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LDU Quito
Full name	Liga Deportiva Universitaria Quito
Nickname(s)	Los Albos Los Merengues founded = January 11th, 1930
Founded
Ground	Estadio La Casa Blanca Universitaria (Casa Blanca) (Capacity 55,104)
Chairman	Ing. Carlos Arroyo
Manager	Edgardo Bauza
League	Serie A
2007	1st Position
Home colours 　 Away colours

Liga Deportiva Universitaria (LDU) is a professional futbol club from the city of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.

Considered one of the best teams in ecuadorean football. Plays in the first division A of the ecuadorean football league. Liga has 9 national titles, and several participations in Copa Libertadores de America, and Copa Sudamericana.

Among its classic rivals one can mention Sociedad Deportiva Aucas, Club Deportivo El Nacional from Quito, Sociedad Deportivo Quito, and Barcelona Sporting Club from Guayaquil.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Foundation 1.2 The First Years 1.3 1945 The First Super Classic 2 Achievements 3 Current first team squad 4 External links

Liga was Founded January 12th, 1930, by a group of students and professionals from the Universidad Central del Ecuador. The team started as a semi-pro from the University in the year 1918, having Dr. César Jácome Moscoso as the main leader. In 1930, having Dr. Bolívar León as president, everything started. In those days Liga had different sports such as: soccer, basketball, athletics, box, baseball, swimming, ping-pong, and chess. The starting budget was around 500 sucres. That first team had as players students from Universidad Central, who had to pay their own uniforms, medicines, and various expenses. Dr. León, had to design the first uniform, a white shirt with a red U having a background two triangles, one blue and another red, pretty similar to the University's chest. The first players were: Carlos Andrade Marín, Oswaldo Mosquera, Alfonso Cevallos, Alfonso Troya, "el mono" Icaza, among others.

In 1932, a first category championship was played in Pichincha province. This tournament was played by five teams: Liga, Gladiador, Gimnástico, Atlétic and Cleveland. Liga won all games, and in the final game against Gladiador, played in the City Stadium of "El Ejido", won 4 - 0. In that team the players were: Jorge Zapater, Eduardo Flores, Alfonso Cevallos, César González, Jorge Vallarino, Jorge Naranjo, Bolívar "Ñato" León, Alejandro Dávalos, Humberto Yáñez, Humberto Freire and Ernesto Guevara, the coach was Bolívar León. That's how Liga won the first title in its history.

February 11th, 1945, a game played by Liga and Aucas will become the most important game in the province, and the second most important in Ecuador, The Super Classic was born. That first game ended witha tied score 1 - 1. The Pichincha Football Association decided to give an opportunity to one of its teams to raise in to the first category. Everything looked like Aucas was going to dominate and win the game easily. However Liga was the team that ruled the game. Days later, Sunday February 18th, those two teams met again. Th score ended 2 - 2. Liga was ahead in the score 2 - 0. Aucas scored, and when the 90 minutes were over, the time keeper ended the game, however the referee didn't noticed and let the game continue for two minutes more, that's when Aucas scored again. The assistants to the game were crazy and didn't let the game continue with the next two supplementary times unless the referee was changed. Finally the game restarted, but the score remain the same. The people started to argue that both teams deserved to go to the next category, or non of them. As a curious fact, that year Liga had its first foreign player and coach, El "Chile" Díaz.

• Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol
  • Champion [9] : 1969, 1974, 1975, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007

The team is known to have passionate supporters.

The team is the most successful team in Ecuador in the last decade. Their passionate supporters are well-known and well-respect around Ecuador and America.

• Participations in CONMEBOL tournaments
  • Copa Libertadores: (12 Participations) 1970, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
  • Best tournament: 4º in 1976 (semifinal)

• • Copa Sudamericana: (4 Participations) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
  • Best tournament: 3º in 2004 Semifinals

No. Position Player 1 GK Humberto Pretti 2 DF Norberto Araujo 3 DF Santiago Jácome 4 MF Paul Ambrossi 5 MF Alfonso Obregón 6 DF Arlin Ayoví 7 FW José Vizcarra 8 MF Patricio Urrutia 9 FW Luis Miguel Escalada 10 MF Christian Lara 12 GK Cristian Mora 13 MF Pedro Larrea

No. Position Player 14 MF Victor Chalá 15 MF Luis Alberto Ortiz 16 MF Diego Calderón 17 MF Jhonatan Monar 18 MF Orlindo Ayovi 19 FW Joffre Guerrón 20 MF Enrique Vera 21 FW Luis Alberto Bolaños 22 GK Alexander Domínguez 23 DF Jairo Campos 24 FW Angel Pután 25 MF Jonathan Villalba MF Edwin Tenorio FW Agustin Delgado MF Israel Chango MF Danny Vaca

• Official Site: http://www.ldu.com.ec
• Muerte Blanca: http://www.muerteblanca.com.ec

Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol • 2007 clubs v • d • e

Sporting Club Imbabura • Barcelona S.C. • Deportivo Cuenca • Deportivo Quito • Emelec  Deportivo Azogues • Liga de Quito (L.D.U.) • Macará • Nacional • Olmedo