C.D. Saprissa
Encyclopedia
Deportivo Saprissa S.A.D. (formerly known as C.D. Saprissa) is a Costa Rica
n sports club
, mostly known for its football team. The club is located in San Juan de Tibás, San José
, and plays their home games at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
.
The club's success has led to the Costa Rica
n newspaper Diario Extra nicknaming
the team El Monstruo Morado ("The Purple Monster"), after Saprissa won a Championship in the early 1980s and an article in the newspaper said "the crowd yells and screams like a thousand-headed monster". It is Costa Rica's golden club after its appearance in the FIFA's World Cup and many national titles.
Saprissa is one of the most successful clubs in CONCACAF
having won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup three times - in 1993
, 1995
, and 2005
. Saprissa is also the most successful club in Central America having won five Central American crowns
in 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998, and 2003. In 2009 the team was honored as the Team of the XXth Century of CONCACAF, a poll made by FIFA based on the results in official international competitions.
The team is also the most successful club in Costa Rica having won 29 Primera División de Costa Rica
championships, the most of any team in Costa Rica.
For the year from 1 September 2007 to 31 August 2008 the club is listed as being the 106th best team in the world by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics
, an organization recognized by FIFA
.
One of their most notable moments came in 2005 when they became the first, and so far only, non-Mexican
club in CONCACAF
to take part in the FIFA Club World Cup
, finishing in third place. Along with Club Necaxa, this is the highest finish out of any CONCACAF team in the FIFA Club World Cup.
Saprissa has the most appearances in the CONCACAF Champions Cup finals by a Costa Rican club with three first place finishes and four runners-up finishes. Their six consecutive titles from 1972 to 1977 is a national record.
The club was the best in Central & North America of the 20th century according to IFFHS
.
, making their debut in the top flight on 21 August 1949. The club has remained in the Costa Rican top flight ever since. They were Primera División champions six consecutive seasons between 1972 and 1977.
, the owner of Mexican football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara
and soon after the operator of Major League Soccer
club Club Deportivo Chivas USA
in the United States.
Saprissa won the 2005 CONCACAF Champions Cup
, beating Mexican club UNAM
in the final over two legs, in May 2005. As CONCACAF
club champions they qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship
, held in Japan in December 2005. They beat Australian
club Sydney FC
in the quarter-finals thanks to a goal by Christian Bolaños
. In the semi-finals they were beaten 3-0 by English club Liverpool
. In the third place match they beat Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia
3-2. Álvaro Saborío
scored two goals, and Rónald Gómez scored the final goal in the 89th minute to seal the win. They finished the competition in third place behind São Paulo
of Brazil
and Liverpool. Saborío was joint top scorer, and Bolaños was awarded the Bronze Ball by FIFA
as third best player of the championship.
The history of the nickname El Monstruo Morado (The Purple Gaylord) can be traced back to 1987, when the Costa Rican newspaper Diario Extra
gave the team the nickname during the local derby
with LD Alajuelense
. A reporter is said to have commented that the sea of fans in the stands at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
in Tibás wearing purple, and the tremendous noise they were generating, made him feel like he was "in the presence of a thousand headed monster". Saprissa immediately adopted the nickname El Monstruo Morado.
, which they rented and shared.
A new site for a stadium was bought in 1965 and on 27 August 1972 after six years of construction and upgrades, Estadio Ricardo Saprissa was officially opened. The first match was between Deportivo Saprissa and Comunicaciones of Guatemala. The match ended in a 1-1 draw with Peter Sandoval of Comunicaciones scoring the first goal at the new stadium.
The stadium is called La Cueva del Monstruo (The Monster's Cave), after the nickname of the club, El Monstruo Morado ("The Purple Monster"). It has a seating capacity
of 24,000 and is overlooked by local mountains and downtown San Jose.
group in Costa Rica, formed in 1995 when the then Saprissa president Enrique Artiñano brought fans from the Chilean football club Universidad Católica
, to help build a similar ultras group to their Los Cruzados, for Saprissa. In the mid-to-late 1990s the Ultras began to develop the image of being football hooligans
when violence began to break out with opposition fans during games. Due to the negative atmosphere and press coverage, Saprissa stepped in to restore order to a group that they had helped create. Ultra Morada has now been taken under the wing of Saprissa, making it a more stable but devoted supporters group. This project is still on-going. The groups rivalry with La 12 (The Twelve) who support LD Alajuelense has been the cause of a number violent clashes in and out of stadiums.
and many other dragons from children shows. Because of this, many of the fans call the mascot "Un monstruo bonachón" which means "A friendly monster".
But even though the nickname may sound childish, the Ultra and Costa Rica shows love for their team mascot and actually respect it, make healthy and friendly jokes about it and put many T-shirts or costumes of him.
However in early 2010, a new mascot was introduced, the mascot was designed in Mexico, it was a campy, superhero-like purple monster and replaced the old mascot without previous notification to the fans. The new mascot was highly rejected by the fans, claiming that "No queremos un dinosaurio super héroe, queremos al espíritu del equipo (We don't want a super hero, we want the original spirit of the team)".
The new mascot was replaced immediately after the strong rejection, and the team now has a new mascot that resembles the original. The new costume was manufactured by Fernando Thiel, an Argentina-born puppeteer who lives in Costa Rica.
Carlos Peucelle
Alfredo Piedra José Ramos Mario Cordero
Gavelo Conejo
1970s Marvin Rodríguez
Geovanny Rodríguez Guillermo Hernández Jozef Karel
Daniel Vazquez
1980s Josef Bouška Odir Jaques
1990s
Alexandre Guimarães
Carlos Linaris Luis García Carlos Watson Julio César Cortés
Jorge Olguín
Valdeir Vieira
2000s to date Manuel Keosseian
Hernán Medford
Jeaustin Campos
Roy Myers
Juan Manuel Álvarez
Alexandre Guimarães
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
n sports club
Sports club
A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports...
, mostly known for its football team. The club is located in San Juan de Tibás, San José
San José, Costa Rica
San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...
, and plays their home games at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá is one of the main sports stadiums in Costa Rica. It is located in San Juan de Tibás, San José. With a capacity of 24,000, it has one of the highest capacity stadiums in the country. The stadium is the home of Deportivo Saprissa, and was named in honour of the team's...
.
The club's success has led to the Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
n newspaper Diario Extra nicknaming
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
the team El Monstruo Morado ("The Purple Monster"), after Saprissa won a Championship in the early 1980s and an article in the newspaper said "the crowd yells and screams like a thousand-headed monster". It is Costa Rica's golden club after its appearance in the FIFA's World Cup and many national titles.
Saprissa is one of the most successful clubs in CONCACAF
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...
having won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup three times - in 1993
CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1993
The 1993 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 29th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
, 1995
CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1995
The 1995 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 31st edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
, and 2005
CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2005
The 2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 40th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. The tournament was also a qualifying event for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship...
. Saprissa is also the most successful club in Central America having won five Central American crowns
Copa Interclubes UNCAF
The UNCAF Club Tournament was an annual international football competition held in the UNCAF region . The competition was open to the leading domestic club teams in the region. The winners of each national league qualified automatically. It also provided qualification places for the CONCACAF...
in 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998, and 2003. In 2009 the team was honored as the Team of the XXth Century of CONCACAF, a poll made by FIFA based on the results in official international competitions.
The team is also the most successful club in Costa Rica having won 29 Primera División de Costa Rica
Primera División de Costa Rica
Primera División de Costa Rica is a professional league for association football clubs in Costa Rica. At the top of the Costa Rican league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Segunda División...
championships, the most of any team in Costa Rica.
For the year from 1 September 2007 to 31 August 2008 the club is listed as being the 106th best team in the world by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics
International Federation of Football History & Statistics
The International Federation of Football History & Statistics is an organization that chronicles the history and records of Association football. It was founded on 27 March 1984 at Leipzig by Dr. Alfredo Pöge with the blessings of general secretary of the FIFA at the time, Dr. Helmut Käser...
, an organization recognized by FIFA
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...
.
One of their most notable moments came in 2005 when they became the first, and so far only, non-Mexican
Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación
The Mexican Federation of Football is the governing body of association football in Mexico. It administers the Mexican national team, the Mexican league and all affiliated amateur sectors, and is in charge of promoting, organizing, directing, spreading, and supervising competitive football in Mexico...
club in CONCACAF
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...
to take part in the FIFA Club World Cup
FIFA Club World Cup
The FIFA Club World Cup is a football competition between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations.The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in January 2000...
, finishing in third place. Along with Club Necaxa, this is the highest finish out of any CONCACAF team in the FIFA Club World Cup.
Saprissa has the most appearances in the CONCACAF Champions Cup finals by a Costa Rican club with three first place finishes and four runners-up finishes. Their six consecutive titles from 1972 to 1977 is a national record.
The club was the best in Central & North America of the 20th century according to IFFHS
International Federation of Football History & Statistics
The International Federation of Football History & Statistics is an organization that chronicles the history and records of Association football. It was founded on 27 March 1984 at Leipzig by Dr. Alfredo Pöge with the blessings of general secretary of the FIFA at the time, Dr. Helmut Käser...
.
History
Deportivo Saprissa was founded on 16 July 1935 and they entered the Costa Rican Third Division as Saprissa F.C. They were promoted to the Primera División de Costa RicaPrimera División de Costa Rica
Primera División de Costa Rica is a professional league for association football clubs in Costa Rica. At the top of the Costa Rican league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Segunda División...
, making their debut in the top flight on 21 August 1949. The club has remained in the Costa Rican top flight ever since. They were Primera División champions six consecutive seasons between 1972 and 1977.
Recent events
In 2003, the club was bought by Mexican entrepreneur Jorge VergaraJorge Vergara
Jorge Vergara is a Mexican businessman and film producer. He's the founder of Grupo Omnilife, one of the top 200 corporations in Mexico. Grupo Omnilife owns the football clubs: Club Deportivo Guadalajara of Mexico, C.D...
, the owner of Mexican football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara
C.D. Guadalajara
Club Deportivo Guadalajara , is a Mexican professional football club based in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Guadalajara plays in the Primera División de México and is the most successful club in Mexican football, having won 11 First Division titles, 7 Campeón de Campeones and 2 Copa México...
and soon after the operator of Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
club Club Deportivo Chivas USA
C.D. Chivas USA
Club Deportivo Chivas USA is an American professional soccer club based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California that competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States of America and Canada....
in the United States.
Saprissa won the 2005 CONCACAF Champions Cup
CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2005
The 2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 40th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. The tournament was also a qualifying event for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship...
, beating Mexican club UNAM
Club Universidad Nacional
Club Universidad Nacional A.C., more commonly known as Pumas de la UNAM, or just Pumas, is a Mexican professional football club based in Mexico City...
in the final over two legs, in May 2005. As CONCACAF
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...
club champions they qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship
2005 FIFA Club World Championship
-Quarter-finals:-----Semi-finals:-----Fifth Place:-Third Place:-Final:-Scorers: 2 goals Amoroso Peter Crouch Mohammed Noor Alvaro Saborio...
, held in Japan in December 2005. They beat Australian
A-League
The A-League is the top Australasian professional football league. Run by Australian governing body Football Federation Australia , it was founded in 2004 following the folding of the National Soccer League and staged its inaugural season in 2005–06. It is sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company...
club Sydney FC
Sydney FC
Sydney FC is a professional football club based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and competes in the country's premier football competition, the A-League...
in the quarter-finals thanks to a goal by Christian Bolaños
Christian Bolaños
Christian Bolaños Navarro is a Costa Rican footballer who currently plays as a winger for Danish Superliga side F.C...
. In the semi-finals they were beaten 3-0 by English club Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
. In the third place match they beat Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
3-2. Álvaro Saborío
Álvaro Saborío
Álvaro Alberto Saborío Chacón is a Costa Rican footballer, who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer and the Costa Rica national football team.-Deportivo Saprissa:...
scored two goals, and Rónald Gómez scored the final goal in the 89th minute to seal the win. They finished the competition in third place behind São Paulo
São Paulo Futebol Clube
São Paulo Futebol Clube , commonly known as São Paulo, is a professional football club based in São Paulo, Brazil. They play in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league, and are one of the only five clubs to...
of Brazil
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
and Liverpool. Saborío was joint top scorer, and Bolaños was awarded the Bronze Ball by FIFA
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...
as third best player of the championship.
Team colours and nickname
In 1937, Saprissa adopted purple as the official kit colour. It is said that the team adopted purple because their previous kit, which consisted of a red and blue striped shirt, was washed together by mistake. Then when the kits were ready to be picked up, it was realized that the two colours had blended, forming a solid purple colour.The history of the nickname El Monstruo Morado (The Purple Gaylord) can be traced back to 1987, when the Costa Rican newspaper Diario Extra
Diario Extra (Costa Rica)
Diario Extra is a tabloid newspaper in Costa Rica.La Extra is one of the most read newspapers in Costa Rica, with the largest number of copies printed daily...
gave the team the nickname during the local derby
Local derby
In many countries the term local derby, or simply just derby means a sporting fixture between two, generally local, rivals, particularly in association football...
with LD Alajuelense
LD Alajuelense
Liga Deportiva Alajuelense , is a Costa Rican football club, currently playing in the Primera División de Costa Rica. It was founded on June 18, 1919. The team is located in Alajuela's downtown and they play their local games at the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto.Alajuelense was the first Costa...
. A reporter is said to have commented that the sea of fans in the stands at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá is one of the main sports stadiums in Costa Rica. It is located in San Juan de Tibás, San José. With a capacity of 24,000, it has one of the highest capacity stadiums in the country. The stadium is the home of Deportivo Saprissa, and was named in honour of the team's...
in Tibás wearing purple, and the tremendous noise they were generating, made him feel like he was "in the presence of a thousand headed monster". Saprissa immediately adopted the nickname El Monstruo Morado.
Stadium
Saprissa plays home games at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá, named after Ricardo Saprissa. They originally played at the Costa Rica National StadiumEstadio Nacional de Costa Rica (1926)
Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica was a multi-use stadium in La Sabana, San José, Costa Rica. It was used mostly for football matches. The stadium held 25,000 and was built in 1924. It was replaced by the current National Stadium....
, which they rented and shared.
A new site for a stadium was bought in 1965 and on 27 August 1972 after six years of construction and upgrades, Estadio Ricardo Saprissa was officially opened. The first match was between Deportivo Saprissa and Comunicaciones of Guatemala. The match ended in a 1-1 draw with Peter Sandoval of Comunicaciones scoring the first goal at the new stadium.
The stadium is called La Cueva del Monstruo (The Monster's Cave), after the nickname of the club, El Monstruo Morado ("The Purple Monster"). It has a seating capacity
Seating capacity
Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, both in terms of the physical space available, and in terms of limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats...
of 24,000 and is overlooked by local mountains and downtown San Jose.
Supporters
La Ultra Morada (The Purple Ultra) is the club's official supporters group. The group was the first UltrasUltras
Ultras are a type of sports fans renowned for their fanatical support and elaborate displays. They are predominantly European followers of football teams...
group in Costa Rica, formed in 1995 when the then Saprissa president Enrique Artiñano brought fans from the Chilean football club Universidad Católica
Universidad Católica
Universidad Católica is Spanish for "Catholic university". There are a number of Catholic universities in Spanish-speaking countries that use this term in their names, such as:* In Argentina:** Universidad Católica Argentina, in Buenos Aires...
, to help build a similar ultras group to their Los Cruzados, for Saprissa. In the mid-to-late 1990s the Ultras began to develop the image of being football hooligans
Football hooliganism
Football hooliganism, sometimes referred to by the British media as the English Disease, is unruly and destructive behaviour—such as brawls, vandalism and intimidation—by association football club fans...
when violence began to break out with opposition fans during games. Due to the negative atmosphere and press coverage, Saprissa stepped in to restore order to a group that they had helped create. Ultra Morada has now been taken under the wing of Saprissa, making it a more stable but devoted supporters group. This project is still on-going. The groups rivalry with La 12 (The Twelve) who support LD Alajuelense has been the cause of a number violent clashes in and out of stadiums.
Mascot
The official mascot of the team is a cartoonish purple dragon, which was based on the Dragon Elliot, and similar to one of DragontalesDragontales
Dragontales was a series of gamebooks written by Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz as "Rhondi Vilott" and published by Signet in the 1980s. The books place the reader in the role of a young man or woman in various fantasy countries inhabited by a variety of extravagant creatures...
and many other dragons from children shows. Because of this, many of the fans call the mascot "Un monstruo bonachón" which means "A friendly monster".
But even though the nickname may sound childish, the Ultra and Costa Rica shows love for their team mascot and actually respect it, make healthy and friendly jokes about it and put many T-shirts or costumes of him.
However in early 2010, a new mascot was introduced, the mascot was designed in Mexico, it was a campy, superhero-like purple monster and replaced the old mascot without previous notification to the fans. The new mascot was highly rejected by the fans, claiming that "No queremos un dinosaurio super héroe, queremos al espíritu del equipo (We don't want a super hero, we want the original spirit of the team)".
The new mascot was replaced immediately after the strong rejection, and the team now has a new mascot that resembles the original. The new costume was manufactured by Fernando Thiel, an Argentina-born puppeteer who lives in Costa Rica.
Current squad
As of 2011Out on loan
Non-playing staff
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
 Enrique Rivers |
Vice President |
| Mario Jiménez |
Commercial Manager |
| Randall Row Randall Row Rándall Row Arias is a former Costa Rican footballer who played most of his career with Deportivo Saprissa, during the 1990s.... |
Assistant Coach |
| Jose Francisco Porras José Porras José Francisco Porras Hidalgo is a Costa Rican footballer who plays for AD Carmelita in Costa Rica. He is a goalkeeper and captain of his club.... |
Assistant Coach |
 Marcelo TulbovitzMarcelo Tulbovitz Marcelo Tulbovitz Dembovich was born August 12, 1961 in Montevideo, Uruguay to parents of Latvian and Polish ancestry. He is the head athletic trainer for the... |
Head Athletic Trainer |
| Róger Mora |
Goalkeeping coach |
| Willy Gálvez |
Team Physician |
Former coaches
1950s - 1960s Francisco García Eduardo Viso Abella Otto BumbelOtto Bumbel
Pedro Otto Bumbel was a Brazilian professional football manager who coached a number of Spanish club sides, including Sabadell, Valencia, Racing de Santander, Elche, Sevilla, Atlético Madrid and Málaga...
Carlos Peucelle
Carlos Peucelle
Carlos Desiderio Peucelle was an Argentine football player that played inside right/wing and is considered one of Argentina's most technical players in their history as well as being the catalyst for starting "La Maquina" with River Plate who went on to dominate football in South America in the...
Alfredo Piedra José Ramos Mario Cordero
Mario Cordero
Mario Cordero Brenes is a former Costa Rican football player and coach; he is still considered in his country as one of the top defenders to have played the game....
Gavelo Conejo
1970s Marvin Rodríguez
Marvin Rodríguez
Marvin Rodríguez Ramírez is a Costa Rican football coach and former striker. He coached the Costa Rican national team to its first World Cup participation in 1990.-Career:...
Geovanny Rodríguez Guillermo Hernández Jozef Karel
Jozef Karel
Jozef Karel was a former Slovak football midfielder and then coach. He played for SAC Sečovce, Snaha Košice, Slávia Prešov, ŠK Bratislava and shortly for Red Star Saint-Ouen on a loan...
Daniel Vazquez
1980s Josef Bouška Odir Jaques
Odir Jaques
Odir Jacques Ferreira is a former Brazilian soccer striker who played most of his career in Costa Rica.Before moving to Costa Rica, Jacques Ferreira started in Bangu in Brazil's Carioca League, then played for several years in El Salvador with Club Deportivo FAS...
1990s
Alexandre GuimarãesAlexandre Guimarães
Alexandre Borges Guimarães is a Brazilian-born , Costa Rican-raised ex-footballer. He arrived at Costa Rica at the age of twelve As a player, Guimarães played for Durpanel San Blas, Municipal Puntarenas, Deportivo Saprissa and Turrialba FC...
Carlos Linaris Luis García Carlos Watson Julio César Cortés
Julio César Cortés
Julio César "El Pocho" Cortés is an Uruguayan football coach and former midfielder who participated in three World Cups with the Uruguayan national team....
Jorge Olguín
Jorge Olguín
Jorge Mario Olguín is a retired Argentine footballer.He is perhaps most famous for having been part of the 1978 World Cup winning team.Since his retirement as a player he has managed a number of football clubs....
Valdeir Vieira
Valdeir Vieira
Valdeir "Badú" Vieira is a Brazilian football manager who is currently Head Coach of Bahrain Club in the Bahraini Premier League.-Playing career:...
2000s to date Manuel Keosseian
Manuel Keosseian
Manuel Keosseian is a former Uruguayan-Armenian professional footballer who played as a midfielder and current manager of Uruguayan side C.A. Peñarol. Before Keosseian led the "Rojos" to the 2010 Guatemalan Clausura championship.In the afternoon of 21 June 2010 he communicated to csD Municipal...
Hernán Medford
Hernán Medford
Hernán Evaristo Medford Bryan is a Costa Rican football player and coach.Nicknamed "Pelicano", or "Pelican", he played in several different leagues worldwide, including Serie A of Italy , the Yugoslav First League , the Austrian Bundesliga , La Liga in Spain playing for Rayo Vallecano, and the...
Jeaustin Campos
Jeaustin Campos
Jeaustin Campos Madriz is a Costa Rican football player and coach. He was one of the most famous Costa Rican soccer midfielders during the 1990s and played most of his career with Deportivo Saprissa, where he won four national championships and two CONCACAF Champions Cup, in 1993 and 1995...
Roy Myers
Roy Myers
Roy Anthony Myers Francis is a former Costa Rican football player who played most of his career with Deportivo Saprissa....
Juan Manuel Álvarez
Juan Manuel Álvarez
Juan Manuel Álvarez , a laborer from Compton, California, is a Californian convicted of causing the January 26, 2005, Glendale train crash, a collision between a passenger train, another passenger train, a freight train, and a car in Glendale, California...
Alexandre Guimarães
Alexandre Guimarães
Alexandre Borges Guimarães is a Brazilian-born , Costa Rican-raised ex-footballer. He arrived at Costa Rica at the age of twelve As a player, Guimarães played for Durpanel San Blas, Municipal Puntarenas, Deportivo Saprissa and Turrialba FC...
National
- Primera División de Costa RicaPrimera División de Costa RicaPrimera División de Costa Rica is a professional league for association football clubs in Costa Rica. At the top of the Costa Rican league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Segunda División...
: 29
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- 1952-53, 1953–54, 1957–58, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007-08 Apertura, 2007-08 Clausura, 2008-09 Apertura, 2010 Clausura
- Costa Rican Short Championships: 8
-
- 1997-98 Clausura, 1998–99 Apertura, 1998–99 Clausura, 2003–04 Apertura, 2005–06 Apertura, 2005–06 Clausura, 2006–07 Apertura, 2006–07 Clausura
International
- CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 24 appearances
-
- Winners (3): 1993CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1993The 1993 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 29th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
, 1995CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1995The 1995 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 31st edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
, 2005CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2005The 2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 40th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. The tournament was also a qualifying event for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship... - Runners-up (4): 1970CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1970The 1970 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 6th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
, 1973CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1973The 1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 9th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
, 2004CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2004The 2004 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 39th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
, 2008CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2008The 2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 43rd and final edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region...
- Winners (3): 1993
- Copa Interclubes UNCAFCopa Interclubes UNCAFThe UNCAF Club Tournament was an annual international football competition held in the UNCAF region . The competition was open to the leading domestic club teams in the region. The winners of each national league qualified automatically. It also provided qualification places for the CONCACAF...
: 17 appearances
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- Winners (5): 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998Torneo Grandes de Centroamerica 1998The 1998 Torneo Grandes de Centroamérica was the 16th edition of the UNCAF Club Tournament and the third and last under this name. Costa Rican C.D...
, 2003 - Runners-up (7): 1971, 1974, 1996Torneo Grandes de Centroamerica 1996The 1996 Torneo Grandes de Centroamérica was the 14th UNCAF Club Tournament and the first one since 1983; the tournament was renamed Torneo Grandes de Centroamérica. Costa Rican side L.D. Alajuelense were crowned champions.-Original format:...
, 1997Torneo Grandes de Centroamerica 1997Alianza from El Salvador won the 1997 Torneo Grandes de Centroamerica after defeating Saprissa in a single final match played in Costa Rica.-Group A:---------------------------------------------Standings:...
, 2001Copa Interclubes UNCAF 2001The 2001 Copa Interclubes UNCAF served as qualification to the 2002 CONCACAF Champions' Cup; it also defined C.S.D. Municipal as the Central American champion of the season. The final round was played at San José, Costa Rica.-Group A:--------...
, 2004Copa Interclubes UNCAF 2004-First round:----------------------------* Cobán Imperial 4–4 Plaza Amador on aggregate; Plaza Amador advanced on away goals.----* Olimpia won 6–0 on aggregate.----* Herediano won 6–0 on aggregate.----...
, 2007Copa Interclubes UNCAF 2007The 2007 Copa Interclubes UNCAF was the 25th edition of the international club football competition held in the UNCAF region representing the seven nations of Central America. This was the ninth year of the current format using the name Copa Interclubes UNCAF. The tournament was also be a...
- Winners (5): 1972, 1973, 1978, 1998
- Interamerican Cup: 2 appearances
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- Runners-up (2): 1993, 1995
- CONCACAF Central American Champions: 1 appearance
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- Winners (1): 1970CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1970The 1970 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 6th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region , the CONCACAF Champions' Cup...
- Winners (1): 1970
- Copa Ricard: 1 appearance
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- Runners-up (1): 2008
- US Camel Cup: 1 appearance
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- Winners (1): 1985
- FIFA World Club Championship Toyota CupFIFA Club World CupThe FIFA Club World Cup is a football competition between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations.The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in January 2000...
: 1 appearance
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- Third Place (1): 20052005 FIFA Club World Championship-Quarter-finals:-----Semi-finals:-----Fifth Place:-Third Place:-Final:-Scorers: 2 goals Amoroso Peter Crouch Mohammed Noor Alvaro Saborio...
- Third Place (1): 2005