Club Deportivo Cuenca - Championship Year (2004)

Championship Year (2004)

In 2004, under the presidency of Manuel Vega Villa, Deportivo Cuenca lived the greatest episode in its history by adding the first star in its career. Everything began with the hiring of Argentine coach Daniel Cordoba, who joined the club's foreign players like Javier Klimowicz, Marcelo Velasco, and national Giancarlos Ramos, Carlos Hidalgo, David Valencia John Cagua. After a successful first stage, halfway through the league, coach Cordoba abandons Cuenca already qualified for the playoffs, and contracted it's replacement Julio "Turco" Asad.

The title would come on December 8 of 2004, missing two games left in the tournament, when Deportivo Cuenca with 19.5 points, was unreachable for his followers, including Barcelona and Olmedo who was runner up from Riobamba. That day Cuenca won 3-2 to Aucas in Quito, but the celebration began after the end of the game between El Nacional, and Liga de Quito. The tie produced between those competitors allowed the Morlacos to be unreachable. Fans took to the streets to celebrate, thousands of vehicles blew their horns, with explosions of rockets and fireworks in the sky. The conquest had caused such a joy in the fans that it forced the opening of the stadium where thousands of fans cheered the team. Prior to that there was a motorcade from the airport to the Alejandro Serrano Aguilar Stadium.

The core team that won the title of 2004 was Javier Klimowicz, Jhonny Perez, Raul Noriega, Second Matamba, John Cagua, Marcelo Velazco, Giancarlos Ramos, Raul Antunes, David Valencia, Carlos Quinonez and Walter Calderon.

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In 2005 the national runner up would be Deportivo Cuenca. While in 2006 it played in the Copa Libertadores, the time of president Antonio Alvarez. While 2008, under the presidency of Marcelo Herrera, the team continuously classifies to the Copa Libertadores.