Sociedad Deportiva Aucas

The Sociedad Deportiva Aucas is a soccer club from the city of Quito in northern Ecuador. The team is named after the Auca tribe, who are also called Huaorani, because it originally belonged to the Dutch Shell Oil Company, which had been operating oil fields in the east of Ecuador where the Aucas live. That is why the main uniform's colors, yellow and red, were taken from the colors used by Shell to market their products and services. The alternate uniform is completely white, except for the commercial advertisements and numbers and names of players, which are red.

Related Topics:
Soccer - Quito - Ecuador - Auca - Shell Oil Company

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Despite the team's popularity, Aucas has never won an Ecuadorian championship. Players who have played for Aucas include Argentinian and nationalized Ecuadorian forward Ariel Graziani, forward Nicolás Ascencio, who also played for the Club Deportivo Cuenca, forward Edison Maldonado, defender Geovanny Espinoza , and the 1990 FIFA World Cup Colombian goalkeeper René Higuita, famous for his risky, playful plays in which he went out of the goal area and for his penalty-kick saves and free-kick goals.

Related Topics:
Ariel Graziani - Nicolás Ascencio - Club Deportivo Cuenca - Edison Maldonado - Geovanny Espinoza - 1990 FIFA World Cup - René Higuita

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