Cienciano del Cuzco

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Cienciano

Full name

Club Sportivo Cienciano

Nickname(s)

"El Papá" (The Father)

Founded

1901

Ground

Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega
Cuzco
(Capacity 42,000)

Chairman

Juvenal Silva

Manager

Franco Navarro

League

Primera División Peruana

Apertura 2007

2nd





Home colours





Away colours

Cienciano del Cuzco is a football (soccer) club from Cuzco, Peru. The club was founded in 1901, originally the team of the Faculty of Science of the University of Cuzco (Ciencias meaning science in Spanish), where it takes its name from. It gained worldwide recognition after defeating River Plate from Argentina in the finals of the 2003 Copa Sudamericana.

1 History
2 Stadium
3 Current Squad
4 Achievements
- 4.1 National
- 4.2 International
5 Copa Sudamericana 2003 Players
6 Recopa Sudamericana 2004 Players
7 External links

Cienciano was founded in 1901 by a group of students from the National School of Science of Cusco (Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco). It participated in several leagues and tournaments of the region. In 1972, it began to play in the Peruvian First Division. However, four years later, the club was relegated.

In 1988, the FPF invited the club to play in a tournament of the southern region. In 1991, Cienciano won the tournament and in 1992 it once again played in the First Division. Since then, the team has remained in the First Division but was close to be relegated in 1994.

In 2003 Cienciano, led by their coach Freddy Ternero, made it for the first time to the Copa Sudamericana, after beating the current Peruvian champion Sporting Cristal in an internal qualifying tournament. It went through every later knockout round arguably as the underdog defeating Peru's Alianza Lima, Chile's Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, Colombia's Atlético Nacional (once Copa Libertadores champion) and Brazil's Santos (twice Copa Libertadores champion), to get to the finals. Once at the finals they faced one of the biggest teams in South American football, River Plate of Argentina (twice Copa Libertadores champion). After a 3-3 draw in Buenos Aires, Cienciano went on to win 1-0 on their home game in Peru with a goal from a free kick by Paraguayan defender Carlos Lugo. The game was played in Arequipa (home of Southern Peruvian rivals Melgar, some of whose fans actually attended the match to root for River Plate) because of the insufficient capacity for a CONMEBOL final of the Estadio Garcilazo de la Vega (which has since been expanded)

This was the first international championship for a Peruvian team in history, only two other Peruvian teams had advanced to the finals of an international tournament, the Copa Libertadores (Universitario de Deportes in 1972, and Sporting Cristal in 1997) only to be defeated. However, Cienciano had never won the Peruvian national champion (they did win one half-year tournament in 2001 but lost the title of national champions by a penalty shootout to the winner of the second tournament, Alianza Lima, in the year in which both celebrated their centenary. The situation was repeated in 2006 to the inverse: Cienciano won the second tournament but lost the final to Alianza Lima on aggregate).

After winning the Copa Sudamericana, Cienciano went on to play against Boca Juniors of Argentina, another South American giant, for the 2004 Recopa Sudamericana, this being just one match, much like UEFA's European Super Cup, that faced the winner of both South American Cups of the previous season: the Copa Sudamericana and the Copa Libertadores. After a 1-1 draw, Cienciano went on to win the title by penalty shootout. The match was played in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Main article: Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega

Cienciano play their home games in Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega which is in Cusco. It was named after the Peruvian Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. When first inaugurated in 1950, it had a spectator capacity of 30,000. In 2004, the stadium's capacity was expanded to 42,000 because it would host games of the Copa America.

As of July 30, 2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Jesús Cisneros
2	DF	Miguel Huertas
3	DF	Edgar Villamarín
4	DF	Sandro Gamarra
5	DF	Nicolás Pisano
6	MF	César Ccahuantico
7	FW	Natalio Portillo
8	MF	Juan Carlos Bazalar
9	FW	Eugenio Peralta
10	MF	Julio García
11	FW	José Carlos Fernández

No.	Position	Player
12	GK	Ignacio Drago
14	DF	Carlos Fernández
16	MF	Yoshiro Salazar
17	DF	Javier Salazar
18	FW	Víctor Rossel
19	DF	Guillermo Guizasola
20	MF	Christian Guevara
21	GK	Juan Flores
22	FW	William Chiroque
24	MF	Edson Uribe
	FW	Masakatsu Sawa