Vista Hermosa

Full name	Club Deportivo Vista Hermosa
Nickname(s)	Los Correcaminos
Founded	April 17, 1999
Ground	Estadio Correcaminos, San Francisco Gotera, Morazán, El Salvador
Chairman	Francisco Benitez
Manager	Mario Marínez
League	Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
Apertura 2008	5th
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Vista Hermosa or just simply Vista Hermosa, is a Salvadoran football club that currently plays in San Francisco Gotera, Morazán, El Salvador. The club is currently a member of the Primera División de Fútbol Profesional, which is the top tier league in El Salvador.

[edit] History

The club was founded on April 17, 1999 and plays its home games at the Estadio Luis Amílcar Moreno. The founder of the club was Jose Gilberto Flores, after some tough time financially, Franciso Benitez helped the club gain some professionalism and helped the club grow.

In 2005, the club achieved its first major honor by winning the Primera División de Fútbol Profesional 2005 Apertura championship.

Club Deportivo Vista Hermosa is one of the revelations of the new century. In a single year 2005, it gained two championships the segunda division cup to get promoted and The Primera División de Fútbol Profesional 2005 Apertura championship in their very first year. They created history as well becoming the youngest team to win both treble since 1974. The correcaminos were actually created to help remove youth from the gangs and the violence and drugs associated with them.

Until this remarkable period no one had even heard a mention of this club, however they were able to overcome the obstacle of the big Three of the segunda division C.D. Chalatenango, C.D. Dragon and Independiente Nacional 1906. In the primera division they were able to achieve second spot on the table after 10 wins 7 losses and one draw. After defeating C.D. Luis Angel Firpo, they were up against A.D. Isidro Metapán who had the best defence statistics in the whole tournament. Both sides had never achieved a title. However the cleste defeated thanks to extra time winner by Mario Deras.

[edit] Stadium

Club Deportivo Vista Hermosa play their home games at Estadio Luis Amílcar Moreno. It is located in the San Francisco Gotera district of Morazán. the stadium has a capacity of 2,000.

It was released in April 2008, that plans had been drawn up for a new 12,000 capacity, football (soccer) only stadium for Club Deportivo Vista Hermosa. The newly built stadium Estadio Correcaminos was debuted against Juventud Independiente on April 5, 2009.

[edit] Rivalry

Club Deportivo Vista Hermosa main rival is Fuerte San Francisco due to its close proximity and their firece clashes to qualify to the Primera División.

[edit] Major honours

[edit] League

• Primera División: 1

Apertura 2005

[edit] Shirt Sponsorship

[edit] Shirt Manufacturer

• AVIVA and fila

[edit] Sponsors

• M K Medicamentos
• Tigo
• Pollo Campestre
• Comercial Rene
• CANAL 4 de Televisión
• Pilot

[edit] Vista Hermosa chairmen

Name	From	To
Jose Gilberto Flores	1999	2000
Pedro Hernández	2001	2002
Francisco Benitez	2003	Present

[edit] Current squad

As of Apertura 2009:

No. Position Player 1 GK Felipe Amaya 2 DF Geovani Martínez 3 MF Noé Melgar 4 FW Francisco Navas 5 MF Ernesto Ochoa 6 DF Darwin Sanchez 7 MF Kevin Moreno 8 FW Edwin González 9 FW Leonardo Da Silva 10 MF Osael Romero 11 MF Geovany Romero 12 MF Severiano García

No. Position Player 13 MF Javier Hernández 14 FW Raúl Coreas 15 MF Manfredi Portillo 16 DF Ronald Torres 17 DF Miguel Serpas 19 FW Nicolás Muñoz 20 FW René Álvarez 21 MF Marvin Umanzor 22 GK Manuel González 23 MF Reynaldo Hernández 24 MF Alfonso Perla 25 GK Moisés Girón

[edit] Notable players

El Salvador:

• Leonel Arístides Guevara
• José Manfredi Portillo
• Manuel Gonzalez Hernandez
• Alfonso Fuentes
• William Osael Romero
• Salvador Coreas Pérez
• Herbert Antonio Márquez
• Juan Carlos Chinchilla

Brazil

• Jose Eduardo Mendez (2007)

Argentina

• Patricio Barroche (2005-2007)

Panama

• Nicolás Muñoz (2009-)

Honduras

• Pompilio Cacho Valerio (2008)
• Francisco Ramírez (2008)
• Luciano Valerio Harry (2009)

Colombia

• Cristian Ali Gil Mosquera (2005-2007)
• Luis Torres Rodríguez (2005-2009)
• Elder Jose Figueroa (2005-2008)

[edit] Notable Coaches

Name	From	To
Silverio Hernández.	1999	2002
Efraín Núñez	2003	2004
Jose Mario Martínez	2004	2007
Jorge Alberto Garcia	2007	2008
Víctor Coreas	2008	2009
Armando Contreras Palma	2 March 2009	12 October 2009
Jose Mario Martínez	13 October 2009	-

[edit] Vista Hermosa Primera Division History

Apertura 2005 – Present

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Current technical staff

Head Coach	Mario Martínez
Assistant Coach
Physical	José Rolando Perez
striker coach	Marvin Javier Hernández
Medical trainer	Dr. Juan Dagoberto Diaz Argueta	Dr. Raúl Alberto Juarez
knesliogiocal	Manuel Carranza
Utility	José Transito Alvarado	Rudis Aguilar

[edit] External links

• No known official team page.
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070326/accion/744774.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/743854.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/cronologia-1-La%20Tribuna2-3.pdf
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/cronologia-2-La%20Tribuna4-5.pdf
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/740557.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/742257.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/741218.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/Elprimero-Vista-La%20Tribuna8-9.pdf
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/740676.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/micelaneo-La%20Tribuna12.pdf
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/741424.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/elvistahermosa-La%20Tribuna14-15.pdf
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/741420.asp
• http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20070330/latribuna/Elnuevoestadio-La%20Tribuna14-15.pdf

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