El Tanque Sisley
Encyclopedia
El Tanque Sisley is a football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club from Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

 in Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

. They currently play in the Uruguayan 1st Division.

The club were founded in 1955 with the name Club Atlético El Tanque, on December 15, 1981 the club were amalgamated with Club Cultural y Deportivo Sisley to form Centro Cultural y Deportivo El Tanque Sisley.
Colors were taken from Rosarino Central, one of the big clubs of the F.U.F era.

Facts and Trivia

  • Played only one season in first division, (1991),in which major honours included beating Nacional 2-0 and Peñarol 1-0 in one week. Martín Fabio, front member of the Argentine music band Kapanga, became fan of the team after this success.
  • This feat (winning in the second leg against the two big clubs of the country and then being relegated) was oddly emulated by the inner country club Deportivo Colonia
    Deportivo Colonia
    Club Deportivo Colonia, usually known simply as Deportivo Colonia or Depor Colonia, is an Uruguayan football club based in Colonia. Their home field is Estadio Miguel Campomar, in Juan Lacaze. They play in the Uruguayan Second Division after being relegated from the Uruguayan First Division in the...

     in 2006.
  • The club is referenced on a number of occasions in the Uruguayan movie Whisky
    Whisky (film)
    Whisky is an Argentine-German-Spanish-Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004. The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It has very sparse dialogue and the three principal actors play very...

    .

Titles

  • Uruguayan Primera División
    Primera División Uruguaya
    The Liga Profesional de Primera División , also known as the Primera División Uruguaya or Primera División de Uruguay , is a professional football league in Uruguay at the top of the country's football league system. It is organized by the Uruguayan Football Association and is contested by 16 teams...

    : 0
Amateur Era (0):
Professional Era (0):

  • Segunda División Uruguay
    Segunda División Uruguay
    Segunda División Profesional is the second tier of the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol league system. The league is sometimes referred to as Primera B.The Uruguayan 2nd division was established in 1942.-Season 2011–2012 Teams:* Atenas* Boston River...

    : 3
1981, 1990, 2009/10

  • Tercera División Uruguay: 2
1986, 1997

Former Kit

Current squad

For 2010/2011 Clausura Tournament

Notable players

Martín Barlocco Matías Cresseri
Matías Cresseri
Matías Cresseri Valerio is a Uruguayan footballer playing for Club Deportivo Águila.-External links:*...

 Marcelo Durán
Luís Marcelo Durán
Luís Marcelo Durán is a former Uruguayan footballer currently played for clubs of Uruguay, Chile and Peru....

 Hugo Guerra
Hugo Guerra
Hugo Guerra is a former Uruguayan footballer.-Club career:Guerra played for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Huracán, Boca Juniors and Ferro Carril Oeste in the Primera División de Argentina...

 Iván Pailós
Iván Pailós
Jorge Iván Pailos Gaitán is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays for Club Sportivo Cerrito in the Uruguayan Primera División.-Club career:...

 Walter Peletti
Walter Peletti
Wálter Luis Pelletti Vezzoso is a former Uruguayan footballer.-Club career:Peletti played for Huracán, Banfield and Argentinos Juniors in the Primera División de Argentina.-International career:...

 Venancio Ramos
Venancio Ramos
Venancio Ariel Ramos Villanueva is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Chicharra" during his professional career.-Club career:...

   Nicolás Suárez Bremec
Nicolás Suárez Bremec
Nicolás Suárez Bremec is an Spanish-Uruguayan football goalkeeper who plays for Taranto in Italy's Lega Pro Prima Divisione.-References:...

 Gonzalo Germán Vicente
Gonzalo Germán Vicente
Gonzalo Miguel Vicente Maillot aka Gonzalo Vicente is a Uruguayan football player.Vicente played for Real Valladolid and Cádiz in the Spanish Segunda Division.-Teams:*2001: Peñarol*2002-2003: El Tanque Sisley...


External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK