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unusual facts about Apertura



2004 in Paraguayan football

Libertad qualified to the 2005 Copa Libertadores by finishing second in the aggregate points table, and to the 2004 Copa Sudamericana by finishing in second place in the Torneo Apertura.

2005 in Paraguayan football

Libertad (runners-up of the Clausura) qualified to the Copa Libertadores 2006 by winning the runners-up playoff game against Guaraní (runners-up of the Apertura) by an aggregate score of 5-3.

2009 Paraguayan Primera División season

The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Torneo TIGO Apertura for sponsorship reasons, is the first championship of the season.

2012 Paraguayan Primera División season

The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 106º official championship of the Primera División, called "Don Jesús Manuel Pallarés", and was the first championship of the 2012 season.

Alfredo Moreno

In the years he has been with Necaxa, they have reached the Liguilla (or postseason) four times, being eliminated by Cruz Azul (Invierno 2001), Pachuca(Apertura 2003 and Apertura 2005) and Tecos UAG (Clausura 2005) and Moreno still cannot find the net in those eight games played.

Atlético Mexiquense

Starting in the Apertura 2005 season, Atlético Mexiquense moved Ixtapan 90 Stadium, founded in the district of Ixtapan de la Sal, which counts with a capacity for 2,500 fans.

Bruno Marioni

He then played for Toluca, and netted an Apertura-leading 11 goals, but in the January transfer window he moved to Boca Juniors.

Club Atlético Tigre

Tigre won the 2004 Primera B Metropolitana Apertura defeating Platense 2–0 in Vicente López Partido.

Club Universidad de Guadalajara

For the Apertura 2007 season they changed stadium to Estadio Municipal Santa Rosa de Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, but have stated that some of their home games will still played at their traditional home in twice worldcup host Estadio Jalisco.

Cristian Rolando Ledesma

Ledesma suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury at the start of the Apertura, delaying his first team debut and in January 2009 he returned to Olimpia.

Darío Cvitanich

He won the 2011 Argentine Torneo Apertura with Boca Juniors, as well as help the team to place in the final of the 2012 Copa Libertadores, where they faced Corinthians from Brazil.

Deportivo Anlesjeroka

The club was founded in 2006 in Tehuacan, Puebla, been part of C.D. Guadalajara inferior youth system.In 2007-2008 the club won back to back Torneo de Apertura 2008 en la segunda fuerza which is a regional tournament in Tehuacan, Puebla .

Deportivo Mixco

In the Apertura 2010 they will play their home games at the Estadio Municipal San Miguel Dueñas.

Dorlan Pabón

With Nacional, Pabón also won the 2011 Liga Postobón Apertura, in which Nacional faced La Equidad, after losing the first leg 2–1, Nacional needed to win by a goal in the second leg to go into penalties.

Juan Rafael Méndez

For the Apertura 2009, when Salamanca was dissolved and relocated to La Piedad, Méndez left as well.

Julio Alak

When Estudiantes obtained the 2006 Apertura title, Alak invited the team to an official ceremony but the players declined to attend, claiming that the pressure from the crowd would not allow them to reach his office; actually, the players were at the Cathedral, 200 m (650 ft) from City Hall, and so the refusal to attend was perceived as a rebuke of Alak.

Leandro Delgado

In 2007 season, Delgado was transferred on loan to Cobreloa, and played Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

Marco Arturo Ramírez

He came up through Lobos de la BUAP Youth system,Later was transferred to Puebla FC Reserves.He was recently called to take part in the 2011 Apertura Tournament.

Marco Gómez

After his debut, despite remaining in the first team, Gómez has only appeared in two more games, partly due to the fierce competition he faced from fellow forwards like Kléber Boas, Apertura 2005 goalscoring champion; the aforementioned López two-time world cup attendee, Club América team captain Cuauhtémoc Blanco two-time World Cup attendee as well, Aarón Padilla, the team's top sub - and newcomers Vicente Matías Vuoso and Salvador Cabañas.

Nicolás Diez

On July 2009, Diez signed for Deportivo Táchira of Primera División Venezolana for plays the Torneo Apertura 2009, in the same tournament Diez was proclaimed champions of the Apertura.

Pablo Zeballos

In Olimpia, his team came up second during the Torneo Apertura 2011 with him as top scorer having scored 13 goals.

Piero Alva

He formed a powerful striking duo playing alongside Eduardo Esidio, aiding him to score the record amount of goals in Peruvian football history (and the 2nd highest amount of goals by any player worldwide that year) while scoring many of his own – 17 in the Peruvian tournament and one in the Copa Merconorte – and leading Universitario to their historic third championship in a row, capturing both the Apertura and Clausura titles.

Red Mass

The University of Santo Tomas and the Colegio de San Juan de Letran, both Dominican institutions, also celebrate the Red Mass as Misa de Apertura that is followed by the Discurso de Apertura to formally open the academic year.

Rodrigo Mora

After a relatively successful first season, helping La Farola finish third in the Apertura and win the Clausura, Mora found himself on the bench more often than not in the following, and subsequently left for fellow league outfit C.A. Cerro.

Villa Dálmine

In 2002 Dálmine won another title, the Primera C Apertura, with a roster formed by players such as Pedro Troglio, Roberto Monserrat, Raúl Cardozo, Mario Pobersnik and José Basualdo, nicknamed "Los Cinco Magníficos" ("The Magnificent Five").


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