Atlético Huila

Atlético Huila

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Full name	Club Deportivo Atlético Huila
Nickname(s)	Los Opitas (The Opitas, from the Opita Spanish language dialect of Tolima and Huila) Bambuqueros (Bambuco Dancers) El Barcino
Founded	29 November 1990 (1990-11-29)
Ground	Estadio Guillermo Plazas Alcid Neiva, Colombia
Ground Capacity	27,000
Chairman	Juan Carlos Patarroyo
Coach	Oswaldo Durán
League	Categoría Primera A
2016–I	16th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Atlético Huila is a professional Colombian football team based in Neiva, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. Founded on November 29, 1990, it is one of the youngest professional football clubs in Colombia. Its best achievement league wise was coming close as runner-up in 2007 and 2009. They play their home games at the Guillermo Plazas Alcid stadium, with a capacity of 27,000. Huila have a long-standing rivalry with Deportes Tolima, which is known as the Tolima-grande derby. The club has a futsal team named Ultrahuilca Coomotor.

Honours

National Honours

• Primera A:

Runners Up (2): 2007-I, 2009-II

• Primera B:

Winners (2): 1992, 1997

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance

1999: First Round

• Copa Sudamericana: 1 appearance

2010: Second Round

Players

Current squad

As of 20 May 2016

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Geovanni Banguera 2 DF Danovis Banquero 4 DF Manuel Berrio 5 DF Efraín Cortés 7 FW Víctor Giraldo 8 MF Jean Becerra 9 FW Roque Caballero 10 MF Armando Vargas 12 GK Jhonny da Silva 13 DF Eder Castañeda 15 MF Juan Niño 16 DF Arnol Palacios 17 FW Jackson Palacio 18 FW Cristhian Alarcón

No. Position Player 19 MF Francisco Garcia 20 MF Ronaldo Tavera 21 MF Jorge Ramos 22 DF Deiner Mera 23 DF Eduard Gutiérrez 24 MF Carlos Robles Rocha 25 GK Christian Vargas 27 FW Omar Duarte 28 MF Vincenzo Candela 30 MF Jean Carlos Becerra 31 MF Jarvinson González 32 MF Mariano Vásquez 35 FW Hamilton Valencia

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 16 MF Jefferson Lerma (at Levante) – DF José Moya (at Leones)

No. Position Player – FW Cristian Cangá (at Boavista) – FW Didier Viveros (at Bogotá)

Notable players

• Guillermo Berrío (1992–96), (1998), (2003–04)
• Fredy Montero (2006–07)
• Rodrigo Marangoni (2006–08)
• Víctor Guazá (2007), (2008–10)
• Lewis Ochoa (2008–09)
• Iván Velásquez (2009–10)

• Nicolás Ayr (2009–11)
• Amílcar Henríquez (2009–12)
• Carlos Carbonero (2010)
• Daniel Bocanegra (2010–12)
• Rafael Castillo (2010)
• Andrés Andrade (2011)

• Jimmy Bermúdez (2011)
• Sebastián Hernández (2011–12)
• Nelson Barahona (2012)
• Alejandro Vélez (2012)
• Hernán Hechalar (2014)
• Juan Fernando Caicedo (2014)

Managers

• Víctor Quiñónez (1991)
• Alberto Rujana (1992–95)
• Nelson Abadía (1996)
• Rafael Corrales (1997–99)
• Nelson Gallego (2000)
• Jairo Silva Quiza (interim) (2000)
• Juan Eugenio Jiménez (2001–02)
• Bernardo Redín (2002–03)
• Félix Valverde Quiñonez (2004)
• Bernardo Redín (2005)

• Néstor Otero (2006–07)
• Javier Álvarez (2007–08)
• Miguel Augusto Prince (2009)
• Guillermo Berrío (2009–11)
• Néstor Otero (2011–12)
• Álvaro de Jesús Gómez (2012–13)
• Javier Álvarez Arteaga (2013)
• Virgilio Puerto (2013–14)
• Fernando Castro (2014)
• José Santa (2015–16)
• Oswaldo Durán (2016–)

External links

• Official website