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Sportivo Luqueño
Full name	Club Sportivo Luqueño
Nickname(s)	Kure-Luque (Luque Pig) ; El Chanchón (The Pig); Auriazul (Blue-Yellow)
Founded	May 1, 1921; 103 years ago
Ground	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres; Luque, Paraguay
Capacity	27,000
Chairman	Hugo Daniel Rodríguez
Manager	Juan Pablo Pumpido
League	Primera División
2024	Primera División, 6th of 12
	Current season

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).^{[citation needed]}

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

National

Primera División
- Winners (2): 1951, 1953

Plaqueta Millington Drake
- Winners (1): 1953

División Intermedia
- Winners (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 29 September 2024.^[1]^[2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	URU	Gonzalo Falcón
2	DF	PAR	Rodi Ferreira
3	DF	PAR	Angel Brizuela
4	DF	PAR	José Leguizamón
5	DF	PAR	Alexis Villalba
6	DF	PAR	Mathias Suarez
7	FW	PAR	Marcelo Ferreira
8	MF	PAR	Jorge Mendoza
9	FW	PAR	Alex Álvarez
10	FW	ARG	Nicolás Maná
11	FW	PAR	Elvio Vera (on loan from Club Libertad)
12	GK	PAR	Alfredo Aguilar
13	MF	PAR	Iván Torres
14	MF	PAR	Fernando Benitez
15	MF	PAR	Sebastián Maldonado
16	MF	ARG	Darío Ríos
17	FW	PAR	Kevin Pereira
18	MF	PAR	Rodrigo Rojas
19	FW	PAR	Joaquin Filippini


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	DF	PAR	Sergio Otálvaro
21	MF	PAR	Sebastián Ruíz Díaz
22	FW	ARG	Guillermo Hauche
23	DF	PAR	Pablo Aguilar
24	DF	ARG	Alan Ledesma
25	DF	PAR	Roger Rojas
26	MF	PAR	Diego Fernández
27	FW	PAR	Jorge Benítez
28	FW	PAR	Diego Acosta
29	FW	PAR	Aldo Parra
30	FW	PAR	Derlis Ortiz
32	MF	PAR	Matheus Riveros
33	DF	PAR	Rodrigo Alborno
34	DF	PAR	Diego Vera
37	MF	ARG	Lautaro Comas

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)^[3]^[4]
Nobuhiro Takeda (2000)
Seidou Aboubacar (2003)^[5]
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)^[6]
John Alston Bodden (2014)^[7]
Brad Norman (2020)^[8]
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)

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