LDU Quito

Liga Deportiva Universitaria - usually short LDU also called Liga de Quito - is a football club established in 1930 the Ecuadorian capital Quito. Highlight of the club's history is winning the Copa Libertadores 2008. Moreover LDU won the Copa Sudamericana Recopa Sudamericana twice and ten national championships.

History

The history of the club goes back to the year 1918, when students at the Universidad Central del Ecuador formed a football team. In 1930, as Liga Deportiva Universitaria this club shape and already won in 1932 her first local title. In the 1950s and 1960s, she won several times the non-amateur championship of the province of Pichincha. A first highlight the club's history mark the years between 1969 and 1976. Liga de Quito in 1969 won the first of nine existing national champion titles. In 1976 the team the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores, which was then played in two groups of three teams. League was second in his group, behind Cruzeiro from Brazil and moved thus not the final one.

The time to the turn of the millennium is a second very successful period in the club's history. In 2004 League reached the semifinals of the Copa Sudamericana, but was eliminated by the Bolivian representatives Club Bolívar. In 2008 League reached the final of the Copa Libertadores, the 3-1 team decided against Fluminense after 4:2 and 1:3 in return game ( without away goals rule ) on penalties in the Maracana stadium for the first time. This league was to the first Ecuadorian team that could win the Copa Libertadores and qualified for the FIFA Club World Cup, when they reached the final with a 2-0 victory over the Mexican representative Pachuca CF. In the final, but was defeated by European representatives League Manchester United 1-0. The Ecuadorian press emphasized then that the premium FIFA for the runner-up (about 4 million U.S. dollars) corresponds to a large part of the annual budget of the team ( 6-7 million U.S. dollars). In July 2009, the team then 1-0 and 3-0 also won the South American Super Cup against the Copa Sudamericana champion Internacional of Porto Alegre ( Brazil).

Stadium

After Liga de Quito had for decades played at different stages and at last the national stadium Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa with El Nacional, Deportivo Quito and Club Deportivo ESPOLI divided, 1997, the own stadium Estadio La Casa Blanca was (at German White House, according to the prevailing club color) inaugurated, which is considered one of the most modern and most atmospheric football stadiums in the country. The stadium is located in the north of Quito in the parish Cotocollao and has a capacity of 55 104 seats, which is restricted for international games such as the Final first leg of the Copa Libertadores in 2008 for safety reasons at 42,000 and must therefore be reduced accordingly for such games.

Major Players

In the current squad

  • Argentine Norberto Araujo
  • Argentinian Hernán Barcos
  • Ecuadorians Walter Calderón
  • Ecuadorians Renán Calle
  • Ecuadorian Jorge Guagua
  • Ecuadorians José Francisco Cevallos sr.
  • Ecuadorians Ulises de la Cruz
  • Argentines / Claudio Bieler Ecuadorians
  • Ecuadorian Luis Bolaños
  • Patricio Urrutia Ecuadorians
  • Ecuadorians Paul Ambrosi
  • Ecuadorians Néicer Reasco
  • Ecuadorians Diego Calderón
  • Paraguay's Enrique Vera

Former

  • Ecuadorians Franklin Salas
  • Argentine Carlos Luna
  • Paraguayan Carlos Espínola
  • Ecuadorians Joffre Guerrón
  • Ecuadorians / Álex Aguinaga Mexicans
  • Ecuadorians Agustín Delgado
  • Argentine Damián Manso
  • Colombian Elkin Murillo
  • Ecuadorians Christian Lara
  • Peruvian Roberto Palacios
  • Colombians Álex Escobar
  • Ecuadorians Geovanny Espinoza
  • Ecuadorians Jacinto Espinoza
  • Argentina / Ecuador Ariel Graziani
  • Ecuadorians Patricio Hurtado
  • Ecuadorians Armando "Tito" Larrea
  • Ecuadorian Bolívar León
  • Uruguayan Francisco Bertocchi
  • Uruguayan Carlos Ernesto Berrueta
  • Ecuadorians Polo Carrera Velasteguí
  • Ecuadorian Juan José Pérez
  • Uruguayan Oscar Zubia

Achievements

  • Copa Libertadores 2008
  • Copa Sudamericana 2009, Finalist 2011
  • Recopa Sudamericana 2009, 2010
  • Ecuadorian champion in 1969, 1974, 1975, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005 (Apertura), 2007, 2010
  • Interandino champion: 1954, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967
  • Master of the Pichincha region: 1932, 1952, 1953.
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