Monagas Sport Club
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Monagas Sport Club is a Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n 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...

 team playing at the top level, the Primera División Venezolana
Primera División Venezolana
The Primera División , or Liga Venezolana is the top-flight professional football league of Venezuela. It was created in 1921 and turned professional in 1957...

. It is based in Maturín
Maturín
Maturín is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inhabitants...

. Their home stadium is the Estadio Monumental de Maturín
Estadio Monumental de Maturín
The Estadio Monumental de Maturín is the largest stadium in Venezuela by seating capacity, with 51,796 spectators. It was one of the venues of the 2007 Copa America...

. The club received the nickname of “Los Guerreros del Guarapiche” (The Warriors from the Guarapiche), because of the never giving up mentality of its players and the name of the river which crosses the city where the team has its headquarters (River Guarapiche).

History

Monagas Sport Club was founded on 23 September 1987 by Joaquín (Fariñas) da Silva, Ramón Ramírez and others. Its first official match was against "Unión Deportivo Puerto la Cruz" on 22 May 1988; however the club had had friendly matches against the teams "Atlético Cumaná”, “Cachorros del Tigrito” and “Mariscales de Sucre”. The team started as a second division team and its first official league game, which it won with a final score of 4-0, was against the "Unión Deportivo Puerto La Cruz
Puerto la Cruz
Puerto la Cruz is a port city located in Anzoátegui State, in Venezuela. It is the seat of the Juan Antonio Sotillo Municipality. The city has road connections to the state capital, Barcelona, to Lecheria and to Guanta, and has the potential to become the largest and most important metropolitan...

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The team participed in the Venezuelan second division until 1990 when the club was promoted to the first division. Since then Monagas Sport Club have tried to remain in this division. For the moment the team has not won a championship although it has qualified twice for the South American Cup.

Crisis in the season 2006/07

Monagas Sport Club obtained awful results in the season 2006/ 2007 of Venezuela’s first division. As the consequence of this bad patch three previous coaches (Franco Fasciana, Del Valle Rojas and Bernardo Redín) had led the club before the arrival of Alí Cañas. Some football players resigned to the team before the conclusion of the tournament and Ramón Caballero, president of the club, gave up.

Monagas Sport Club finished in the relegation places at the end of the season, but the club won a reprieve when the Primera División Venezolana decided to expand from 10 to 18 teams, thus allowing the two teams in the relegation places to remain in the league.

Stadium

The Estadio Monumental de Maturin
Estadio Monumental de Maturín
The Estadio Monumental de Maturín is the largest stadium in Venezuela by seating capacity, with 51,796 spectators. It was one of the venues of the 2007 Copa America...

 is a football stadium located in the city of Maturin, Monagas state. It is the biggest stadium in Venezuela with a capacity of 51,796 spectators. It is competing for the football matches that Monagas Sport Club home game. It was built to host the Copa America Venezuela 2007.

El Monumental was inaugurated on June 24, 2007, where they were the opening game between the Monagas Sport Club and Zamora Fútbol Club
Zamora Fútbol Club
Zamora Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan football club.-History:Zamora Fútbol Club was founded on February 2, 1977. The club was promoted to the First Division after finishing as runners-up in the Second Division in the 2005/2006 season.-Titles:...

 home team winning 2-0 with goals from Edder Farias.

Monagas Sport Club played from 1987 to 2007 at Estadio Alexander Botinni
Estadio Alexander Botinni
Estadio Alexander Botinni is a multi-use stadium in Maturín, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Monagas Sport Club. The stadium holds 8,000 people....

 in Maturín.

Sponsor

La Lotería de Oriente (a public lottery from Maturín) is the main sponsor of Monagas Sport Club. For last years the president of the lottery, Willy Farías, has been in charge of the presidency of the club.

Controversy over the uniform, the logo and the name of the club

The colors of the Monagas Sport Club’s uniform are blue and maroon. The uniform and crest are lagerly based on those of FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

. These colors were proposed by Francisco "Paco" Espinoza, a former vice-president of the club, in 1988.
In 2006 Ramón Caballero, the former president of the team, and other members of the board of directors suggested the colors of the uniform, the logo and the name of the club should be changed. According to them, the uniform and crest should not copy a foreign club and the name of the team should be written in Spanish. Many supporters of Monagas Sport Club are opposed to this idea for they consider the red and maroon colors, crest and current name as a part of the club’s identity.

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

  • Copa Libertadores: 0 appearances

  • Copa Sudamericana
    Copa Sudamericana
    The Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana de Clubes , known simply as the Copa Sudamericana , is an annual international club football competition organized by the CONMEBOL since 2002. It is the second most prestigious club competition in South American football. CONCACAF clubs were invited between 2004...

    : 2 appearances
2002: Second Preliminary Round
2003: Preliminary Round

  • Recopa Sudamericana
    Recopa Sudamericana
    The Recopa Sudamericana is an annual football match-up between the reigning champions of the previous year's Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana, South America's premier club competitions....

    : 0 appearances

Current first team squad




Famous players

Vicente Principiano
Vicente Principiano
Vicente Principiano is a former footballer who played for clubs in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, South Africa and Italy....

 Alexander "Comanche" Bottini Carlos "Pomada" Bravo
Carlos Bravo
Carlos Daniel Bravo is a Chilean producer living in Los Angeles, California. His credits include associate producer of Warner Premiere’s “H+, The Digital Series”, Discovery en Español’s – “Maxed Out”, “Style for Steal” and “Crash Test Mommy” – He was also the assistant director for season three of...

 Rafael Castellín Franco Fasciana
Franco Fasciana
Franco José Fasciana Ordoñez is a footballer from Venezuela.Fasciana played in the youth team with Monagas. In the year 2007 he played for UA Maracaibo, a team from the Primera División Venezolana. In June 2008 Barcelona contracted him....

 José Fasciana César González
César Eduardo González
César Eduardo González Amais is a Venezuelan football midfielder. He currently plays for River Plate in Argentina....

 José "Cuervito" Rivas José "El Papi" Rivas

Presidential history

Monagas Sport Club has had numerous presidents over the course of its history, some of whom have been owners of the club while others have been honorary presidents. Here is a complete list of them.

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