Club Atlético Colegiales

Club Atlético Colegiales is a Paraguayan football club from Asunción. The association, which has never been Paraguayan football champions to date, currently plays in the Segunda División and plays its home matches at the Estadio Luciano Zacarias, which seats 4,500 spectators.

History

Club Atlético Colegiales, usually just under the name of Atlético Colegiales or Colegiales known, was on the seventh January 1977 in Asunción, capital of Paraguay, founded by the families Zacarias. This rich family called the club Colegiales to German students. A member of Zacarias ' Juan Desiderio Zacarias worked for 21 years as a trainer for Atlético Colegiales and managed with the club, among other 1982 first-time jump in the Primera División, the highest football league in Paraguay. There you could establish itself and reached in the 1990 season by winning the Paraguayan cup competition to qualify for the Copa Libertadores 1991. There Atlético Colegiales hit respectable and finished the group stage at the first place before league rival club Cerro Porteño and the two Peruvian clubs Universitario de Deportes and Sport Boys. While against Cerro Porteño was only played draw, you could win against Sport Boys and Universitario de Deportes always once and play a draw, which was at the end of the first rank, level on points with Cerro Porteño, but with a better goal difference, occupied. This Atlético Colegiales was allowed to start for the knockout stages, where you had to compete with the club Olimpia, for its part, is set to defend his title in this round and with 1:1 and 1:2 pulled the shortening. The club Olimpia, also originally from Paraguay, came during the remaining tournament before to the finals and only lost there Colo -Colo of Chile.

In the following years, it took until 2000 before Atlético Colegiales participated again in the Copa Libertadores. But this time the tournament was less successful for the club, you failed already in the group stage as the last behind América de Cali of Colombia, Rosario Central of Argentina and Sporting Cristal of Peru with only one win ( 2-1 against Sporting Cristal) and a draw ( 3-3 against Rosario Central) at four defeats. Five years earlier Atlético Colegiales was the semifinals of the Copa Conmebol, a predecessor of the Copa Sudamericana second most important continental tournament for club teams in South America, penetrated, having previously been defeated The Strongest La Paz Bolivia and Institución Atlética Sud América Uruguay. In the round of four teams Colegiales subject but then Rosario Central.

In league play Atlético Colegiales never succeeded in winning the Paraguayan football championship. Currently playing in Segunda División of the second-rate after the 2008 season reached the summit of the third division.

Achievements

• Torneo República: 1x (1990 )

• Segunda División: 1x (1982 )

• Tercera División: 2x (1979, 2008)

• Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 2x

• Participation in the Copa Conmebol: 1x

Known player

• Tobie Mimboe Cameroon, Cameroonian International, at numerous clubs around the world under contract, even briefly at Colegiales
• Paraguay Delio Toledo, career began at Colegiales, later, among others, at Udinese Calcio, Espanyol and Real Zaragoza