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Estadio José Tomás Silva
The Estadio José Tomás Silva is a Association football, football stadium in Paraguay located in the Virgen del Huerto, Virgen del Huerto neighborhood of Asunción. The stadium has a capacity of 800 people and is home for Paraguayan Primera División, Primera División club Sportivo Ameliano. This venue is popularly known as ''La paila''. In its beginnings, the club had its first sports field on the property currently occupied by the ''Instituto de Medicina Tropical'', on Venezuela Avenue. In later years it had another playing field near España and Venezuela Avenue. In the 1970s, it moved to the current site where the current stadium was built. One of the main promoters being Mr. José Tomás Silva. In 2013, a modern gym was inaugurated on the club grounds. In December 2015, the stadium suffered some damage after a storm. References {{Authority control Football venues in Asunción Sports venues in Asunción ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paila
A paila () is a type of cookware that in several Spanish-speaking South American countries refers to a large shallow metal pan or earthenware Bowl (vessel), bowl which oftentimes is also used as a serving Plate (dishware), plate for the foods prepared in it. Dishes served in clay pailas are often prepared in the paila itself by way of baking in an oven. By extension, the word ''paila'' is also used for the dishes that are eaten from it, such as paila marina and paila de huevo. An advantage of the clay paila is that clay retains heat well and keeps foods warm. Its Valencian equivalent is the paella, which is simply referred to as ''arroz'' (rice) by the locals. Etymology ''Paila'' derives from Old French ''paele'', from Latin ''patĕlla''. It is first attested in Spain in the 16th century, and both is diminutive (pailita) and aumentative (pailón) appeared at the time. Its cognates include modern French ''poêle'' and Catalan ''paella''. Nowadays, the use of the term is widesprea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asunción
Asunción (, ) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the northwest separate the city from the Occidental Region of Paraguay and from Argentina in the south part of the city. The rest of the city is surrounded by the Central Department. Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America and the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities#South America, longest continually inhabited area in the Río de la Plata Basin; for this reason it is known as "the Mother of Cities". From Asunción, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonial expeditions departed to found other cities, including the second foundation of Buenos Aires, that of other important cities such as Villarrica, Paraguay, Villarrica, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Argentina, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, Santa Cruz de la Sie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of around 6.1 million, nearly 2.3 million of whom live in the Capital city, capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro area. Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537 established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Reductions, Jesuit missions, where the native Guaraní people were converted to Christianity and introduced to European culture. After the Suppression of the Society of Jesus, expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories in 1767, Paraguay increasingly became a peripheral colony. Following Independence of Paraguay, independence from Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportivo Ameliano
Club Sportivo Ameliano, also simply known as Ameliano, is a Paraguayan football club based in Virgen del Huerto neighborhood in the city of Asunción. The club competes in the Paraguayan Primera División for the 2022 season after their promotion at the end of the 2021 Paraguayan División Intermedia. The club was home to Alfredo Mazacotte who began his career in the youth teams of the club, and is actually the home of historic striker Marcos Caballero who played for the club from 2003–2021, the player was the leading goal scorer of the Primera División C of 2008 with 11 annotations along with Alberto Cristaldo of Deportivo Recoleta. The ex-footballer and Argentine coach Oscar Paulin was credited for taking the club to the zone of promotion in 2015 and 2016. He achieved the promotion for the club from the fourth division to the third division in 2015 via a play-off and he put the club in the first position of the third division with two games remaining in the 2016 season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgen Del Huerto
Virgen del Huerto is a neighbourhood (''barrio'') of Asunción, Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli .... Neighbourhoods of Asunción {{Paraguay-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraguayan Primera División
The División Profesional de la Paraguayan Football Association, Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol (; "Professional Division of the Paraguayan Football Association"), also known as the Primera División (; "first division"), or due to sponsorship reasons Copa de Primera TIGO-Visión Banco, is the top-flight professional association football, football league in Paraguay. Currently, there are 12 teams in the first division. The most successful club is Club Olimpia, Olimpia, with 47 championships. Club Libertad, Libertad are the most recent champions, having won the 2025 Paraguayan Primera División season#Torneo Apertura, 2025 Apertura tournament. As of 2022, International Federation of Football History & Statistics, IFFHS ranked the league as the 10th strongest in the world and 3rd in South America. History Liga Paraguaya's first game was played in 1906, after the director of the El Diario newspaper, Don Adolfo Riquelme, brought to his office on 18 June 1906, the representatives o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paila
A paila () is a type of cookware that in several Spanish-speaking South American countries refers to a large shallow metal pan or earthenware Bowl (vessel), bowl which oftentimes is also used as a serving Plate (dishware), plate for the foods prepared in it. Dishes served in clay pailas are often prepared in the paila itself by way of baking in an oven. By extension, the word ''paila'' is also used for the dishes that are eaten from it, such as paila marina and paila de huevo. An advantage of the clay paila is that clay retains heat well and keeps foods warm. Its Valencian equivalent is the paella, which is simply referred to as ''arroz'' (rice) by the locals. Etymology ''Paila'' derives from Old French ''paele'', from Latin ''patĕlla''. It is first attested in Spain in the 16th century, and both is diminutive (pailita) and aumentative (pailón) appeared at the time. Its cognates include modern French ''poêle'' and Catalan ''paella''. Nowadays, the use of the term is widesprea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Color
''ABC Color'' is a Paraguayan daily newspaper that is part of Editorial Azeta S.A., a subsidiary of Grupo Azeta. It was established in 1967 by Aldo Zuccolillo. Founded in August 1967, it is often regarded as Paraguay's newspaper of record. History ABC Color was founded August 8, 1967 by Aldo Zuccolillo. It was the first newspaper in Paraguay to introduce color pages and the tabloid format. It also became the first to be distributed nationwide, reaching beyond the capital. It is one of the most widely read daily newspapers in Paraguay. In its formative years, ''ABC Color'' supported Alfredo Stroessner's autocratic regime. During the founding event of the newspaper, Zuccolillo declared this is "a great newspaper serving a great government". However, in the late 1970s and during the 1980s, ''ABC Color'' took a more critical position. This shift resulted in Zuccolillo being imprisoned for several days in 1983 due to his dissent against the regime. It also caused the forced suspensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Venues In Asunción
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
