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Deportivo Quito
Full name	Sociedad Deportivo Quito
Nickname(s)	La Academia (The Academy); Chullas; Los Azulgrana
Founded	February 27, 1955
Ground	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa; Quito, Ecuador; (Capacity: 40,948)
Chairman	Fernando Mantilla
Manager	Rubén Darío Insúa
League	Serie A
2009	1st
Home colours	Away colours

Sociedad Deportivo Quito is a football club based in Quito, Ecuador. Deportivo Quito plays in Copa Credife, Ecuador's premier football league. Deportivo Quito is the current Serie A champion, having won their fourth title in 2009; they also won titles in 1964, 1968 and 2008. The club also has four Interandean Tournament titles (1955, 1956, 1957, and 1963). Additionally, the club was runner up in 1985, 1988, and 1997. Historical rivals include LDU Quito, Aucas, and El Nacional. Based on its style of play, sports journalists and fans nicknamed the club La Academia de los Ecuatorianos desde 1940 (English: The Academy of the Ecuadorians since 1940). Its home games are televised by Teleamazonas in Ecuador and Teleamazonas Internacional in the rest of the world.

[edit] History

The club was founded on July 9, 1940, under the name Argentina. On October 1, 1954, the club, together with Sociedad Deportiva Aucas & Sociedad Deportiva España, founded Asociación de Fútbol No Amatur (AFNA) de Pichincha (Spanish for Non-Amateur Football Association of Pichincha). This was followed by provincial professional soccer tournaments. In accordance with AFNA bylaws, which stipulated that no team could be named after a country (except after Spain), the shareholders of Argentina got together and changed the club's name to Sociedad Deportivo Quito.

The 50's and 60's were fruitful decades for Deportivo Quito with the club obtaining National Championship titles in 1964 and 1968 as well as Interandean Championships (named so for inclusion of teams from both Quito and Ambato) in 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1963. The 70's were a dark period for the club, which descended and spent several seasons in the second tier Serie B of the Ecuadorian Football League. The 80's and 90's brought a return measure of success for the club which came in as runners up in 1985, 1988, 1997 and qualified to participate in Copa Libertadores. 1989 also saw the transfer of one of the brightest players in Ecuadorian soccer history, Alex Aguinaga to Club Necaxa of Mexico.

The club would wait forty years for its third championship and after a brilliant campaign in 2008, which saw Deportivo Quito in the lead throughout the tournament, the team sealed its third star against Club Social y Deportivo Macara of Ambato. 2009 began fraught with problems for the club. Although it was able to hold on to its star player Luis Saritama on loan, economic problems dogged the club throughout the year. As a result early tournamant action saw the club mired in the middle half of the table. The next two phases of the tournament were a different story as the defense, solidified with the incorporation of the Ecuadorian National team captain Ivan Hurtado, led the club to top of the table finishes. This set up the final playoff against Deportivo Cuenca. Following a 1-1 tie in Cuenca, the two teams played an exciting game in Quito which saw back and forth action ending 3-2 in favor of Deportivo Quito. The team's fourth star was not nearly as elusive as the third. Fans celebrated the long awaited 2008 as well as the follow up 2009 championships in the popular Plaza del Teatro in Quito.

[edit] Stadium

Their home games are played in the Estadio Olimpico Atahualpa in the city of Quito but there have been plans to build a stadium for the year 2010 on their current training grounds Ney Mancheno in Carcelén.

On November 13, 2008, Deportivo Quito's management presented the model of the new stadium. This stadium will have a capacity of 20,000 people. The building project includes the construction of a shopping mall attached to the same stadium that will serve as a source of revenue for the institution.

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Bonard García
2	DF	Geovanni Caicedo
3	DF	Isaac Mina
6	DF	Pedro Esterilla
7	MF	Michael Arroyo
8	MF	Oswaldo Minda
9	FW	Iván Borghello
10	MF	Luis Saritama (on loan from América)
12	GK	Diego Salas
13	GK	Oswaldo Ibarra
14	FW	Romel Estupiñan
17	MF	Mauricio Donoso

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Ebelio Ordoñez
20	DF	Luis Checa
21	DF	Luis Tenorio
22	FW	Franco Niell
23	MF	José Luis Cortez
25	MF	Angel Escobar
28	FW	Marcos Pirchio
33	DF	Iván Hurtado
50	DF	Michael Castro
51	MF	Esteban Novoa
52	FW	Daniel Solano
53	MF	Gustavo Buitron
55	MF	Jefferson Congo

[edit] Achievements

Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A
- Champion (4): 1964, 1968, 2008, 2009
- Runner-up (3): 1985, 1988, 1997
Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie B
- Winner (1): 1980 E1
- Runner-up (4): 1972 E1, 1974 E2, 1976 E1, 1977 E2
Campeonato Professional Interandino
- Champion (4): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963
- Runner-up (1): 1960

[edit] Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Copa Libertadores: 7 participations (1965, 1969, 1986, 1989, 1998, 2009, 2010)
- Best performance: Round of 16 (1989)
Copa Sudamericana: 1 participation (2008)
- Best performance: First round (2008)

[edit] External links

Official website (Spanish)