José Luis Félix Chilavert González is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Sportivo Luqueño, Guaraní, San Lorenzo de Almagro, Real Zaragoza, Vélez Sarsfield, RC Strasbourg, Peñarol and the Paraguay national team.
Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan football club, based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 34 Primera División titles and is one of the most popular football clubs in Paraguay. Its president is Raúl Zapag and the manager is Carlos Jara Saguier. Cerro Porteño plays the Paraguayan derby with its main rival Club Olimpia. They play their home games at the 45,000-seat General Pablo Rojas Stadium, also known as La Nueva Olla, the biggest in the country.
Club Nacional is a Paraguayan professional football club based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1904, the club currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, and holds its home games at Estadio Arsenio Erico.
Club Presidente Hayes is a Paraguayan association football club from Tacumbú, a section of Asunción, Paraguay. The club is also known colloquially by its nicknames The Yankees and The Little Star. They play regularly in Asuncion's Kiko Reyes Stadium as part of the Paraguayan Soccer League. The club was founded in 1907 and participated in their first international tournament in the 1953 Copa Montevideo. It is one of several entities in Paraguay that were named in honor of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States. Hayes, who was required to arbitrate an Argentine-Paraguayan territorial dispute in the Gran Chaco after the War of the Triple Alliance, decided in favour of Paraguay. The club is the former home of Paraguayans Néstor Benítez, Teófilo Barrios, Tomás Guzmán, Julio Valentín González and José Ariel Núñez, and foreigners Riki Kitawaki, Bryan Lopez, and Victor Cristaldo
Carlos de los Santos Jara Saguier is a Paraguayan former football player who works as a coach. He is a current member of Cerro Porteño's staff.
Football is by far the most popular sport in Paraguay. Paraguay's national team has played at eight FIFA World Cup competitions and has won two Copa América tournaments. Olimpia Asunción is the country's most successful club in domestic and international competitions. Paraguay's football leagues are divided into four divisions. In 2020, Paraguay's top-tier was ranked 8th in the world by the IFFHS.
Darío Anastacio Verón Maldonado is a former Paraguayan professional footballer that last played as a centre-back. He also holds Mexican citizenship.
Hernán Rodrigo López Mora, also known as Rodrigo López, is an Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a forward.
The Paraguayan football derby, also called the Superclásico ; is the football rivalry between Club Cerro Porteño and Club Olimpia, the two most successful and popular clubs in the country, both from Asunción, Paraguay.
In April 2021, FourFourTwo ranked the Cerro Porteño–Olimpia rivalry as the world's 36th biggest derby.
Mauro Antonio Caballero López is a Paraguayan former football striker and current coach of 3 de Febrero in the División Intermedia.
Juan Eduardo "El Magico" Samudio Serna is a former Paraguayan footballer.
Édgar Milciades Benítez Santander, nicknamed Pájaro, is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Peruvian club UCV. He also holds Mexican citizenship. A Paraguayan international on 56 occasions since 2008, he represented his country at the FIFA World Cup 2010 and two Copa América tournaments. In 2006, he won the Milk Cup with Paraguay's under-20 team.
Jorge Duílio Benítez Candia is a former Paraguayan football attacking midfielder.
Antony Domingo Silva Cano is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Categoría Primera A club Nacional and the Paraguay national team. He also holds Italian citizenship.
Ignacio Óscar Don Núñez, also known as Nacho Don, is an Argentine-Paraguayan former football goalkeeper.
David Raúl Villalba Candía, known as David Villalba, is a Paraguayan association football midfielder who last played for C.A.I. of the Primera B Nacional in Argentina (2010–2011).
Aldo Andrés Paniagua Benítez is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Fernando Lugo, elected President of Paraguay in 2008, was impeached and removed from office by the Congress of Paraguay in June 2012. On 21 June the Chamber of Deputies voted 76 to 1 to impeach Lugo, and the Senate removed him from office the following day, by 39 votes to 4, resulting in Vice President Federico Franco, who had broken with Lugo, becoming President. Lugo contends he was denied due process because he did not have enough time to prepare a defense. A number of Latin American governments declared the proceeding was effectively a coup d'état. Lugo himself formally accepted the impeachment, but called it a "parliamentary coup".
Jhonatan Marcelo Candia Hernández is an Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Barracas Central.
Club 29 de Setiembre F.B.C. , commonly referred to as Club 29 de Setiembre, is a Paraguayan professional football club based in the Barrio Molino in the city of Luque, which is active in the Primera División B, the country's third-tier. The club was founded on 30 April 1941.
