Platense Football Club S.A. de C.V. or simply Platense is a Honduran football club, located in Platense,

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, Cortés. The club was founded on 4 July 1960 and in 1965 became the first champions of the Honduran National Football League. Their home venue is the

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History

Officially Platense Sport Club was founded on July 4, 1960, in the neighborhood of Campo Rojo, Puerto Cortés. The initial founders were Roger Riera, Roberto Mejía, Roosevelt Garbut, and Rene Paiz. They were later joined by Manuel Flores, Héctor Sánchez, Rolando Méndez, Samuel Williams, Rudolph Williams, Ricardo Fúnez, Julio Linares, Óscar Pineda, Raúl Betancourt, Francisco Maldonado, Humberto Dole, Rolando Zavala and Reginaldo Guevara. The founders looked to emulate a successful international club, and ultimately settled on Platense, inspired by Platense of Argentina. In its early years, the club was supported by the Tela Railroad Company. When amateurism was still in effect, Tela provided jobs and a salary for club athletes, and helped Platense establish itself on a solid financial footing. After the Honduran National Soccer League was founded in 1964; Club Deportivo Platense became one of its 10 original members. They would also become its first champions, winning the league 27–26 over Olimpia. The key players on that team were: Gilberto Zavala, Tomas Maximo, Ricardo 'Cañon' Fúnez, Felix 'Mantequilla' Guerra, Raúl Betancourt, Santos 'Kubala' Díaz, Miguel 'El Chino' Hernandez, 'Pichingo' Croasdaile, Francisco Brocatto, Carlos "Care" Alvarado, "Chita" Arzú, León Victor "Escalera" Jallú, among others. Having won the very first title, however, Platense had to wait another thirty-six years for its second. They were close twice, finishing runners-up in 1996–97 and Apertura 2000. However, it wasn't until Clausura 2001 that Platense returned to glory. Their opponents, Olimpia, were the most dominant and successful team in Honduras. The first leg of the tie was in

and finished with a victory for the 'Tiburón' by the score of 1–0. The Argentine

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scored the winning goal. The return game was won by Club Olimpia by the same score. This forced the teams to go to over-time. The champion would be the team that scored the first goal (

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). It was Platense's

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who proved the hero, scoring the goal that gave Platense its first title in a generation. Platense reached two more semi-finals, but their form soon declined. In June 2012, they were relegated and were only able to stay in the top flight by virtue of a merger with CD Necaxa.

Achievements

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::Winners (2): 1965–66, 2000–01 C ::Runners-up (4): 1996–97, 2000–01 A,

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, 2016–17 A *

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::Winners (3):

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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::Runners-up (1):

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::Runners-up (2):

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

* Segunda División ::Winners (1):

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., Un ...

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::Runners-up (1):

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...

* Cortés Championship ::Winners (2):

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League and Playoffs Performance

(1994–presen

All-Time Table

(From 1965 to 1966 to 2007–08)

36 Game Average

International competition

CONCACAF Champions' Cup

* CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1975, 1975 CONCACAF Champions' Cup ::First Round v.

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– 4:3, 0:1 (Aurora advance on away goals rule) *

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::First Round v.

– 2:1 ::First Round v.

– 2:1 ::First Round v. Real Verdes – 0:0 ::First Round v. Real Verdes – 6:0 ::First Round v.

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– 0:1 ::Second Round v.

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– 1:3 ::Second Round v.

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– 3:1 ::Second Round v.

– 0:0 ::Second Round v.

– 1:2

CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup

*1997 CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup ::First Round v.

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– 0:1, 4:1 (Platense advance 4:2 on aggregate) ::Second Round v.

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– 3:1, 7:0 (Platense advance 10:1 on aggregate) ::Final Round v. Olimpia – 3:3 ::Final Round v.

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– 0:0

Current squad

Updated on 23 June 2021.

Coaches

* Jaime Hormazábal * Carlos "Zorro" Padilla (1965–67), (the coach when the team won its first championship) * Haroldo Cordon (1981-1982) * Roberto Scalessi (1977) * Alberto Romero (1996) * Ariel Sena (1996–97) * Carlos "Zorro" Padilla (1998–99) *

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(1999–01) * Alberto Romero (2001–03), (the coach when the team won its second championship) *

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(2005) *

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(2006) *

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(2006–07) * Alberto Romero (2007) *

(2007–08) *

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(2008–09) * Rubén Guifarro (Feb 2009 – May 2009) *

(2009–11) *

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(2011) *

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(2011) *

(2011–12) * Alberto Romero (2012) * Hernán García (2012–13) * Germando Adinolfi (2013–1?) *

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(2013–14) * Carlos Martínez (2014–15) *

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(February 2015–1?) *

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(June 2015 – September 2015) *

(September 2015–) * Ariel Sena (January 2016 - June 2016) * Reynaldo Clavasquín (June 2016 - October 2017) * Jairo Ríos Rendón (October 2017 - December 2017) * Carlos Martínez (January 2018 - April 2019) * Carlos Orlando Caballero (April 2019 - May 2019) * Anthony 'Chalate' Torres (May 2019 - September 2019) * Héctor Castellón (September 2019 - December 2019) * John Jairo López (January 2020 - April 2021) * Nicolás Suazo (July 2021 - August 2021) * Ramon Maradiaga (August 2021 - ''Present'')

All time top goal scorers

Desafíe a Ismael
– La Prensa 1

References

External links

{{Honduran Amateur League Platense Association football clubs established in 1960 1960 establishments in Honduras Puerto Cortés