Preview: 2014/15 CONCACAF Champions League – Final
CLUB AMERICA
Club América.
Club América from Mexico City is the most popular and successful club in Mexico, having won so far 16 Mexican Championships and 6 Copa México, 5 CONCACAF Champions’ Cups/Champions’ League, 2 Copa Interamericana cups, and 1 CONCACAF Giants Cup.
They reached the Final winning Group 8 in front of Comunicaciones (Guatemala) and Puerto Rico Bayamón (Puerto Rico) with 10 points in 4 games. In the Quarter-finals they easily eliminated Deportivo Saprissa from Costarica (5-0 on aggregate), while in the Semifinals life was harder: they lost 3-0 against Herediano (Costarica) in the First Leg, also because a red card received during First Half, but then reversed the tie in the Second Leg winning 6-0 at home (this time an early red card was shown to Herediano, but the result was already 4-0.
Moisés Alberto Muñoz, a former Mexican International, is the starting GK, while the main defenders are Pablo Goltz (Argentinian centre-back), Pablo Aguilar (centre-back, Paraguaian International), Paul Aguilar (right back, Mexican International) and Miguel Samudio (left back, Paraguaian International).
In the midfield there are Cristian Pellerano (Argentinian CM), Rubens Sambueza (a former CA River Plate Argentinian winger), and Osvaldo David Martinez (advanced midfielder, Paraguian International).
In the attack we point out the wingers Carlos Darwin Quintero (a former Colombian International) and Michael Arroyo (Ecuadorian International), while the most important offensive weapons are the central forwards Darío Benedetto (Argentinian) and Oribe Peralta, Mexican International.
