C.D. Árabe Unido

Árabe Unido
Full name Club Deportivo Árabe Unido
Nickname(s) El Expreso Azul (The Blue Express)
Los Árabes (The Arabs)
DAU
La Furia colonense (The Fury from Colón)
Founded April 28, 1994
Ground Estadio Armando Dely Valdés
Colón, Panama
Ground Capacity 4,000
Chairman Pedro Gordon
Manager Sergio Guzmán
League Liga Panameña de Fútbol
2015 (C) 1st

Club Deportivo Árabe Unido is a professional football club located in Colón, Panama that plays in Liga Panameña de Fútbol, the top tier of the Panamanian football pyramid.

The club plays its games in Estadio Armando Dely Valdés.

History

Founded only in 1994 by the Arab immigrants in Panama,[1] Árabe Unido has won 10 Liga Panameña de Fútbol championships since 1998, the second highest total of any team since 1988. The club has also finished second 5 times since 1998.

They won the 2015 Clausura title after beating Independiente 2–1 in the season's final[2] and three years after winning the 2012 championship.[3]

Honours

National Titles

1998–99, 2001 Apertura, 2001 Clausura, 2002 Apertura, 2004 Apertura, 2004 Clausura, 2008 Clausura, 2009 Apertura, 2010 Clausura, 2012 Apertura, 2015 Clausura, 2015 Apertura


1994–95, 1995–96

International Titles

Runners-up (1): 2002

Performance in CONCACAF competitions

1996 – Qualifying stage (Central Zone)
2003 – First Round
2009–10 – Quarter-finals
2010–11 – Group Stage
2013–14 – Quarter-finals

Players

Current squad

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

No. Position Player
1 Dominican Republic GK Miguel Lloyd
2 Panama DF Rigoberto Niño
3 Panama DF Fidel Cesar
5 Panama DF Jordy Meléndez
6 Panama DF Shaquille Coronado
8 Panama MF Ángel Patrick
9 Colombia FW Oscar Julian Martínez
10 Panama MF José González
11 Panama FW Harold Mosquera
12 Panama FW Joseph Cox
13 Panama MF Gabriel Pino
16 Panama MF Leslie Heraldez
No. Position Player
18 Panama MF Daniel López
20 Panama MF Gabriel Chiari
25 Panama MF Abdiel Macea
26 Panama MF Armando Cooper
28 Colombia MF Alejandro Hincapie
29 Panama DF Daniel Ortíz
30 Panama MF Josimar Gómez
40 Panama DF Chin Hormechea
77 Panama GK Eddie Roberts
99 Panama FW Armando Polo
Panama DF Luis Fraiz

Historical list of coaches

  • Peru Eliazar Herrera (1998–99)
  • Colombia Richard Parra (2001–03)
  • Colombia Jairo Silva (2003–04)
  • Paraguay Juan Carlos Gómez Cáceres (2004)
  • Spain Ramón Vecinos (2005–06)
  • Colombia Wiston Cifuentes (2006)
  • Panama José Alfredo Poyatos (2007)
  • Colombia Richard Parra (Aug 2009–Nov 10)
  • Colombia Wilman Conde (Dec 2010–June 11)[5]
  • Costa Rica Carlos Pérez Porras (June 2011–Nov 11)[6]
  • Colombia Jair Palacios (Dec 2011–Aug 14)[7]
  • Panama Julio Dely Valdés (Aug 2014–Dec 14)[8]
  • Colombia Alfonso de Moya (Jan 2015–15)[9]
  • Colombia Sergio Guzmán (Feb 2015–)[10]

References

  1. ↑ Árabe Unido – CONCACAF
  2. ↑ El Deportivo Árabe Unido es campeón del Torneo Clausura 2015 – Somos Lasele (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Árabe Unido gana 4–1 a Chepo y se proclama campeón de la LPF – Telemetro (Spanish)
  4. ↑ "Jugadores" (in Spanish). arabeunido.com. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  5. ↑ Wilman Conde, nuevo DT del Árabe – La Estrella (Spanish)
  6. ↑ Carlos Pérez Porras y sus retos con el Árabe Unido – Crítica (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Jair Palacios nuevo técnico del Árabe Unido – PanamaFutbol (Spanish)
  8. ↑ Julio Dely Valdés, nuevo técnico del Árabe Unido de Colón – La Prensa (Spanish)
  9. ↑ Alfonzo De Moya es el nuevo Director Técnico del Árabe Unido – Árabe Unido (Spanish)
  10. ↑ Colombiano Juan Guzmán nuevo DT del Árabe Unido de Colón – RPC (Spanish)

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