Club Presidente Hayes

{{Short description|Paraguayan football club}}

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| nickname = Los Yanquis (The yankees)

| founded = {{Start date and years ago|1907|11|8}}

| ground = Estadio Cnel. Félix Cabrera,
Tacumbú, Paraguay

| capacity = 5,000{{cn|date=December 2023}}

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| league = Primera División C

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Club Presidente Hayes is a Paraguayan association football club from Tacumbú, a section of Asunción, Paraguay. The club is also known colloquially by its nicknames The Yankees (Los Yanquis) and The Little Star (La Estrellita). They play regularly in Asuncion's Kiko Reyes Stadium (Estadio Kiko Reyes) as part of the Paraguayan Soccer League (Asociacion Paraguaya de Futbol). The club was founded in 1907 and participated in their first international tournament in the 1953 Copa Montevideo.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/copamontevideo.html|title=Copa Montevideo 1953-1971|website=Rsssf.com|access-date=22 September 2018}} It is one of several entities in Paraguay that were named in honor of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States. Hayes, who was required to arbitrate an Argentine-Paraguayan territorial dispute in the Gran Chaco after the War of the Triple Alliance, decided in favour of Paraguay. The club is the former home of Paraguayans Néstor Benítez, Teófilo Barrios, Tomás Guzmán, Julio Valentín González and José Ariel Núñez, and foreigners Riki Kitawaki,{{cite web|url=http://www.thefinalball.com/jogador.php?epoca_id=142&id=97046&op=zoomstats&tpstats=club|title=Riki Kitawaki |website=Thefinalball.com|access-date=22 September 2018}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ogol.com.br/jogador/riki_kitawaki/2009_2010/ficha/139/default/97046 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407075431/http://www.ogol.com.br/jogador/riki_kitawaki/2009_2010/ficha/139/default/97046 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.bdfa.com.ar/jugadores-RICKY-KITAWAKI-66509.html|title=Ficha Estadistica de RICKY KITAWAKI -ricky kitawaki- (perfil, ficha, profile, stats)|website=Bdfa.com.ar|access-date=22 September 2018|language=es}} Bryan Lopez,{{Cite web |url=http://www.mundointermediapy.com/2014/01/el-arquero-bryan-lopez-refuerzo-del.html |title=El arquero Bryan López, refuerzo del Spvo. San Lorenzo ~ Mundo Intermedia Py |access-date=2014-04-03 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201170829/http://www.mundointermediapy.com/2014/01/el-arquero-bryan-lopez-refuerzo-del.html |archive-date=2016-02-01 |url-status=dead }} and Victor Cristaldo{{cite web|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/C/CR.html|title=Australian Player Database - CR|website=Ozfootball.net|access-date=22 September 2018}}

The club also competes in beach soccer in the Superliga APF de Fútbol Playa, being champions in the 2022 edition.[https://www.apf.org.py/n/presidente-hayes-es-el-monarca-de-la-super-final Presidente Hayes es el monarca de la “Super final”] They have also won the 2022 Copa Libertadores de Fútbol Playa, being the first non-Brazilian club to do so.[https://www.conmebol.com/noticias/presidente-hayes-se-quedo-con-la-gloria-en-la-conmebol-libertadores-futbol-playa/ ¡Presidente Hayes, el invicto campeón!]