Tacuary

Tacuary

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Full name	Tacuary Football Club
Nickname(s)	Tacua, Pumas
Founded	December 10, 1923 (1923-12-10)
Ground	Toribio Vargas Asunción, Paraguay
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Jorge Amancio Cáceres
Manager	Robert Pereira
League	Tercera División
2017	10th
Home colours Away colours

Tacuary Football Club is a Paraguayan football team, based in the neighborhood of Jara, Asunción. The club was founded in 1923. Despite being a small team that got promoted to the first division fairly recently (in 2002), Tacuary qualified to the prestigious Copa Libertadores tournament twice (in 2005 and 2007) and the Copa Sudamericana twice (in 2007 and 2012). In 2013 it will return to the Paraguayan Segunda División. In the 2014 season the club did not complete a good season and finished in the bottom of the table.

In the 2015 season, following the traumatic departure of Francisco Ocampo, the club found it difficult to adapt to their new situation and faced with the inability to play at home in the Roberto Bettega stadium, they had to act locally on other stages for much of the championship, until finally He could activate the Toribio Vargas stadium, but this has already happened in recent times. All this added up so that the club did not have a good campaign and on the 28th date, with two days left until the end of the championship, its descent into the First Division B (third division) was consummated.

In the 2016 season of the First Division B (third division), the club finished in 12th place out of 14 participants.

Over the years Tacuary's youth academy has produced players such as Ramón Cardozo, Hernán Pérez, Luis Páez, Ronald Huth and Brian Montenegro.

Stadium

The club has traditionally played at the 3,000 capacity Toribio Vargas which is based in Jara neighbourhood. Between 2002 and 2014 however, the club played at the 7,000 capacity Roberto Bettega in the Zeballos Cué neighbourhood. The club had to sell the stadium to a port company to pay off debts and it was subsequently demolished. The club is now back playing in its traditional home.

Honours

• Paraguayan Second Division: 1

2002

• Paraguayan Third Division: 4

1953, 1961, 1983, 1999

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 2 appearances

2005: Preliminary Round

2007: Preliminary Round

• Copa Sudamericana: 2 appearances

2007: First Round

2012: First Round

Current squad

As of June 16, 2010. 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	PAR	Adolfo Ávila
2	DF	PAR	Gustavo Giménez
3	DF	PAR	Diego Viera
4	DF	PAR	Juan Núñez
5	DF	PAR	Ronald Huth
6	MF	PAR	Edgar Fernández
7	MF	PAR	Marcos Acosta
8	DF	PAR	Gustavo Noguera
9	FW	PAR	Ramón Cardozo
10	MF	PAR	Raúl Román
11	DF	PAR	Pablo Espinoza
12	GK	PAR	Carlos Servín
13	MF	PAR	Óscar Gómez

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
14	DF	PAR	Gregor Aguayo
15	MF	PAR	Gerardo Benítez
16	FW	PAR	Jorge Alvarenga
17	FW	PAR	Jorge Ortega
18	DF	PAR	Marcos Acosta Vera
19	MF	PAR	Nicolás Martínez
20	MF	PAR	Reinaldo Ocampo
21	FW	PAR	Ever Ortiz
22	GK	PAR	Arnaldo Benítez
23	MF	PAR	Marcos Giménez
24	DF	PAR	Ronald Sánchez
25	FW	ARG	Fabián Caballero

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 squad at any time.
• Played in the first division of any other football association (outside of Paraguay).
• Played in a continental and/or intercontinental competition.

1990's

• Ronald Huth (1999–2007, 2009–2011, 2012)

2000's'

• Brian Montenegro (2004–2011, 2012)
• Hernán Pérez (2005–2008)
• Ramón Cardozo (2006–2012)
• Luis Fernando Páez (–2006, 2009–)
• Fabian Caballero (2006, 2012)
• José Ariel Núñez (2008–2009)

Non-CONMEBOL players

• Enrique Maximiliano Meza (2004–2005)
• Riki Kitawaki (2005–2012)
• Lelo Sejean (2019–)

Gallery

• 
  Mexican player Enrique Maximiliano Meza joined Tacuary in 2004 and remained until 2005
• Lelo Sejean of Australia achieved ascension to the División Intermedia with the club in 2019[6]
  Lelo Sejean of Australia achieved ascension to the División Intermedia with the club in 2019
• 
  Brian Montenegro started his career at the club and went on to feature for West Ham United and Leeds United
• 
  Cristian Riveros was at the club from 2000 to 2005
• 
  Hernan Perez was a member of the Tacuary youth academy before debuting in Primera División

Managers

• Oscar Paulin
• Carlos Kiese (Jan 1, 2010–Dec 31, 2010)
• Carlos Manta (Jan 1, 2011–July 1, 2011)
• Francisco Ocampo (footballer) (Jan 1, 2011–April 10, 2012)
• Luis Cubilla (April 10, 2012 – May 16, 2012)
• Gonzalo Ocampo (May 18, 2012–)

External links

• Tacuary Official Site