Olimpia

Full name	Club Deportivo Olimpia
Nickname(s)	Leones Albos Merengues Melenudos
Founded	June 12, 1912
Ground	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Capacity	35,000
Chairman	Rafael Ferrari
Manager	Nahum Espinoza
League	Liga Profesional de Honduras
Apertura 2005	Liga Profesional,3rd
Home colours Away colours

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They have won two CONCACAF Champions' Cups, one in 1972 and one in 1988. They have been champions of the Liga Profesional de Honduras for the last 2 seasons after winning on December 18, 2005. The CONCACAF Champions Cup is the annual international football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America and the Caribbean). ... Liga Profesional de Honduras is the first division league in Honduras. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Club Olimpia History

Rich history white, began twelve of June of 1912, when the gentlemen Héctor Pineda Ugarte, Carlos Bram, Arturo Bram, Enrique Buk, Santiago Buk, Miguel Sanchez, Samuel Inestrosa Go'mez and Ramon Field of broom met to give life him to which today it is the greater sport institution of the area , in that occasion was called Olimpia National to him being born like institution, in the baseball branch, in 1924 arose the football team.

The poet has said that " there is not one who can imitate and much less to equal the feats of Club OLIMPIA. Their numerous record stays intact and in Honduras still there is not one that approaches to him. Other equipment has wanted but they have not been able.

That first national championship obtained in September of 1928, when in a series of three parties Club OLIMPIA manages to dominate itself Club Marathon of the city of San Pedro Sula, arising therefore the CLASSIC NATIONAL, true the CLASSIC NATIONAL who monopolizes the attention of the Honduran liking whenever Tegucigalpa or San Pedro Sula gambles same or in. Club Deportivo Marathón is a Honduran football club, which currently plays in Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. ... The cathedral The municipal palace San Pedro Sula is a city in the nation of Honduras. ... Central Tegucigalpa as seen from Mt Juana Lainez Comayagüela as seen from Mt Juana Lainez United Nations Park at El Pichaco in Tegucigalpa The former Presidential Palace Replica of the Pre-Columbian Temple Pyramid in Concordia Park Tegucigalpa (IPA: ), population 1,435,000 (2003) (metro. ... The cathedral The municipal palace San Pedro Sula is a city in the nation of Honduras. ...

Here - September of 1928- that following faithful of the Olimpia: FLAT ARÍSTIDES, better well-known as CHORCHITA sings to him to the white club - by their totally white uniform, symbol of pain " purity, adolorido, adolorido go the Marathón, because the Olimpia crowned champion".

Fixtures & Results

• Olimpia 2 vs 1 Victoria
• Olimpia 2 vs 2 Universidad
• Olimpia 2 vs 2 Vida
• Olimpia 2 vs 0 Real España
• Olimpia 0 vs 1 Motagua
• Olimpia 0 vs 2 Toluca
  CONCACAF Champions' Cup
• Olimpia - vs - Marathón (suspended)
• Olimpia 2 vs 1 Valencia
• Olimpia 1 vs 2 Toluca
  CONCACAF Champions' Cup
• Olimpia 2 vs 0 Hispano
• Olimpia 2 vs 2 Platense
• Olimpia 1vs 0 Marathón
• Olimpia - vs -
• Olimpia - vs -
• Olimpia - vs -
• Olimpia - vs -
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World championship of clubs

In January 2001 Olimpia beat the Mexican teams of Club Toluca and Pachuca. Club Deportivo Toluca also known simply as Toluca, is a Mexican professional football club. ... Pachuca (elevation: 2,426 meters) is the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. ...

The team, directed by Edwin Pavon, against all the forecasts conquered Toluca with goal by Robert Lima, and beat Fancy-dresser with 3 goals of Denilson Costa and one of Alex Pineda erecting again the white and blue flag of our country. The Honduran soccer was position in high once more than the hand of its great team, of its more faithful representative: The great lion. Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) Comparative view of the human and lion frames, c1860. ...

Donaldo González; Gerson Vásquez, Robert Lima, Samuel Caballero, Nerlin Membreño; Christian Santamaría, Arnold Cruz, Danilo Tosello, José Luis Pineda, Alex Pineda; Denilson Costa, Carlos Paez and Elmer Marín, were the players that left all so that the Olimpia to write one of the most important pages of their history.

That week was without place to doubts a golden week for the Honduran soccer, writing with letters of gold a new feat the soccer catracho. Olimpia reconfirmed once more than is the largest team of Honduras and to be one of the largest teams of the area of the CONFUT better known as CONCACAF. CONCACAF (the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football), also known as The Football Confederation, is the continent-wide governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. ...

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Club Honours

Nacional Level

• Champions at Liga Amateur de Honduras: 7

• Champions at Liga Profesional de Honduras: 19

1966-67, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1971-72, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2000-01 Ap., 2002-03 Ap., 2003-04 Cl., 2004-05 Cl., 2005-06 Ap.

• Runner Up at Liga Profesional de Honduras: 13

1965-66, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1975, 1988, 1994-95, 1997-98 Cl. , 1999-00 Ap., 1999-00 Cl., 2000-01 Cl., 2001-02 Cl., 2003-04 Ap., 2004-05 Ap.

• Champions at Super Copa: 1

1996-97

• Champions at Honduran Cup: 2

1995, 1998

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Internacional Level

• Champions at CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 2

1973, 1988

• Champions at UNCAF Club Tournament: 2

1999, 2000

• Champions at Central America and Mexico: 1

1959

• Champions at Torneo Fraternidad: 2

1980, 1981

• Runner-up at Interamerican Cup: 2

1972, 1988

• Runner-up at UNCAF Club Tournament: 1

2005

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Other Important Facts

• Fifth Consecutive Honduran final
• Only undefeated champion
• First team to export Honduran players
• First team to place an Honduran player in Italy
• Only Honduran club to qualify to the FIFA Club World Championship
• Maximun representative of Honduran football at an internacional level
• Most Popular team in Honduras
• Only Central American team to play in Estadio Centenario in Uruguay
• Only Central American team to defeat an Mexican team in the mythical Estadio Azteca (2-1 against Cruz Azul in 1988)

Old Olimpia logo

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Current Squads

Clausura 2005-2006

No. Position Player 1 GK Ricardo James 2   Edwin Yobani Avila 3   Maynor Figueroa 4   Milton Palacios 5   Wilfredo Barahona 6   Arnold Cruz 7   Rony Morales 8   Jose Luis Pineda 9 FW Juan Manuel Carcamo 10 FW Reynaldo Tilguath 11 FW Wilmer Velasquez 12   Juan Pedro Yalet 13   Fernando Antonio Castillo 14   Wilson Palacios

No. Position Player 15   Nahun Enrique Avila 16   Walter Nahun Lopez 17   Walter Hernandez 18   Danilo Tosello 19   Danilo Turcios 20   Ramon Alberto Castillo 21   Jairo Martinez 22   Henry Bernando Thomas Suazo 25   Oscar Bonilla 26   Horacio Parham 27 GK Noel Valladares 28   Donis Escober 30   Luciano Emilio 32   Oscar Boniek Garcia

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Notable players

• Juan Carlos Contreras
• Carlos Enrique Pronno
• Wilmer Velasquez
• Carlos Laje Moreno
• Juan Carlos Espinoza
• Juan Flores
• Vicente Viera
• Danilo Tosello
• Alex Pineda Chacón
• Denilson Costa
• Belarmino Rivera
• Tonin Mendoza
• Rigoberto "Shula" Gomez
• "Shinola" Matamoros
• "Indio" Urquia
• David Suazo

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Other Sports

Olimpia is also well known for their baseball Olimpia was born in 1912 as a baseball team when in an epoch where futbol ( Soccer) was not the king of the sports, the adolescents of that years deluded themselves to take hold a bat or a glove to demonstrate their skill in the game field. The honor to baptize this team and now great sport institution falls to Santiago Chavarria, that originally he calls Olimpia National. The one of Olimpia, to honor the first edition of the Olimpicos Games of Athens in 1896, because a torch was ignited, each four anuses, in the called valley Olimpia.team, was call Nacional Olimpia. Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball past a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical stick called a bat. ...

Olimpia Stadium

Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino Image File history File links Estadioltiburcioandino. ...

External links

• Official Website
• Official Fan Site (Ultra Fiel)
• Official Suporters Site(Portal Olimpista)

• No Official Suporters Site(Club Olimpia Honduras ¡El Eterno Campeón!
• Official Fan Site ( La Ultra Fiel)