Defensor Lima

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Basic data
Surname Club Atlético Defensor Lima
Seat Breña , Peru
founding 1931
president PeruPeru Roberto Flores
First soccer team
Venue Estadio Nacional de Peru
Places 45,000
league Copa Perú
2018 Etapa Distrital
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Club Atlético Defensor Lima is a Peruvian football club from Breña near the capital Lima . The club was founded in 1931 and plays its home games at the Estadio Nacional , which can seat 45,000 spectators. Defensor Lima has been the soccer champion of Peru once and is currently playing in the Copa Perú.

history

Defensor Lima was founded on July 31, 1931 in the Breña district near the Peruvian capital Lima , and because of its proximity to the capital, it also bears its name. Without exception, the club spent the first few years of its existence in the expanses of lower-class Peruvian football. So it took about thirty years until Defensor Lima could be found in the top division of the country. In the 1960 season, the team managed to win the Segunda División and, associated with it, promotion to the Primera División , in which they could also establish themselves.

In 1973 Defensor Lima had a big surprise. At a time when Peruvian football was heavily dominated by record champions Universitario de Deportes , which last year became the first Peruvian team to make it into the final of the Copa Libertadores , Defensor Lima duped the top teams and became the first and only one to this day Time the championship of the Andean country. After the regular season only in fourth place, the team of Uruguayan coach Roque Máspoli improved in the final round and finished in first place with one point ahead of Sporting Cristal . Thanks to this success, Defensor Lima was also eligible for the 1974 Copa Libertadores , where they again caused a certain surprise in the group stage. In group four together with Sporting Cristal and the two Ecuadorian representatives CD El Nacional and Universidad Católica they took first place in the table and thus reached the next round. The second group stage was less edifying, however, you could land neither a win nor a draw, but rather lost each of the four games and were eliminated as bottom of the table behind FC São Paulo from Brazil and CD Los Millonarios from Colombia . To date, this appearance in the Copa Libertadores is the only one for the club.

After the championship of 1973, Defensor Lima's performance went downhill. A few years later you had to relegate, in 1980 the return to the highest stage of Peruvian football was achieved. After another relegation and resurgence in 1988, Defensor Lima lived its last season in the Primera División in 1994, when they had to relegate bottom of the table. After that, the club never made it back to the top division, but can now only be found in the lowlands of the Copa Perú, in which the participants in the second highest division are determined year after year.

Known players

  • PeruPeru Gerónimo Barbadillo , Peruvian World Cup participant from 1982, 1974 to 1977 at Defensor Lima, later in Avellino and Udinese, among others
  • PeruPeru Guillermo La Rosa , from the youth department of Defensor Lima, continues to be part of the championship team from 1975 and a two-time World Cup participant
  • PeruPeru Juan Valdivieso , Peruvian World Cup participant from 1930, briefly with Defensor Lima, the rest of his career with Alianza Lima
  • PeruPeru Luis Rubiños , goalkeeper of the Peruvian World Cup team from 1970, briefly loaned to Defensor Lima by Sporting Cristal in 1963
  • PeruPeru Nicolás Fuentes , participant in the 1970 World Cup, with the club from 1973 to 1974, otherwise a long time with Universitario de Deportes
  • PeruPeru Roberto Challe , 1970 World Cup participant and multiple champion with Universitario de Deportes, 1973 part of the Defensor Lima championship team
  • PeruPeru Rubén Correa , who worked for Universitario de Deportes for a long time and participated in the 1970 World Cup, signed a contract with Defensor Lima when he finished his career
  • UruguayUruguay Waldemar Victorino , former Uruguayan international and 1980 World Cup winner, ended his career at Defensor Lima

Well-known trainers

  • PeruPeru Marcos Calderón , Peru coach at the 1978 World Cup, 1987 victim of the plane crash in which the entire Alianza Lima team died, briefly with Defensor in 1963
  • PeruPeru Roberto Challe Olarte , a player in the 1970 World Cup, later Defensor Lima's promotion coach in 1988, and also a two-time champion with Universitario de Deportes
  • UruguayUruguay Roque Máspoli , legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper and 1950 world champion, was part of the Defensor Lima championship coach in 1973

successes

  • Peruvian second division championship : 2 × (1960, 1988)
1974 : second group stage

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