Club Social de Deportes Rangers, is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club based in the city of Talca

Talca

Talca is a city and commune in Chile located about south of Santiago, and is the capital of both Talca Province and Maule Region . As of the 2002 census, the city had a population of 193,755....

. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the Second division of the Chilean football league. Their home games are played at the Fiscal

Estadio Fiscal

Estadio Fiscal de Talca is a multi-use public stadium in Talca, Chile. It is currently used mostly for association football matches and is the home stadium of Club Social de Deportes Rangers. The stadium holds 17,020 people and was built in 1937....

 stadium, which has a capacity of approximately 17,000 seats.

History

The name Rangers (meaning ‘One of the Defending Watchman’) was chosen by a Scotsman

Scotsman

Scotsman may mean:* a man from Scotland, in common parlance - see also Scottish people.* No true Scotsman, a common logical fallacy.*The Scotsman, a national newspaper based in Edinburgh, Scotland....

, Juan Greenstret, who was one of the founding fathers of the Club.

The origin of the chosen team colours, red and black, are unknown, though one of the possibilities was that some of the first players were also members of the Second Company of Firemen of Talca, whose shield was red and black.

In 1952 was accepted into the Segunda División, and won the runners-up spot after finishing second in the league tournament final, getting the promotion to Primera División.

Rangers qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 1970, being its only participation in a CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL

The South American Football Confederation , commonly known as CONMEBOL , is the continental governing body of association football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations...

 international tournament.

Throughout their first century of existence, honours have been few and far between, with no Championship successes.

Rangers were relegated in 2009 after being assessed a three-point penalty for using too many non-Chilean players in a November 8 match. The club filed a lawsuit in a Chilean court, leading to a threat from FIFA

FIFA

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 to throw the Chilean national team

Chile national football team

The Chilean national football team represents Chile in all major international football competitions. The team is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895. They have appeared in eight World Cup tournaments and were hosts of the 1962 FIFA World Cup finishing in...

 out of the 2010 World Cup

2010 FIFA World Cup

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 if the case continued. Under pressure from creditors, Rangers dropped the lawsuit on November 27, shortly after FIFA's demand. The case delayed the start of the league's playoffs.

In 2010, the club was auctioned and purchased by a business group called "Piduco SADP".

National honors

• Second Division: 3

1988, 1993, 1997

• First Division
  Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División
  The Primera División del Fútbol Profesional Chileno is the top level of Chilean football, and main component of the Chilean football league system. It is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional and is currently ranked 9th in the IFFHS' Best Leagues of the World ranking...
  
  : 0

Runner-up: 1969, Apertura 2002

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 1 appearance

Best: First Round in 1970

1970: First Round

Current squad

Notable players

Julio César Abatte

Julio César Abatte

Julio César Abatte is a former Argentine footballer currently played for Clubs of Chile.-Teams: Ferrobadminton 1946-1948 Universidad de Chile 1949-1951 Rangers 1952-1953-External links:* Profile at...

 Vicente Cantatore

Vicente Cantatore

Vicente Cantatore is a Chilean-Argentina former football player and manager.He played for Talleres de Córdoba, Tigre, San Lorenzo, Rangers de Talca, Santiago Wanderers and Deportes Concepción....

 Gastón Cellerino

Gastón Cellerino

Gastón Andrés Javier Cellerino is an Argentine footballer who plays for Racing Club, on loan from Livorno.-Career:Cellerino was born in Viedma, Río Negro Province. He started playing youth football in the infant divisions of Boca Juniors...

 Gustavo Semino

Gustavo Semino

Gustavo Semino is a Argentine footballer currently playing for Crucero del Norte in Argentina....

 Gonzalo Favre

Gonzalo Favre

Gonzalo Favre is a former Argentine footballer currently played for Colón de Santa Fe in Argentina and Rangers in Chile.-External links:* Profile at* Profile at...

 Ángel Labruna

Ángel Labruna

Angel Amadeo Labruna, , was a football player and coach in Argentina. He is tied with Arsenio Erico as the all-time highest goalscorers in the Argentine first division...

 Omar Enrique Mallea

Omar Enrique Mallea

Omar Enrique Mallea Arca is an Argentine professional footballer who currently plays for Cobresal.-External links:* at Terra.cl...

 Cristian Milla

Cristian Milla

Cristian Humberto Milla is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for Rangers as striker.-Career:Milla began his career in the youth system of Chacarita Juniors...

 Héctor Scandolli Márcio dos Santos Iván Álvarez

Iván Álvarez

Iván Álvarez is a Chilean football forward. He currently plays for Rangers de Talca. He is the twin brother of Cristián Álvarez.-External links:...

 Rodrigo Barra

Rodrigo Barra

Rodrigo Alejandro Barra Carrasco is a Chilean professional footballer who currently plays for Santiago Wanderers.-External links:* at Terra.cl...

 Juan Covarrubias

Juan Covarrubias

Juan Carlos Covarrubias Muñoz , commonly known as Juan Covarrubias or sometimes El Copihue de cobre y El 10 de la zurda mágica, is a Chilean footballer was plays as Left midfielder in Chile's Primera División.-Career:...

 Atilio Cremaschi

Atilio Cremaschi

Atilio Cremaschi Oyarzún , was a Chilean footballer who played for Unión Española, Colo-Colo and Rangers of Chile and in the Chile national football team in the FIFA World Cup Brazil 1950...

 Ismael Fuentes

Ismael Fuentes

Ismael Ignacio Fuentes Castro is Chilean football defender, who currently plays for the Mexican club Jaguares de Chiapas.He began his career with Chilean club Rangers in 2001. He also spent one season with Colo-Colo....

 Carlos Garrido

Carlos Garrido

Carlos Alberto Garrido is a Chilean footballer, who currently is the captain of Audax Italiano. He became captain at the beginning of 2008 when teammate Carlos Villanueva refused to the post because of a dispute he had with the team's administration. He began his career playing for his hometown...

Boris González

Boris González

Boris Igor González Garrido is a Chilean footballer, who plays right midfield. He made his professional debut with Chilean club Rangers where he spent his first two seasons. The next four seasons he would spend with Cobreloa, where he would win three championships...

 Marcos González

Marcos González

Marcos Andrés González Salazar is a Brazilian born Chilean professional football defender, who currently plays for Universidad de Chile....

 Cristián Montecinos

Cristian Montecinos

Cristian Antonio Montecinos González a retired Chilean football player who played for a number of teams in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and also in the United Arab Emirates, as well as playing for national team.-Club career:...

 Rodrigo Núñez

Rodrigo Núñez

Rodrigo Fabián Núñez Ortiz is a Chilean football midfielder, who made his debut for the Chile national football team on 2000-02-09...

 Nicolás Peric

Nicolás Peric

Nicolás Peric , is a Chilean goalkeeper of Croatian origin who currently plays for Cobreloa. His nickname is Loco .-Chile:...

 Mauricio Pozo

Mauricio Pozo

Mauricio Andrés Pozo Quinteros is a retired Chilean football defender, who made his debut for the Chile national football team in 2001. He obtained a total of four caps for his native country.-References:*...

 Hugo Eduardo Rubio

Hugo Eduardo Rubio

Hugo Eduardo Rubio Montecinos is a former Chilean football forward. Rubio's nickname is "Pájaro," which in Spanish is "bird." He was known for his speed and finishing. He played in Chile, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland...

 Juan Soto Mura Eberardo Villalobos

Eberardo Villalobos

Eberardo Villalobos Schad was an Chilean football attacker who represented the Chilean national team in three matches at the 1930 FIFA World Cup.-External links:...

 Marco Villaseca

Marco Villaseca

Marco Antonio Villaseca Cabezas is a Chilean footballer currently playing for Rangers.-External links:...

 Alex Whiteley Ike Uzoma

Ike Uzoma

Ike Uzoma is a former Nigerian footballer currently played for clubs of Nigeria, Uruguay, Mexico, Chile and Kuwait....

 Patricio Acevedo Bruno Pesce

Bruno Pesce

Bruno Pietro Pesce Rojas is a naturalized Palestinean football who plays for Olympia Agnonese in the Italian Serie D .-Career:...

 Ramón Castro

Ramón Víctor Castro

Ramón Víctor Castro García is a former Uruguayan footballer. Following his playing career, Castro became a football manager in Chile.-Club career:...

Managers

Nemesio Lora (1952) Charles Bown (1953) Ladislao Pakozdy (1953–55), (1967) José Luis Boffi (1956–57) Renato Panay (1957), (1960) José Klamar (1958) Guillermo Baeza (195?) Sergio Sagredo (1959) Omar Cabral (1960–61) José Dunevicher (1961) Donato Hernández (1962) Adolfo Rodríguez (1963–66), (1975–76) Hernán Rodríguez (1967) José Santos Arias (1968) Oscar Andrade Oscar Andrade Óscar Andrade is an undefeated Mexican American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.-Professional career:...  (1952), (1968–71) Sergio Cruzat (1971) Hernán Gárate (1972) Jorge Reyes Jorge Reyes Jorge Reyes is a Cuban-born, American author known for authoring books in several genres. He is an honor graduate of Barry University, from which he received a B.A...  (1972)   Miguel Ángel Montuori (1972) Pedro Areso (1972–74) Constantino Mohor (1975)

Eladio Benítez (1975–76) Eugenio Jara (1975–76), (1984), (1991–92) Jorge Venegas (1977) Ramón Climent (1978) Carlos Collado (1978) Carlos Contreras Carlos Contreras Carlos Contreras is the first Mexican-born driver in any NASCAR national series. He has competed in the Craftsman Truck Series and Busch Series .-Busch Series:...  (1978) Arturo Rodenak (1978–79), (1982), (1985–86), (1990–91) Antonio Vargas Antonio Vargas Carlos Antonio Vargas Guatatuca is an indigenous Quechua politician of Ecuador. He was leader of Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador and Minister for Social Welfare in the Lucio Gutiérrez government.-References:...  (1980), (1985), (1994) Sacha Mitzjaew (1980) Sergio Gutiérrez Sergio Gutiérrez Sergio Gutiérrez born on May 28, 1989 in Bogotá, is a Colombian football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Millonarios in the Copa Mustang. Gutiérrez is a product of the Millonarios youth system and played with the Millonarios first team since January, 2008.-References:*...  (1980), (1991) Alfonso Sepúlveda (1981) Germán Cornejo (1981), (1987) Gastón Guevara (1982) Orlando Aravena (1983) Gustavo Cortés (1984) Armando Tobar Armando Tobar Armando Tobar is a Chilean football forward who played for Chile in the 1962 and 1966 FIFA World Cups. He also played for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica.-External links:*...  (1986) José Lagos (1987), (1989) Hugo Solís (1988–89) (1993–94) Miguel Ángel Leyes (1989) Jorge Luis Siviero Jorge Luis Siviero Jorge Luis Siviero , is a Uruguayan football coach and former playerSiviero was born in Montevideo. He played for clubs in Uruguay, Mexico and Chile and for the Uruguay national football team....  (1990)

Patricio Gutiérrez Patricio Gutiérrez Patricio Javier Gutiérrez is a Chilean footballer. He currently plays for San Luis Quillota. Gutiérrez can be utilized as a defender or midfielder. His nickname is "Pato."...  (1990), (1994) Eduardo Prieto Eduardo Prieto Eduardo Prieto was a Mexican Olympic fencer and sailor. He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in four fencing events and at the 1964 Summer Olympics in sailing.-References:...  (1990–91) Francisco Valdés Francisco Valdés Francisco Segundo Valdés Muñoz, , nicknamed Chamaco, was a Chilean footballer and manager. Recognized as one of Chile's most important midfielders, with 215 official goals, he is the top scorer in the history of Chilean league...  (1992) Guillermo Páez Guillermo Páez Guillermo Páez is a former Chilean footballer currently played for 6 clubs of Chile and in the Chile national football team in the FIFA World Cup Germany 1974....  (1995) Raúl Toro (1996–99) Eduardo Fournier Eduardo Fournier Eduardo Antonio Fournier Arriagada is a Chilean former footballer who played at both professional and international levels before becoming a coach.-Playing career:...  (1999) José Sulantay José Sulantay José Sulantay Silva is an ex-football player and former manager of both the Chile national under-20 football team and Chile national under-17 football team. He led Chile's under-20 football team to a third place finish at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada...  (1999) Miguel Ángel Castelnoble (2000) Juan Ubilla (2000–01), (2009) Oscar del Solar Oscar del Solar Oscar Jorge Del Solar Villarroel is a Chilean football manager who works as the head coach of Deportes ConcepciónDel Solar has coached a number of Chilean teams, including Deportes Concepción, Audax Italiano and Rangers de Talca...  (2002–03), (2007–08), (2009) Daniel Salvador (2004) Gerardo Reinoso Gerardo Reinoso Gerardo Manuel Reinoso Torres is a former Argentine footballer who played for the Argentina national team. After retiring as a player he turned to management and currently works as the coach of San Telmo in Argentina....  (2004), (2006) Stelios Gianakopoulos (2006) Ramón Castro Ramón Víctor Castro Ramón Víctor Castro García is a former Uruguayan footballer. Following his playing career, Castro became a football manager in Chile.-Club career:...  (2006) Juan Carlos Hernández (2007), (2008) Rubén Vallejos (2010) Fernando Cavalleri (2010) Roberto Mariani (2011) Marcelo Peña Marcelo Peña -Biography:After being born in Chile, Peña emigrated with his family to Australia when he was a year old. He grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney.-Club career:...  (2011) Gabriel Perrone Gabriel Perrone Gabriel Perrone is a retired Argentine footballer who currently works as a coach.- Playing career :As a Player Perrone played as a central defender and he started his career playing for Argentine giants River Plate where he played for two seasons from 1986 to 1988. Then he was transferred to... (2011-)

External links

• Rangers Talca Website