Recent Years
In December 2010 the club purchases coach German "Basilico" Gonzalez, who brings a new coaching staff including Arturo Boyacá and Oscar Gil as technical assistants. After poor results Gonzalez leaves the club, and Oscar Gil takes the helm.
Gil took over the club in Week 14 against Estudiantes de Merida in which he took the win 1-0 on the stadium Metropolitano de Cabudare, then faced Caroni in Cachamay winning 0-3, then a defeat at home to Monagas 1-3 and finally managed to finish the tournament with 0:4 in game played in Caracas. Previously, he had served as interim coach in the win against Yaracuyanos by a score of 1-4, which gave him one of the first joys to all CDL fans.
But Gil decided not to go for the new season, although the Red & Black would not be too long without coach, since June 3, 2011 Eduardo Saragó coach signed for three seasons with the club. That same day it was made a press conference that inaugurated the new headquarters of the club. Also began a promising project, as it has taken in consideration the youth teams of the club, and also there have been transfers of experience as Miguel Mea Vitali, Edgar Perez Greco, Rafael Castellin, David Mcintosh, Suanno Vicente, Jose Manuel Rey, Norman Baquero, Marcelo Maidana Bladimir Morales, and for a long term project which made them long contracts.
After a dream season, the Red & Black manages to become overall champions of the Venezuelan Primera Division 2011/12 after winning the Apertura 2011 unbeaten by winning to Mineros de Guayana with 5-1 score, and also winning the Clausura 2012 by winning again to Mineros de Guayana, this time by a score of 0-1. In this manner, the CDL closes the season as the third team in Venezuelan football history to win both tournaments in a season (after Caracas FC managed to do so in 2003/04 and the Unión Atlético Maracaibo did it in 2004/05) and the first team to do so since the expansion of teams in 2007, with a accumulated score in the table of 25 wins, 8 draws and just 1 loss, accumulating 83 points (record of points obtained in a Venezuelan football season) obtaining a pass for the Copa Sudamericana 2012 and the Copa Libertadores 2013.
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