Rangers de Talca

The Club Social de Deportes Rangers is a Chilean football club based in Talca. The club was founded in 1902 and plays its home games at the Estadio Fiscal de Talca, which seats 8,200 spectators. Rangers de Talca, which has never been Chilean football champion, currently plays in La Liga, the top division in Chile.

History

The Club Club Social de Deportes Rangers, also known as Rangers de Talca, was founded in 1902 in the city of Talca, the capital of Región del Maule in the center of the country. The name of the association refers to an idea one of the founding fathers, a Scotsman, in reference to the local club Glasgow Rangers.

First, the Rangers de Talca for many years were not to be found in professional soccer in Chile. In 1952 succeeded the first-time promotion to the Segunda División, the second- highest division of the country. There one was immediately second and therefore qualified in 1953 for the first time for the Primera División. In the following years the club experienced always times when we could establish itself in the top division and achieve decent rankings, but also phases that brought the team back to the second or even third-class. Probably the biggest success in club history managed the Rangers de Talca in 1969, as one División into second place went to the Primera, only two points separated the Rangers CF Universidad de Chile, which was able to secure the championship. However, by this second place the team for the Copa Libertadores in 1970 to start. Here, however, one difference in the first group stage as the last of the group of three behind Club Guaraní, Universidad de Chile, Club Olimpia and the two Colombian representatives Deportivo Cali and America de Cali knocked out. To date, this participation in the Copa Libertadores is the only one for the club, for it again soon went downhill after the runner-up, a few years later was playing second-rate.

Currently playing the Rangers de Talca since 2012 again in the first Chilean football league. Before that had prevailed in November 2011 in relegation matches against CD Everton de Viña del Mar and reached the promotion back to the Primera División. 2012 succeeded in eighth place in the overall settlement not only of more than safe relegation, you could by a fifth place in the Torneo Clausura even participate in the play-off for the championship. There, however, CD Huachipato proved in the semifinals as to big hurdle after it was previously turned off Deportes Iquique.

Achievements

  • Chilean runner-up: 2x (1969, Apertura 2002)
  • Chilean second division championship: 3x ( 1988, 1993 and 1997)
  • Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 1x

Known player

  • Argentina Vicente Cantatore, active as a trainer coach of the large team of CD Cobreloa in the early 1980s, as a player for some time at Rangers de Talca
  • Chile Atilio Cremaschi, participants at the World Cup 1950 with the selection of Chile, 1959-1964 last career Stadium at Rangers de Talca
  • Chile Ismael Fuentes, Chilean World Cup qualifiers in 2010, long time at Jaguares de Chiapas in Mexico, began his career in Talca
  • Argentina Ángel Labruna, member of the famous and highly successful Maquina CA River Plate in Argentina, 1961 career finale at Rangers de Talca
  • Argentina Cristian Maidana, currently active for CF Atlante in Mexico, from 2011 to 2012 with the Rangers, before others lower in CA Banfield and Spartak Moscow
  • Chile Nicolás Peric, five times the Chilean national team; the goalkeeper started his career with the Rangers de Talca and has been there since 2012 under contract again
  • Chile Eberardo Villalobos, Chilean participants actively participated in the first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930, at the time of the World Cup at Rangers de Talca

Known coach

  • Argentina Italy Miguel Montuori, Argentine- Italian player of Fiorentina as manager responsible in 1972 for a short time the Rangers de Talca
  • Chile Armando Tobar, two-time World Cup participant as a player in 1962 and 1966, in 1986 a short time as a coach for the Rangers de Talca on the sidelines
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