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2021 Supercopa Paraguay
The 2021 Supercopa Paraguay was the first edition of the Supercopa Paraguay, Paraguay's association football, football super cup. It was held on 12 December 2021 between the 2021 Paraguayan Primera División season, 2021 Primera División best-ranked champions in the aggregate table Cerro Porteño and the 2021 Copa Paraguay champions Club Olimpia, Olimpia, as the match that closed the 2021 season of Football in Paraguay, Paraguayan football. Olimpia were the winners, defeating Cerro Porteño by a 3–1 score. Teams The Supercopa Paraguay is contested by two teams: the champions of the Copa Paraguay and the Paraguayan Primera División, Primera División (Apertura or Clausura) champions with the best record in the aggregate table of the season. Details References External links Supercopa Paraguay on the Paraguayan Football Association's website {{Club Olimpia matches Club Olimpia matches, Supercopa Paraguay 2021 2021 in Paraguayan football, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Olimpia
Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. It promotes the practice of various sports, with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, football being the most successful. Founded in 1902, the club's name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football.Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish it from other Latin American football clubs of the same name. Olimpia has won a record 47 Primera División titles to date, including a unique record run of winning the league six consecutive times. The only Paraguayan club to win a CONMEBOL title, Olimpia has won three Copa Libertadores — and has been runner-up four times — as well as two Recopa Sudamericanas, one Intercontinental Cup, one Copa Interamericana, and one Supercopa Sudamericana, a competition it won autom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón Sosa
Ramón Sosa Acosta (born 31 August 1999) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Paraguay national team. Sosa started his senior career at River Plate Asunción, before moving to fellow Paraguayan club, Olimpia. He played for Argentine sides, such as Gimnasia La Plata and Talleres de Cordoba before moving to Europe, as he signed for the Premier League side, Nottingham Forest in August 2024. At international level, he made his debut for Paraguay at November 2022. He represented the nation at 2024 Copa América. Early life Ramon Sosa was born in the small Paraguayan town of Maracaná. Since he was a child, he has always played football and began his career at the Tembetary club. After a brief stint training with Lanús, he moved to the capital city Asuncion when he joined River Plate Asunción. Club career River Plate Sosa joined the youth setups of Division Profesional club Club River Plate (Asunci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Néstor Camacho
Néstor Abrahan Camacho Ledesma (born 15 October 1987) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays for Tacuary. Mainly an attacking midfielder or winger, he can also appear as a central midfielder. Club career Born in Villa Florida, Misiones, Camacho was a Libertad youth graduate. He made his first team debut during the 2007 season, appearing in five matches. In 2009 Camacho was loaned to fellow Primera División side Rubio Ñú, for one year. He scored his first senior goal on 22 November, netting the first in a 2–0 home win against 2 de Mayo. Camacho scored 11 goals for Rubio Ñú during the 2010 campaign, with his side achieving an impressive fifth position. On 16 February 2011 he moved abroad, signing for Argentine Primera División side Newell's Old Boys. After being sparingly used, Camacho switched teams and countries again, joining Colombia's Deportivo Cali on 12 August 2013. The following year, he returned to his first club Libertad. On 31 July 2015 Cama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mateo Gamarra
Mateo Gamarra González (born 20 October 2000) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a Centre Back or Left Back for Brazilian club Cruzeiro, on loan from Athletico, and the Paraguay national team. Club career Born in Concepción, he joined Independiente F.B.C. at the age of 15. Playing as a central defender Gamarra had a breakthrough in 2022 featuring for Club Olimpia regularly in the league, Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana. He won his first silverware with Olimpia when the club clinched the 2022 Clausura tournament. On 19 December 2023, Gamarra moved abroad for the first time in his career, after signing a four-year contract with Campeonato Brasileiro Série A side Athletico Paranaense. On 14 February 2025, Gamarra was loaned to Cruzeiro until the end of the year. International career On 1 September 2022, Gamarra made his debut for the Paraguay against Mexico. Personal life One of 14 children born to Vidalia González, his father died when Gamar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastón Olveira
Gastón Hernán Olveira Echeverría (born 21 April 1993) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Paraguayan Primera División club Club Olimpia. Club career Olveira began his career in 2013 with River Plate Montevideo. He made his league debut for the club on 19 April 2014 in a 2–1 away defeat to Sud América. On 17 January 2021, Club Olimpia announced the signing of Olveira on a season long loan deal. At the end of the year, River Plate bought Olveira from River Plate and signed him on a permanently 4-year deal. International career Olveira was part of Uruguay squad which won gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. On 11 October 2019, he received his first call-up to the Uruguay national team as a replacement for Fernando Muslera. On 21 October 2022, he was named in Uruguay's 55-man preliminary squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Career statistics Club Honours Uruguay U22 * Pan American Games: 2015 Individual * Uruguayan Primera Divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derlis González
Derlis Alberto González Galeano (born 20 March 1994) is a Paraguayan professional association football, footballer who plays for Club Olimpia, Olimpia and the Paraguay national football team, Paraguay national team. Mainly a forward (association football), forward, he can also play as a winger (association football), winger. González began his career with Club Rubio Ñu, Rubio Ñu in 2009, and in 2012 was signed by Portugal's S.L. Benfica, Benfica, spending his time out on loan in Paraguay with Club Guaraní, Guaraní and Olimpia Asunción. In 2014, he joined FC Basel, Basel in the Swiss Super League. In December 2015, González was awarded as the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year. Club career Rubio Ñu Born in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay, Mariano Roque Alonso. González joined Club Rubio Ñu, Rubio Ñu's youth setup in 2009, from Club Cerro Corá, Cerro Corá. He made his first-team – and Paraguayan Primera División, Primera División – debut on 9 December of that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Cardozo (footballer, Born 2001)
Fernando David Cardozo Paniagua (born 8 February 2001) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as right midfielder for Newell's Old Boys. Career Born in Asunción, Cardozo began his career at Olimpia. He made his professional debut on 23 April 2017 in a 2–1 home win over Sportivo Luqueño in the Paraguayan Primera División, but was substituted for Richard Ortiz after 28 minutes. He scored three goals from 30 games in the 2018 season, starting on 14 April in a 4–2 win over Independiente F.B.C. again at the Estadio Manuel Ferreira. On 30 June 2019, Cardozo moved to Portuguese Primeira Liga club Boavista on a one-year loan with a buying option, arriving days after compatriot Walter Clar. He did not debut until the next 6 June, as a 65th-minute substitute for Heriberto Tavares in a 1–0 home loss to Moreirense Moreirense Futebol Clube is a Portuguese professional football club based in Moreira de Cónegos, Guimarães Municipality, Minho. Founded on 1 Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Quintana
Hugo Lorenzo Quintana Escobar (born 10 November 2001) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Uruguayan Primera División club Liverpool Montevideo on loan from Olimpia. Club career Born in Asunción, Quintana joined Olimpia's youth setup at the age of 14. He made his first team – and Primera División – debut on 29 April 2018, starting in a 3–0 home win over Sportivo Luqueño. Quintana scored his first professional goal on 15 October 2018, netting his team's second in a 5–0 away routing of Deportivo Santaní. At the end of the season, he was elected as the Breakthrough Player. In January 2020, Quintana moved on loan to 12 de Octubre, but only played one match before leaving to Palmeiras, where he was assigned to the under-20 team. He left the club in February 2021, after being rarely used. Upon returning, Quintana was assigned back to Olimpia's first team, but suffered a knee In humans and other primates, the knee joins the thig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Torres
Iván Arturo Torres Riveros (born 27 February 1991) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Sportivo Luqueño. International He made his Paraguay national football team debut on 5 June 2019, in a friendly against Honduras, as a starter. Personal life Torres married Cristina "Vita" Aranda, with whom he had three children. Aranda was shot while attending the Ja'umina Fest music festival at the Jose Asuncion Flores Amphitheatre in San Bernardino on 30 January 2022 and she later died from her injuries. Aranda was one of two people killed as a result of the shooting, and four others were injured. |
Saúl Salcedo
Saúl Savín Salcedo Zárate (born 29 August 1997) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Newell's Old Boys, which he captains, and the Paraguay national team. International career He was summoned for Paraguay national under-20 football team to play 2015 South American Youth Football Championship. Salcedo was named in Paraguay's provisional squad for Copa América Centenario but was cut from the final squad. On 2 March 2019, Salcedo received a call-up to the Paraguay national team from Eduardo Berizzo ahead of that month's friendlies with Peru and Mexico. On 10 September 2019, Salcedo made his senior international debut in a 4–2 friendly win away to Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter .... References External links * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
