Tacuary

Tacuary

Full name	Tacuary Foot Ball Club
Nickname(s)	Tacua, Pumas
Founded	1923
Ground	Estadio Roberto Bettega (Capacity: 15,000)
Chairman	Francisco Ocampo
Manager	Oscar Paulin
League	Paraguayan Primera División
2010 Apertura	12th
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Tacuary Foot Ball Club is a Paraguayan football team, based in the neighborhood of Barrio Jara, Asunción. The club was founded in 1923. Despite being a small team that got promoted to the first division fairly recently (in 2002), Tacuary qualified to the prestigious Copa Libertadores tournament twice (in 2005 and 2007) and the Copa Sudamericana in 2007.

Honours

• Paraguayan Second Division: 1

2002

• Paraguayan Third Division: 4

1953, 1961, 1983, 1999

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 2 appearances

2005: Preliminary Round

2007: Preliminary Round

• Copa Sudamericana: 1 appearance

2007: First Round

Current squad

As of June 16, 2010.^[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Roberto Acosta GK Alvaro García GK Carlos Servín DF Gustavo Giménez DF Ricky Kitawaki DF Nery Bareiro DF Gregor Aguayo DF Luciano Vera DF Pablo Espinoza DF Marcos Antonio Acosta DF Marcos Acosta Vera DF Juan Núñez DF Facundo Quiroga DF Ignacio Paniagua MF Diosnel Burgos MF Benito Montalvo MF Lorenzo Silva MF César García

No. Position Player MF Cirilo Mora MF Raúl Román MF Carlos Martínez Arce MF Carlos Manuel Martínez MF Gustavo Sanabria MF Brian Montenegro FW José Miguel Ortega FW Ramón Cardozo FW Rogerio Liechtweis FW Albert Melgarejo FW Ronald Villalba FW Antonio Miño FW Diego Duarte FW Carlos Machuca FW Juvenal Cardozo FW Pablo Palacios FW Ricardo Domínguez

References

1. ^ BDFA

External links

• Tacuary Official Site