Episode 12 - Putting La U in Peru

This week it's something a but new for Random Fandom as we have our first ever non-English based team as we welcome Renato onto the pod.

He is a fan of Club Universitario de Deportes based in Peru.

Before we speak to him we have a quick recap of the Spurs game we were following after fan Dave came on last week.  The game was at home to Southampton so we'll kick things off with a quick match report.

Fact file as always for this weeks team:

Club Universitario de Deportes

Club Universitario de Deportes is a Peruvian sports club based in Lima.

The football team, popularly known as Universitario, has competed in the top tier of Peruvian football, the Liga 1, since 1928.

They are the most successful team in Peruvian football with 28 titles and have never been relegated.

The club was founded in August 1924 under the name Federación Universitaria by students of the National University of San Marcos but was forced to rename in 1931.

The club won its first Peruvian title in 1929, one year after its debut in the first division. The club won its first double in the 1945 and 1946 seasons and won its only treble after conquering the 2000 season.

Universitario has won twenty-seven first division titles, and was the first Peruvian club, and the Pacific, to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores in 1972. Universitario is one of the two most popular teams in Peru.

In the year 2000, they opened the 80,093-seat Estadio Monumental, currently the largest stadium in Peru and second-largest in South America, retiring their smaller Estadio Teodoro Lolo Fernández which was converted to a public training ground used by the club and the reserve team.

Universitario and Alianza Lima participate in the Peruvian Clásico, which has its roots in the club's first participation in the Peruvian Primera División in 1928.

The rivalry is among the fiercest on the continent and is the oldest and largest rivalry in Peru. It also has rivalries with Sporting Cristal, Deportivo Municipal, and Sport Boys.

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