Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas is a professional 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 based in Chiquimula

Chiquimula

Chiquimula is a city in Guatemala. It serves both as the capital of the department of Chiquimula and as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name....

, Guatemala

Guatemala

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The team plays in the Primera División de Ascenso

Primera División de Ascenso

The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...

, the second-highest football division in Guatemala. Their home stadium is the Estadio Las Victorias

Estadio Las Victorias

Estadio Las Victorias is a soccer stadium located in Chiquimula, Guatemala. It is home to second division club Sacachispas, and has a capacity of 9,000....

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The club has also played in the Liga Mayor

Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala , formerly known as Liga Mayor "A" is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. It is sanctioned by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala...

, having reached their best position in the 1995-96 season, when they were runners-up. They have been playing in the second division

Primera División de Ascenso

The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...

 since 2000.

History

Nicknamed Los Muteros, the club was founded as a result of two meetings. The first, in the south-west corner of Ismael Cerna

Ismael Cerna

Ismael Cerna was a Guatemalan poet.-Biography:Cerna was born in Chiquimula in 1856. He graduated as a Bachelor of Philosophy and later in medicine and law. He later joined the army but after the fall of Vicente Cerna was captured with his uncle and imprisoned. On his release he went to El Salvador...

´s Park, in where were the distinguished citizens Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Josué Goshop, Héctor Antonio Monroy, Jorge González and Manuel Samayoa, on June 15, 1949; and the second meeting was near of Colegio Amigos, on the ground it now occupies the Estado Las Victoras. In this attended besides the first mentioned, Neftalí Aguilar, Caleb Goshop, Neco Velásquez, Enrique Valdés, Gata Cuellar, Ronald Williams, Mincho Paz, Lipe Franco, Quincho Díaz, Chentío Castañeda, Edmundo Rivera, Pío Martínez and Armando Portillo.

The first uniform was a white jersey with white shorts. Their first coach was the Governor of Chiquimula, Colonel Guadalupe López Ochoa who got new uniforms: a white a blue stripes jersey with white shorts.

The Name

Many of the footballers had their headquarters in the Roxi barbershop, owned by Carlos Enrique Morales Hernández aka Quique. One night in a player's meeting, one customer who came from El Salvador

El Salvador

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 told them about an Argentine

Argentina

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 movie was showing in that country, Pelota de Trapo (Ball Rag). The movie was about a group of kids who plays with the name of Sacachispas. He suggested naming that way the Chiquimula football team. That led to the name of the current Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas.

Current squad

National titles

• Liga Mayor B: 1

1992

• Segunda División: 1

1993

• Copa Amistad: 1

2007