Rangers de Talca

Rangers de Talca

Full name	Club Social de Deportes Rangers
Nickname(s)	Los piducanos Los rojinegros El gigante del Maule
Founded	November 2, 1902;122 years ago (1902-11-02)
Ground	Estadio Fiscal, Chile
Capacity	16 070
Owner	Rojinegro SADP
Chairman	Felipe Muñoz
Manager	Dalcio Giovagnoli
League	Primera B
2024	3rd
Website	www.rangersdetalca.com
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Club Social de Deportes Rangers is a Chilean football club based in the city of Talca. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the second level of the Chilean football system. Their home games are played at the Fiscal stadium, which has a capacity of 16,000 seats.

History

The name Rangers was chosen by a Scotsman, Juan Greenstret, who was one of the founding fathers of the Club on behalf of Mrs. Amalia Neale de Silva, the first benefactress 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. Another possible reason is the use of red and black in the socks of Rangers of Scotland (formed 1872) to represent the district colours of their local burgh of Govan. Fans of the Scottish club returned to using red and black scarves in 2012 to help raise funds for the club.

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 international tournament.

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

Rangers was 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 to throw out the Chile national team of the 2010 World Cup if the case continued. ^[1] 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. ^[2]

In 2010, the club was auctioned and purchased by a business group called "Piduco SADP". ^[3]

On November 27, 2011, Rangers was promoted to Primera División after beating Everton de Viña del Mar in the final match. Manager Dalcio Giovagnoli was fired in 2013, and replaced by Fernando Gamboa, who was considered mainly responsible of the team's relegation in 2014. Gamboa was fired too, but current manager Jorge Garcés wasn't able to avoid the side's relegation after two and a half years in the first division of Chilean football to the second division, the Primera B after finishing in the last place of both the Clausura and the accumulated table. The club's new owners confirmed Garcés will remain as the club's manager for the 2014–15 season, with the goal of gaining promotion to the first division. In October 2014, in a ceremony at the Talca Country Club, the marquess Luis Silva de Balboa transferred the trademark Rangers to the club. The trademark was his property until such time, and by a legal agreement, the transfer contains restrictions as to the limitation for the club to move out of the City of Talca of its ownership in hands other than people from Talca.

Honours

National

• Primera B
  • Winners (3): 1988, 1993, Apertura 1997

Regional

• Torneo Provincial de Chile
  • Winners (1): 1969

South American cups history

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1970	Copa Libertadores	Group 3		Guaraní	0–1	0–2	6th Place
				Olimpia	4–4	1–5
				América de Cali	2–0	0–1
				Deportivo Cali	0–2	2–3
				Universidad de Chile	1–7	1–2

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Rangers de Talca as of 11 December 2021 ( edit )
Sources: ANFP Official Web Site

No. Position Player 1   ARG GK Yair Bonnín 2   CHI DF Javier Rivera 3   CHI DF Nelson Rebolledo 4   CHI DF Agustín Donoso 5   CHI MF Ignacio Carrasco 6   CHI MF Mauricio Iturra 7   CHI MF Brayan Valdivia 8   ARG MF Federico Illanes 9   ARG FW Lionel Altamirano 10   CHI MF Juan Gutiérrez 11   CHI DF Fernando Cordero 12   CHI MF Carlos Espinosa 14   CHI DF Sebastián Acuña 15   CHI MF Matías Faúndez 16   CHI MF Sergio Bobadilla

No. Position Player 17   ARG FW Sebastián Pol 18   URU DF Sergio Felipe 19   ARG DF Ezequiel Luna 20   CHI FW Bastián Martínez 21   CHI DF Claudio Jopia 22   CHI FW José Tomás Herrera 23   CHI DF Juan Abarca 24   ARG MF Alfredo Ábalos 25   CHI DF Christopher Díaz 27   CHI MF Ignacio Caroca 28   CHI FW Manuel Lolas 30   CHI GK Sebastián Aravena 31   CHI GK Marcelo Vásquez 34   CHI FW Lucas Fierro

Manager: Emiliano Astorga

2021 Winter transfers

In

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 11 MF   ARG Ricardo Blanco (loan from Deportes Antofagasta) 20 FW   CHI Mario Briceño (from Lautaro de Buin)

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 FW   CHI Juan Sebastián Ibarra (loan from Colo-Colo)

Out

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 11 FW   PLE Yashir Islame (to Khon Kaen United) 18 MF   ECU Andrés Mena (loan to Atlético Santo Domingo)

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF   ARG Marcos Fernández (released)

Notable players

• Walter Behrends
• Vicente Cantatore
• Atilio Herrera
• Elvio Porcel de Peralta
• Germán Portanova
• Arturo Rodenak
• Héctor Scandolli
• Iván Azócar  ^{[ es ]}
• Juan Cortés
• Juan Soto
• Sergio Velasco

Managers

• Nemesio Lora (1952)
• Óscar Andrade (1952)
• Charles Bown (1953)
• Ladislao Pakozdi (1953–55)
• José Luis Boffi (1956–57)
• Renato Panay (1957)
• José Klamar (1958)
• Guillermo Báez (1959)
• Sergio Sagredo (1959)
• Renato Panay (1960)
• Omar Cabral (1960–61)
• José Dunevicher (1961)
• Donato Hernández  [ es ] (1962)
• Adolfo Rodríguez  [ es ] (1963–66)
• Ladislao Pakozdi (1967)
• Hernán Rodríguez (1967)
• José Santos Arias (1968)
• Óscar Andrade (1968–71)
• Sergio Cruzat (1971)
• Hernán Gárate (1972)
• Jorge Reyes (1972)
• Miguel Montuori (1972)
• Pedro Areso (1972–74)
• Constantino Mohor (1975)
• Adolfo Rodríguez  [ es ] (1975–76)
• Eladio Benítez (1976)
• Eugenio Jara (1976)
• Jorge Venegas (1977)
• Ramón Climent (1978)
• Carlos Collado (1978)
• Carlos Contreras (1978)
• Arturo Rodenak (1978–79)
• Antonio Vargas (1980)
• Sasha Mitjaew (1980)
• Sergio Gutiérrez (1980)
• Alfonso Sepúlveda (1981)
• Germán Cornejo (1981)
• Gastón Guevara (1982)
• Arturo Rodenak (1982)
• Orlando Aravena (1983)
• Gustavo Cortés (1984)
• Eugenio Jara (1984)
• Antonio Vargas (1985)
• Arturo Rodenak (1985–86)
• Armando Tobar (1986)
• Sasha Mitjaew (1986)
• José Lagos (1987)
• Germán Cornejo (1987)
• Hugo Solís (1988–89)
• Miguel Ángel Leyes (1989)
• José Lagos (1989)
• Jorge Luis Siviero (1990)
• Patricio Gutiérrez (1990)
• Arturo Rodenak (1990–91)
• Eduardo Prieto (1991)
• Sergio Gutiérrez (1991)
• Eugenio Jara (1991–92)
• Francisco Valdés (1992)
• Hugo Solís (1993–94)
• Antonio Vargas (1994)
• Patricio Gutiérrez (1994)
• Guillermo Páez (1995)
• Raúl Toro (1996–99)
• Eduardo Fournier (1999)
• José Sulantay (1999)
• Miguel Ángel Castelnoble (2000)
• Juan Ubilla (2000–01)
• Oscar del Solar (2002–03)
• Daniel Salvador (2004)
• Gerardo Reinoso (2004)
• Yuri Fernández (2005)
• Ramón Castro (2006)
• Gerardo Reinoso (2006)
• Juan Carlos Hernández (2007)
• Oscar del Solar (Dec 1, 2007 – Dec 31, 2008)
• Juan Carlos Hernández (2008)
• Juan Ubilla (2009)
• Oscar del Solar (March 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2009)
• Rubén Vallejos (2010)
• Fernando Cavalleri (2010)
• Roberto Mariani  [ es ] (Jan 1, 2011 – June 1, 2011)
• Marcelo Peña (2011 – Sept 26, 2011)
• Gabriel Perrone (Sept 25, 2011 – March 26, 2012)
• Dalcio Giovagnoli (March 26, 2012 – Sept 28, 2013)
• Fernando Gamboa (Sept 29, 2013 – March 22, 2014)
• Jorge Garcés (March 23, 2014– 2014)
• Carlos Rojas  [ es ] (2014–2015)
• Héctor Almandoz (2015–2016)
• Víctor Rivero (2016-)

Official sponsors

• Lotto
• Productos Fernández

References

1. "Domestic case jeopardizes Chile's World Cup participation". ESPN Soccernet. 2009-11-26. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
2. "Chile OK for World Cup after club backs down". ESPN Soccernet. 2009-11-27. Archived from the original on 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
3. "Piduco SADP, los nuevos dueños de Rangers de Talca" (in Spanish). Solamente Fútbol. 2010-08-26. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-08-27.

External links

• Official website