Club Always Ready

Club Always Ready, better known as Always Ready, is a Bolivian football club from La Paz, playing its home games in nearby El Alto. Due to the jerseys the team is also known as Banda Roja, or the red band.

Always Ready
Full nameClub Always Ready
Nickname(s)La Banda Roja
FoundedApril 13, 1933 (1933-04-13)
GroundEstadio Municipal de Villa Ingenio
El Alto, Bolivia
Capacity25,000
ChairmanAndrés Costa
ManagerSebastián Abreu
LeagueDivisión Profesional
20212nd
WebsiteClub website

History

Club 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.

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 its second national title in 1957 for the last time.

Always Ready was 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.

In 1977 Always Ready was one of the founding members of the new national professional league, where it stayed until 1981, when they were relegated to the second division. They achieved promotion in 1987, but in 1991 they descended again and did not reach promotion until 2019, 28 years later.

In 2018, Always Ready returned to the top flight for the first time since 1991 by winning the Copa Simón Bolívar after beating Avilés Industrial 3–0 in the final.

In 2020, Always Ready won the Torneo Apertura championship of the top-flight División Profesional after defeating Nacional Potosí away from home in the last match of the season on December 31.

Always Ready in CONMEBOL competitions
1968 – First Stage
2021 – Group Stage
2020 – First Stage

Honours

Current squad
As of 27 November, 2021[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 Edemir Rodríguez
3 DF  BOL Alex Rambal
4 DF  BOL Marc Enoumba
5 MF  BOL Sebastián Claure
6 MF  BOL Josué Mamani
7 MF  BOL Cristhian Árabe
8 FW  BOL Rodrigo Ramallo
9 FW  PAN Jair Catuy
10 MF  BOL Samuel Galindo
11 MF  ARG Javier Sanguinetti
12 GK  BOL Gustavo Claros
14 FW  BOL José Martínez
15 MF  BOL Cristhian Machado
16 FW  BOL Marcos Ovejero
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW  BOL Juan Carlos Arce
18 FW  VEN Robert Hernández
19 DF  BOL Jorge Flores
20 FW  BOL Junior Romay
22 MF  BOL Fernando Saucedo
23 GK  BOL Pedro Galindo
25 MF  BOL Santiago Arce
26 DF  BOL Nelson David Cabrera
27 DF  BOL Daniel Medina
28 DF  BOL Pablo Galindo
29 MF  BOL Juan Adrián
31 DF  PAN Harold Cummings
36 MF  BOL Javier Uzeda

References
  1. "Club Always Ready celebra hoy su 74 aniversario" (in Spanish). El Diario. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  2. "Club Always Ready - Roster". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
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