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Libertad
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Basic data
Surname Club Libertad
Seat Asunción
founding July 30, 1905
president Horacio Cartes
Website clublibertad.com.py
First soccer team
Head coach Eduardo Villalba
Venue Estadio Dr. Nicolás Leoz
Places 10,000
league Primera División
2019 Apertura: 3rd place
Clausura: 2nd place
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The Club Libertad is a sports club from Asuncion , capital of Paraguay . The club, founded on July 30, 1905, was one of the founding members of the Paraguayan Football Association in 1906 . Since winning the first title in 1910, the club has won numerous other championships and is now considered the third force behind the top clubs Olimpia and Cerro Porteño .

introduction

In the course of the Paraguayan Revolution of 1904 , in which the liberals gained the upper hand over the Colorado Party , some of the main actors came to Asunción on the boat Sajonia ("Saxons") from Buenos Aires .

At the beginning of June 1905, a company of young people took a trip on the boat, now renamed Libertad ("Freedom"), and developed the idea of ​​founding a football club. The later first president of the association, Juan Manuel Sosa Escalada, supported Libertad as a name. As an alternative, Paraguay was up for grabs. The official establishment finally took place on July 30th of that year.

About the nickname of the association - el Gumarelo , sometimes Guma for short ; Fans are gumarelos - there are two different theories. One says that it goes back to a figure developed by a journalist around 1919/20, Pascuale Gummarello , who commented on football in a mixed Italian-Spanish language. The other says he goes on a contraction of the names of Giummaresi and Nuzzarello , two - imaginary? - Fans, back. In both cases, he testifies to strong Italian influences in an earlier era of the club. These explanations come from an article in the weekly El Golero , which was published on the 50th anniversary of Libertad.

Soccer

Libertad - championship team 1910.
Libertad - championship team 1945.

Soon after it was founded, the football team's first competitive games took place. In their first game in August 1905, the team scored 1-1 against the club Olimpia, which had been established in 1903 . A few days later there was a 1-0 win against the Club Nacional, founded in 1904, for the first time.

In June 1906 Libertad was one of the co-founders of the Liga Paraguaya de Football Association from which today's national football association Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol emerged . The league hosted Paraguay's first football championship that same year .

After two third places and the runner-up in 1909, Libertad prevailed 2-1 in a necessary play-off against Atlántida Sport Club in 1910 and won his first championship title. In the following year, however, Libertad was only one point knocked-off bottom of the table and rose for the first time in the second division introduced in the previous year. Libertad joined the alternative league that appeared in 1911, the Liga Centenario , which from 1916 operated as Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol (not to be confused with the later name of the national association ), whose championship the club won in 1913, 1914 and 1916. In the last year Libertad defeated Atlántida again in a playoff.

Libertad returned in 1917 to the Liga Paraguaya de Fútbol, ​​which held the División Transitoria for other clubs that were willing to return . Libertad was here first and from 1918 participated again in the first-class game operation of the LPF. In 1920 Libertad won its second championship here and also a tournament called Copa Italia , in which all top clubs took part.

In 1930 Libertad won its third title. The team's figurehead was Delfín Benítez Cáceres , who took part in the first football World Cup with the national team in the same year . He emerged from the club's youth and played from 1932 to 1941 in Argentina, where he played for CA Boca Juniors and the Racing Club and scored a total of 193 goals. He competed for both the Paraguayan and the Argentine national team. In 1931 Libertad got involved, alongside other top clubs such as Club Nacional and Club Cerro Porteño , albeit unsuccessfully, again for the introduction of a rebel league, which should again bear the name Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol . In the last season before the Chaco War , which should ensure the suspension of gaming operations from 1932 to 1934, Libertad was runner-up.

In the following years Libertad remained untitled, but played in the top half of the table. From the seasons 1938 and 1939, Amado Salinas , who scored 17 goals, and Teófilo Espínola , who scored 28 goals, are the first league shooter kings from the club's ranks. (Note: From the years before the introduction of professionalism in 1935, no Paraguayan top scorers are recorded.) It was not until 1943 - with only one loss of the season - and in 1945 Libertad became champions again. Porfirio Rolón was Paraguay's top scorer twice at that time.

In the second half of the 1940s, Libertad sank into mediocrity and often only reached places in the lower half of the table. The runner-up in 1950 heralded better times. Antonio Ramón Gómez replaced Porfirio Rolón, who had migrated to Colombia, and was the top scorer in 1951 and 1952. This was in 1953, together with the Libertad players Rubén Fernández , Manuel Gavilán, and Ireneo Hermosilla players in the team, in Lima in the playoff of South America Cup 1953 Brazil 3: defeated 2 and thus the first major international success of the national team of Paraguay won .

The big success finally came in 1955, when the team, which is known as Libertad's “Team of the Century”, won the title in 1955 after a runner-up in the previous year. In 1956, when the championship was decided by final games, Libertad lost to Olimpia after a 1-0 in the first leg in the second game with 1: 5. The big player at the club in those years was Máximo "Chimo" Rolón , brother of Porfirio, who was not only top scorer three times in a row, but was also one of the most accurate strikers in the 1955 South American Championship .

Years in the middle followed again and in 1964 Libertad only barely survived in the first division. After a 1: 3 in the first relegation game against the second division first Sportivo Luqueño , a 1: 0 in the second leg and another 1: 0 success in the decisive game that became necessary. It was not until 1976 that Libertad won a league title again after a 21-year hiatus, although in the meantime some players drew attention to themselves. Sebastián Fleitas , who already played in the fighting team at the age of 17 and became Paraguay's top scorer in 1967, even won a contract in Spain, where he became champions with Real Madrid in 1972 .

After the runner-up in 1977 Libertad did not succeed. Two unsuccessful decades followed, in which only the runners-up in 1990 and 1992 stood out. However, in 1979 , when Paraguay won the Copa America for the second time, six Libertad players were involved in the success. Of these, Juan Carlos Espínola and the brothers Milcíades and Eugenio Morel were in the lineups for the finals against Chile . Eugenio Morel was together with the Chilean Jorge Peredo with four goals top scorer of the tournament.

In 1998 Libertad was relegated to the second division. After the recovery in 2000, the most successful phase in the club's history followed. One of the outstanding players of that decade was Juan Samudio , who emerged from the youth of Libertad and is the historic top scorer in the Paraguayan league with 116 goals, 111 of them for Libertad.

Internationally, the greatest success so far was the advance into the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores 2006 , where Libertad was eliminated against the eventual winner SC Internacional from Brazil after results of 0-0 and 0-2.

Stadion

Estadio Dr. Nicolás Leoz

Libertad plays its home games at the Estadio Dr. Nicolás Leoz , also called La Huerta (German: The Orchard), in the Tuyuca district in the northeast of the capital.

It was opened in 2005 and holds 10,000 spectators, including 5,000 seats. The stadium was named after the former club president and long-time president of the South American football association Conmebol , Nicolás Leoz .

Major players

League shooting kings

successes

Trainer

basketball

The Libertad basketball team is one of the top clubs in the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol and is the most successful club in the country after Olimpia .

successes

  • Liga de Baloncesto Metropolitana: 1958, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1986, 1987, 1990, 2005
  • Top 5 Profesional: 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Liga Nacional de Clubes: 2009
  • Súper Copa de Campeones: 2008, 2009

credentials

  1. ↑ Rubén Israel - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Pedro Sarabia - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 4, 2016
  3. ^ Eduardo Villalba - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 4, 2016