Sporting Cristal

Sporting Cristal

Full name	Club Sporting Cristal
Nickname(s)	Los Cerveceros, Los Bajopontinos, Los Rimenses, Los Celestes
Founded	november 16, 1926 december 13, 1955
Ground	Estadio San Martin de Porres, Lima (Capacity: 18,000)
President	Felipe Cantuarias
Manager	Juan Reynoso Guzmán
League	Primera División Peruana
2010	Primera División Peruana, 7th
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Club Sporting Cristal is a Peruvian football team. Based in the Rímac District, in the department of Lima, it plays in the professional league known as the Peruvian First Division. Founded on November 16, 1926 in the Rimac District given its approval to the merger and Snuff Sporting merging with the brewery and make way for the birth of the Sporting Cristal on December 13, 1955. The team's original name was Sporting Tabaco, but it was renamed after being purchased by a local beer production company. Sporting Cristal has won the league title 15 times, and it is the Peruvian team with the third most National titles. All its titles have been won in the professional era.

It is one of the most popular football teams in Peru, along with Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima; it is the youngest of the three. In 1997, it became the second Peruvian football club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores, an international competition.

Sporting Cristal plays home games at the Estadio San Martin de Porres, but they also play at the Estadio Nacional. They also use the Estadio Nacional when playing international competitions, such as Copa Libertadores or Copa Sudamericana.

History

Sporting Tabaco was founded on November 16 of 1926 , consisting mostly of workers and employees of Tabaco tight , state agency which monopolized trade Tabaco in Peru . Founded in the of Rimac District , its first president was Mr. Cristobal Jimenez, general manager of tight. The club was registered in the "third category" in which he participated in 1927.

The players were employees of the company. In the first championship of 1927, Tabaco won promotion to the "intermediate division" (a sort of second division) and one year of participation, in 1928 , the club won promotion to first division . It remembers the last game for the upgrade when Sporting Tabaco beat a team Lima called Unión Santa Catalina by 2 to 1.

From 1929 to 1955 , the Tabaco played in First Division , never relegated, was one of the teams leaders, but failed championship. in 1944 finished in last place but kept the class after beating Ciclista Lima (Champion II ) in the Championship promotion, popularly called "Tragic Wheel" because there was no relegation. According to some news sources, critics and fans believed the club Tabaco as a "large" in the Peruvian football, but well away from the classic teams and Universitario de Deportes , Alianza Lima , Deportivo Municipal and Sport Boys .

In 1931 , the Sporting Tabaco National won the runner-up behind the Alianza Lima and repeated that achievement in 1954 .

In 1954, the English proprietors of the beer company Backus and Johnston from the district of Rímac, decided to sell their firm to Peruvian investors. The new owners decided to form a local football club to represent the company.

Ricardo Bentín Mujica, with the support of his wife, was the man who is credited with achieving the company's goal. A club from Rímac, known as Sporting Tabaco, was already playing in the professional Peruvian First Division. Never having won a national championship, the club was in dire economic straits. Bentín decided to buy the club and search for a playing ground, so that the club could develop and be able to play better at the professional level. The club found a lot in the neighborhood of La Florida of 137,000 m².

On December 13, 1955 the club was officially renamed Sporting Cristal . The club from the Rímac district debuted in 1956 in the professional Primera Division and won their first national title that same year. Journalists called them the club that was born a champion (nació campeon). The team managed to win more titles over the years and was known as one of the best football clubs in Peru after Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima. A few years later, the club eliminated the word Backus from their name to demonstrate their economic independence.

In 1997, the team, led by Uruguayan coach Sergio Markarián, reached the finals of the Copa Libertadores, where they faced the Brazilian club Cruzeiro. The first leg was a home game, in which they ended in a scoreless draw; in the second leg, they lost 1-0. This is the closest a Peruvian team has come to the Copa Libertadores Final since 1972, when Universitario de Deportes had a similar fate playing against Club Atlético Independiente.

Recent head coaches include Juan Carlos Oblitas and Paulo Autuori. The Peruvian filmmaker Francisco Lombardi was the club's president throughout most of the successful 1990s.

Sporting Cristal changed its shirt color from blue to light blue. During a brief period between 1978 and 1981, they again used blue shirts. In 1982 they returned to light blue as the color of the club.

Rivalries

Sporting Cristal has had longstanding rivalries with Universitario, Alianza Lima, Deportivo Municipal, and Sport Boys.

Supporters

Cristal has two ultras or barra bravas known as Extremo Celeste and Fuerza Oriente. Extremo Celeste was formed in 1991 when a group of young fans from Fuerza Oriente decided to form a new group for young energetic supporters. Extremo Celeste has become one of the biggest barras bravas in Peru.

Players

Current squad

As of October 20, 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Erick Delgado 2 DF Wenceslao Fernández 3 DF Germán Rivera 4 DF Walter Vilchez (vice-captain) 5 MF Alejandro Frezzotti 7 MF Yancarlo Casas 8 MF Minzum Quina 9 FW José Shoro 10 MF Roberto Palacios (captain) 11 FW Iván Bulos 12 GK Manuel Heredia 13 DF Renzo Revoredo 14 MF Yoshimar Yotún 15 MF Alfonso García-Miró 16 MF Marcio Valverde 17 FW Luis Advíncula

No. Position Player 18 FW Miguel Ximenez 19 FW Juan Diego González-Vigil 20 DF Juan Lojas 21 MF Rodolfo Espinoza 22 DF Willy Rivas 23 FW Piero Alva 24 FW Junior Ross 25 GK Julio Aliaga 26 MF Tarek Carranza 27 MF Carlos Lobatón 28 DF José Granda 29 MF Claudio Torrejón 30 MF Diego Chávarri GK Luis Ortiz FW Pedro Aquino FW Pierr Saavedra

Notable players

Horacio Raúl Baldessari* Luis Alberto Bonnet* Fernando Gastón Córdoba Ramon Quiroga* Julinho* Palhinha Juan Carlos Letelier Elkin Murillo Javier Ferreyra* Pedro Garay Estanislao Struway Mario Aquije Rinaldo Cruzado

José Del Castillo Gianfranco Espejo Alberto Gallardo Flavio Maestri Andrés Augusto Mendoza Franco Navarro Juan Carlos Oblitas Percy Olivares Roberto Palacios Jorge Pardón Amilton Prado Oswaldo Ramírez Miguel Rebosio

Alberto Rodríguez Renzo Sheput Nolberto Solano Jorge Soto Julio César Uribe Miguel Villalta Vicente Villanueva Pablo Zegarra Julio César Balerio* Roque Máspoli Oscar Míguez Miguel Ximénez

*Naturalized Peruvians

Top Goalscorers in First Division

Year	Player	Goals	Nationality
1954	Vicente Villanueva	14
1961	Alberto Gallardo	18
1962	Alberto Gallardo	22
1980	Oswaldo Ramírez	18
1983	Juan Caballero	29
1991	Raúl Horacio Baldessari	25
1994	Flavio Maestri	25
1995	Julinho	23
1998	Nilson Esidio	25
2003	Luis Alberto Bonnet	20
2008	Miguel Ximénez	32

Presidential history

Name Years Cristobal Jiménez 1926- Blas Loredo Bascones 1956-59 Alfonso Raul Villegas 1960-63 Augusto Moral Santisteban 1964 Cesar Freundt 1965 Augusto Galvez Velarde 1966-71 Josue Grande Fernandez 1972-79 Jaime Noriega Zegarra 1980-88

Name Years Federico Cuneo De La Pierda 1989-93 Francisco Lombardi Oyarzub 1994-95 Alfonso Grados Carrara 1996-99 Francisco Lombardi Oyarzub 2000-01 Jaime Noriega Bentin 2002-04 François Mujica Serelle 2005-10 Felipe Cantuarias Salaverry 2010-

Managerial History

Years Nationality Name 1956-58 Luis Tirado 1958-59 César Viccino 1960 Carlos Peucelle 1960 Víctor Pasache 1961-62 Juan Honores 1962 Víctor Pasache 1962-64 Waldir Pereira "Didí" 1964-66 Alberto "Toto" Terry 1966 Yeldo Barbalho 1967-69 Waldir Pereira "Didí" 1969 Víctor Pasache 1969-70 Sabino Bártoli 1971 Rudy Gutendorf 1972-74 Marcos Calderón 1974 Rafael Asca 1974-75 Eloy Campos 1976 Juan Honores 1976 Víctor Pasache 1976-77 Diego Agurto 1977 Alberto Gallardo 1977-78 Roque Máspoli 1978 Alberto Gallardo 1978-79 José Fernández 1979-81 Marcos Calderón 1981-82 Alberto Gallardo 1982-83 César Cubilla 1984 José Chiarella 1985 Alberto Gallardo 1985 José Del Castillo 1985-86 Héctor Chumpitaz

Years Nationality Name 1987-88 Miguel Company 1988 Óscar Montalvo 1988-89 Alberto Gallardo 1989-90 Oscar López Oscar Caballero 1990 Fernando Mellán 1990 Eugenio Jara 1990-92 Juan Carlos Oblitas 1993 José Carlos Amaral 1993-95 Juan Carlos Oblitas 1996 José Luis Carbone 1996 Roberto Mosquera 1996-97 Sergio Markarián 1997-98 Miguel Angel Arrué 1998 Luis García 1998-99 Franco Navarro 1999 Rodolfo Motta 1999-01 Juan Carlos Oblitas 2001 Horacio Magalhaes 2002 Paulo Autuori 2003 Renê Weber 2003-04 Wilmar Valencia 2004 Eduardo Asca 2004-05 Edgardo Bauza 2005-06 José del Solar 2007 Jorge Sampaoli 2007 Walter Fiori 2007-09 Juan Carlos Oblitas 2010 Víctor Rivera 2011 Guillermo Rivarola

Honours

National

• Peruvian Primera División: 15

Winners (15): 1956, 1961, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2005

Runner-up (14): 1931, 1954, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1973, 1977, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004

• Torneo Apertura: 2

Winners (2): 1994, 2003

Runner-up (4): 1997, 2001, 2006, 2008

• Torneo Clausura: 4

Winners (4): 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005

Runner-up (2): 2000, 2008

• Torneo Regional: 3

Winners (3): 1989-I, 1991-I, 1991-I

• Torneo Interzonal: 1

Winners (1): 1982

International

• Copa Libertadores: 0

Runner-up (1): 1997

Friendly International

• Copa Marlboro: 1

Winners (1): 1988

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 28 appearances

Runners-up (1): 1997

1962, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009

• Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance

1994: Quarter-Finals

• Copa Merconorte: 4 appearances

1998: First Round

1999: First Rounf

2000: First Round

2001: First Round

External links

• Sporting Cristal Official Club Website

Notes