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Universitario de Deportes

File:Universitariodedeportes.png
Full name	Club Universitario de Deportes
Nickname(s)	La “U”, Los de Odriozola, Los Merengues, Los Cremas
Founded	August 7, 1924
Ground	Estadio Monumental
Capacity	80,093
Club President	Gino Pinasco
Manager	Ricardo Gareca
League	Primera División Peruana
2008	1st, Apertura
Home colours Away colours

Universitario de Deportes is a Peruvian football club located in Lima. Also referred to as Universitario or La “U”. It was founded in 1924 as Federación Universitaria by professors and students from the National University of San Marcos but was forced to re-name in 1931. Since 1928, the club has always played in the top tier of Peruvian football, the First Peruvian Division (Primera División Peruana). Since 2000, its home games have been played at the Estadio Monumental, the largest in Peru. Universitario and Alianza Lima are involved in a derby called the Peruvian Super Classic (Superclásico Peruano), which started in 1928.

Universitario has won twenty-four first division titles, more than any other club in Peru, and was the first Peruvian club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores. The club won its first national title in 1929, one year after its debut in the first division. Its first Bi-Championship (bicampeonato) title was won in the seasons of 1945 and 1946. Its last title, won in 2000, was also its Tri-Championship title. Universitario's youth team is America Cochahuayco which currently participates in the Peruvian Second Division.

History

Early years

The club was founded on August 7, 1924 as Federación Universitaria by students and professors of the National University of San Marcos such as José Rubio—the first president—and Dr. Luis Málaga—the creator of the badge. Other people present during the foundation were Plácido Galindo, Eduardo Astengo, Mario de las Casas, Alberto Denegri, Luis de Souza Ferreyra and Andrés Rotta. At first, Federacion Universitaria was a small league that held tournaments between the faculty departments of the university.

The National Sports Committee (El Comité Nacional de Deportes)—the highest-ranking sports committee of Peru at the time—recognized Federación Universitaria as an official league; along with other small leagues in Lima and Callao. They all joined the Peruvian Football Federation (Federación Peruana de Fútbol, FPF). Although there was no requirement to play a tournament in order to be promoted to the Peruvian First Division, the club did not play in it between 1924 and 1927 as it only played friendly matches with other teams during this period.

In 1928, the FPF finally allowed the club to enter the First Division. The club surprised its own fans and others that year because they ended as runner-ups of that season. During that season, on September 23 1928, Universitario played the first superclásico with Alianza Lima (the champion of the 1927 season) and won 1-0. However, it lost to Alianza in the finals 2-0. The following year Universitario won its first tournament and was crowned as Peruvian champion, preventing Alianza Lima from winning a third consecutive title.

In 1931, the rector of the university, José Antonio Encinas, forbade the club to use the name Federación Universitaria in their team name. As a result, the club changed its name to Universitario de Deportes retaining the symbolic “U” in their name.

Copa Libertadores 1972

In 1971, Universitario won its fourteenth first division title and qualified for the 1972 edition of the Copa Libertadores under the Uruguayan head coach Roberto Scarone along with Alianza Lima who placed second that season. They were grouped with the Chilean teams Unión San Felipe and Universidad de Chile in Group 4. Universitario's first game was the Peruvian superclásico which it won 2-1. The following game was held in Santiago de Chile against Universidad de Chile where it lost 1-0. Universitario later tied with the other Chilean team in Santiago. Universitario returned to Lima to face Alianza Lima again where they tied 2-2. At that point Universitario and Universidad de Chile had accumulated 4 points while Alianza and Unión San Felipe had 3. Universitario won the remaining games against the Chilean teams in Lima, obtaining 8 points and qualifying for the next round.

Universitario was grouped with the Uruguayan clubs Peñarol—a three-time winner of the Copa Libertadores—and Nacional—the previous edition's winner—in the semi-final group stage. La U started off losing their first match against Peñarol in Lima. In that match, La U did not play with five of their starting players because they were called to play for the Peru national football team. However, they won the following game against Nacional 3-0. They then visited both teams in Montevideo tieing both games, 3-3 against Nacional and 1-1 against Peñarol. Universitario had accumulated 4 points and there was only one game left between Peñarol and Nacional, which had 4 and 2 points respectively. All three teams had a chance of qualifying for the next round. Peñarol only needed a win but Nacional needed a win by 5 goals. The game ended 3-0 in favor of Nacional allowing Universitario to qualify for the final round where they would face Independiente.

The first leg of the final was played in Lima where they tied 0-0. The game in Argentina ended 2-1 in favor of the Argentines; Percy Rojas scored the late goal for Universitario. This was Percy Rojas' sixth goal in the tournament. He, along with Teófilo Cubillas, Oswaldo Ramírez, and Toninho, were the top-scorers. Although Universitario lost, they had achieved something a Peruvian club had never before, reach the final of the Copa Libertadores, the most prestigious international competition in South America.

Trichampionship

By winning in 1998, 1999, and 2000, Universitario won their first Tri-Championship (Tricampeonato, or three consecutive titles). The 1998 title was won under Oswaldo Piazza and Roberto Challe led the club to the other two titles. It was the third Peruvian team to do this; the first being Alianza Lima and the second Sporting Cristal. Universitario has not won another league title since 2000. It was also during the 2000 season that they were the second Peruvian club to win an Apertura and Clausura in a single season; the first being Alianza Lima in 1997. In the Copa Libertadores, Universitario made it to the Round of 16 in 1998 only to lose to Velez Sarsfield. In 1999 and 2000 they failed to get past the group stage. Universitario also qualified for all four editions of the Copa Merconorte between 1999 and 2001 but did not have a lot of success due to being eliminated in the group stage.

Recent years

In 2002, Universitario beat Alianza Lima in the Apertura playoff but failed to finish in the top four of the 2002 Clausura and were not able to dispute the national title. With the Apertura title they qualified for the Copa Libertadores 2003 and again failed to get past the group stage. In 2005, Universitario placed first on the aggregate table and qualified for the Copa Libertadores 2006, where they won on away goals against Nacional in the preliminary round—2-2 in Paraguay and 0-0 in Peru. Despite entering the group stage with high hopes, their group-stage campaign did not go well, finishing last with 2 points.

Universitario qualified for was the Copa Sudamericana 2007 under Jorge Amado Nunes by finishing fifth on the aggregate table in the 2006 season. They came close to qualify for the Copa Libertadores 2007 by tying with Cienciano in the Clausura and losing to them in the playoff. Before the start of the 2007 season, Nunes was dismissed from the team as manager and temporarily replaced by the Colombian Edgar Ospina. However, after the newly-elected president Gino Pinasco took charge, Nunes was re-hired and dismissed again. His assistant manager Julio Gomez took over and led them in the Copa Sudamericana 2007 but were eliminated in the preliminary round by Atletico Nacional—0-1 in Peru and 1-0 in Colombia. During the 2007 season, Julio Gomez produced poor results for the club which led the club to replace him with the Argentine Ricardo Gareca. Under Gareca, Universitario once again almost came close to qualify for the Copa Libertadores but fell short one point to Coronel Bolognesi. They finished 4th on the aggregate table and qualified for the Copa Sudamericana 2008.

As of 2007, Universitario has twenty-four first division titles. The first seven titles won by Universitario were during the amateur era. The remaining seventeen titles were won during the professional era, the most any Peruvian club has. In 2000, Universitario became the second Peruvian club to have won an Apertura and Clausura in the same year; the first being Alianza Lima in 1997.

Colors and badge

Universitario's colors are cream (called crema in Spanish), red, burgundy (called guinda in Spanish), and black. When playing a home game they use the crema-colored kit with black socks and when playing away they use the burgundy-colored kit with black socks.

The club's colors at first were not crema. They started out with a white kit which had the badge on the chest. During one of their early seasons, Universitario could not participate in an upcoming match because their uniforms had been sent to the laundry to be washed. The managers pleaded that they hurry with the laundry and they quickly washed them. However, when the club received the jerseys, they found that they were no longer white, but yellow. The laundry workers had forgotten to remove the badges from the jerseys and consequently the red color from the badges mixed with the white jerseys giving it a yellow tint. The club had no choice but to use the jersey to play. They managed to win that game and a few others as well and thus the club kept the new-colored kit as a good-luck charm.

The badge is a red U inside a red circle drawn by Luis Malaga, one of the founders of the club.

Universitario's first kit

Universitario's current home kit

Universitario's current away kit

Current first GK kit

Stadium

Universitario's first stadium was the Estadio Teodoro Lolo Fernandez. It had a capacity of 15,000. Its capacity was reduced to 4,000 and now serves as a soccer academy for its club members and hosts soccer games for the reserve team America Cochahuayco and youth teams in the youth divisions. It was built in honor of Teodoro “Lolo” Fernandez, Universitario's most famous player. For more important high-risk games, the club used the Estadio Nacional.

The Estadio Monumental is a stadium that was built by the Peruvian construction company GREMCO throughout the 1990s and opened in 2000, replacing the Lolo Fernandez and the Nacional. The inauguration game was between Universitario and Sporting Cristal; Universitario won 2-0. It was given to Universitario the same year it was opened and they now own the largest stadium in Peru with a capacity of 80,000 seats. This stadium is one of the most modern stadiums of South America and the third largest. Its eastern and western stands are all-seaters and its northern and southern stands have standing terraces. Exactly 1,251 luxury boxes, known as palcos, are above the stands.

Unfortunately, the stadium is not fit to host the classic derby between Universitario and Alianza Lima. The only time this stadium hosted the derby was on June 26, 2002—the first round of the Apertura play-off—where Universitario won 1 to 0. Alianza's fans, in the southern stand, reacted violently to the loss by vandalizing the bathrooms and breaking handrails. Once outside the stadium, the fans broke the windows of nearby houses and destroyed cars. It was reported that two people in the stadium were stabbed. Consequently, La U is forced to play the clásico at the Estadio Nacional where the Instituto Peruano del Deporte installed artificial turf which is constantly criticized by the First Division players.

It is interesting to note that this stadium was rejected as a venue for the Copa América 2004 because of problems with Alfredo Gonzalez, President of Universitario de Deportes, and the stadium's owners. Many saw this as a typical bullying behavior on the part of the president since this stadium would have been the perfect venue to host the 2004 Copa América intro as well as final games.

Supporters

Universitario is known for having the second largest amount of supporters in Peru. Rival Alianza Lima is the most popular club in the country. The main ultra supporters groups are La Trinchera Norte (The Northern Trench), also known as a barra brava, and La Barra U Oriente. The former has a reputation for the more violent and aggressive. Members of both groups regularly travel across Peru to support the club and can always be seen arriving early for each game. A founding member of La Trinchera Norte, known as “Misterio”, is well known in Peru for killing himself playing Russian roulette. A local mini-series, called Misterio, was made based on his life.

In a friendly game between Universitario and Sport Boys, on January 19, 2007, before the start of the season, the barra brava—the Trinchera Norte—attacked many supporters of Sport Boys during the second half of the game. Universitario was winning 1-0 and the referee then decided to suspend the game. Police were not present during the game as the Prefecture of Lima (Prefectura de Lima) did not authorize the game to be played and therefore did not send police forces. Many Sport Boys fans were hurt and security cameras captured many aggressive attacks. The use of the stadium for soccer games was temporarily suspended. The Peruvian press heavily criticized the former-president Fausto Miranda and directors of the club.

Current squad

Peruvians teams are limited to three players without Peruvian citizenship per game. Peruvian teams must also have its U-20 players (born after 1989) accumulate at least 1,170 minutes of game time.

As of March 15, 2008 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  PER Raúl Fernandez 2 DF  PER Javier Molina 3 MF  PER Donny Neyra 4 DF  ARG Carlos Galván (vice-captain) 5 MF  PER Antonio Gonzalez 6 MF  PER Rainer Torres 7 MF  PER Miguel Torres 8 MF  PER Julio Landauri 9 FW  PER Roberto Jiménez 10 MF  COL Mayer Candelo 11 FW  PER Gianfranco Labarthe 12 GK  PER Luis Llontop 13 DF  PER Manuel Calderón 14 DF  PER Jorge Araujo

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  PER Miguel Cevasco 17 MF  PER Jean Tragodara 18 FW  COL Héctor Hurtado 19 FW  PER Irvin Ávila 20 MF  PER Robert Ardiles 21 GK  PER Óscar Ibáñez 23 DF  PER Nestor Duarte 24 DF  PER Willy Rivas 25 DF  PER Víctor Zapata 26 DF  PER Víctor Balta 27 MF  PER Gary Correa 28 DF  PER Jesus Rabanal 29 MF  PER Gregorio Bernales 30 DF  PER John Fajardo

Reserves

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 FW  PER John Torres — DF  PER Martin Soto — DF  PER Pablo Ore

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  PER Raúl Maguiña — FW  PER Luis Molina — FW  PER Miguel Curiel

Technical staff

Position	Name
Manager	Ricardo Gareca
Assistant Manager	Sergio Santín
Assistant Manager	Eusebio Flores
First-team Coach	William Romero
Physiotherapist	Luis Sihuay
Physiotherapist	Luis Yupanqui
Goalkeeping Coach	Alfredo Honores
Fitness and Conditioning Coach	Néstor Bonillo

Notable players

*Naturalized Peruvians

• Retired numbers

22 – José Luis Carranza, midfielder (1986-2004)

Noted managers

Achievements

Honors

• Primera División Peruana:
  • Winners (24): 1929, 1934, 1939, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000.
  • Runner-ups (14): 1928, 1932, 1933, 1940, 1955, 1965, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1995, 2002.
• Apertura:
  • Winners (4): 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002.
  • Runner-up (1): 2005.
• Clausura:
  • Winners (1): 2000.
  • Runner-ups (4): 1997, 1999, 2006, 2007.
• Copa Libertadores: 25 appearances
  • Runner-up (1): 1972.
  • Semifinalist (3): 1967, 1971, 1975.
• Copa CONMEBOL: 2 appearances
  • Semifinalist (1): 1997.

Ranking

Club Ranking for 2007-08 (Previous year rank in italics, IFFHS Club Coefficients in parentheses)

• 231 (230) FC Dinamo Tbilisi (78.0)
• 232 (181) West Ham United FC (78.0)
• 233 File:GreenUpArrow.svg (249) Universitario de Deportes (78.0)
• 234 File:GreenUpArrow.svg (257) Atlante FC (77.0)
• 235 (214) FBK Kaunas (77.0)

Records

Top Strikers

Year Player Nationality Goals 2008 In progress 2007 Johan Fano  Peru 19 2006 Piero Alva  Peru 16 2005 Piero Alva  Peru 12 2004 Ysrael Zúñiga  Peru 11 2003 Paul Cominges  Peru 15 2002 Martín Vilallonga  Argentina 10 2001 Sergio Ibarra  Argentina 15 2000 Eduardo Esidio  Brazil 37 1999 Roberto Farfán  Peru 23 1998 Roberto Farfán  Peru 17 1997 Cesar Charún  Peru 12 1996 Adrián Czornomaz  Argentina 20 1995 Germán Carty  Peru 17 1994 Andrés Gonzales  Peru 1993 Andrés Gonzales  Peru 1992 Ronald Baroni  Peru 1990 Juan Carlos Letelier  Chile 1988 Juvenal Briceño  Peru

Year Player Nationality Goals 1987 Fidel Suarez  Peru 20 1984 Jaime Drago  Peru 13 1982 Percy Rojas  Peru 19 1978 Juan José Oré  Peru 19 1964 Angel Uribe  Peru 15 1959 Daniel Ruiz  Peru 28 1957 Daniel Ruiz  Peru 20 1956 Daniel Ruiz  Peru 16 1950 Alberto Terry  Peru 16 1945 Teodoro Fernández  Peru 16 1944 Victor Espinoza  Peru 6 1943 German Cerro  Peru 9 1942 Teodoro Fernández  Peru 11 1940 Teodoro Fernández  Peru 15 1939 Teodoro Fernández  Peru 15 1934 Teodoro Fernández  Peru 9 1933 Teodoro Fernández  Peru 9 1932 Teodoro Fernández  Peru 11 1929 Carlos Cillóniz  Peru 8

Bold scores indicate season's top scorer.
Naturalized Peruvian

Official sponsors

• Umbro - Kit provider
• Grupo Santo Domingo - Primary sponsor
• Cusqueña - Secondary sponsor
• Pieers - Secondary sponsor
• Hotel Ariosto - Secondary sponsor

References

1. ^ "History of Club Universitario de Deportes". dalecrema.4t.com. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
2. "History of Universitario". elbocon.com. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
3. ^ "Universitario subcampeon de America 1972". ahunet.com. Retrieved 2007-10-21.
4. ^ "Universitario finalista de la Copa Libertadores de 1972". futbolperuano.com. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
5. "Copa Libertadores - Topscorers". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
6. "History of Club Universitario de Deportes". daleucampeon.4t.com. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
7. "Estadio Monumental". FPF.com.pe. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
8. "Autoridades enfrentadas por desmanes del partido "U" - Alianza". futbolperuano.com. Retrieved 2007-10-06.
9. "Vuelven las quejas por el sintético del Nacional". Retrieved 2007-11-01.
10. "Monumental, Copa América 2004". futbolperuano.com. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
11. "La tragedia rondó en Ate". futbolperuano.com. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
12. "Plantel 2008". universitario.com.pe. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
13. "Los equipos del torneo Apertura 2008". elcomercioperu.com.pe. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
14. IFFHS Team Ranking Retrieved on 1 March 2008
15. "Peru - List of First Division Topscorers". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2008-03-18.

External links

• Template:Es icon Club Universitario de Deportes Official Website
• Template:Es icon La Banda de Odriozola Fan Website
• Template:Es icon Todo por la U Fan Website
• Template:Es icon Hinchada Crema Fan Website
• Template:Es icon Barra Oriente Fan Website
• Template:Es icon Dale U Campeon Fan Website
• Template:Es icon Peruvian Football League News
• Template:Es icon AHUNET Asociación de hinchas de la U en internet
• Template:Es icon Unidad Crema Club members group website
• Template:Es icon Trinchera Norte Official Supporters Group Website

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• Universitario de Deportes
• Football (soccer) clubs established in 1924
• Peruvian football clubs
• University and college sports clubs