Barquisimeto - Sports

Sports

The city is home to several notable baseball and football teams. Several other sports also have Barquisimeto as their home.

• Cardenales de Lara: (English: Lara Cardinals) is a baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. Founded in 1942 and based in Barquisimeto, the Cardenales have won four domestic titles, the most recent in 2001, have like seat the Don Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez stadium, with a capacity of 20,450 spectators. This team's fan following is so big that, when they win the finals, the next day is a holiday in all Lara state.

Guaros de Lara: is a basketball team in the Venezuelan Professional Basketball League. Founded in 1983 under the name of Bravos de Portuguesa, with seats in the cities of Acarigua and Araure, in 1992 the team was transferred to Barquisimeto, like Malteros de Lara, in 1995 it adopted the name of Bravos de Lara. Since 2005 the team changed to its present name, Guaros de Lara. Its primary venue is the Domo Bolivariano, an indoor sporting arena with a seating capacity of 10,000.

*Club Deportivo Lara: (English: Laras Sport Club) is a soccer team and it is the actual champion of the Venezuelan Professional Soccer League. It was founded in 2006 as Guaros de Lara FC, they were placed in the Segunda División Venezolana but at the end of the 2006 season the team was promoted to the Primera División Venezolana, after a win in the last round of the Segunda División against Estudiantes de Mérida Fútbol Club that left them in 2nd place of division 2. For the 2007/08 season, Guaros de Lara bought the former outstanding Colombian World Cup goal-keeper René Higuita, who returned to play football at the age of 41. In 2009 the club was sold in an effort to fight against the other clubs for the championship and changed its name to Club Deportivo Lara.As Club Deportivo Lara Lara, it was born July 1, 2009 through the purchase of the club by some employers (Arid García, Luis Yepez, Juan Conde, Carlos Hernandez) and the former team had been struggling financially. This new policy for football betting in the state lara and I think this team under the slogan "Believe in Lara." The team achieved its first year stay in the top four of the cumulative overall, just behind Caracas FC, Deportivo Italia and Deportivo Táchira and, the latter being the worst hit since the last dates of the Apertura and Clausura was severed its aspiration in the hands of the team. Until Torneo Apertura 2011 when they became champion of Venezuelan Professional Soccer League.