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Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or Los Rojos (the Reds), are a Guatemalan professional football club based in Guatemala City. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top division in the nation, and play their home matches in the Estadio Mateo Flores. The club was founded in 1936, and are the nation's most successful team, having won 25 domestic league titles, and being the only Guatemalan club ever to win the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. Image File history File links Municipal_gua. ... is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... National stadium in Guatemala city,was built in 1948 was renamed after Mateo Flores who won the 1952 Boston Marathon. ... Estadio El TrÃ©bol is a soccer stadium in Guatemala City, Guatemala. ... 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Municipal are considered to be the most popular club in the country,^[1]^[2]^[3] and are traditional arch-rivals of club Comunicaciones, also from the capital city. As of 2007, Municipal are the team that has competed the most years at the top level in Guatemala. CSD Comunicaciones is a Guatemalan football club located in Guatemala City. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

History

The club was founded in May 17, 1936 by workers of the Ayuntamiento (city hall) of the Guatemala City municipality, hence the name Municipal, earning promotion to the maximum division (then called Liga Capitalina) in 1938. They finished in second place in their debut season.^[4] They have since remained in the top division, the longest streak of any Guatemalan team. is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ayuntamiento is a Spanish word that has several similar meanings: City Hall (the actual building). ... For the railway station in Sydney, Australia, see Town Hall railway station, Sydney. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Liga Nacional de FÃºtbol de Guatemala (National Football League of Guatemala), formerly known as Liga Mayor A (Major League A) is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. ...

The team won its first national league title in the 1942-43 tournament, the first official national league championship. They won three of the following six tournaments, the other three being won by Tipografía Nacional, whom which they had their first known rivalry. Municipal were coached by Manuel F. Carrera, one of the original founders of the club, and whose name was later given to the stadium where the team currently trains. Liga Nacional de FÃºtbol de Guatemala (National Football League of Guatemala), formerly known as Liga Mayor A (Major League A) is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. ... TipografÃa Nacional (Tip Nac) is a defunct football club that was based in Guatemala City, Guatemala. ...

From its beginnings to 1955, the club's most emblematic player was the forward Carlos "Pepino" Toledo, who helped the team win its first four league titles, the last of them in his retirement season, 1954-55. Toledo was one of the first nationally-recognized players, being also a member of the national team. He scored 129 career goals for Municipal, remaining the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the club. He later became the coach of the team. The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... First international Guatemala 10 - 1 Honduras (Guatemala City, Guatemala; Sept. ...

At the end of the 1950s, as Comunicaciones emerged as one of the top contenders for the league title – winning it three years in a row –, Municipal went 8 years without a championship, but then won three of them in the 1963-64, 1965-66, and 1969-70 seasons. These titles alternated with three titles won by Aurora FC – another club from the city – and coincided with a decline for Comunicaciones in that decade. When Tipografía Nacional faded as one of the top clubs of the nation, a fierce rivalry originated between Municipal and Comunicaciones, especially after the latter became the second most successful club, having won 7 of 14 league tournaments from 1956 to 1972. Both teams have been classic rivals ever since, with the matches between them usually attracting the most spectators of any local club football event. CSD Comunicaciones is a Guatemalan football club located in Guatemala City. ... Aurora FC is one of the traditional football clubs in Guatemala. ...

1970s: International success

Starting in 1973, Municipal obtained a series of titles under Uruguayan coach Rubén Amorín, who took the team to league titles in successive years for their first time ever. Amorín managed a group of players that included defender Alberto López Oliva, midfielders Benjamín Monterroso and Emilio Mitrovich, and forward Julio César Anderson (who would become the highest goalscorer ever for the club, until surpassed in the 2000s by Juan Carlos Plata), to their first international title, winning the 1974 Copa Fraternidad. However, Municipal's greatest achievement occurred in that same year, when they won the IV CONCACAF Champions' Cup, becoming the first – and only to date – Guatemalan team to have won the confederation's top club competition. The Rojos then went on to play the Copa Interamericana against Argentina's "red team", CA Independiente, on a two-leg playoff celebrated at the Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala. The first leg, played November 24, 1974, was won by Independiente 1-0, on a goal by Ricardo Bochini. Two days later, Municipal, in need of a win, beat the Argentines 1-0, thanks to a goal by the Argentine-born Mitrovich in the second half. With both teams equal in points and goal difference, the match went to extra time, where there was no change in the score. The winner of the continental title was then decided on penalty kicks. After misses by Anderson and Monterroso, Independiente won the shootout 4-2, and ended Municipal's international run. The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... BenjamÃn Eduardo (Mincho) Monterroso DÃaz (born January 1, 1952[1]) is a Guatemalan football coach and former midfielder who spent the majority of his playing career at the local club CSD Municipal, and was a member of the Guatemala national team both as a player and as a... Juan Carlos Plata (born January 1, 1971) is a Guatemalan football striker, the most capped player and highest goalscorer in the history of the Guatemala national team. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The UNCAF Club Tournament is the annual international football competition held in the UNCAF region (Central America). ... CONCACAF Champions cup logo The CONCACAF Champions Cup is the annual international football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America and the Caribbean). ... Copa Interamericana (English: Interamerican Cup) was a football trophy contested between the champions of CONMEBOLs Copa Libertadores de AmÃ©rica (South America) and the winners of CONCACAFs Champions Cup (North America, Central America and the Caribbean). ... Club AtlÃ©tico Independiente de Avellaneda is an Argentine football club based in Avellaneda, Gran Buenos Aires area. ... National stadium in Guatemala city,was built in 1948 was renamed after Mateo Flores who won the 1952 Boston Marathon. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Ricardo Enrique Bochini (born January 25, 1954 in ZÃ¡rate, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine former professional football player. ... In sports such as ice hockey and soccer, goal difference (that is, goals scored less goals conceded) is often the first tie-breaker used to rank teams which finish a competition with an equal number of points. ... Penalty shootouts, officially named kicks from the penalty mark, are a method sometimes used to decide which team progresses to the next stage of a tournament (or wins the tournament) following a draw in a game of football. ...

1980s: Almost Relegated

After winning another league title in 1976 and the 1977 Copa Fraternidad, the club faced their worst period, unable to win any titles and even being close to dropping from the top division, playing a relegation mini-tournament in the 1981 season – which saw Tipografía Nacional go down to the Division B. In 1982, Municipal struggled again, this time finishing ahead of the relegated team on goal differential. The UNCAF Club Tournament is the annual international football competition held in the UNCAF region (Central America). ... TipografÃa Nacional (Tip Nac) is a defunct football club that was based in Guatemala City, Guatemala. ... In sports such as ice hockey and soccer, goal difference (that is, goals scored less goals conceded) is often the first tie-breaker used to rank teams which finish a competition with an equal number of points. ...

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Success came again in 1987, with the first league title in 11 years, won under Argentine coach Miguel Angel Brindisi. This time, the team won three consecutive championships for the first time ever, the first two being coached by Brindisi, and the third one by Walter Ormeño. In the 1991-92 season, almost two decades after his last title with the club, Rubén Amorín, on his second tenure, took Municipal to another league title. Miguel Angel Brindisi (born October 8, 1950, in Almagro) is an Argentine football coach and former player. ...

A fifth league championship in seven years came in the 1993-94 season, under Argentine coach Horacio Cordero. Municipal were close to repeating the CONCACAF success of 1974 when the Champion's Cup finals were played in the Mateo Flores in Guatemala City in December 1993. High expectations preceded those matches, as Municipal was in good form in the local tournament, unbeaten and at the top of the table, but the team fell short of the title. That time, Municipal played against Mexican club León, Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica and SV Robinhood of Suriname in a single round-robin tournament; all matches between the former three teams ended in draws, and Saprissa, who played against the weak Robinhood in the last matchday, beat the Surinamese team 9-0 and won the title on goal differential. LeÃ³n is one of the most traditional soccer teams of the La Primera Division. ... Deportivo Saprissa is a Costa Rican football club, currently playing in the Primera DivisiÃ³n. ... Sport Verenigang Robinhood (as known SV Robinhood) is a Surinamese football club, which currently play in Surinams first division. ... A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. ...

In 2000, after the league's competition format was changed to the double Apertura and Clausura tournaments, Municipal won another title after Comunicaciones had set a record by winning the previous four; Municipal surpassed that record in 2006, winning the 2006 Apertura tournament, their fifth consecutive title, under coach Enzo Trossero. They have won 10 of the 15 titles in dispute since the current tournament's format was introduced. Enzo HÃ©ctor Trossero is an Argentine footballer and coach. ...

Colours and crest

Initially, the team's uniform colors consisted of a red-and-black striped shirt and black shorts.^[5] The colours soon changed to the current red shirt and blue shorts for home matches, and all blue for away matches, although other colors have been used for away matches.

The club's logo is based in the emblem of the Municipalidad de Guatemala, which is itself based in the original coat of arms of the city of Santiago de Los Caballeros de Guatemala, with the image of Santiago (Saint James) over the stylized scenery of the region. The team's version includes an image of the type of ball used at the time the club was founded, next to a blue and red striped canton in between the former two elements. The circular field is surrounded by the name of the team on a red background. It is not confirmed whether the team logo is copyrighted or not. A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Antigua Guatemala (commonly referred to as just Antigua or La Antigua) is a city in the central mountains of Guatemala famous for its well-preserved Spanish New World Baroque architecture as well as a number of spectacular ruined churches. ... Saint James the Great (d. ... Canton is a division of the field placed in the upper dexter corner. ... In heraldry the background of the shield is called the field . ...

Stadium

Throughout the years, Municipal has used the Estadio Mateo Flores as their home ground, sharing it with Comunicaciones since the 1950s until 1991, and again starting in 2005. Other stadiums hosted Municipal in the beginning, namely the Estadio Autonomía. The Estadio La Pedrera has been used when the Mateo Flores has not been available. The Estadio Manuel Felipe Carrera, also known as "Estadio El Trébol", has been the training venue for the team, and it has been occasionally used for official matches by the club, being undefeated in this ground. National stadium in Guatemala city,was built in 1948 was renamed after Mateo Flores who won the 1952 Boston Marathon. ... CSD Comunicaciones is a Guatemalan football club located in Guatemala City. ... Soccer stadium in Guatemala city known as La pedrera but Oficialy named Cementos Progreso, home of CSD comunicaciones(cremas). ... Estadio El TrÃ©bol, also known as Estadio Manuel Felipe Carrera, is a football (soccer) stadium in Guatemala City, Guatemala. ...

Supporters

Municipal is believed to have the largest fan base of all Guatemalan clubs, and the their popularity have earned them nicknames like El equipo mimado de la afición (Fans' beloved team) and El equipo del pueblo (People's team). An organized group of supporters known as ultra roja (originally porra roja) has become notable since the early 1990s due to their constant chanting and their loudness; they have also been criticized due to confrontations with fans of other teams, especially of Comunicaciones. CSD Comunicaciones is a Guatemalan football club located in Guatemala City. ...

Statistics and records

Municipal is the club that has spent the most consecutive seasons at the top level in Guatemala, having remained in it since 1938.

Juan Carlos Plata is the all-time top goalscorer for the team in league matches and overall. Juan Carlos Plata (born January 1, 1971) is a Guatemalan football striker, the most capped player and highest goalscorer in the history of the Guatemala national team. ...

Squads

First team

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Fredy GracÃa (born 12 January 1977) is a Guatemalan football midfielder who plays for local club CSD Municipal in the Guatemalas top division. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Colombia. ... The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... Carlos Asprilla is a Colombian football player who started his professional career with Independiente Medellin. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Guatemala. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Guatemala. ... A goalkeeper. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Guatemala. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Guatemala. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Guatemala. ... 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The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... Edwin Villatoro (born February 18, 1980) is a Guatemalan football forward who currently plays for CSD Municipal of the Guatemalas top division. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Uruguay. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Richard J. Schmidt is an American physician who was involved in an unusual case which marked the first time in forensic history where viral DNA was used to prove a link between two people with HIV or AIDS in a criminal trial. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Guatemala. ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... 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Notable players

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Honours

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References and notes

^ MLS report - mlsnet.com, Major League Soccer, USA, 2002.
^ (Spanish) Team report - laprensahn.com - newspaper La Prensa, Honduras, 2000.
^ (Spanish) Guatemala national league news - latribunahispana.com - La Tribuna Hispana, USA, 2006.
^ (Spanish) Guatemala, 100 años de fútbol - Municipal. Prensa Libre. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
^ (Spanish) Historia, Rojos del Municipal. Retrieved on 2006-12-10. - Note: Unable to retrieve direct link. Click on "Historia" on the main menu to access.
^ Player years, except for Carlos Toledo's and Juan Manuel Funes', are taken from (Spanish) http://www.angelfire.com/ms/rojosoasis/page5.html

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Contents

History

1970s: International success

1980s: Almost Relegated

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Colours and crest

Stadium

Supporters

Statistics and records

Squads

First team

Notable players

Honours

References and notes

Further reading

External links

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1970s: International success

1980s: Almost Relegated

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Colours and crest

Stadium

Supporters

Statistics and records

Squads

First team

Notable players

Honours

References and notes

Further reading

External links

History