Chiquesalunga United
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| Full name | Chiquesalunga United |
| Founded | June 23, 2008 (Global Season 36) |
| Location | Pennsylvania, USA |
| Ground | The Cliff |
| Capacity | 15,000 |
| Coach | Luigi Vaccarini |
| League | VI.462 |
| info box updated on: December 8, 2008 | |
Chiquesalunga United is a club from Pennsylvania in the USA. Featuring a lengthy tradition of heritage stretching as far back as a single season, it plays in league VI.462, the United States' lowest division in Hattrick. Founded shortly after the beginning of global Season 36, it now competes with mediocre pride in its second season as a team likely to shuttle between Division VI and Division V for years to come.
In addition to its league competitions, Chiquesalunga United maintains a full reserve squad, plays a friendly every week and is open to friendly challenges.
The Chiquesalunga Chickies youth squad also began competing in early October, 2008.
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Etymology
The club is named after a region along the Susquehanna River in southeastern Pennsylvania that the Lenape nation called "Chiquesalunga," meaning "place of the crayfish," prior to European colonization. Many present-day landmarks in the area bear names deriving from that term, including Chickies Rock, Chiques Creek, and the village of Salunga, among others. The club's home arena, The Cliff, is named after Chickies Rock.
The Chickies Rock area is, in the owner's estimation, one of the most beautiful spots on the planet nobody's heard of.
The area was also the original site chosen for the location of the District of Columbia. The site for the proposed U.S. capital city was later moved further south to the banks of the Potomac River as part of a compromise for the southern states. Because Washington D.C.'s real-life Major League Soccer team is named D.C. United, "United" was also made part of the moniker of this Hattrick team named after the place that almost became Washington, D.C.
Owner
Chiquesalunga United's owner is an aggrandizingly self-deprecating individual who sometimes speaks barbs of truthiness, but he is usually simply full of it. Occasionally, he bandies about important-sounding words like "etymology" and "it" for no apparent reason.
A south-central Pennsylvanian, his sports loyalties revolve primarily around the formerly long-suffering burg of Philadelphia. The suffering has since been eased somewhat by the Phillies' 2008 World Series triumph. In soccer, he is a supporter of England's Manchester United, owing to his family roots in Stretford, and of Greece's Panathinaikos, owing to absolutely no rational explanation whatsoever. He is also anxiously awaiting the 2010 addition of Major League Soccer and Women's Professional Soccer teams to Philadelphia.
Fans
Chiquesalunga United, being a relatively new team, has a small but rapidly growing fan club numbering 949 in the first week of January 2009. A rowdy, beer-loving, fun bunch, they have developed several traditions stemming from the area's Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, including the fan club song which is sung in German:
In Himmel es gibt kein Bier, / Und so wir trinken hier, / Und wann wir lassen hier, / Dann uns're Freunden trinken noch das Bier!
History
In its opening season, Chiquesalunga United finished fourth in USA league VI.462 with a 7-6-1 record, and the club went 5-2 in the second half of its league schedule and 5-1 in its last six league games. It qualified for the Season 37 U.S. Open Cup, only to lose to a Division V team 3-0 in the opening round. The club then proceeded to shock everyone, including its own management, by going 6-0-1 and holding a firm grip on first place in VI.462 in the first half of the league season. In the penultimate week of league play, Chiquesalunga United clinched the VI.462 title.
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