Club Blooming

Club Blooming is a Bolivian football club from Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The club was founded on May 1, 1946 won the Bolivian Football Championship four times.

Club history

On May 1, 1946 group of young men founded under the leadership of Humberto Vaca Pereyra Montaño a sports club, which is modeled on the aspiring youth of the city of Santa Cruz the name blooming (flowering or flowering ) received. The club took part in the championship of the Asociación de Fútbol Cruceña (ACF ). In 1977, Blooming was one of the founding teams of the professional national league and finished second in the premiere season in fifth place.

In the first half of the 1980s was one of the strongest clubs Blooming in the country. After two vice - championships in 1982 and 1983 the team won the 1984 for the first time the title. In the Copa Libertadores 1985, the team moved into the semifinals.

Ten years later, the club ran into financial problems that culminated in the first descent of the club's history in 1995. With a new club management and new sporty line succeeded not only in the immediate re- ascent, but after a third place in 1997, two championships in a row in 1998 and 1999.

Blooming won the 2005 Apertura, 2008, the team reached the final of the Clausura. There, the team 2:0 and 0:3 Club Aurora was beaten.

The team is coached since September 2013 by Gustavo Díaz, who replaced the sacked Víctor Hugo Andrada.

Achievements

  • Bolivian champion: 1984, 1998, 1999 and 2005 (Apertura)
  • Bolivian Vice-Champion: 1982, 1983 and 2008 ( Clausura )

Well-known former players

  • Argentina Juan Carlos Sánchez
  • Bolivia Erwin Frey
  • Bolivia Víctor Hugo Antelo
  • Argentina Raúl Horacio Baldessari
  • Bolivia Limberg Gutiérrez
  • Bolivia Milton Melgar
  • Bolivia Miguel Ángel Noro
  • Bolivia Jaime Moreno
  • Bolivia Juan Manuel Peña
  • Argentina Claudio Ubaldo Chena
  • Argentina Víctor Hugo Andrada
  • Argentina René Domingo Taritolay
  • Bolivia Miguel Aguilar
  • Bolivia Álvaro Peña
  • Bolivia Silvio Rojas
  • Bolivia Roly Paniagua
  • Bolivia Modesto Soruco
  • Bolivia Adhemir " Narri " Méndez
  • Bolivia Berthy Suárez
  • Bolivia Rubén Tufiño
  • Bolivia Eduardo Higazzi
  • Ecuador Jimmy Blandón
  • Argentina César Couceiro
  • Bolivia Lorgio Álvarez
  • Bolivia Renny Ribera

External links and sources

  • Statements Tables Bolivia from 1950 to 1990, English
  • Bolivian football championships, results and tables, English
1985 Copa Libertadores Apertura and Clausura
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