Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas is a professional

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club based in

Chiquimula Chiquimula is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Chiquimula and the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is located some 174 km from Guatemala City and within Guatemala known as "La per ...

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. The team plays in the ''

Primera División de Ascenso The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of football in Guatemala. Formerly, it was known as ''Liga Mayor "B"''. It is sanctioned by the National Football Federation of Guatemala The National Football Federation of Guatemala ( ...

'', the second-highest football division in Guatemala. Their home stadium is the

Estadio Las Victorias Estadio Las Victorias is a soccer stadium located in Chiquimula, Guatemala. It is home to second division club Sacachispas Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas is a professional football club based in Chiquimula, Guatemala. The team plays in ...

. The club has also played in the '' Liga Mayor'', having reached their best position in the 1995–96 season, when they were runners-up. They have been playing in the

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since 2021.

History

Nicknamed ''Los Muteros'',CLUB DEPORTIVO SACACHISPAS
– LigaPrimeraDivision the club was founded as a result of two meetings. The first, in the south-west corner of

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´s Park, was attended by the distinguished citizens Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Josué Goshop, Héctor Antonio Monroy, Jorge González and Manuel Samayoa, on June 15, 1949; and the second meeting was near Colegio Amigos, where the Estadio Las Victorias now stands. Neftalí Aguilar, Caleb Goshop, Neco Velásquez, Enrique Valdés, Gata Cuellar, Ronald Williams, Mincho Paz, Lipe Franco, Quincho Díaz, Chentío Castañeda, Edmundo Rivera, Pío Martínez and Armando Portillo, and the people in the first meeting, were all at the second meeting.
The first uniform was a white jersey with white shorts. Their first coach was the Governor of Chiquimula, Colonel Guadalupe López Ochoa who got new uniforms: a white jersey with blue stripes, and white shorts.

The name

Many of the footballers had their headquarters in the Roxi barbershop, owned by Carlos Enrique Morales Hernández aka Quique. One night in a players' meeting, one customer who came from

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told them about an

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movie showing in that country, ''

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'' (Ball Rag). The movie was about a group of kids who play with the name Sacachispas. He suggested that name for the Chiquimula football team. That led to the current name of the Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas.

Current squad

Notable former players

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* Pablo Solórzano * Marco Rivas * Rigoberto Hernández * Allan Kardeck * Diego Ávila * Leandro Rodríguez * Omar López * Dany González

List of coaches

* Sergio Pardo *

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(2020–2021) * Diego Cerruti (2021) * Wilder Galicia (2021– )

Honours

National titles

*Liga Mayor B: 1 ::1992 *Segunda División: 2 ::1993 ::Torneo Clausura 2010 *Copa Amistad: 1 ::2007

References

External links

Sacachispas.com
Football clubs in Guatemala Association football clubs established in 1949 1949 establishments in Guatemala {{Guatemala-footyclub-stub