A.D. Municipal Pérez Zeledón
Asociación Deportiva Municipal de Pérez Zeledón is a Costa Rican Football (soccer), football team playing at the top level in the Primera División de Costa Rica. It is based in San Isidro de El General. Their home stadium is Estadio Municipal Pérez Zeledón. Their nickname is ''Guerreros del Sur'' or The Southern Warriors. History Municipal Pérez Zeledón was founded in 1962 and they reached the Second Division in 1976.Perez Zeledon Historia – UNAFUT A.D. Generaleña and A.D. Pérez Zeledón merger In 1988, ''Asociación Deportiva Municipal Generaleña'' won promotion to the Primera Division and in 1991 a second team from Pérez Zeledón (canton), Pérez Zeledón, ''Asociación Deportiva Pérez Zeledón'', also clinched the second division title, prom ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Estadio Municipal Pérez Zeledón
Estadio Municipal Pérez Zeledón is a multi-use stadium in Pérez Zeledón (canton), Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home stadium of the Liga FPD, Costa Rican FPD team Municipal Pérez Zeledón. History It was inaugurated in 1953 as Estadio Municipal Otto Ureña Fallas because of the former Costa Rican player and then owner of the A.D. Municipal Pérez Zeledón who used to play for the now defunct A.D. Municipal Generaleña. Then in 1991 with the ascension of A.D. Municipal Pérez Zeledón to the first division, it became their venue for home games, since there was a conflict between the two teams of the area because back then there can only be one team per area, they merge into one and the stadium became their home venue Controversy In 2014, the Municipality of Pérez Zeledón intended the stadium as "Estadio Municipal Keylor Navas Gamboa", named after Costa Rican and Real Madrid's, goalkeeper Key ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Ticos
Costa Ricans (, colloquially known as ''Ticos'') are the citizens of Costa Rica, a multiethnic, Spanish-speaking nation in Central America. Costa Ricans are predominantly Mestizos, other ethnic groups people of Indigenous, European, African, and Asian (predominantly Chinese) descent. By 2018, Costa Rica has a population of 5,000,000 people. The population growth rate between 2005 and 2010 was estimated to be 1.5% annually, with a birth rate of 17.8 live births per 1,000 inhabitants and a mortality rate of 4.1 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants. By 2016, the population had increased to about 4.9 million. Costa Rica was the point where the Mesoamerican and South American native cultures met. The northwest of the country, the Nicoya peninsula, was the southernmost point of Nahuatl cultural influence when the Spanish conquerors (conquistadores) came in the 16th century. The central and southern portions of the country had Chibcha influences. The Atlantic coast, meanwhile, was populated wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Football Clubs In Costa Rica
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th ce ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Club Sport Herediano
Club Sport Herediano (), commonly known as Herediano and nicknamed El Team, is a Costa Rican multisport club based in Heredia, Heredia province. Although they compete in a number of different sports, Herediano is best known for its football team. It plays in the Primera División de Costa Rica, the top tier of the Costa Rican football league system. Herediano are one of two clubs to have never been relegated. Herediano has its origins in 1918. The framework for ''Asociación Deportiva Club Sport Herediano'' was simmering since June 1920, with the appointment of an interim board with iconic figures like Manuel Joaquín Gutiérrez, Eladio Rosabal, Víctor Manuel Ruiz, Claudio Arguedas and Luis Valerio, but it was not until June 12, 1921 that the Herediano Charter was signed. In that same year, Eladio Rosabal Cordero became the first manager of the Costa Rica national football team, and Herediano player Manuel Joaquín Gutiérrez became the first scorer of the national team. Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Nicolás Prieto
Nicolás Santiago Prieto Larrea (born 5 September 1992) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Costa Rican club Pérez Zeledón. National He has been capped by the Uruguay national under-20 football team for the 2011 South American Youth Championship and for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup. U20 International goals , - bgcolor=#DFE7FF , 1. , , 14 October 2010 , , Estadio 25 de Noviembre, Moquegua, Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ... , , , , 2–1 , , 2–1 , , Friendly References External links * 1992 births Footballers from Montevideo Living people 21st-century Uruguayan sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Uruguayan men's footballers Uruguay men's youth international footballers Urugua ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Josué Mitchell
Josué Mitchell (born November 11, 1989) is a Costa Rican professional Association football, football Forward (association football), forward. Career Mitchell played in Guatemala with Coban Imperial and moved back to the country to Sololá in 2022. Between those spells he had returned to Costa Rica to play again for A.D. Municipal Pérez Zeledón, Pérez Zeledón. International career Mitchell was called up by coach Óscar Ramírez (footballer, born 1964), Oscar Ramirez for friendly matches in March 2018 against Scotland national football team, Scotland and Tunisia national football team, Tunisia in preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He made his debut for the Costa Rica national football team on March 27, 2018 in the friendly match against Tunisia at the Allianz Riviera Stadium in Nice, France. He entered as a substitute in the final quarter of the game. Personal life Mitchell is the cousin of Alajuelense defender Jeyland Mitchell. References 1989 births Living ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Luis Hernández (Costa Rican Footballer)
Luis Jose Hernández Paniagua (born 7 February 1998) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays for Pérez Zeledón in the Liga FPD. Career When he was captain of the Costa Rica under-17 team Hernández trained with the Manchester United team and was strongly rumoured to be signed by Louis Van Gaal for the English side however the transfer didn’t materialise. He made his professional debut on loan at Municipal Grecia before returning to Deportivo Saprissa with whom he won four league titles before leaving to join Santos de Guapiles in 2021. He joined A.D. Municipal Pérez Zeledón in May 2024. International career He made his debut for the Costa Rica national football team appearing as a second-half substitute for Bryan Oviedo on 11 September 2018 against Japan at the Panasonic Stadium Suita , currently known as for sponsorship reasons. is a stadium located in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has a capacity of 40,000. The stadium is home of the J1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Kevin Fajardo
Kevin José Fajardo Martínez (born 5 September 1989) is a Costa Rican football defender who plays for Pérez Zeledón. International career He was included in the Costa Rica national football team for the 2011 Copa América The 2011 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, better known as the 2011 Copa América or the Copa América 2011 Argentina, was the 43rd edition of the Copa América, the main international association football, football tournament for national ..., but did not play at all in the tournament. References External links * * 1989 births Footballers from Limón Province Living people 21st-century Costa Rican sportsmen Men's association football defenders Costa Rican men's footballers Costa Rica men's international footballers Santos de Guápiles F.C. footballers C.S.D. Cobán Imperial players C.S. Cartaginés players A.D. Carmelita footballers Municipal Grecia players A.D.R. Jicaral players A.D. San Carlos footballers A.D. Municipal ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Bryan Segura
Bryan Andrés Segura Cruz (born 14 January 1997) is a Costa Rican football goalkeeper who plays for Liga FPD club Pérez Zeledón. Segura has never been capped but has been benched four times for Costa Rica U20, at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup, and seven times for Costa Rica, including at the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 15th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's association football, soccer championship of the North, Central American, and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF. The tournament was p .... Career Segura started his career with Pérez Zeledón. lateja.cr (Archived)
|
|
2017–18 Liga FPD – Apertura Season
The 2018 Apertura season served as the opening half of the 2017–18 Liga FPD association football season. It began on 29 July 2017 and ended on 23 December 2017. C.S. Herediano, Herediano entered as the defending champions, but lost the title in the Apertura finals to A.D. Municipal Pérez Zeledón, Pérez Zeledón. Personnel and kits Managerial changes ;Notes * 1: Mario Viquez had already assumed as interim manager of Carmelite following Farinha's departure on 28 September. * 2: Adrián Leandro had already assumed as interim manager of Cartaginés following Delgado's departure on 10 November. League table Regular season Defending champions C.S. Herediano, Herediano topped the season undefeated with 54 points. By achieving this, Herediano broke two records in the league. They became the first team with the longest undefeated streak (surpassing the 21-match streak by Deportivo Saprissa, Saprissa in the 2003–04 season, the team being coincidentally managed by Hernán Medford ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |