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Sol de América

Full name	Club Sol de América
Nickname(s)	El Danzarín El Unicolor Los Dragones Azules
Founded	March 22, 1909; 115 years ago (1909-03-22)
Ground	Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa, Paraguay
Ground Capacity	11,000
Chairman	Carlos Giagni
Manager	César Castro
League	Primera División
2023	División Intermedia, 1st of 16 (promoted)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Sol de América is a Paraguayan sports club, mostly known for its football team. The club is located in Barrio Obrero, Asunción, and it was founded in 1909. The stadium Sol de America uses for most of its games is located in the suburb city of Villa Elisa on the border of the capital city, Asunción. Sol de America have won the Paraguayan First Division title on two occasions, in 1986 and then again in 1991. They also have a strong basketball team and an athletics department.

Football

Honours

• Paraguayan First Division: 2

1986, 1991

• Paraguayan Second Division: 4

1965, 1977, 2006, 2023

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 6 appearances

Best: Quarter-finals in 1989

1989: Quarter-finals

Current squad

As of 24 January, 2024

No. Position Player 1 GK Gerardo Ortiz 2 DF Gustavo Giménez 3 DF Richard Cabrera 4 DF Ignacio Paniagua 5 MF Fernando Godoy 7 FW Santiago Salcedo 8 MF Cristian Amarilla 9 FW Oscar Coronel 11 MF Luis Ortíz 13 DF Carlos Samudio 15 FW Fernando Díaz 16 DF Guido Gamarra 17 FW Derlis Aquino

No. Position Player 18 MF Derlis Orué 19 FW Ronald Roa 20 FW David Fernández 21 DF Víctor Barrios 22 MF Franco Aragón 23 MF Ariel Estigarribia 25 FW Nélson Sanabria 26 FW Leandro Espejo (on loan from Defensa y Justicia) 28 GK Diego Aranda 29 FW Lisandro Cabrera 30 FW José Ortigoza 31 MF Marcelo Acosta 32 DF Ever Cáceres

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either:

• Played at least 125 games for the club.
• Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club.
• Been part of a national team at any time.
• Played in the first division of any other football association (outside of Paraguay).
• Played in a continental and/or intercontinental competition.

1970s

• Secundino Aifuch (1971–75)
• Teresio Centurión (1976-1980 and 1981-1989)

1990s

• Gustavo Neffa (1996–98)

2000s

• Enrique Vera (2000–02)
• Fabián Caballero (2000)
• Cristian Bogado (2004)
• Pablo Zeballos (2005–07)
• Miguel Ángel Cuéllar (2007)
• Josías Paulo Cardoso Júnior (2009–2011)

2010s

• Glacinei Martins (2010–2011)
• Sebastian Abreu (2016–)

Non-CONMEBOL players

• Abraham Francois (2001)
• Massimiliano Ammendola (2013–14)

Managers

• Ferenc Puskás (1985–86)
• Sergio Markarián (1987–89)
• Ever Hugo Almeida (Jan 1, 1997 – Jan 1, 1999), (Jan 1, 2000 – Jan 1, 2001)
• Ricardo Dabrowski (2011–2013)
• Gualberto Jara (2013)
• Mauricio Larriera (2013)
• Roberto Pompei (2013–2014)
• Daniel Garnero (2015–2016)
• Fernando Ortiz (2017)
• Fernando Ortiz (2018)
• Pablo Daniel Escobar (2019–2020)
• Luis Islas (2020)
• Celso Ayala (2020–2021)
• Juan Pablo Pumpido (2021–2022)
• Celso Ayala (2022)
• Pablo Guiñazú (2022)
• Gustavo Bobadilla (2022–2023)
• Cesar Castro (2023–)

Other sports

Exterior view of the headquarters of the club from the 5ta Proyectadas Street in 2020

Athletics

Leryn Franco is a director of the athletics department at Club Sol de América

Sol de América also has an athletics department affiliated with the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. Physical preparers of the club are Edgar Torres and 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics javelin thrower Leryn Franco.

Basketball

Sol de América also has a basketball team participating in the Paraguayan Metropolitan Basketball League.

• Paraguayan Championship: 9

1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2010, 2011

See also

In Spanish: Club Sol de América (Asunción) para niños List of athletics clubs in Paraguay