Deportivo Wanka
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| Surname | Club Deportivo Wanka | ||
| Seat | Huancayo | ||
| founding | 1996 | ||
| Colours | green white | ||
| president | Alfonso Miranda | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Estadio Huancayo | ||
| Places | 20,000 | ||
| league | Copa Perú | ||
| 2012/13 | ? | ||
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Deportivo Wanka is a Peruvian football club from the city of Huancayo in the Peruvian Andes . The association was founded in 1996 and is named after the indigenous people of the Wankas who formerly inhabited the area. Deportivo Wanka has merged with Deportivo Pesquero from Chimbote , but its hometown is Huancayo. They play their home games at Sie Estadio Huancayo . The team last played in the country's first division in 2004 . After the club protested against his relegation in the same year, he was banned from participating in all national and international club competitions.
history
Deportivo Wanka is a merger of two associations, Club Ovacion Miraflores was founded in Chimbote in 1969, later the association was renamed to Ovacion SIPESA. They played in the regional premier league and were sponsored by the SIPESA fisheries union. In 1992 they were promoted to the first Peruvian league, in 1993 they took part in the Copa CONMEBOL. In 1996, the sponsor withdrew from Ovacion and the club was called Deportivo Pesquero. In 2000, Deportivo Pesquero and Deportivo Wanka merged, the latter name becoming the new club name.
In 2004 the club got into controversy when they moved to Cerro de Pasco , the highest city in the world and the highest venue for a professional football club at 4,380 m above sea level, an altitude at which one could get sick from altitude . Opponents criticized this move on the grounds that the club wanted to avoid relegation because many visiting teams could get a problem with the lack of oxygen there with the difficult weather conditions including hail and temperatures close to freezing, but above all due to the high altitude. Even with this step, Deportivo Wanka could not prevent relegation.