by the re- descent into the Primera División B, where you stayed in the episode until 1987, before returning up top level of the Chilean professional football succeeded. However, it was then descend again directly.

1994 shook a severe financial crisis, the region around Coronel, which made ​​no stop at Lota Schwager. In consequence of this immense financial problems the club had relegated and Tercera División, restart the third Chilean football league. By 2007, we could not find Lota Schwager then in the Primera División. Only in said season you could make a return to the excellence after relegation matches against Rangers de Talca. However, the following season was in La Liga little edifying and Lota Schwager had to immediately begin the transition into the second division. To date, failed again the Erstligaaufstieg, Lota Schwager is currently to be found in the second Chilean football league.

Achievements

  • Chilean second division championship: 2x (1969, 1986)
  • Chilean third division championship: 1x (2001)

Known player

  • Uruguay Nelson Acosta, five times the Uruguayan national team and player of Peñarol Montevideo and O'Higgins Rancagua, 1984 End of career in the jersey of Lota Schwager
  • Chile Miguel Ángel Gamboa, World Cup qualifiers in 1982 with the Chilean national soccer team in 1973, a season long player from Lota Schwager
  • Chile Alfonso Lara, played from 1970 to 1973 in Lota Schwager, continue with Colo- Colo and Everton Viña del Mar as well as active participants in the World Cup 1974 in Germany
  • Chile Luis Marín, Chilean football goalkeeper in the service of Unión Española, 2007, a year in Lota Schwager under contract
  • Chile Adolfo Nef, for many years keeper of Colo- Colo in the successful seventies and World Cup qualifiers in 1974, Career Start and ausklang at Lota Schwager
  • Chile Héctor Puebla, sixteen years in active CD Cobreloa and part of the team that came into the final of the Copa Libertadores twice, career beginning at Lota Schwager

Known coach

  • Chile Álamos Luis, was responsible for the Chilean national team in two World Cups and led Colo -Colo in the final of the Copa Libertadores in 1970 briefly at Lota Schwager
  • Vicente Cantatore Argentina, Argentine Success Coach of CD Cobreloa he led twice in the final of the Copa Libertadores in series, from 1976 to 1978 in Lota Schwager
  • Chile Guillermo Páez, as a player multiple Chilean national team and especially with Colo -Colo highly successful 1988 short time coach at Lota Schwager
  • Chile Francisco Valdés, 52 times the player from Chile and Captain Colo -Colo in the seventies, and later as a coach in 1992 briefly at Lota Schwager on the bench
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