Club Deportivo y Social Vida
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| Full name | Club Deportivo y Social Vida |
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| Nickname(s) |
Los Cocoteros (The Coconuts) Los Rojiblancos (The Red-and-Whites) |
| Founded | 14 October 1940 |
| Ground |
Estadio Nilmo Edwards, La Ceiba, Honduras |
| Capacity | 18,000 |
| Chairman | Carla Belinda Dip |
| Manager | Carlos Alberto Pavon Plumer |
| League | Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras |
| 2012–13 Clausura | 9th |
Club Deportivo y Social Vida, or simply Vida, is a Honduran association football club based in La Ceiba, Atlántida.
The club has won two domestic league titles and finished second three times.
Vida was founded on 14 October 1940 with the name of Salvavida by Gregorio Ramos, José Lamelas and Valentín Vásquez. The name Salva Vida was initially put by Salvador Vacaro and Vicente D' antoni, founders of the brewery Cervecería Hondureña, SA. The initial colors of the team were Red, White and Blue, but in recent times only red and white are used. The Club Salva Vida started when Gregorio Ramos decided to separate from the board of directors of Atlántida and to form his own team. At that time the team Salva Vida was part of the League Dionisio de Herrera.
Later the soccer club was just called Vida in honor of Mrs. Vida Code de Castañeda. The story tells that during a walk that the executives and players were carrying out, Mrs. Vida, who did not know how to swim, fell into the water. Then Mr. Gregorio Ramos ask for aid with the phrase "un salvavida para Vida" (a lifesaver for Mrs. Vida) and from that afternoon and on the club has been referred to as Vida, since Cervezería Hondureña did not permit that they continued to use the name of their product.
During the decade of the 1940s the players in the team were in their majority employees of Gregorio Ramos, who was owner of Lavanderia Ramos. He also was the president of the team and contributed economically and handled the team affairs. The training was carried out in a small field located that was property of the Standard Fruit Company (DOLE).
At the beginning of the 1950s the team was made up with students from the local public school Instituto Manuel Bonilla and those from the amateur soccer club Deportes Diablos Negros. The most notable stars were the famous Talon Arzú, Alberto "Campion" Amaya, Héctor "Jet" Castillo McKenzie, Quiro Brooks, Cristóbal Craka Brooks, and the Spaniard Rafael "El Fafa" from Navarre.
Then in the 1960s rising stars like Salvador Hernández, Nilmo Edwards, and the brothers Morris and Junia Garden became key First Team players for the team. Vida became runners-up of the Liga Amateur de Honduras in 1961 (losing to Olimpia), and National Champions in 1964—beating out the soccer club Salamar of San Lorenzo in Tegucigalpa.
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