Cerro Porteño
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| Nickname(s) |
El Ciclón (The Cyclone) Club del Pueblo (The People's Team) La Mitad más Uno (The Half plus One) |
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| Founded | October 1, 1912 |
| Ground |
General Pablo Rojas Stadium (La Olla), Asunción, Paraguay |
| Chairman |
 Juan José Zapag
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| Manager |
 Gustavo Matosas
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| League | Paraguayan Primera División |
| 2nd in the last season (Torneo Clausura 2015) | |
Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan football club, based in the neighbourhood of Barrio Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 31 Primera División titles and is one of the most popular football clubs in Paraguay. Its actual president is Juan José Zapag, from Paraguay, and the DT is Gustavo Morínigo. Its main rivals are Olimpia and Libertad.
They play their home games at the General Pablo Rojas Stadium, also known as La Olla (The Boiler).
Cerro Porteño was founded on October 1, 1912 by Susana Núñez and a group of young people looking to create a new football club. At the time of Cerro's foundation the situation in Paraguay was tense with instability in the government caused by the fervent rivalries between the two leading political parties, the Partido Colorado (Colorado Party) and the Partido Liberal (Liberal Party). Because of the tensions, the founders of the club decided to use the colours of both parties, red (Colorados) and blue (Liberales), as the club's colours as a symbol of unity and friendship between Paraguayans. Later, white was used on the shorts to complete the colours of the Paraguayan flag.
The club owes its name to the battle fought between the forces of Buenos Aires, Argentina (The Porteños) and the Paraguayan army, in the neighbourhood of the Cerro Mbaé (Mbaé Hill) – named after that battle as the Cerro Porteño (Porteño Hill) – on 19 January 1811. During that battle, the troops of Paraguay (at that time a Spanish colony) were abandoned by the Spanish governor but continued to be led by the Paraguayan officials, who led them to a great victory against the Porteños troops. That battle is known as the "Battle of Cerro Porteño" and is a highlight of Paraguayan military history.
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