El Imperio

This article is about the 1960s sports dynasty. For other uses, see El Imperio (disambiguation).

El Imperio

Emblem of CF Adolfosburg.
Native name	Ել Իմպերիո
Jackian name	The Empire
Date	1958–1969 (11 years)
Location	Creeperopolis
Also known as	Las'Sesentas/Լաս'Սեսենտաս (The Sixties)
Type	Sports dynasty
Participants	CF Adolfosburg
Outcome	7 Copa Creeperiano titles 8 Liga Imperial titles
Succeeded by	La'Tristesa

El Imperio (Creeperian script: Ել Իմպերիո; literally: The Empire), also known as Las'Sesentas (Լաս'Սեսենտաս; literally The Sixties), was an association football dynasty in Creeperopolis where the club CF Adolfosburg won seven consecutive Copa Creeperiano titles between 1962 and 1968 and ten consecutive Liga Imperial titles between 1960 and 1969. Most of the club's success came under the management of Federico Rivas Velázquez, a former right winger who played for the club between 1927 and 1929.

The dynasty is generally considered to have begun during the 1958–59 Premier Football League (LPF) season, when the club came as the season's runners-up after CF Salvador. Although Adolfosburg came as runners-up in the 1959 and 1960 Copa Creeperianos, the club's successes in those respective season's saw the club's first stretch of consistent success since the early 1930s. Since the domestic league's reincarnation in 1952 up until 1958, Adolfosburg only reached one Copa Creeperiano in 1953, where the club lost to CF San Miguel, and only qualified for the tournament in one other year in 1956.

In the 1961–62 Liga Imperial (ANF–LP) season, the club hired Rivas Velázquez as its new manager, replacing Eduardo Ortega Urías who resigned following the 1961–62 season. Immediately, the club proceeded to become the champions of that year's ANF–LP season and eventually the 1962 Copa Creeperiano. Following the Copa Creeperiano victory, the club proceeded to win the next six Copa Creeperianos and were the champions of the next seven Liga Imperials. During that time, players like Manuel Luján Castellanos, Alfredo Bermúdez Sarmiento, Carlos Menjívar Rivas, Nicolás Castro Alvarenga, and José Castillo Enríquez were a part of the club's squad and contributed to the club's dominance during its dynasty.

Rivas Velázquez departed from the club after the 1968 Copa Creeperiano and was replaced with Andrés Sandoval Zaldívar, and although he led the club to another ANF–LP title, Adolfosburg lost in the 1969 Copa Creeperiano to Salvador by a score of 3–2 after extra time. Adolfosburg's loss in the 1969 Copa Creeperiano is generally considered to be the end of the club's decade-long dynasty, as in the following season, the club came in fourth place during the ANF–LP season and failed to advance from the group stage during that year's Copa Creeperiano.

Adolfosburg's dynasty during the 1960s is considered to be one of the most significant in the history of association football. Contemporary and modern sports commentators refer to Adolfosburg's squad during El Imperio as "one of the strongest squads in the history of football."

Rivas Velázquez era: 1962–1968

Third and fourth titles

The 1965 starting lineup with the CONFUSUR Champions' Trophy.

Post-dynastic struggles

See also: La'Tristesa

See also

• Chalador, an association duo-dynasty of CF Chalatenango and CF Salvador (1989–2003)
• La'Dinastía, an association football dynasty of the Creeperopolis national football team (1911–1931)

External links

• National Football Association (NSIndex; 16 September 2019)
• National Football Association (IIWiki; 9 February 2020)