Club Always Ready

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Always Ready
Club Always Ready Escudo.png
Full nameClub Always Ready
Nickname(s)La Banda Roja
FoundedApril 13, 1933; 88 years ago (1933-04-13)
Ground
El Alto, Bolivia
Capacity25,000
ChairmanAndrés Costa
ManagerSebastián Abreu
LeagueDivisión Profesional
20212nd
WebsiteClub website

Club Always Ready, better known as Always Ready, is a Bolivian football club from El Alto. Due to the jerseys the team is also known as Banda Roja, or the red band.

History[]

Club Always Ready was founded on 13 April 1933. The team took part in the La Paz championship, which was held in 1950 under semi-professional conditions; it was organized by La Paz Football Association (LPFA). Despite not having any official status, the winner of the tournament was widely considered the de facto champion of Bolivia. Always Ready earned their first title in 1951. In the following two years, the team was runner-up.

From 1954 onwards, teams from Cochabamba and Oruro participated in the now-called Torneo Integrado, a much larger tournament then the La Paz championship; Always Ready found themselves withdrawing from the competition as it found it difficult to retain key players. Always Ready's resurgence was not until 1956. The team secured its second national title in 1957 for the last time.

Always Ready was the first Bolivian team to do a tour outside Bolivia: from August to November 1961, the club toured Europe.[1]

In 1967, the club obtained second place in its national league; that allowed Always Ready to participate in South America's most prestigious club event: the Copa Libertadores. However, the results were disappointing as they went out in the first round without winning a single match. Nevertheless, Always Ready won that same year's city championship and finished 5th in the national standings.

In 1977 Always Ready was one of the founding members of the new national professional league, where it stayed until 1981, when they were relegated to the second division. They achieved promotion in 1987, but in 1991 they descended again and did not reach promotion until 2019, 28 years later.

In 2018, Always Ready returned to the top flight for the first time since 1991 by winning the Copa Simón Bolívar after beating Avilés Industrial 3–0 in the final.

In 2020, Always Ready won the Torneo Apertura championship of the top-flight División Profesional after defeating Nacional Potosí away from home in the last match of the season on December 31.

Always Ready in CONMEBOL competitions[]

1968 – First Stage
2021 – Group Stage
2020 – First Stage

Honours[]

Current squad[]

As of 27 November, 2021[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Bolivia BOL Edemir Rodríguez
3 DF Bolivia BOL Alex Rambal
4 DF Bolivia BOL Marc Enoumba
5 MF Bolivia BOL Sebastián Claure
6 MF Bolivia BOL Josué Mamani
7 MF Bolivia BOL Cristhian Árabe
8 FW Bolivia BOL Rodrigo Ramallo
9 FW Panama PAN Jair Catuy
10 MF Bolivia BOL Samuel Galindo
11 MF Argentina ARG Javier Sanguinetti
12 GK Bolivia BOL Gustavo Claros
14 FW Bolivia BOL José Martínez
15 MF Bolivia BOL Cristhian Machado
16 FW Bolivia BOL Marcos Ovejero
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW Bolivia BOL Juan Carlos Arce
18 FW Venezuela VEN Robert Hernández
19 DF Bolivia BOL Jorge Flores
20 FW Bolivia BOL Junior Romay
22 MF Bolivia BOL Fernando Saucedo
23 GK Bolivia BOL Pedro Galindo
25 MF Bolivia BOL Santiago Arce
26 DF Bolivia BOL Nelson David Cabrera
27 DF Bolivia BOL Daniel Medina
28 DF Bolivia BOL Pablo Galindo
29 MF Bolivia BOL Juan Adrián
31 DF Panama PAN Harold Cummings
36 MF Bolivia BOL Javier Uzeda

References[]

  1. ^ "Club Always Ready celebra hoy su 74 aniversario" (in Spanish). El Diario. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Club Always Ready - Roster". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

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