Defensor Lima

Club Atlético Defensor Lima is a Peruvian football club from Brena near the capital Lima. The club was founded in 1931 and plays its home games at the Estadio Nacional, which seats 45,000 spectators. Defensor Lima has been once football champions of Peru and is currently playing in the Copa Perú.

History

Defensor Lima was founded on July 31 of 1931 in the district of Brena near the Peruvian capital Lima and carries due to this proximity to the capital and the name of this. The first years of its existence, the club spent exclusively in the vastness of unterklassigen Peruvian football. So it took about thirty years until you could find Defensor Lima once in the top division of the country. In the 1960 season the team succeeded in winning the Segunda División and thus to the rise in the Primera División, where you could also get established.

In 1973 Defensor Lima succeeded quite a big surprise. In a time in which the Peruvian football was dominated by giants Universitario de Deportes, which had managed in the previous year as the first Peruvian team ever to jump into the final of the Copa Libertadores, Defensor Lima duped the top teams and secured to the first and to date only time the championship of the Andean country. After the regular season ranked only four Scrapping, the team of Uruguayan coach Roque Máspoli increased in the final round and finished it on the first place with one point ahead of Sporting Cristal. This success Defensor Lima was entitled to start for the Copa Libertadores 1974, where it again made ​​in the group phase for a certain surprise. In the group of four along with Sporting Cristal and the two Ecuadorian representatives CD El Nacional and Universidad Católica you took first place in the table, reaching the next round. The second group stage then proceeded but less edifying, you could neither win nor end up a draw, but lost each of the four games and was eliminated as Table behind the Sao Paulo from Brazil as well as Los Millonarios from Colombia from CD. To date, this appearance in the Copa Libertadores is the only one for the club.

After the championship of 1973 it went with the services of Defensor Lima strong downhill. A few years later they were relegated in 1980 managed to return to the highest stage of Peruvian football. After another descent and re- ascent 1988 Defensor Lima spent his so far last season in the Primera División in 1994, when they were relegated as Table. After that, the club never managed again to return to the top flight, but today is rather to be found only in the valleys of the Copa Perú, the participants will be determined at the second highest league in the year after year.

Known player

  • Peru Gerónimo Barbadillo, Peruvian World Cup participants from 1982, from 1974 to 1977 with Defensor Lima, later, among others, in Avellino and Udinese
  • Peru Guillermo La Rosa, comes from the youth department of Defensor Lima, continues to be part of the championship team of 1975 and two-time World Cup participants
  • Peru Juan Valdivieso, Peruvian World Cup qualifiers in 1930, shortly Defensor Lima, the whole rest of career with Alianza Lima
  • Peru Luis Rubiños, keeper of the Peruvian World Cup team in 1970, short-term loan in 1963 by Defensor Sporting Cristal in Lima
  • Peru Nicolás Fuentes, a participant in the 1970 World Cup from 1973 to 1974 at the club, otherwise long time at Universitario de Deportes
  • Peru Roberto Challe, World Cup 1970 participant and multiple champion with Universitario de Deportes, part of the 1973 championship team Defensor Lima
  • Peru Rubén Correa, long time at Universitario de Deportes and World Cup qualifiers in 1970, for career finale at Defensor Lima under contract
  • Uruguay Waldemar Victorino, former Uruguayan international and World Cup winner in 1980, career ending at Defensor Lima

Known coach

  • Peru Marcos Calderon, coach of Peru at the World Cup in 1978, 1987 victims of the plane crash in which the entire team Alianza Lima, died in 1963 shortly Defensor
  • Peru Roberto Challe Olarte, as a player of the World Cup in 1970, later Defensor Lima ascent trainer in 1988, and also two-time champion with Universitario de Deportes
  • Uruguay Roque Máspoli, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper and World Champion in 1950, as manager of the champion team of Defensor Lima in 1973

Achievements

  • Peruvian Championship: 1x (1973 )
  • Peruvian second-division Championship: 2x (1960, 1988)
  • Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 1x
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