Roque Santa Cruz Sets Personal Goal-Scoring Record
The 38-year-old forward achieved the best campaign of his career in terms of goals, scoring a total of 26 goals in 34 matches. In the first tournament of the year, Santa Cruz crowned himself as the top scorer with 11 goals, and in the second championship, he repeated the recognition by reaching 15 goals.
Before this, Roque's best goal-scoring production was in the 2007/2008 season when he was playing for Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League, where he scored 19 goals in 37 matches.
Incredible. Until round 17, which was played after round 18, the team captain had only scored 4 goals. The classic, played at Para Uno, was the match where the incredible goal-scoring streak of the player wearing number 24 on his back began.
Against the traditional rival, he scored four goals; in the following match against Capiatá, he contributed one goal; against San Lorenzo, he completed a perfect hat-trick (with the right foot, header, and left foot), a brace against Guaraní, and ended his participation with a goal against Sol.
Santa Cruz managed to score 11 goals in 5 matches to become the oldest player in the history of Paraguayan football to reach the mark of 26 goals in a season.
Highest Records Achieved by Olimpia
The Olimpia team also established several records, including the most points achieved in a season (108), surpassing the 102 points set in the previous season, the most goals scored in a year (114), and the most victories in a season (33).
Facts and Figures
Roque Santa Cruz scored 11 goals in the last 5 matches of the Clausura tournament, with the standout performance being the poker he scored in the superclásico.
Olimpia accumulated 108 points during the 2019 season, surpassing the previous record of 102 points set during the 2018 season.