Santos Laguna
Full name	Club Santos Laguna
Nickname(s)	Guerreros (Warriors)
Founded	August 13, 1983
Ground	Estadio Corona Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
Capacity	18,050
Chairman	Alejandro Irarragorri G.
Manager	Daniel Guzmán
League	Primera División de México
Clausura 2007	8th (playoffs) 9th (league) 3rd (group)
Home colours Away colours

Club Santos Laguna, also known as Santos Laguna or Santos, is a Mexican professional football club. They represent la comarca Lagunara which is made of Torreon, Gomez Palacio and Lerdo. Santos Laguna plays in the Primera División de México. The club's debut in Mexico's top division was in the 1988/89 tournament. They have won the league championship twice. First in the Invierno 1996 tournament and then in the Clausura 2001 tournament. They have also reached the finals in the 1993/94 season and the Clausura 2000 tournament. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... The Estadio Corona (the name comes from a world famous beer brand) is one of the smallest soccer stadiums in Mexico having only capacity for 15,000 seats and is located in the city of Torreón, Coahuila, almost in the middle of the Chihuahua-Coahuila Desert, more or less... Torreon Centennary logo Torreón is a city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila. ... Coahuila (formal name: Coahuila de Zaragoza) is one of Mexicos 31 component states. ... Rungnado May Day Stadium is the worlds largest football stadium. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... La Primera División del Futbol Mexicano (also known as La Liga) is the premier football championship established by the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación in the Mexican League System. ... Image File history File links Kit_left_arm_green_hoops. ... soccer kit File links The following pages link to this file: Celtic F.C. Queens Park Rangers F.C. Reading F.C. F.C. Dallas Yeovil Town F.C. Greenock Morton F.C. Darlington F.C. Sporting Clube de Portugal Santos Laguna De Graafschap Shamrock Rovers F.C. Donegal Celtic... Image File history File links Kit_right_arm_green_hoops. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links Kit_left_arm_green_hoops. ... Soccer jersey with black hoops File links The following pages link to this file: Clube de Regatas do Flamengo Sport Club do Recife Template talk:Football kit Santos Laguna User:Johan Elisson/football kits Categories: GFDL images | Football kit templates ... Image File history File links Kit_right_arm_green_hoops. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... Torreón is a city in Coahuila, Mexico. ... Gómez Palacio is a city in Durango, Mexico, located at 25. ... Lerdo is a small city in the state of Durango, Mexico, located at 25. ... La Primera División del Futbol Mexicano (also known as La Liga) is the premier football championship established by the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación in the Mexican League System. ...

Current Years

Santos Laguna started the Clasura 2007 in danger of being relagated to the second division. Despite buying many Stars such as: Oswaldo Sanchez, Daniel Ludueña, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, and the return of Vicente Matías Vuoso. The team started the season with a defeat from Club Montterey even though Santos were the favorites. Santos continued the season as sort of an average season. Not winning a single game till week 8 against Morelia they started to play great, yet still on the verge of relagation up until the last game when Queretaro could not defeat Atlas. Along with staying another year in the 1st Division they were also able to make the Wild Card going up against San Luis. The 1st leg San Luis went up 2-1 at Santos home. The 2nd leg was an exciting one. Santos advancing to the quarter finals on last minute goal by Walter Jimenez. The Quarter finals Santos played great tying both games against the favorite to win the championship, Pachuca. However, since pachuca were in a higher place on the table they advanced despite ending in a stalemate with Santos. The start of the Apertura 2007 for Santos was a promising one 1st defeating Cruz Azul 2-0 at home and then defeating Toluca 3-2 away. Santos has showed that they will be the team to beat and are one of the favorites to win the Apertura this season. Oswaldo Javier Sanchez Ibarra (born September 21, 1973 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a Mexican footballer currently playing for Chivas de Guadalajara. ... Juan Pablo Rodríguez Guerrero (born August 7, 1979 in Zapopan, Jalisco) is a Mexican football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Chivas of the Primera División de México. ... Vicente José Matías Vuoso (born November 3, 1981 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine football striker, who currently plays for Santos Laguna of the Primera División de México. ... Reloj Monumental For the female Zoot-Suiter, see Pachuco. ...

Honours

• League Championships: 2
  • Invierno 1996 , Verano 2001

• League Runner Up: 2
  • 1993-1994, Clausura 2000

• InterLiga Championships Cup: 1
  • 2004

Current roster

No. Position Player 1 GK Oswaldo Sanchez (C) 3 DF Fernando Ortiz 4 DF Ivan Estrada 6 MF Mario Alberto Garcia 7 MF Walter Gimenez 8 DF Johnny Garcia 10 MF Daniel Ludueña 11 FW Christian Benítez 15 DF Edgar Eduardo Castillo 17 FW Agustin Herrera 18 MF Sonny Guadarrama

No. Position Player 19 DF Rafael Figueroa 20 DF Osmar Mares 21 DF Juan Pablo Santiago 22 MF Carlos Cariño 23 FW Oribe Peralta 25 GK Miguel Becerra 26 MF Francisco Torres 27 MF Jorge Barrera 30 FW Vicente Matías Vuoso MF Rafael Grimaldo 58 MF Juan Pablo Rodriguez

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Squad Changes for Apertura 2007 season

In:

• Jorge Armando Barrera - transferred from Chivas USA
• Miguel Becerra - transferred from Querétaro
• Johnny Garcia - transferred from Jagures de Chiapas
• Juan Pablo Santiago - transferred from Atlas
• Christian Benítez - transferred from El Nacional

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• Mauricio Ariel Caranta transferred to Boca Juniors

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Notable players

• Ramón Ramírez
• Pedro Muñóz
• Olaf Heredia
• Héctor Altamirano
• Jorge Rodríguez
• Benjamín Galindo
• Miguel España
• Johan Rodríguez
• Eduardo Lillingston
• Jared Borgetti
• Daniel Guzmán
• Oswaldo Sanchez
• Gabriel Caballero Nicolas Ramirez
• Sixto Peralta
• Antonio Apud
• Héctor Adomaitis
• José Miguel Zavaelavd
• Vicente Matias Vuoso
• Lizardo Garrido
• Christian Montecinos
• Richard Zambrano
• Rodrigo Ruiz
• Juan Flores
• Eugenio Dolmo Flores
• Edison Mendez
• Mauro Camoranesi
• Denis Caniza
• Mauricio Cienfuegos
• Wagner Ricardo de Souza

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External links

• http://www.clubsantoslaguna.com.mx/aspx/ (Official)
• http://www.rincondelsantos.com/

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League Levels
Primera División de México | Primera División A | Segunda División | Tercera División La Primera División del Futbol Mexicano (also known as La Liga) is the premier football championship established by the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación in the Mexican League System. ... The Primera División A (First Division A) is the second level of the Mexican League System of football. ... For the second tier of league football in Spain, see Segunda División. ... Tercera División is Mexicos fourth tier in the Mexican League System. ...
Miscellaneous
List of champions | El Clásico | Clásico Regiomontano | InterLiga | SuperLiga| Campeón de Campeones // Primera División de México Category: ... El Clásico[1] (English: the classic), also often named El Súper Clásico[2] (superclassic), is the name for the rivalry between two Mexican football teams: Guadalajara and América. ... Clásico Regiomontano is a football derby in Monterrey, México, between rival teams Rayados de Monterrey and Tigres UANL. Since the first Clásico in 1974, the two teams have competed 84 times for bragging rights and city honour. ... The InterLiga is a football competition between Mexican clubs to determine qualifying spots for that country in South Americas premier club competition, the Copa Libertadores. ... The SuperLiga is a North American football (soccer) competition between teams from Mexicos Primera División and the United States and Canadas Major League Soccer, the top football divisions of each respective country. ... Campeón de Campeones is a competion that is played every year between the champions of the mexican football apertura and clausura. ...
Primera División de México short tournaments
Invierno 1996 • Verano 1997 • Invierno 1997 • Verano 1998 • Invierno 1998 • Verano 1999 • Invierno 1999 • Verano 2000 • Invierno 2000 • Verano 2001 • Invierno 2001 • Verano 2002 • Apertura 2002 • Clausura 2003 • Apertura 2003 • Clausura 2004 • Apertura 2004 • Clausura 2005 • Apertura 2005 • Clausura 2006 • Apertura 2006 • Clausura 2007 • Apertura 2007 • Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Verano 2002 was the 2002 edition of La Primera División del Futbol Méxicano, crowning Mexicos spring champion in football. ... The Gran Final was verus America & Tecos. ... Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Apertura 2005 was the 2005 edition of La Primera División del Futbol Méxicano, crowning Mexicos fall champion in football. ... Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Apertura 2006 was the 2006 edition of La Primera División del Futbol Méxicano, crowning Mexicos fall champion. ... Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Clausura 2007 is a Mexican football tournament - one of two short tournaments that take up the entire year - to determine the champion(s) of Mexican football. ... Primera División de México (Mexican First Division) Apertura 2007 is a Mexican football tournament - one of two short tournaments that take up the entire year - to determine the champion(s) of Mexican football. ...