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Deportivo Pereira
Deportivo Pereira is a professional Colombian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... team based in Pereira, Colombia, Pereira, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas, Hernán Ramírez Villegas stadium. History Early years While there are several amateur teams from the Risaralda Department in the Third Division (Categoría Primera C, Primera C), Pereira is the department's only professional team. Deportivo Pereira was founded on 12 February 1944 by Pedro Patiño 'Peruco', Luis Carlos Marulanda, Rogelio Díaz 'Control', Faustino Chiquito y Gabriel Cardona Rojas, aiming to end the rivalry between the local clubs ''Deportivo Otún'' and ''Vidriocol''. On 12 March 1944 they played their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
División Mayor Del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano
The División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano (''Major Division of Colombian Professional Football''), also known by the truncation DIMAYOR, is an organization responsible for organizing and operating professional football leagues and tournaments in Colombia. It administers the top two levels of professional football leagues in Colombia, the Primera A and the Primera B, as well as the Colombian Superliga and Copa Colombia, Colombia's domestic football cup. References External links * Federación Colombiana de Fútbol's official website Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ... Sports organisations of Colombia {{Colombia-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César López Fretes
César López Fretes (21 March 1923 – 13 July 2001) was a football striker from Paraguay. López Fretes started his career at Atlántida Sport Club from Barrio Obrero and was later transferred to Olimpia Asunción. He was part of the Paraguay squad at the 1950 World Cup and was one of the goal scorers for Paraguay. He also played for Paraguay in the Copa América tournament. After retiring, he became a coach and managed several teams in Paraguay and Colombia, where he is remembered by Atlético Nacional fans for the championship he led the team to in 1973. He also managed Deportivo Pereira and Unión Magdalena. López also coached the Colombia national football team The Colombia national football team (), nicknamed ''Los Cafeteros,'' represents Colombia in men's international Association football, football and is managed by the Colombian Football Federation, Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (), the govern ... and died in that country in 2001. References 1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Castillo (footballer)
Rafael Arlex Castillo (born June 6, 1980) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a midfielder. He previously played for the former San Antonio Scorpions of the NASL and the Colombia national football team between 2001 and 2003. He is known for his tenacious style of play despite his diminutive stature. His past clubs include Real Cartagena (Colombia), Independiente Medellín (Colombia), Al-Ahly (Egypt) and Deportivo Pereira (Colombia). San Antonio Scorpions Castillo was a mid-season acquisition for the Scorpions. He was brought in between the Spring and Fall 2014 North American Soccer League seasons and immediately started. He played attacking midfield for the Scorpions and helped lead the team to the 2014 NASL Championship. In only half a season, he led the team in goals scored for the entire year. In the Soccer Bowl 2014, Castillo executed a stunning Bicycle kick to open the scoring. The San Antonio Scorpions would go on to win the game 2-1. Castillo's effort in the final a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. Website The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary and it is maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of "the most complete" publicly available statistical football databases in the world, and has virtually every piece of historical information. This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Big 8 (Usenet)#Hierarchies, Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deportivo Pasto
Asociación Deportivo Pasto, also known as Deportivo Pasto, is a Colombian professional football team based in the city of Pasto, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Estadio Departamental Libertad. Deportivo Pasto is both the southernmost and westernmost based team in the Colombian league. Founded in 1949, Pasto has won the league title once in the 2006 Apertura and finished as runner-up three times: in the 2002 Finalizacion, 2012 Apertura, and 2019 Apertura. The club has also finished runners-up twice in the Copa Colombia: in 2009 and 2012. History The club was founded on 12 October 1949, and was a semi-pro team until 1996. That year, they were promoted to the professional second division, the Primera B, and achieved promotion into the Primera A in 1998. In their first top-flight season, the 1999 Apertura, Pasto finished twelfth in the league table. In the 1999 Finalización, Pasto finished in the top eight and qualified for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Tiempo (Colombia)
''El Tiempo'' () is a nationally distributed broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30, 1911. , ''El Tiempo'' had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition. From 1913 to 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos family. Several also participated in Colombian politics: Eduardo Santos Montejo was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Francisco Santos Calderón served as Vice-President (2002–2010). And Juan Manuel Santos as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration; Juan Manuel was elected president of Colombia in 2010 and served in that position until 2018. In 2007, Spanish Grupo Planeta acquired 55% of the ''Casa Editorial El Tiempo'' media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel Citytv Bogotá. In 2012, businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo bought the shares of Planeta, the Santo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millonarios F
Millonarios Fútbol Club, known simply as Millonarios, is a Colombian professional football club based in Bogotá, that competes in the Categoría Primera A, top flight of football in Colombia. It is one of the most successful and iconic clubs in Colombia, making it one of the largest sports entities in the country and one of the most important in South America. The team's origins date back to the 1920s, but it began to be called Los Millonarios in 1937 when its name was Club Deportivo Municipal. It was officially founded on 18 June 1946, as Club Deportivo Los Millonarios, and later as Millonarios Fútbol Club on 20 April 2011, when it was reconstituted as a public limited company. Since 1938, the team has played their home games at Estadio El Campín which currently holds a 36,343 capacity. Millonarios has participated in the Categoría Primera A since its inception in 1948, being one of only three teams to have participated in all of its tournaments, along with Independiente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deportivo Unicosta
Corporación Deportiva de la Costa, better known as Deportivo Unicosta or Unicosta, was a professional Colombian football club based in Barranquilla, that played in the Categoría Primera A until its 1998 season. They played their home games at the Estadio Romelio Martínez. History Deportivo Unicosta was founded by businessman Enrique Chapman in 1995 and entered the Colombian second tier tournament Categoría Primera B that same year, earning promotion to Categoría Primera A by winning the 1996–97 Primera B tournament. There they topped the final group, placing ahead of Lanceros Boyacá, Deportivo Pasto, and Atlético Córdoba, and promotion was clinched with a draw in Tunja against Lanceros on 1 June 1997. Their first tournament in the top tier was the 1997 Adecuación, in which they only won four matches and barely managed to avoid relegation with a 3–2 away victory over Millonarios on the final day of the regular season. In the following season, Deportivo Unicosta pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996–97 Categoría Primera A Season
The 1996–97 Categoría Primera A season, known as Copa Mustang 1996–97 for sponsoring purposes, was the 50th season of the Categoría Primera A, Colombia's top-flight football league. The season started on 8 September 1996 and ended on 21 December 1997. América de Cali were the champions, winning their ninth domestic league title after beating the Torneo Adecuación winners Atlético Bucaramanga in the championship playoff. Deportivo Cali were the defending champions, but placed last in both the final group stage and the Adecuación semi-finals and thus failed to qualify for the finals of the competition. Format The season, which was originally to last from September 1996 to June 1997, was initially split into three stages: the Apertura and Finalización tournaments, and the final group: * In the Apertura tournament, played from September to February, the 16 teams played each other under a double round-robin format with two additional rounds of regional derbies for a total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Categoría Primera B
Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is the second-division association football, football league in Colombia. The tournament was inaugurated on 29 January 1991. Format DIMAYOR has applied a new format from 2015 onwards because of the expansion to 20 teams in the Primera A tournament. The league will no longer have Apertura and Finalización seasons but rather a yearlong tournament with home and away games. The first phase of the tournament is everyone against everyone home and away games. The second is a two-groups phase with the 8 top teams from the season who play each other to determine the winners of each group. The winners of the two groups are both promoted to the Primera A and play the final in home and away games to determine the champion of the season. Current teams Seasons by club This is the complete list of the clubs that have taken part in the ''Categoría P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apolinar Paniagua
Apolinar Paniagua (born 23 July 1946) is a Paraguayan former footballer who played as a forward. Career Born in Yaguarón, Paraguay, Paniagua played in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador in addition to his homeland. In Chile, he played for Antofagasta Portuario. In Colombia, he played for Deportivo Pereira and Millonarios. In Mexico, he played for Tampico Madero. In Ecuador, he played for Manta Sport, the previous club to Manta FC, his last club. At international level, Paniagua played in 18 matches for the Paraguay national football team from 1975 to 1977. He was also part of Paraguay's squad for the 1975 Copa América The 1975 edition of the Copa América football (soccer), football tournament was played between 17 July and 28 October. The tournament saw many significant shifts to its format, such as changing its name from South American Championship to Copa A ... tournament. References External links * * * 1946 births Living people Footballers from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
