Sporting Cristal
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| Full name | Club Sporting Cristal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Los Cerveceros", "Los Bajopontinos", "Los Rimenses" |
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| Founded | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio San Martín de Porres, Lima |
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| Capacity | 18,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Francisco Mujica Serelle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | José Guillermo del Solar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Primera División Peruana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sporting Cristal is a Peruvian football club founded in December 13, 1955, after the owners of a local beer company that produces the Cristal beer bought the team Sporting Tabaco.
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[edit] Overview
The press estimates that Cristal is the 3rd most popular team in Peru, behind rivals Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima.
In 1997 Sporting Cristal, led by Uruguayan coach Sergio Markarián, played the finals of the Copa Libertadores against Cruzeiro from Belo Horizonte losing 1-0, after tying 0-0 in the first game. This is the closest a Peruvian team has ever been to the coveted South American cup for football clubs since 1972, when Universitario de Deportes had a similar fate playing against Independiente de Avellaneda.
The team was ranked second all-time among Peruvian clubs by FIFA but nowadays is the first; and the only one Peruvian team with the highest number of participations in the Copa Libertadores de América.
Cristal is often accused by its rivals of not producing their own players, and instead just use the money of the powerful beer company to buy the best players of their rival teams (often not even intending to use them as much as they are disarming the other teams) and then stack the team with foreigners and a few promising players from smaller teams. However, in the most recent years they have been able to produce stars from their own lower divisions.
A few of their players nowadays are Peruvian international goalkeeper Erick Delgado, defenders such as Alberto Rodríguez, Eric Torres, Miguel Angel Villalta and José Alberto Moisela, midfielders such as the underrated- Juan Cominges, Jorge Antonio Soto, Rayner Torres and Carlos Alberto Zegarra, and strikers such as Luis Alberto Bonnet, Sergio Leal, Israel Zuniga and young star Freddy Barrios.
Recent coaches include Juan Carlos Oblitas and Paulo Autuori. Peruvian filmmaker Francisco Lombardi was the club's president throughout most of the successful 1990s.
Additionally, currently, a lot of controversion is taking place due to the fact that most of Sporting Cristal's fans believe that the team is not properly directed. They claim that the team's coach Jose "Chemo" Del Solar is a fan of Universitario de Deportes (which is true) and it is not a good idea to carry this type of coach in a team. The current president of Sporting Cristal Diego Rebagliatti, played in Cristal for a short period of time but is also linked to Universitario, which has been a cause of concern from Sporting Cristal fans.
[edit] Honours
[edit] National honours
- Primera División Peruana
- Winners (15): 1956, 1961, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2005
[edit] International honours
- Copa Libertadores
- Runners-up (1): 1997
[edit] Famous players
Alberto Gallardo (Palmeiras/Cagliari)- Julio César Uribe (Udinese)
- Nolberto Solano (Newcastle United F.C.)
- Jorge Soto
- Roberto Palacios
- Miguel Rebosio
- Flavio Maestri
Júlio Andrade "Julinho"
Estanislao Struway- Pedro Garay
Julio Cesar Balerio
Luis Alberto Bonnet- Percy Olivares
- Pablo Zegarra
- Andrés Mendoza
[edit] 2006-2007 squad
[edit] Current squad (2006-2007 season)
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