Audax Italiano

Audax Italiano

Full name	Audax Club Sportivo Italiano, SADP
Nickname(s)	Los Tanos, Los Itálicos, Audinos
Founded	30 November 1910
Ground	Estadio Municipal de La Florida La Florida, Chile
Ground Capacity	12,000
Chairman	Ernesto Corona
Manager	Jorge Pellicer
League	Campeonato Nacional
2015	11th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Audax Club Sportivo Italiano (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈauðaks itaˈljano]) is a Chilean football club based in La Florida. Founded in 1910, it plays in the Campeonato Nacional and has spent most of its history in the top tier of Chilean football. Audax has been national champions four times, joint sixth alongside Magallanes. The club also achieved two Copa Chile runners-up in 1981 and 1988.

The club had their first major success in 1936, when they won the league tournament. During the 1940s, Audax won two leagues in 1946 and 1948, reaching a fourth in 1957.

History

The club was founded by Italian residents in Santiago, on November 30, 1910 as Audax Club Ciclista Italiano in the Alberto Caffi's hat store, and was originally focused in cycling. As football developed quickly in Santiago, in 1917 the club begun participating in that sport, and in 1922, when the popularity of football increased within Audax's supporters, the club changed its name to Audax Club Sportivo Italiano.

In January 2007, the club was transformed into a limited liability corporation, and changed its name to Audax Italiano La Florida, adding the name of the comuna in which it's always been located.

The club has always been a regular protagonist in Chilean football, but had never been able to participate in any major international competition until 2007, when they played in the Copa Libertadores. As a club founded by immigrants, it has a special rivalry with the other immigrant clubs Unión Española (founded by Spaniards) and Palestino (founded by Palestinian Arabs).

Honours

Domestic Competitions

• Primera División de Chile
  • Winners (4): 1936, 1946, 1948, 1957
  • Runner-up (8): 1934, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1947, 1951, 2006 Clausura
• Primera B de Chile
  • Runner-Up (1): 1995
• Ligulla Pre-Sudamericana
  • Winners (1): 2007
• Copa Chile
  • Runner-up (2): 1981, 1998
• Campeonato de Apertura:
  • Winners (1): 1941

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 2 appearances

2007: Group Stage

2008: Group Stage

• Copa Sudamericana: 1 appearance

2007: Second Preliminary Round

• Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance

1998: First Round

Records

• Largest margin of victory:

In Primera División matches: 9–2 vs. Universidad Católica in 1945 & 7–1 vs. Santiago Wanderers

In international matches: 3–1 Alianza Lima in 2007

• Largest margin of defeat:

In Primera División matches: 1–7 vs. Colo-Colo in 1939 & 0–6 vs. Santiago Wanderers in 1993

In international matches: 1–4 vs. Sportivo Luqueño in 2008

• Longest win streak: 24 games in 2007
• Most goals scored in international play: Rodolfo Moya & Carlos Villanueva (3 goals)
• Most goals scored in one season in Primera División: José Luis Díaz (23 goals in 1999)
• Most goals scored in two short tournaments: Carlos Villanueva (30 goals in 2007)

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Audax Italiano as of 29 May 2022 (edit)
Sources: Audax Official Web Site

No. Position Player 1 CHI GK Tomás Ahumada 2 CHI MF Óliver Rojas 3 CHI DF Cristóbal Muñoz 4 CHI DF Daniel Piña 5 CHI DF Fabián Torres 6 ARG DF Germán Guiffrey 7 CHI DF Nicolás Fernández 8 CHI MF Marco Collao 9 ARG FW Lautaro Palacios 10 CHI MF Carlos Villanueva 12 CHI GK Cristobal Piña 14 CHI FW Gonzalo Álvarez 15 ARG MF Emanuel Cecchini 16 ARG MF Gastón Gil Romero

No. Position Player 17 CHI FW Paolo Guajardo 18 CHI MF Nicolas Aedo 19 CHI MF Santiago Dittborn 20 CHI FW Ignacio Jeraldino 21 CHI FW Thomas Rodríguez 22 CHI MF Alessandro Riep 23 CHI DF Esteban Matus 24 CHI FW Nicolás Orellana 25 CHI GK Gonzalo Collao 26 ARG DF Guillermo Ortiz 27 CHI DF Diego Monreal 28 CHI FW Javier Quiñones 31 CHI GK Omar Carabalí 32 CHI FW Luciano Arriagada

Manager: Francisco Arrué

20116 Winter Transfers

In

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

No. Position Player — DF Hans Martínez (Free agent)

No. Position Player — MF César Cortés (from Palestino)

Out

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

No. Position Player 10 MF Pablo López (Released) 12 MF Rodrigo Tello (Retired) 19 DF Rafael Olarra (Retired)

No. Position Player 16 DF José Contreras (Released) 17 FW Javier Elizondo (Released) 27 FW Leandro Benegas (back to Universidad de Chile)

Managers

• Carlos Giudice (1936)
• José Luis Boffi (1944–45)
• Raúl Estevez (1946)
• Salvador Nocetti (July 1, 1947 – June 30, 1948)
• Ladislao Pakozdi (1951–57)
• Luis Álamos (1967–68)
• Hernán Godoy (1974–77)
• Néstor Isella (1979)
• Vicente Cantatore (1979)
• Hernán Godoy (1980–81)
• Hugo Berly (1983)

• Hernán Godoy (1985)
• Rosauro Parra (1986)
• Hernán Godoy (1988)
• Óscar Meneses (1993–94)
• Jorge Aravena (1995)
• Roberto Hernández (1996–97)
• Oscar Malbernat (1997–99)
• Oscar del Solar (2000–01)
• Hernán Godoy (2001–02)
• Claudio Borghi (Jan 1, 2003 – Dec 31, 2003)
• Roberto Hernández (2003–05)

• Jaime Pizarro (2005)
• Óscar Meneses (2005)
• Raúl Toro (Feb 2, 2006 – Aug 21, 2009)
• Pablo Marini (Jan 1, 2009 – Jan 31, 2010)
• Marcelo Barticciotto (Feb 23, 2010 – May 16, 2010)
• Omar Labruna (May 18, 2010 – June 30, 2012)
• Pablo Marini (July 4, 2012 – June 6, 2013)
• Jorge Luis Ghiso (June 6, 2013 – Oct 20, 2013)

External links

• Official website

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