Club Social y Deportivo Carchá, is a Guatemalan football club based in San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz Department. They play their home games in the Estadio Juan Ramon Ponce Guay.

History

The club was founded in 1962 and won promotion to the Liga Mayor B in 1974, entering the competition as Deportivo Carchá Jimmy Álvarez, named after their first manager.^[1] In 1992 they joined the Guatemalan second division and they finished champions in the 1997/1998 season^[2] to make their debut at the highest level of Guatemalan football, playing in the Liga Nacional de Guatemala in 1998/1999. They were relegated again after the 2000/2001 season and even went down further to the third tier of Guatemalan football.

Most recently they have again been playing in the Primera División Group "A" or "B". They are nicknamed Los Hombres Peces (the Fisherman).

Current squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  GUA Omar Mendoza — GK  GUA Pedro Alvarado — DF  GUA Augusto Rax — DF  GUA Carlos Martínez — DF  GUA Carlos Herrera — DF  GUA Rolando Fernández — DF  GUA Denys Stubbs — MF  GUA Carlos Vásquez — MF  GUA César Marcial — MF  GUA Danilo Caal — MF  MEX Marcelo Aguas — MF  GUA Octavio Mata — MF  GUA Luis Fernando Hernández — FW  GUA Julio César Farfan

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  CRC Marcos Hernández — FW  NGA Kamar Oshioke — FW  GUA José Manuel Mendoza —  GUA Blas Ramírez —  GUA Diego Fetzer —  GUA Dónis Martínez —  HON Rosly Hernández —  GUA Marwin Montepeque —  GUA Marvin Gudiel —  URU Héctor García —  GUA Rubén Morales —  GUA Víctor Ochoa —  GUA Alvaro Castro

List of coaches

• Jimmy Álvarez
• Gildardo Barrientos
• Rodolfo Amílcar Rivera
• Carlos Cloth
• Luis Jacobo Caballeros
• Abraham Chocooj
• Carlos Raúl Juárez
• Juan Carlos Alonzo
• Julián Trujillo
• Ramón Celaya
• Marco Antonio Matheu
• Luis "Ruso" Estrada
• Eduardo Santana
• Julio Gómez
• Carlos de Oliveira (2000–01)
• Arturo Cacao
• Haroldo Cordón
• Ariovaldo Guilherme
• Alex Monterroso (2007–08)

References

External links

• Official website – Deportivo Carchá