Sacachispas
Encyclopedia
Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas is a professional football
club based in Chiquimula
, Guatemala
.
The team plays in the Primera División de Ascenso
, the second-highest football division in Guatemala. Their home stadium is the Estadio Las Victorias
.
The club has also played in the Liga Mayor
, having reached their best position in the 1995-96 season, when they were runners-up. They have been playing in the second division
since 2000.
´s Park, in where were the distinguished citizens Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Josué Goshop, Héctor Antonio Monroy, Jorge González and Manuel Samayoa, on June 15, 1949; and the second meeting was near of Colegio Amigos, on the ground it now occupies the Estado Las Victoras. In this attended besides the first mentioned, Neftalí Aguilar, Caleb Goshop, Neco Velásquez, Enrique Valdés, Gata Cuellar, Ronald Williams, Mincho Paz, Lipe Franco, Quincho Díaz, Chentío Castañeda, Edmundo Rivera, Pío Martínez and Armando Portillo.
The first uniform was a white jersey with white shorts. Their first coach was the Governor of Chiquimula, Colonel Guadalupe López Ochoa who got new uniforms: a white a blue stripes jersey with white shorts.
told them about an Argentine
movie was showing in that country, Pelota de Trapo (Ball Rag). The movie was about a group of kids who plays with the name of Sacachispas. He suggested naming that way the Chiquimula football team. That led to the name of the current Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas.
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 Chiquimula
Chiquimula
Chiquimula is a city in Guatemala. It serves both as the capital of the department of Chiquimula and as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name....
, Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
.
The team plays in the Primera División de Ascenso
Primera División de Ascenso
The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...
, the second-highest football division in Guatemala. Their home stadium is the Estadio Las Victorias
Estadio Las Victorias
Estadio Las Victorias is a soccer stadium located in Chiquimula, Guatemala. It is home to second division club Sacachispas, and has a capacity of 9,000....
.
The club has also played in the Liga Mayor
Liga Nacional de Guatemala
Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala , formerly known as Liga Mayor "A" is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. It is sanctioned by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala...
, having reached their best position in the 1995-96 season, when they were runners-up. They have been playing in the second division
Primera División de Ascenso
The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...
since 2000.
History
Nicknamed Los Muteros, the club was founded as a result of two meetings. The first, in the south-west corner of Ismael CernaIsmael Cerna
Ismael Cerna was a Guatemalan poet.-Biography:Cerna was born in Chiquimula in 1856. He graduated as a Bachelor of Philosophy and later in medicine and law. He later joined the army but after the fall of Vicente Cerna was captured with his uncle and imprisoned. On his release he went to El Salvador...
´s Park, in where were the distinguished citizens Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Josué Goshop, Héctor Antonio Monroy, Jorge González and Manuel Samayoa, on June 15, 1949; and the second meeting was near of Colegio Amigos, on the ground it now occupies the Estado Las Victoras. In this attended besides the first mentioned, Neftalí Aguilar, Caleb Goshop, Neco Velásquez, Enrique Valdés, Gata Cuellar, Ronald Williams, Mincho Paz, Lipe Franco, Quincho Díaz, Chentío Castañeda, Edmundo Rivera, Pío Martínez and Armando Portillo.
The first uniform was a white jersey with white shorts. Their first coach was the Governor of Chiquimula, Colonel Guadalupe López Ochoa who got new uniforms: a white a blue stripes jersey with white shorts.
The Name
Many of the footballers had their headquarters in the Roxi barbershop, owned by Carlos Enrique Morales Hernández aka Quique. One night in a player's meeting, one customer who came from El SalvadorEl Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
told them about an Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
movie was showing in that country, Pelota de Trapo (Ball Rag). The movie was about a group of kids who plays with the name of Sacachispas. He suggested naming that way the Chiquimula football team. That led to the name of the current Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas.
Current squad
National titles
- Liga Mayor B: 1
-
- 1992
- Segunda División: 1
-
- 1993
- Copa Amistad: 1
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- 2007