Sportivo Luqueño

Sportivo Luqueño

Full name	Club Sportivo Luqueño
Nickname(s)	Kure-Luque (Luque Pig) El Chanchón (The Pig) Auriazul (Blue-Yellow)
Founded	May 1, 1921 (1921-05-01)
Ground	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres Luque, Paraguay
Capacity	27,000
Chairman	Hugo Daniel Rodríguez
Manager	Gustavo Florentin
League	Primera División
2022	División Intermedia, 2nd of 16 (Promoted)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Sportivo Luqueño is a Paraguayan football club, based in the city of Luque on the outskirts of the capital Asunción. It currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, the country's top tier of football, where it has won thrice, in 1951, 1953 and 2007-A.

History

The club was founded in 1921 when three teams from the city of Luque (Marte Atlético, General Aquino and Vencedor) decided to merge and form one single club: Sportivo Luqueño. Only three years after its foundation, the team was already playing in the first division and fighting for the title. So far, Sportivo Luqueño has won three first division titles in the Paraguayan league, in 1951, 1953 and 2007.

For the 1999 Copa América, hosted by Paraguay, the club built a brand new stadium which seats 25,000, making it the third largest in Paraguay (after the Defensores del Chaco in Asunción and the Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi in Ciudad del Este).

The fans of the club are very passionate and that can be seen when visiting the city of Luque, where basically everything is decorated by the club's colors (blue and yellow).

Club anthem

The official anthem of Club Sportivo Luqueño was created in the first decades of the club, where in a group of fanatical musicians and artists Luqueños, decided to make a club on the eve of the club's anniversary. On that occasion several music dedicated to the institution were revealed, in which I highlight the song presented by Luqueño Musician Juan Bautista Almirón. Thus causing the euphoria of all those present, who accompanied with palms and choirs.

Uniform and sponsors

From the beginning the design was always vertical blue and yellow stripes, and sometimes used the shirt or shirt as an alternative half blue and the other yellow in the 50s. But the club's traditional design was always used, and It was constituted by blue and yellow vertical stripes, which with time would be the representative colors, which identifies the city of Luque.

On the chest a shield with the initial C.S.L. and three golden stars included in the late 90s, represent the three clubs that merged for the creation of the club "Athletic Mars", "The Winner" and "Gral. Aquino", with blue shorts and blue or yellow socks .

Nickname

The team is identified with the nickname of "Kuré Luque", because the city of Luque is famous for pigs (Kuré, which in the Guaraní means pig), and even the club owns a pig as a team mascot in the facilities. "KURÉ LUQUE" (Chancho Luqueño) due to an old anecdotic fact: the pigs were transported to Asunción in certain train carriages, which in football days were also used by fans and Sportivo Luqueño players. For this reason the fans of the opposite team said "There come the Kure Luque"

Honours

• Paraguayan First Division: 2

1951, 1953, 2007-A

• Paraguayan Second Division: 4

1924, 1956, 1964, 1968

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 3 appearances

First Round (3): 1976, 1984, 2008

• Copa CONMEBOL: 2 appearances

Best: Quarter-Finals (1) in 1993

First Round (1) in 1997

• Copa Sudamericana (4): 2015, 2016 and 2017 2018

Best: Semifinals: 2015

Current squad

As of 7 April, 2023. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	URU	Gonzalo Falcón
2	DF	PAR	Rodi Ferreira (on loan from Guaraní)
3	DF	PAR	Sebastián Olmedo
4	DF	PAR	Marcelo Jiménez
5	MF	URU	Rodrigo Viega
6	DF	PAR	Joel Jiménez
7	FW	PAR	Derlis Alegre
8	MF	PAR	Jorge Mendoza
9	FW	ARG	Paul Charpentier (on loan from Nueva Chicago)
10	MF	PAR	Osvaldo Martínez
11	FW	PAR	Sergio Fretes
12	GK	PAR	Arturo Fleitas
13	GK	PAR	Francisco Mongelos
14	MF	PAR	Fernando Benitez
16	DF	PAR	Eduardo Duarte
17	FW	ARG	Matías Medina

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	MF	PAR	Rodrigo Rojas
19	FW	PAR	Marcelo Pérez
20	DF	PAR	Kevin Núñez
21	MF	PAR	Sebastián Ruíz Díaz
22	DF	PAR	Juan Núñez
23	DF	PAR	Pablo Aguilar
24	DF	ARG	Alan Ledesma
25	MF	PAR	Gustavo Marecos
26	MF	PAR	Diego Fernández
27	MF	PAR	Julio Báez
29	FW	PAR	Julio Villalba
30	FW	ARG	Matías Castro
31	MF	PAR	Sebastián Maldonado
32	MF	PAR	Jesús Alvarenga
34	DF	PAR	Diego Vera
35	GK	PAR	Francisco Peralta

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either:

• Played at least 125 games for the club.
• Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club.
• Been part of a national team at any time.
• Played in the first division of any other football association (outside of Paraguay).
• Played in a continental and/or intercontinental competition.

• 1920s
• Aurelio González (1920s)
• 1940s
• Juan Bautista Villalba (1941–1947)
• Dionisio Arce (1948–1949)
• 1950s
• José Parodi (1950–1955, 1957–1958)
• José Aveiro (1958)
• 1960s
• Modesto Sandoval (1960–1964)
• 1970s
• Juan Bautista Torales (1976–1981, 1993–1995)
• Julio César Romero (Romerito) (1977–1979, 1990–1991, 1993–1994, 1996)
• Raúl Vicente Amarilla (1978–1979)
• 1980s
• José Luis Chilavert (1982–1984)
• 1990s
• Francisco Ferreira (1991–93, 2001, 2002)
• Aristides Masi (1997, 1998–1999, 2001, 2002, 2005)
• Aldo Adorno (1998–2000)
• 2000s
• Luis Núñez (2000–2006, 2007–2008, 2010)
• Vidal Sanabria (2000)
• Albeiro Usuriaga (2002)
• Derlis Gómez (2002, 2004–2006)
• Miguel Ángel Cuéllar (2004–2005)
• Richart Báez (2005)
• Daniel Sanabria (2005)
• Alcidio Fleitas (2005)
• Ricardo Tavarelli (2005)
• Julio César Yegros (2005)
• Miguel Ángel Benítez (2006)
• Juan Fernández Di Alessio (2007)
• Juan Cardozo (2007)
• 2010s
• Carlos Humberto Paredes (2010)
• Javier Cohene (2010)
• Juan Pablo Raponi (2011)
• Nelson Cuevas (2012)
• Francisco Aldo Barreto Miranda (2014)
• 2020s
• Isidro Pitta (2020)
• Non-CONMEBOL players
• Bertrand Tchami (1998–1999)
• Nobuhiro Takeda (2000)
• Seidou Aboubacar (2003)
• Guy Stéphane Essame (2004–2005)
• Tobie Mimboe (2004)
• Celestine Romed Ngah Kebe (2007–2008)
• Nouga Georges (2009–2010)
• Kenneth Nkweta Nju
• Hideaki Ozawa (2010)
• Sho Shimoji (2011)
• Yuki Tamura (2011)
• Bryan Lopez (2007–2013)
• John Alston Bodden (2014)
• Brad Norman (2020)
• Takayuki Morimoto (2021)

Managers

• Feliciano Caceres 1921
• Vessillo Bartoli (1950–1953)
• Aurelio Gonzalez (1967-1969)
• Carlos Arce (1975–1977)(1982)
• Silvio Parodi ( 1983)
• Raul Vicente Amarilla (1996)
• Julio Carlos Gómez
• Ever Hugo Almeida (2006)
• Carlos Kiese (2007)
• Miguel Ángel Zahzú (2007–2009)
• Carlos Jara Saguier (Sept 28, 2010 – Dec 11, 2010)
• Guillermo Sanguinetti (Dec 9, 2010 – Feb 22, 2011)
• Rolando Chilavert (July 1, 2011 – Oct 17, 2011)
• Daniel Lanata (Dec 2011)
• Carlos Kiese (April 11, 2012 – July 3, 2012)
• Pablo Caballero (July 9, 2012 – March 4, 2013)
• José Cardozo (March 4, 2013 – May 8, 2013)
• Alicio Solalinde (April 30, 2013 – March 8, 2014)
• Eduardo Rivera (March 9, 2014– )
• Javier Sanguinetti (July, 2017– 2018)
• Pedro Sarabia (Oct,2018)
• Celso Ayala (2019–2020)
• Luis Fernando Escobar (2020–2021)
• Badayco Maciel (2021)
• Miguel Ángel Zahzú (2021–2022)

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055128/http://www.clubsportivoluqueno.com.py/