12 de Octubre

12 de Octubre Football Club is a Paraguayan football club from the city of Itauguá, founded on 14 August 1914 by the Tanasio family, and named in honor of Columbus Day. The club's colors are blue and white, and the club is nicknamed "El 12", "el Globo Itaugüeño" and "los Tejedores" according to the Spanish article. Its home venue, Estadio Luis Alberto Salinas Tanasio, opened in 1965 with a capacity of 10,000 and was renamed in 2016 in honor of Luis Salinas, a former club president. The club won the Paraguayan Primera Division Clausura in 2002, the only club outside the Asuncion Metropolitan Area to win a league title according to the English article, and has also won the División Intermedia in 1997 and the Tercera División in 2012 and 2018.

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