Cerro Porteño

Club Cerro Porteño
Nickname(s) El Ciclón (The Cyclone)
Club del Pueblo
(The People's Team)
La Mitad más Uno
(The Half plus One)
Founded October 1, 1912
Ground General Pablo Rojas Stadium (La Olla),
Asunción, Paraguay
Ground Capacity 25
Chairman Paraguay Juan José Zapag
Manager Paraguay Gustavo Morínigo
League Paraguayan Primera División
2nd in the last season (Torneo Clausura 2015)

Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan football club, based in the neighbourhood of Barrio Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 31 Primera División titles and is one of the most popular football clubs in Paraguay. Its actual president is Juan José Zapag, from Paraguay, and the DT is Gustavo Morínigo.[1] Its main rivals are Olimpia and Libertad.

They play their home games at the General Pablo Rojas Stadium, also known as La Olla (The Boiler).

History

Stamps of Paraguay

Cerro Porteño was founded on October 1, 1912 by Susana Núñez and a group of young people looking to create a new football club. At the time of Cerro's foundation the situation in Paraguay was tense with instability in the government caused by the fervent rivalries between the two leading political parties, the Partido Colorado (Colorado Party) and the Partido Liberal (Liberal Party). Because of the tensions, the founders of the club decided to use the colours of both parties, red (Colorados) and blue (Liberales), as the club's colours as a symbol of unity and friendship between Paraguayans. Later, white was used on the shorts to complete the colours of the Paraguayan flag.

The club owes its name to the battle fought between the forces of Buenos Aires, Argentina (The Porteños) and the Paraguayan army, in the neighbourhood of the Cerro Mbaé (Mbaé Hill) – named after that battle as the Cerro Porteño (Porteño Hill) – on 19 January 1811. During that battle, the troops of Paraguay (at that time a Spanish colony) were abandoned by the Spanish governor but continued to be led by the Paraguayan officials, who led them to a great victory against the Porteños troops. That battle is known as the "Battle of Cerro Porteño" and is a highlight of Paraguayan military history.

Cerro Porteño is known in Paraguay as el club del pueblo (the common people's team) because most of the fans are from lower social classes, as opposed to the fans from rival club Olimpia and Libertad whose fans are usually from the upper classes. Because of this, it is said that Cerro Porteño has the biggest number of supporters in Paraguay.

Over the years the club has won a significant number of national championships. However, to date, it has not won any international tournaments despite a few good runs in the Copa Libertadores including semi-final appearances in 1973, 1978, 1993, 1998, 1999 and 2011.

Osvaldo Ardiles joined the club as manager in May 2008 [2] but was sacked in August of the same year after a string of poor results and was replaced by Pedro Troglio.[3]

Stadium

The Stadium of Cerro Porteño, originally called Gral. Pablo Rojas and also called "La Olla", is located at "Barrio Obrero" (Avenida Acuña de Figueroa 823). The stadium is currently under maintenance, but it is intended to have a capacity of 37,000 persons, the biggest stadium in Paraguay.

International record

Semi-finals (6): 1973, 1978, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2011
Semi-finals (1): 2009

Honours

Ranking

World Club Ranking

As of 09 March 2016.[4]
Rank Country Team
169 Paraguay Cerro Porteño
170 Serbia Partizan Beograd
171 Ecuador LDU Quito

Players

First team

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Paraguay GK Antony Silva
2 Paraguay DF Raúl Cáceres
3 Paraguay DF Bruno Valdez
4 Paraguay DF Junior Alonso
5 Paraguay DF José Cáceres
6 Paraguay MF Silvio Torales (on loan from UNAM)
7 Paraguay FW Cecilio Dominguez
8 Paraguay MF Jonathan Santana
9 Paraguay FW José Ortigoza
10 Paraguay MF Sergio Díaz
11 Paraguay DF Carlos Bonet
12 Argentina GK Cristian Álvarez
13 Paraguay DF Victor Mareco
14 Paraguay DF Hugo Aquino
16 Paraguay MF Fidencio Oviedo
No. Position Player
17 Paraguay FW Jonathan Fabbro
18 Paraguay MF Rodrigo Rojas
19 Paraguay DF Guillermo Beltrán
20 Paraguay MF Marcelo Estigarribia (on loan from Atalanta)
21 Paraguay MF David Meza
23 Paraguay DF Iván Cañete
24 Paraguay DF Gustavo Velázquez
25 Paraguay GK Pablo Gavilán
26 Paraguay MF Carlos Pereira
27 Paraguay MF Jorge González
28 Paraguay MF Marcos Riveros
29 Argentina MF Juan Vieyra
Paraguay MF Jorge Rojas (on loan from Benfica)

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either:

1980's

1990's

2000's

2010's

Non-CONMEBOL players

Managerial information

Cerro Porteño coaching history from 1960 to present

Records

Most appearances for the club (in all competitions):

  1. Julio Dos Santos: 267
  2. Jorge Achucarro: 257
  3. Aldo Bobadilla: 265
  4. Estanislao Struway: 227

Most goals for the club (in all competitions):

  1. Virgilio Ferreira: 90
  2. Erwin Ávalos: 70
  3. Saturnino Arrua: 88
  4. José Vinsac: 58

Most appearances for the club (in league):

  1. Salvador Breglia: 225
  2. Jorge Achucarro: 215
  3. Julio Dos Santos: 212
  4. Blas Marcelo Cristaldo: 201

Most goals for the club (in league):

  1. Virgilio Ferreira: 67
  2. Erwin Ávalos: 64
  3. José Vinsac: 58
  4. Saturnino Arrua: 55

Most appearances for the club (in international cup):

  1. Aldo Bobadilla: 67
  2. Estanislao Struway: 64
  3. Virgilio Ferreira: 61
  4. Blas Marcelo Cristaldo: 57

Most goals for the club (in international cup):

  1. Virgilio Ferreira: 23
  2. Santiago Salcedo: 15
  3. Celino Mora: 14
  4. César Ramírez: 13

Women

The women's team has won the Paraguayan women's football championship four times, in 2007 and 2012 to 2014.[8] The team then played in the Copa Libertadores Femenina.

References

  1. ↑ (Spanish) http://www.abc.com.py/nota/mayoria-piensa-que-cerro-porteno-es-el-club-mas-polular/| Most people believe that is the most popular
  2. ↑ http://www.geofutbol.com/2008/04/29/osvaldo-ardiles-dirigira-a-cerro-porteno/| Osvaldo Ardiles will lead to Cerro Porteño
  3. ↑ http://www.sportsya.com/futbol/paraguay/torneo_clausura_2008/home/noticia.php/Pedro_Troglio_reemplazara_en_Cerro_Porteno_al_despedido_Osvaldo_Ardiles.html?id_estruc=396&id=184925| Archived October 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Troglio replaces Ardiles
  4. ↑ "Football Database".
  5. ↑ http://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/custodio-mendes/
  6. ↑ http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/football/William-Inganga-AFC-Leopards-James-Nandwa-KPL/-/1102/2309384/-/yfq1g0z/-/index.html
  7. ↑ http://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/kenneth-nju/
  8. ↑ "Cerro Porteño tricampeón de fútbol femenino de Paraguay" (in Spanish). conmebol.com. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.

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