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Sporting Cristal is a Peru vian football club founded in December 13 , 1955 . They have won league titles in 1956, 1961, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002 and 2005, celebrating their 50th anniversary. In 1997 Sporting Cristal played in the final of the Copa Libertadores against Cruzeiro from Belo Horizonte losing 1-0. The closest a peruvian team has ever been to the coveted South american cup for football clubs. The team was ranked second all-time among Peruvian clubs by FIFA but nowadays is the first; and the only one peruvian team with the highest number of participations in the Copa Libertadores de América. A few of their players nowadays are Peruvian international goalkeeper Erick Delgado, defenders such as Alberto Rodríguez, Eric Torres, Miguel Angel Villalta and José Alberto Moisela, Midfielders such as the underrated- Juan Cominges, Jorge Antonio Soto, Rayner Torres and Carlos Alberto Zegarra, and strikers such as Luis Alberto Bonnet, Sergio Leal, Israel Zuniga and young star Freddy Barrios. FAMOUS PLAYERS
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