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Mineros de Guayana
Full name	Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana
Nickname(s)	Los Negriazules, La Pandilla del Sur
Founded	1981
Ground	CTE Cachamay; Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela; (Capacity: 41,600 [1])
Chairman	Alexis Rodríguez
Manager	José Hernández
League	Primera División Venezolana
2008-00	10th
Home colours	Away colours

The Asociación Civil Mineros de Guayana, usually known as Mineros de Guayana or simply Mineros, is a Venezuelan football (soccer) club based in Puerto Ordaz.

[edit] History

The Colegio Loyola Gumilla's field, located in Puerto Ordaz, was used in football matches. The people who played at the field decided to found a football club. On November 11, 1981, the club was founded as Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana.

On November 20, 1981, the club's foundation constitutive act was signed.

On January 3, 1982, the club played its first match, against Villa Colombia FC, a Guayana's amateur club. Mineros won 2-0, both goals scored by José Pacheco.

On September 5, 1982, the club won the Segunda División Venezolana, being promoted to the following year's first division.

In 1989, the club won the first Primera División Venezolana.

[edit] Titles

Primera División Venezolana
- Amateur Era (0): .
- Professional Era (1): 1989.
Segunda División Venezolana: 1982
Segunda División B Venezolana:
Tercera División Venezolana:
Copa de Venezuela (1): 1984

[edit] Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Copa Libertadores: 4 appearances

Best: First Round in 1990, 1997

1990: First Round

1997: First Round

2005: Preliminary Round

2008: Preliminary Round

Copa Sudamericana: 2 appearances

Best: Second Preliminary Round in 2006

2005: Preliminary Round

2006: Second Preliminary Round

Recopa Sudamericana: 0 appearances

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Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearances

Best: Quarter-Final in 1995

1995: Quarter-Final

[edit] Colors

The club's colors are blue and black.

[edit] Current first team squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Geancarlos Martínez
2	GK	Roberts Rivas
3	GK	José Carlos Guzmán
4	DF	Luis Vallenilla
5	DF	Eduardo Centeno
6	DF	Gregory Lancken
7	DF	Rafael Mea Vitali
8	DF	Domingo López
9	FW	Juan García
10	DF	Francisco Parra
11	DF	Junior Rodríguez
12	MF	Abizail Lugo
13	MF	Luis Vargas
14	MF	Javier Caraballo
15	MF	Nixon Mina
16	MF	Enrique García

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Jorge Izquierdo
18	MF	Roberto Armua
19	MF	Alexis García
20	MF	Edwin Ruiz
21	MF	César González
22	MF	Jair Rojas
23	MF	Jonathan Laurens
24	MF	Juan Carlos Ferrer
25	FW	Óscar Noriega
26	FW	Edwin Martínez
27	FW	Jose Alí Meza
28	FW	Jorge Martínez
29	FW	Lisandro Moyano
30	FW	Héctor García
31	FW	Leandro Vargas
32	FW	Sergio Golindano

[edit] Notable Players

[edit] Trivia

The club's name means Miners of Guayana.
Minero's blue color was chose after Cruzeiro of Brazil.

[edit] Logo

The club's logo is composed of a geometrical figure, which is a carbon diamond crystal zoomed millions of times with a microscope.

[edit] Stadium

Mineros plays their home matches at CTE Cachamay, which has a maximum capacity of 41,300 people. [2] It was 1 of the 9 venues of the Copa America 2007, for this, US$160,000 were invested for the expansion of the stadium. The stadium has multiple uses, like a special kids area, an indoor gym, basketball and volleyball courts, a racing track, ten media station booths, a commercial center, movie theaters and three enormous parking lots. The stadium is surrounded by the river Caroní and the waterfall of the Cachamay Park.

[edit] References

Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Portuguese-language wikipedia article and from the the equivalent French-language wikipedia article (retrieved February 19, 2006).

[edit] External links

(Spanish) Official website

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