Club Deportivo Toluca

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Club Deportivo Toluca also known simply as Toluca, is a Mexican professional football club. Toluca's stadium is localized in Toluca, State of Mexico in Mexico. Toluca plays in the Primera División de México and has been champion eight times.

History

In March of 1917, the brothers Román and Gerardo Ferrat with Filiberto Navas created Deportivo Toluca Futbol Club. In 1950 the team joins the recentlly formed segunda division, advancing to Primera División de México in 1953.

The team won two consecutive championships in 1966 and 1967 under the coach Ignacio Trelles. In 1975 Toluca won the championship one more time, coached by Ricardo de Leon, playing a style of game that was consistently criticized as ultra defensive, after defeating Leon in the final-four mini tournament by 1-0, with goal of the Ecuadorian Ítalo Estupiñan (the only time the Mexican Championship was decided by a round-robin, two legged, mini tournament).

In 1997 Enrique "Ojitos" Meza became the coach of the team, after reaching the finals of the Mexican league with Toros Neza (now disappeared). Toluca resurged, its tactical scheme was very offensive, which was very characteristic of its coach. It was not atypical to see scores like 5-3. The offensive idea suited perfectly the Paraguayan Jose Saturnino Cardozo, who became the best scorer of the league in four occasions.

Toluca won the championship in 1998, the first one in twenty years. With Enrique Meza Enriquez as coach, Toluca won the championship three times in a period of three years.

For the Apertura 2002 tournament, Ricardo Lavolpe became the coach of Toluca. Without finishing the season, Lavolpe left Toluca to coach the Mexican national team. Toluca was at its best, and even without Lavolpe, the team had the necessary momentum to win the championship with Alberto Jorge as the interim coach. In this occasion by disposing of Morelia in the finals.

At the end of the Apertura 2005 tournament the team became champion again, beating CF Monterrey by an aggregate of 6-3.

In Apertura 2006, they tied in the first leg (1-1). But suffered a loss in the Estadio Nemesio Diez (2-1) against Chivas de Guadalajara.

In Clausura 2007, Toluca had a poor season, making it 13th place out of 18 in the charts. In Copa Libertadores though, they made it to the round of 16, but was later eliminated by Cucuta of Colombia by a global score of 5-3. Gallego resigned from his position and asked for a year of rest. Jose Pekerman, as of May 30, 2007, is the coach of Toluca.

Honours

League Championships: 8
- 1967, 1968, 1975, Verano 1998, Verano 1999, Verano 2000, Apertura 2002, Apertura 2005.

Second Division Championships: 1
- 1953.

Mexico Cups: 2
- 1956, 1989.

Champion of Champions: 4
- 1967, 1968, 2003, 2006

CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 2
- 1968, 2003,

Chicago Trophy (Pre-Season Tournament): 1
- 2007,

2007 Roster

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ARG	Hernán Cristante
2	DF	MEX	Jonathan Arias
3	DF	PAR	Paulo Da Silva
4	DF	MEX	Miguel Almazán
5	MF	ARG	Ariel Rosada
6	DF	MEX	Manuel De La Torre
8	MF	MEX	Erick Espinoza
10	MF	MEX	Zinha
11	FW	URU	Vicente Sánchez
12	GK	MEX	Cesar Lozano
13	FW	ARG	Christian Eduardo Giménez
14	DF	MEX	Edgar Dueñas
15	MF	MEX	Josué Castillejos


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	MF	MEX	Sergio Amaury Ponce
18	MF	MEX	Carlos Adrián Morales
19	DF	MEX	Álvaro Ortiz
20	MF	MEX	Adrian Velasco
21	MF	MEX	Diego De La Torre
22	MF	MEX	Juan Carlos Nuñez
23	DF	MEX	Jonathan Arias
24	DF	MEX	Jose Manuel Cruzalta
25	MF	MEX	Edgar García
27	DF	MEX	Juan Osuna
28	FW	MEX	Edgar González
29	FW	MEX	Carlos Esquivel
30	GK	MEX	Miguel Ángel Centeno