Club Cerro Porteño
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| Surname | Club Cerro Porteño | ||
| Seat | Asunción | ||
| founding | October 12, 1912 | ||
| president | Juan José Zapag | ||
| Website | cerro.com.py | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
 Luis Zubeldía (2018–)
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| Venue | Estadio General Pablo Rojas | ||
| Places | 25,000 | ||
| league | Primera División | ||
| 2017 | Apertura: 4th place Clausura: 1st place |
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The Club Cerro Porteño is a sports club from the Barrio Obrero in Asunción , the capital of Paraguay . The club was founded in 1912 and is historically the most successful team in Paraguayan football with 29 national championship titles alongside its arch-rival Club Olimpia , against which the Superclásico del Fútbol Paraguayo is contested. The basketball team won two championship titles in the early 1960s. The club also operates futsal and handball .
Soccer
Cerro Porteño plays its home games at the club's own Estadio General Pablo Rojas , also known as Olla Azulgrana or La Olla for short. With a capacity of 35,000, it is the second largest in Paraguay after the Estadio Defensores del Chaco . It is named after a former president of the club. During the Copa America 1999 , the game Uruguay against Colombia (0-1) was played here.
successes
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Football Championship of Paraguay : (29 ×) 1913, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1935, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1954, 1961, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2004, 2005
- Apertura / Clausura: 2009 (Apertura), 2012 (Apertura), 2013 (Clausura), 2015 (Apertura), 2017 (Clausura)
- In the Copa Liberatores, the team has played 295 games and reached the semi-finals three times.
Known players
- Cyrille Florent Bella
- Marcelo Estigarribia
- Carlos Gamarra
- Geremi Njitap
- Cayetano Ré
- Julio dos Santos
- Pablo Zeballos
- Nelson Valdez
Trainer
| Name of the trainer | Period | comment |
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Néstor "Pipo" Rossi
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 Salvador Breglia
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1970s | • 1972: Football Championship of Paraguay • 1973: Copa República • 1974: Football Championship of Paraguay • 1977: Football Championship of Paraguay |
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Oscar Malbernat
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1984 | |
  Ferenc Puskás
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1986 | |
 Valdir Espinosa
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1987-1988 | |
 Sergio Markarián
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1990-1991 | |
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Paulo César Carpegiani
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1991-1992 | |
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Paulo César Carpegiani
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1994-1995 | |
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Carlos Kiese
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1996 |
• 1996: Paraguay football championship |
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Jorge Fossati
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1997 | |
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Carlos Kiese
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1998 | |
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Gerardo Martino
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2004 | |
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Gustavo Costas
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2005-2006 | |
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Osvaldo Ardiles
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2008 | |
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Pedro Troglio
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2008-2010 | |
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Javier Torrente
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2011 | |
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Mario Grana
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2011–2012 | |
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Jorge Fossati
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May 2012 - February 2013 | |
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Francisco Arce
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2013-2014 | |
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Leonardo Astrada
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2014-2015 | |
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Roberto Ismael Torres
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2015 | |
 César Farías
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2016 | |
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Gustavo Morinigo
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2016 | |
 Leonel Álvarez
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2017-2018 | |
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Luis Zubeldía
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2018– |
basketball
Cerro Porteño also had a basketball team that played in the Liga de Baloncesto Metropolitana and won two championships.
successes
- Liga de Baloncesto Metropolitana: 1962, 1963
Web links
- Official website of Cerro Porteño (Spanish)