Moca FC

Moca Fútbol Club is a Dominican professional football team based in Moca, Dominican Republic, founded in 1971. The team plays in the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol (LDF).

Moca FC
Full nameMoca Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)The Cradle of Dominican Football
Founded1971 (1971)
GroundEstadio Complejo Deportivo Moca 86
Moca, Dominican Republic
Capacity7,000
ManagerSergio Guzman
LeagueLiga Dominicana de Fútbol
WebsiteClub website

History

The Moca FC is a professional football club of Dominican Republic located in Moca, Espaillat Province. Moca FC was the team with most championships in the defunct Major League (League that was predecessor of the Dominican Professional League), founded in 1971 and currently participates in the LDF (Dominican Republic first division), which has been the club with the longest soccer Current clubs of the LDF and this in turn has had the prowess of being the best cataloged Club so much so that it is denominated that its province is the "House of the Dominican Football".

Their classic rivals are Atlético San Cristóbal and Cibao

Stadiums

Roster


Senior Roster
As of July 12, 2023[1]
No. Pos. Player Nation
25 GK Pascual Ramirez  Dominican Republic
23 GK Odalis Baez  Dominican Republic
22 GK Robinson Robert  Dominican Republic
2 DF Kelvin Duran  Dominican Republic
21 DF Adrián Salcedo  Dominican Republic
4 DF Jose F Gomez  Dominican Republic
26 DF Carlos Rosell  Dominican Republic
17 DF Alexander Vidal C  Dominican Republic
27 DF Jefry Holguin  Dominican Republic
7 DF Sebastian Valencia  Colombia
35 DF Alfredo Cortorreal  Dominican Republic
14 DF Enrique De Jesus  Dominican Republic
15 DF Mathews Tejeda  Dominican Republic
16 MF Yensy Gil  Dominican Republic
10 MF Alejandro Carrera  Venezuela
8 MF Richard Dabas  Dominican Republic
5 MF Simón Veras  Dominican Republic
6 MF Cliford Thomas  Haiti
12 MF Víctor Sánchez  Dominican Republic
99 MF Michel Cardenas  Colombia
9 FW Juan Angeles  Dominican Republic
18 FW Julio Rosario  Dominican Republic
20 FW Ronaldo De Pena  Dominican Republic
30 FW Luis Martin G  Dominican Republic
19 FW Gustavo Ascona  Argentina
34 FW Rodolfo Ford  Panama
11 FW Tairon Rodriguez  Dominican Republic
28 FW Samil De la Rosa  Dominican Republic

Youth academy

Moca has historically been a developing of many outstanding soccer players for the Dominican Republic national team, among these are: Jonathan Faña,Richard Dabas,Jean Carlos López,Ernesto Trinidad and many more. In the current 2023 season Moca has several young players already established in its senior team such as Enrique de Jesus, Alfredo Cortorreal, Simón Veras and Ronaldo Pena. These last three have been former members of the Dominican Republic national under-20 football team

Moca FC currently has its affiliated/reserve U-23 team in "LDF Expansion", a semi-professional development league that is unofficially considered the second division of the DR. Participation in the academy is free for all players and participants are eligible to be signed to the Moca FC senior team as a Homegrown Player.

The academy also operates a soccer development program to identify players playing for local youth clubs and promote them to the academy.The club also operates the "Escuela Jonathan Fana", a pre-academy feeder program for players aged 8–14 to provide training and development for advanced local players and identify potential academy players, as well as the Moca Juniors Program, a special development program to provide supplemental development for U-12 players playing for other Moca-area youth clubs.

Current first team staff
  • Head Coach: Colombia Sergio Guzman
  • Assistant Coach: Dominican Republic Jonathan Urena
  • Physical trainer: Colombia Jair Alzate

References
  1. {based on the wikipedia spanish page of moca fc and the official information of the Dominican fotball league (LDF)|title=Moca FC Senior Roster|
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