Cobresal
Wikipedia - C.D. Cobresal
Club de Deportes Cobresal or simply Cobresal, is a Chilean football club based in El Salvador, Atacama, a Chilean mining camp, and participates in Campeonato Nacional. The team was founded on 5 May 1979, and the name of the club comes from the local copper mine establishment. Since its inception, the club has played its home games at the El Cobre Stadium. With a capacity of approximately 12,000, the stadium is able to seat more than the entire population of the town (7,000).
During the history of Cobresal, the club has been champion once (2015 Clausura) and achieved one Copa Chile title in 1987, with players like the Chilean legend Iván Zamorano, Rubén Martínez and the club's historic top-scorer Sergio Salgado, footballers that also played in the 1986 Copa Libertadores, in the first international tournament for the club.
Cobresal's classic rival was Regional Atacama, where both teams disputed the III Region derby, but since the disappearance of that team as a result of financial problems, the team now plays the Copper derby with Cobreloa of Calama. Another important rivalry has been formed with another team from the Atacama region, Deportes Copiapó.
Cobresals mest suksessrike periode kom på 1980-tallet, da de vant det chilenske mesterskapet to ganger, i 1980 og 1987. De har også vunnet den chilenske cupen én gang, i 1981.
På internasjonalt nivå har Cobresal deltatt i Copa Libertadores og Copa Sudamericana ved flere anledninger. Deres beste resultat var en kvartfinale i Copa Sudamericana i 2014.
Cobresals draktfarger er oransje og svart, og kallenavnet deres er "Los Mineros" (gruvearbeiderne), som refererer til kobbergruvene i området. Klubben er kjent for sin aggressive og offensive spillestil.
Noen av de mest kjente spillerne som har spilt for Cobresal inkluderer:
* Marcelo Barraza
* Jorge Aravena
* Nicolás Córdova
* Marco Cornez
* Jaime Valdés