C.D. América de Rancagua

América de Rancagua was a Chilean football club based in the city of Rancagua. The club was founded on 1916 and dissolved on 1955, when it merged with O'Higgins Braden forming the current club O'Higgins.

América

Full name	Club de Deportes América de Rancagua
Nickname(s)	El Cóndor (The Condor)
Founded	January 1, 1916
Dissolved	1955 (became O'Higgins)
Ground	Cancha Alameda, Rancagua, Chile
Capacity	1,000
Final season 1954	2nd (Promoted to Primera División)
Home colours

History

América de Rancagua, led by Salvador Nocetti, was runner-up of the 1954 tournament, and O'Higgins Braden won the tournament undefeated.^[1]

América's team in 1923.

Both teams won the right to play in the division of honor. However, the Asociación Central de Fútbol and its policy of "a city club" forced to merge both clubs to represent the city of Rancagua. This generated an intense debate in the summer of 1955, as yellow and white-green rejected such an imposition, and even argued that América had no problems to continue in the second division.

However, given the possibility of disaffiliation of both clubs and the loss of quota for the city, the April 7th of 1955, O'Higgins Braden is forced to join América de Rancagua, giving rise to O'Higgins. Its first president after navigate a coin in the air, was Francisco Rajcevich (O'Higgins Braden) and his vice president, Manuel Riquelme (América), as equal to members of America and O'Higgins Braden in the directory after successive ties, Carlos Dittborn, leader of the Asociación Central de Fútbol decided that the coin was the only way to solve the issue of the president.^[2]

Honours

Domestic Competitions

• Primera B de Chile
  • Runners-up (2): 1953, 1954
• Liga O'Higgins
  • Winners (1): 1923

References

1. "Chile – Foundation Dates of Clubs". RSSSF.
2. "O'Higgins FC | 1955–1959". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-01-09.

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