Oriente Petrolero

Oriente Petrolero is a football club based in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. It was founded on November 5, 1955 by the workers of a petroleum company. Its home games at the Estadio Ramón he wears Tahuichi Aguilera from ( 38,000 seats). The players are popularly known Albiverdes ("white - green" ), which arises from the club's colors.

Achievements

The club won in 1971, 1979, 1990 and 2001 national championship Bolivia. In addition, nine runner-up in 1971 and a national cup final to book. 1972 and 1976 the team was also in the cup final, but lost each game.

Copa Libertadores

His biggest international success came Oriente Petrolero in the season of 1988, when you are in the preliminary round Group 4 of the Copa Libertadores teams of Cerro Porteno Olimpia Asunción (both from Paraguay) left and Club Bolívar behind him in the second round Colo Colo (Chile) defeated and only in the quarter-finals failed to América de Cali of Colombia. Overall, the club took 15 times participate in this most important club competition in South America.

Former Players

  • Bolivia Juan Carlos Arce
  • Bolivia José Alfredo Castillo
  • Paraguay Pablo Zeballos
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