Lima Cricket and Football Club
- Lima Cricket and Football Club
Lima Cricket and Football Club is the oldest sports club in Peru, and one of the oldest in South America.
It was originally founded in 1859 by English immigrants as the "Lima Cricket Club".[es icon cite web |url=http://www.clublimacricket.com/quienes.htm|title=Lima Cricket & Football Club|accessdate=2008-08-12 |work=clublimacricket.com ] (although another source dates this as 1900][cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6p5VXUCipAwC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=Lima+Cricket&source=web&ots=TvU7XFIhro&sig=M_wOeHzVsRMh4AX1kCgFy272Q44&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result|title=Latim American Popular Culture|accessdate=2008-08-30 |work=books.google.com|author=William H. Beezley, Linda Curcio-Nagy, Linda Ann Curcio | year=2000 ] ).]The club had played football matches as early as 1893, a year after the first recorded game of football in the Peruvian capital.[cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IzRTVU2NS5wC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=Lima+Cricket+++%26+sailors&source=web&ots=Xz7iINgw8W&sig=egr2_eU0ROXOGh9dzy8KVzCxQKo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA12,M1|title=Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean|accessdate=2008-09-01 |author=Joseph Arbena, David Gerald LaFrance | year=2002] Lima Cricket went on to inspire future football clubs in Peru such as Union Cricket and Sport Alianza.]References
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