Full name | Club Sportivo Ameliano | ||
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Nickname(s) | La V azulada[1](The bluish V) | ||
Founded | 6 January 1936[1] | ||
Ground | Estadio José Tomás Silva,[1] Barrio Virgen del Huerto, Asunción | ||
Capacity | 2,000 | ||
Manager | Aldo Bobadilla | ||
League | Primera División | ||
2023 | Primera División, 7th of 12 | ||
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Club Sportivo Ameliano, also simply known as Ameliano, is a Paraguayan football club based in Virgen del Huerto neighborhood in the city of Asunción. The club competes in the Paraguayan Primera División for the 2022 season after their promotion at the end of the 2021 Paraguayan División Intermedia.[1]
The club was home to Alfredo Mazacotte who began his career in the youth teams of the club,[2] and is actually the home of historic striker Marcos Caballero who played for the club from 2003–2021, the player was the leading goal scorer of the Primera División C of 2008 with 11 annotations along with Alberto Cristaldo of Deportivo Recoleta.[3]
The ex-footballer and Argentine coach Oscar Paulin was credited for taking the club to the zone of promotion in 2015 and 2016. He achieved the promotion for the club from the fourth division to the third division in 2015 via a play-off and he put the club in the first position of the third division with two games remaining in the 2016 season – being one point from assuring at least the sub champion – in what is considered as the most successful phase of the club.[4][5] Ex-goal keeper of the Albirroja Celso Guerrero also was the coach of the club from 2012 to 2013.[6]
The Bluish V has the notability of being recognized by The Guinness Book of Records for the most red cards in one game – referee William Weiler expelled 20 players in a game between Sportivo Ameliano and General Caballero on 1 of June 1993.[7][8][9]