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Wikipedia - Sport Boys

Sport Boys Association, commonly referred to as Sport Boys or simply Boys, is a Peruvian football club based in the port city of Callao. It was founded on 28 July 1927. Its classic and historic rival is the Atlético Chalaco against whom dispute the Clasico Porteño derby of Callao. It is considered the fourth most important club in the history of Peruvian football as they have won 6 national titles and have the largest number of international appearances after Universitario, Sporting Cristal and Alianza Lima, teams of Lima.

History

The club was founded on 28 July 1927, by a group of young enthusiasts from El Callao who got together to fulfill the dream of a very important local football fan Gualberto Lizárraga to start a football club. The day before Peru's independence day, 27 July, they held a meeting and at midnight, the group sang the National Anthem. Afterwards, they declared the club founded and named Lizárraga president and unanimously voted for the club name to be Sport Boys Association.

The team's original uniform was striped red and yellow.

Sport Boys was the first Peruvian football club to feature cheerleaders. Many of them, including Anelhí Arias, Shirley Cherres, and others that have become Peruvian celebrities.

Recent years

The last time Sport Boys became champions of the Primera División Peruana was 1984. Since then they have had a rollercoaster of ups and downs. Some of the ups have been being runners-up in the 1990 and 1991 First Division after having won the Segunda División Peruana to gain promotion. In 1999 the Sport Boys qualified for the Copa CONMEBOL, and in 2001 for the 2001 Copa Libertadores. Since then that team has had more downs than ups by avoiding relegation to the Segunda División Peruana by winning an end of season playoff match that went down to a penalty shootout against José Gálvez in the 2006 season. During 2008 their campaign was worse than the 2007 campaign leaving the Sport Boys in the bottom of the standings for most of the Apertura tournament. Financial issues were also haunting the club in 2008, so severe that they have not been able to pay their players from March 2008. Some players like midfielder Montenegro have had to do taxi work at night to be able to support their families. That year they were relegated to the Segunda División Peruana but on 17 October 2009, after a great season, Sport Boys went on to beat Cobresol 3–2 for the Segunda División Peruana finals to go back into the Primera Division Peruana, where it played for three seasons before been inundated with economical problems, and then finishing 15th during the 2012 season which relegated them back to the Peruvian Segunda Division

**Športový klub Sport Boys** (španielsky: Club Deportivo Sport Boys) je peruánsky futbalový klub so sídlom v meste Callao. Klub bol založený 28. júla 1927 a svoje domáce zápasy hráva na štadióne Miguel Grau s kapacitou 17 000 miest.

**História:**

Sport Boys je jedným z najstarších futbalových klubov v Peru. Klub bol založený skupinou mladých ľudí v štvrti Callao La Punta. V priebehu svojej histórie vyhral Sport Boys 6 titulov peruánskej prvej ligy, v rokoch 1935, 1937, 1942, 1951, 1958 a 1984.

**Súčasnosť:**

V súčasnosti hrá Sport Boys v peruánskej prvej lige, známej ako Liga 1. Klub je známy svojou oddanou fanúšikovskou základňou a intenzívnou rivalitou s klubom Alianza Lima.

**Významní hráči:**

Niektorí z najvýznamnejších hráčov, ktorí hrali za Sport Boys, sú:

* Teodoro Fernández
* Guillermo Delgado
* Pedro Rosell
* Luis Suárez

**Klubové farby:**

Klubové farby Sport Boys sú ružová a čierna. Domáce dresy klubu sú ružové s čiernymi pruhmi, zatiaľ čo dresy do hostí sú čierne s ružovými pruhmi.