Club Badge and Colours
The current badge is a Phoenix over the colours yellow and green, that means the aforementioned merger between América de Rancagua and O'Higgins Braden in mid–1950s, thanks to the management of Carlos Dittborn, president of the Professional football commission, now the current ANFP. Several people of Rancagua secure that the phoenix represents to the Chilean historic city, in where the founding father and hero of the country, Bernardo O'Higgins, led to his army on win the Battle of Rancagua against the Spaniards, highlighting that the club's name are in honour of him.
The club's current home kit colours are sky blue and white, whilst the traditional away colours are yellow in honour to América, a former Primera División team, but the current second kit have as current away colour are white. In the 2010 Campeonato Petrobras, O'Higgins weared the former kit of O'Higgins Braden as away colours, as seen in the image to Enzo Gutiérrez celebrating a goal with that uniform during the 1–0 victory in the country's capital over Universidad de Chile at the Estadio Nacional. An unusual fact was that the 2012 Torneo de Apertura first leg final at Estadio Parque El Teniente against the Santiago de Chile's team Universidad de Chile, the team played with the away kit colours in Rancagua, city in where the team is local. That game finished certainly in a 2–1 victory for O'Higgins with goals of midfielder Rodrigo Rojas and the left back Alejandro López, whilst for the blues was Guillermo Marino.
Currently manufactured by Italian sports company Diadora, having also another sponsors like Powerade of United States, and companies like Homecenter Sodimac, Entel and Codelco are the club's national sponsors.
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