The Strongest
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Club The Strongest is a Bolivian professional football club based in La Paz, that currently plays in the Bolivian Primera División.
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Full name | Club The Strongest | |||
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Nickname(s) | Tigre | |||
Founded | April 8, 1908; 116 years ago (1908-04-08) | |||
Ground | Estadio Hernando Siles Estadio Rafael Mendoza (select games) | |||
Capacity | 41,143 14,000 | |||
Chairman | Ronald Crespo | |||
Manager | Pablo Cabanillas | |||
League | División Profesional | |||
2023 | División Profesional, 1st of 17 (champions) | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Founded in 1908,[1] their team colours are yellow and black. Although they have a home ground, Estadio Rafael Mendoza, (capacity: 15,000), they play most of their games at the Estadio Hernando Siles, Bolivia's national ground (capacity: 42,000). The club is the oldest active football club in Bolivia and the only team to have played continuously in the country's top division for longer than a century.
The club was well represented in the Bolivian squad at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the last such tournament in which the national team participated, by Marcelo Torrico, Gustavo Quinteros, Óscar Sánchez and José Melgar.