Club General Díaz
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| Surname | Club General Díaz | ||
| Seat | Luque , Paraguay | ||
| founding | June 5, 1904 | ||
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| Venue | General Adrian Jara | ||
| Places | 3,500 | ||
| league | Segunda División | ||
| 2009 | 8th | ||
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The Club General Díaz is a Paraguayan football club from the city of Luque . The city with around 220,000 inhabitants is located on the outskirts of the capital Asunción and is also the seat of the South American football association CONMEBOL .
Along with Club Olimpia , Club Guaraní , Club Libertad and Club Nacional, it is one of the clubs that initiated the Liga Paraguaya de Football Association in 1906 , from which today's national football association, the Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol, developed. The club named in honor of General José Eduvigis Díaz, a hero of the Triple Alliance War from 1864 to 1870, only took part in the first championship of Paraguay in 1906, where he finished fourth.
In 2009 the club, which is also called Olimpia 'í by his friends , which means "little Olimpia" (after the capital club Club Olimpia ) in the language of the indigenous people of the Guaraní , became the eighth of the second division of Paraguay, the Segunda División .
Club General Díaz plays its home games in the Estadio General Adrián Jara , which opened in 1974 and has a capacity of 3,500