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FBC Melgar
Foot Ball Club Melgar, known simply as FBC Melgar or Melgar, is a Peruvian Association football, football club based in Arequipa, Peru. It is one of Peru's oldest football teams, founded on 25 March 1915 by a group of football enthusiasts from Arequipa. The team first participated in the Peruvian Primera División, Peruvian football league in 1919 in Lima and later was invited to the first true National football league, the Torneo Descentralizado, in 1966 Torneo Descentralizado, 1966, when four teams from the provinces were invited to join the league. Joining them were Atlético Grau from Piura, Octavio Espinoza, Club Octavio Espinoza from Ica, Peru, Ica and Alfonso Ugarte de Chiclín, Alfonso Ugarte (Ch) from Trujillo, Peru, Trujillo. Previously, only teams from Lima and Callao had been allowed to compete for the national championship. Due to a low finish the first year, Melgar was dropped from the league after the first year. After winning the Copa Perú they returned to the Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Monumental Virgen De Chapi
Estadio de la UNSA (official name) is a multi-purpose stadium located in Arequipa, Peru. The stadium was built by the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, University of San Agustín in the early 1990s and named after the Virgin Chapi. Due to its size, the term ''Monumental'' is added to its name. The stadium was largely financed by a lottery fund-raiser held by the university itself. The stadium has hosted large events such as the Bolivarian Games and the Copa América in addition to a Copa Sudamericana final in 2003 involving Cienciano and Club Atlético River Plate, River Plate. The stadium's allowed spectator capacity is currently 60,000. History On 2 February 1985, Pope John Paul II visited the city of Arequipa in which the coronation of the Virgin of Chapi took place on a field. The field would eventually become the site of the monumental stadium the University of San Agustín would build. Early efforts to gather funds were largely organized by the university, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Torneo Descentralizado
The 1981 Torneo Descentralizado was the sixty-fifth season of Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament. The season was divided into two phases. Melgar won its first national title and become the first club outside the Lima Region to win the title. Format The national league was divided into two phases. The first phase divided the sixteen teams into groups. Each team was placed into one of four groups depending on the region where the club was located. This dubbed regional tournament was contested in this season because the Peru national football team was using domestic players in preparation for the 1982 World Cup Qualifiers. In order to reduce the impact of the absence of these key players in the national league, the regional tournament was played in which the winner contested the second berth to the 1982 Copa Libertadores against the Descentralizado runner-up. The second phase of the league was the Descentralizado in which all sixteen teams competed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Sudamericana
The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, named as ''Copa Sudamericana'' (; pt, Copa Sul-Americana ), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 2002. It is the second-most prestigious club competition in South American football. CONCACAF clubs were invited between 2004 and 2008. The CONMEBOL Sudamericana began in 2002, replacing the separate competitions Copa Merconorte and Copa Mercosur (that had replaced Copa CONMEBOL) by a single competition. Since its introduction, the competition has been a pure elimination tournament with the number of rounds and teams varying from year to year. The CONMEBOL Sudamericana is considered a merger of defunct tournaments such as the Copa CONMEBOL, Copa Mercosur and Copa Merconorte. The winner of the Copa Sudamericana becomes eligible to play in the Recopa Sudamericana. They gain entry onto the next edition of the Copa Libertadores, South America's premier club competition, and also contest the J.League Cup / Copa Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Villamarín
Edgar Villamarín Arguedas (born 1 April 1982) is a Peruvian Association football, footballer who plays as a Centre back (association football), centre back. International career Villamarín also featured four times for the Peru national football team, Peru national team. Honours Club ;Universitario de Deportes * Torneo Descentralizado: 2009 Torneo Descentralizado, 2009 ;FBC Melgar * Torneo Descentralizado: 2015 Torneo Descentralizado, 2015 External links * * * 1982 births Living people Footballers from Lima Association football fullbacks Peruvian footballers Peru international footballers Peruvian Segunda División players Peruvian Primera División players Sporting Cristal footballers Atlético Universidad footballers Unión Huaral footballers Cienciano footballers FC Chornomorets Odesa players Club Universitario de Deportes footballers Club Alianza Lima footballers FBC Melgar footballers Alianza Atlético footballers Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lampros Kontogiannis
Lampros Kontogiannis Gómez ( el, Λάμπρος Κοντογιάννης Γκόμεζ; born 1 August 1988) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back. Club career Kontogiannis began his career with Segunda División side F.S. Manzanillo in the 2007–08 season. He then signed a contract in May 2008 with Club América. He debuted with América on 17 August 2008 coming in as a sub in the 66 minute against Pachuca in a 1–1 draw. He also played for the reserve side Socio Águila in the 2008–09 season. In June 2011, he moved to club UANL located in Monterrey. Personal life Kontogiannis is of Greek descent which would have allowed him to play for the Greece national team as well as the Mexico national team having been born in Mexico. His father is from Greece and his mother from Mexico. Honours Tigres UANL * Mexican Primera División: Apertura 2011 Melgar *Peruvian Primera División The Peru First Division (; ''First Division'') —known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Hohberg
Alejandro Hohberg González (born 1991 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian football player who currently plays for Club Sporting Cristal. Hoberg is considered to be an important player in Peruvian domestic football, having played for some of the biggest clubs in Peru; including the 3 Lima giants - Universitario, Alianza Lima and his current side Sporting Cristal. His honours include the 2017 Torneo Apertura and Clausa and the 2017 Torneo Descentralizado Title with Alianza Lima, 2020 Apertura title, with Universitario, the 2021 Torneo Apertura title and the 2021 Copa Bicentenario with Sporting Cristal. Hohberg has played for the Peru National team, and was part of their squad for the Copa América Centenario. He is the grandson of Argentinian- born Uruguayan footballer Juan Hohberg, who played for Peñarol and played for Uruguay at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. International career Hohberg debuted for the Peru national football team in a friendly 4–0 win against Trinida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Alberto Hernández
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a deriva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelinho Quina
Nelinho Minzún Quina Asín (born 11 May 1987) is a Peruvian footballer who plays for Cusco FC in the Torneo Descentralizado, as a left back. He is the twin brother of Minzum Quina. Club career Nelinho Quina made his debut in the Torneo Descentralizado in 2005 playing for Sporting Cristal. In his debut season, he was part of the team that finished as champions of the 2005 Torneo Descentralizado season. Honours Club ;Sporting Cristal Club Sporting Cristal S.A. is a Peruvian sports club located in the city of Lima, best known for its association football, football team. It was founded on 13 December 1955 in the Rímac District, Rímac district by engineer Richard Bentín Mujica ... * Torneo Descentralizado: 2005 ; Juan Aurich * Torneo Descentralizado: 2011 References External linksJuan Aurich profile* 1987 births Living people Footballers from Lima Men's association football fullbacks Peruvian men's footballers Peru men's under-20 international football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Alva
Piero Alva (born 14 February 1979 in Lima) is a Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...vian international Association football, football Striker (association football), striker. He currently Retired. Playing Style Despite his winding up as one of the top goal scorers in his teams, Alva is more of a thinking, dribbling, and running forward who creates his own scoring chances and for his teammates, coming down fast by the sides, rather than being a speculative center-forward striker. Club career Alva got his start in Universitario de Deportes as a youth. He got his break in 1998 when Oswaldo Piazza decided to promote several teenage players to the main line-up of the team, particularly after the team had secured the Apertura cup and thus a place in the final game. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
México
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Reynoso Guzmán
Juan Máximo Reynoso Guzmán (born December 28, 1969 in Lima) is a Peruvian professional manager and former footballer. He started his playing career in his native Peru where he played for Alianza Lima from 1986 to 1990. He made over 230 appearances with Cruz Azul where he served as captain and let the team to a historic treble in the 1996–97 season. He later joined Necaxa and retired in 2004 after making playing over 75 games. At the international level Reynoso capped for the Peru, with 84 appearances from 1986 to 2000, serving as captain from 1993 to 1999. He represented the team at five Copa America tournaments in 1987, 1989, 1993, 1995 and 1999. He also captained the team to reach the semi finals of 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup his final tournament. Club career Reynoso started his career in Peru, where he played for Alianza Lima from 1986 to 1990. He later joined Spanish club Sabadell in 1990, with the club featuring in the Segunda División at the time. In his only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
