Paraguayan Primera Division 2020 Apertura y Clausura

[jason voorhees]

********URGENT RONALDINHO GETTING ARRESTED IN FAKE PASSPORT SHOCK ALERT********

3 days ago, there was videos of Ronaldinho arriving in Paraguay while saying he was moving here.

2 days ago, there were videos of him getting arrested and pictures of the goofy fake cedulas and passports.

The general consensus is he hired an absolute clown to get his residency, as the lady simply faked a picture....when moving here and getting residency is about as easy as taking a flight, paying $200 at the window for a visa, getting a hotel room, then paying another few hundred for a residency card.

https://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/2020/03/07/ronaldinho-y-su-hermano-llegan-esposados-para-la-audiencia-de-imposicion-de-medidas/

https://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/20...mentos-falsos/

[jason voorhees]

Globo's coverage:

https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2...feONpie5wTyJIM

[ursus arctos]

Brilliant footballer.

Absolute clown in virtually every other respect.

[jason voorhees]

At least he brought Carnivale season with him. Between this and Adebayor's arrival, it's been quite the goofy around these parts.

[danielmak]

JV, do you have any recommendations for sites that have dates played for Paragauay league playoffs in the 1990s? RSSSF and Wikedia are no help. Right now I'm trying to chase down the dates for 1991 and 1992 seasons but I assume whatever site might have this info. would have other years as well when RSSSF only lists teams.

[jason voorhees]

I would have to ask around at school, of which we don't have for at least another month.

I'll ask my What's App soccer group, the gang that plays every Friday.

To start with you may just want to try www.abc.com.py or https://www.ultimahora.com/ . They tend to be quite scattershot, in that they'll have a 1968 game one minute then nothing from last week's game.

May need to give me a while on that one.

[jason voorhees]

Would love to see the '91 final, with Sol de America winning the last of their 2 titles.

[jason voorhees]

Here's a recap of Sol De Am's 1991 title campaign. Great quality, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzWlK1MtB9g

[jason voorhees]

Here's the same ABC Color retrospective on Cerro's 1992 Campaign:
https://youtu.be/P50EVJZbGxY

[jason voorhees]

Here's the site of all of their RERTODEPORTIVO vids: (saw one on '93 Paraguay - Argentina as well in there.)

https://www.youtube.com/user/canalab...rertodeportivo

[jason voorhees]

In the 1992 Cerro, minute 0:56, in the top right, it says "13 de Deciembre 1992." Not sure if that was the day of or day before.

[jason voorhees]

Actually a few seconds later he says "13 y 23 de Deciembre." It helps to turn on the cc for da subtitulos.

[danielmak]

Thanks, JV. I'll check all of these out. And thanks for highlighting the dates in that video. Is the 13 and 23 the first two legs? They had a third-leg playoff that year.

[jason voorhees]

The Apertura WAAASSSSSSSS supposed to start tonight.
https://www.abc.com.py/deportes/futb...bol-paraguayo/

They tested early this morning, annnnd, there were some positives.
https://www.abc.com.py/deportes/futb...-del-apertura/

Postponed until this Wednesday.

Adeybayor's contract not extended, as he couldn't get a plane back to Paraguay from Togo.

Libertad still up 4 points on the O.

Then this news from Octubre de 12....35 of 45 members of the team tested positive.
https://www.abc.com.py/deportes/futb...-regularmente/

[danielmak]

I read on another forum that Octubre de 12 had a big BBQ blowout and after that giant fiesta the positive tests rolled in. Now the league is pushed back past Wednesday, but you are there, so hopefully you are right.

[fatbear]

Here are the highlights on YouTube of the two matches played last night

Cerro Porteno vs Libertad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca--o3QSZiM

River Plate vs Nacional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKlL3PlCLVc

Looks like the Liga Paraguaya channel will have highlights of all matches

[jason voorhees]

Thanks F-Bear. Great win for Cerro, who look like a Lambo to a Yugo comparted to Olimpia tonight.

I know there's a pandemic, and Roque got hurt... but Olimpia has resources and a training center and look like U-9s playing the U-12s tonight against Luque?o. Down 2-0. I've never seen them look so young and little and wispy. They're getting SMASHED.

Libertad with 19, Cerro-Olimpia-Nacional will all be tied on 15.

Should be an interesting season. Who took advantage of 4 months off and who didn't. I suppose there's 11 games left, as long as no one else gets Octubre 12'd.

(Alejandro Silva of Lanus' 2007 Libertadores team and Olimpia just scored a penalty. Down 2-1 in the 67th.)

[jason voorhees]

Olimpia ties it with a wonder strike from an absolutely garbage player who showed nothing previously of being able to accomplish what he accomplished with said wonderstrike.

2-2 final.

Libertad 19
Olimpia 16
Cerro 15
Nacional 15

[danielmak]

Thanks, fatbear. I'm gonna check that out. Paraguay is the only league from South America that has not ever shown on US TV as far as I can tell. I was hoping my email to Fanatiz about adding the league might inspire them to investigate but they seem content to air BeIN's non-stop repeats of Barca, Real, and PSG. So my sub remains frozen for now.

FYI, Barcelona (ECU) plays Guayaquil City in a friendly tonight so maybe Ecuador will start soon.

[fatbear]

Here are the highlights from last night's 2 matches. There is a second YouTube channel with highlights of all Paraguay league matches, Futbol PY, they both seem to have the same pictures so I have take one from each channel..........

General Diaz vs San Lorenzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyMNBQgPGoA

Luqueno vs Olimpia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exs-awpwyG0

[jason voorhees]

Cerro Porte?o 2:0 River Plate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKD7iyVQlEQ

San Lorenzo 1:2 Libertad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rwc73Qcy8

[jason voorhees]

Guarenia 1:1 Guarani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pz2WkOOqys

Guarenia as I said should make a decent WSC article, as they only started in 2017 after forming a team from the local park league. 3 years later they made it to the top league. That adorable park with the Old West Wild West City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L9hMnvLOqA style building is where they're building the luxury boxes.

[jason voorhees]

And Olimpia matched Libertad's win. They looked a little more like normal.

4:0 win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7tHQWGeKtY

[jason voorhees]

[jason voorhees]

Forgive the wacky translated version changing "Libertad" to "Freedom."

But with Guarani having two games in hand, this should be a great 4 or 5 weeks.