Club Social y Deportivo Carchá, is a Guatemalan football club based in San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz Department. They play their home games in the Estadio Juan Ramon Ponce Guay.

Deportivo Carchá
Full nameClub Social y Deportivo Carchá
Nickname(s)Hombres Peces (Fishmen)
Peces Cenizos (Ashen Fish)
Founded1962
GroundEstadio Juan Ramon Ponce Guay,
San Pedro Carchá, Guatemala
Capacity15,000
ManagerAriel Sena
LeaguePrimera División de Ascenso
2010 Clausura
Grupo B
7th

History edit

The club was founded in 1962 and won promotion to the Liga Mayor B in 1974, entering the competition as Deportivo Carchá Jimmy Álvarez, named after their first manager.[1] In 1992 they joined the Guatemalan second division and they finished champions in the 1997/1998 season[2] to make their debut at the highest level of Guatemalan football, playing in the Liga Nacional de Guatemala in 1998/1999. They were relegated again after the 2000/2001 season and even went down further to the third tier of Guatemalan football.

Most recently they have again been playing in the Primera División Group "A" or "B". They are nicknamed Los Hombres Peces (the Fisherman).

Current squad edit

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK   GUA Omar Mendoza
GK   GUA Pedro Alvarado
DF   GUA Augusto Rax
DF   GUA Carlos Martínez
DF   GUA Carlos Herrera
DF   GUA Rolando Fernández
DF   GUA Denys Stubbs
MF   GUA Carlos Vásquez
MF   GUA César Marcial
MF   GUA Danilo Caal
MF   MEX Marcelo Aguas
MF   GUA Octavio Mata
MF   GUA Luis Fernando Hernández
FW   GUA Julio César Farfan
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   CRC Marcos Hernández
FW   NGA Kamar Oshioke
FW   GUA José Manuel Mendoza
  GUA Blas Ramírez
  GUA Diego Fetzer
  GUA Dónis Martínez
  HON Rosly Hernández
  GUA Marwin Montepeque
  GUA Marvin Gudiel
  URU Héctor García
  GUA Rubén Morales
  GUA Víctor Ochoa
  GUA Alvaro Castro

List of coaches edit

  • Jimmy Álvarez
  • Gildardo Barrientos
  • Rodolfo Amílcar Rivera
  • Carlos Cloth
  • Luis Jacobo Caballeros
  • Abraham Chocooj
  • Carlos Raúl Juárez
  • Juan Carlos Alonzo
  • Julián Trujillo
  • Ramón Celaya
  • Marco Antonio Matheu
  • Luis "Ruso" Estrada
  • Eduardo Santana
  • Julio Gómez
  •   Carlos de Oliveira (2000–01)
  • Arturo Cacao
  • Haroldo Cordón
  •   Ariovaldo Guilherme
  •   Alex Monterroso (2007–08)

References edit

  1. ^ CLUB SOCIAL Y DEPORTIVO CARCHA Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine – LigaPrimeraDivision (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Guatemala 1997/98 – RSSSF

External links edit