Club Always Ready

Club Always Ready, better known as Always Ready, is a Bolivian football club from La Paz. Due to the jerseys the team is also known as Banda Roja, or the red band, due to the similar traits its uniform shares with the popular River Plate.

Always Ready
Full nameClub Always Ready
Nickname(s)La Banda Roja
Millonarios
FoundedApril 13, 1933
GroundEstadio de fútbol Municipal El Alto
El Alto, Bolivia
Capacity22,000
ChairmanÁngel Fernando Costa Sarmiento
ManagerEduardo Villegas
LeagueDivisión Profesional
2019 Clausura5th
WebsiteClub website

History

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 respectively.

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 second its second national title in 1957 for the last time. Another notable fact was that Always Ready became 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.

1977 qualified Always Ready for the new national professional league, where it played a minor role and had to descend 1981st The return achieved in 1987, 1991 rose from Always Ready again and could not climb back since then.

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

Honours
2018
1951, 1957
1968 – First Round

Current squad
As of 10 August 2019[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  BOL Fabián Rodríguez
3 DF  BOL Jorge Cuéllar
4 FW  CMR Marc Enoumba
5 DF  NCA Luis Copete
6 DF  BOL Kevin Pontons
7 MF  BOL Cristhian Árabe
8 FW  URU William Ferreira
9 FW  NGA Sunny Omoregie
10 MF  BOL Samuel Galindo
11 MF  BOL Martin Smedberg-Dalence
12 GK  BOL Éder Jordan
13 DF  BOL Brian Hinojosa
14 DF  BOL Óscar Añez
15 FW  BOL Carlos Suárez
16 FW  ARG Marcos Ovejero
17 FW  BOL Carmelo Algarañaz
18 FW  COL Juan Mezú
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW  BOL Augusto Andaveris
20 FW  BOL Junior Romay
21 MF  BOL José Vera
22 MF  BOL Gonzalo Moruno
23 GK  BOL Everth Justiniano
24 FW  BOL Alberto Pinto
25 MF  BOL Damir Miranda
26 DF  BOL Nelson Cabrera
27 FW  BOL Alejandro Barrón
28 DF  BOL Leonel López
29 DF  BOL Sergio Adrián
30 MF  BOL Alejandro Bejarano
31 MF  BOL Eduardo Puña
32 FW  BRA Uellington Martins
33 MF  BOL Juan Rivero
34 DF  BOL Luis Vargas
36 MF  BOL Mirko Tomianovic
— FW  COL Duvier Riascos

References
  1. Club Always Ready celebra hoy su 74 aniversario El Diario vom 13. April 2007, last accessed on 5 January 2009, Spanish
  2. "Club Always Ready - Roster". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
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