CD Olimpia has been playing football since 1917, five years after the newly formed club’s members saw the light, having originally been introduced as a baseball club.
They’ve been kicking ball ever since and share club colours and a nickname with Spanish giants, Real Madrid - Los Merengues. But there the similarity ends...
They arrive in Montreal as Honduras’ most successful club with 31 national titles and 17 runners-up spots. They are used to domestic success and as former player Romell Quioto, now with the Impact, notes, “It’s been a great experience for me, I know the players [but] MLS is very demanding and a more organized league than that of Honduras.