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Boca Juniors
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Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in the La Boca neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. National titles won by Boca Juniors include 31 Primera División championships, Boca Juniors also owns an honorary title awarded by the Argentine Football Association for their successful tour of Europe in 1925. Internationally, the Boca Juniors have won a total of 22 international titles, with 18 recognized by FIFA and CONMEBOL. According to that, Boca is ranked third in the world in terms of number of internationally recognized titles, together with A. C. Milan and behind Real Madrid and Egyptian side Al Ahly. Boca Juniors international achievements also include Tie Cup, Copa de Honor Cousenier, Boca Juniors is also one of only eight teams to have won CONMEBOLs treble. Their success usually has Boca ranked among the IFFHSs Club World Ranking Top 25, Boca was also named by the IFFHS as the top South American club of the first decade of the 21st century. Boca Juniors is also known to be the one of the most popular clubs in Argentina. Boca juniors is one of the most popular clubs in South America, Boca has always had a fierce rivalry with River Plate, as both clubs were established in La Boca. Matches between them are known as the Superclásico, and are one of the most heated rivalries in Argentina, Bocas home stadium is Estadio Alberto J. Armando, which is colloquially known as La Bombonera. In addition to football, Boca Juniors also has basketball and volleyball teams. Other activities held in the club are, athletics, futsal, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, martial arts, on 3 April 1905, a group of Italian boys met in order to find a club. The house where the meeting was arranged was Esteban Bagliettos and the four people who attended were Alfredo Scarpatti, Santiago Sana and brothers Juan. This was possible when the Asociación Argentina de Fútbol decided to increase the number of teams in the league from 6 to 15, in 1925, Boca made its first trip to Europe to play in Spain, Germany and France. The squad played a total of 19 games, winning 15 of them, for that reason Boca was declared Campeón de Honor for the 1925 season by the Association. During successive years, Boca consolidated as one of the most popular teams of Argentina, with a number of fans not only in Argentina. The club is one of the most successful teams in Argentine football, having won 31 Primera División titles, second only to River Plate with 36. In South American and international football, Boca Juniors have won 18 titles. Those honors include 1919 Tie Cup,1920 Copa de Honor Cousenier and 1945 and 1946 Copa Escobar-Gerona, legend has it that in 1906, Boca played Nottingham de Almagro
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San Lorenzo de Almagro
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Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro, known as San Lorenzo de Almagro or San Lorenzo, is an Argentine sports club based in the Boedo, neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its team, which plays in the Primera División. San Lorenzo is also considered one of the big five of Argentine football by Argentine press, with Independiente, River Plate, Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo plays its home games at Estadio Pedro Bidegain, popularly known as Nuevo Gasómetro. The stadium and sports facilities are located in Bajo Flores, neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Clubs previous stadium was the Viejo Gasómetro, located in Boedo neighborhood. After the match was played there in 1979, the Gasómetro was expropriated by the de facto Government of Argentina, the club currently has five headquarters, three in Boedo, one in Monserrat, and one at Bajo Flores, all of them in the city of Buenos Aires. San Lorenzo also plans to expand its main seat on La Plata Avenue, San Lorenzos historical rival is Huracán, located in Parque Patricios. The two clubs play one of the older derbies in Argentina, some supporters consider this derby as the third most important after Superclásico and Clásico de Avellaneda, in addition to being one of the most uneven derbies of Argentine Soccer. Other sports practised at the club are artistic roller skating, basketball, field hockey, futsal, handball, martial arts, roller hockey, swimming, tennis, some years ago, San Lorenzo had also opened a rugby union section, but it is no longer active. San Lorenzo gained international recognition in March 2013 with the election of Pope Francis, the players played with the Popes photo on their shirts during a league match against Colón de Santa Fe on 16 March 2013. The institution is known because of the actor Viggo Mortensen, supporter of the team. The roots of the institution can be found in a formed by a group of kids that used to play football in the corner of México. Due to the traffic in the city, playing football at the streets became a risky activity for the boys. Lorenzo Massa, the catholic priest of the church, saw how a tram almost knocked down one of the boys while they were playing in the streets. As a way to prevent more accidents, he offered the boys to play in the churchs backyard, on 1 April 1908, an assemble was held in the Almagro district of Buenos Aires with the purpose of establishing a club. During the meeting, several names were proposed, the first option was Los Forzosos de Almagro, which did not sound good to Father Massa. The other proposal was to name the club San Lorenzo as an homage to Massa, other founder member, Federico Monti, suggested to add the name of the neighbourhood, Almagro where most of the members lived in, which was accepted by the assemble. Due to the not having its own a stadium, San Lorenzo began to play its home games in a field property of the Club Martínez. The squad played its first match on 26 April 1914, and this title allowed San Lorenzo to dispute the playoffs in order to promote to the Argentine Primera División, which finally obtained after beating Club Honor y Patria by a score of 3–0
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Football in Argentina
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Football is Argentinas most popular sport, the one with the most players and is the most popular recreational sport, played from childhood into old age. The percentage of Argentines that declare allegiance to an Argentine football club is about 90%, Football was introduced to Argentina in the later half of the 19th century by the British immigrants in Buenos Aires. The first Argentine league was contested in 1891, making it the fifth oldest recognised league of a FIFA member, the Argentine Football Association was formed in 1893 and is the eighth oldest in the world. The Argentine national team is one of the eight to have won the football World Cup, having done so in 1978 and 1986, and also being runner-up in 1930,1990, and 2014. They have also won the top tournament, the Copa América, on fourteen occasions. The nations Olympic representative has won two Gold Medals, while the team has won a record six U-20 World Cups. At club level, Argentine teams have won the most Intercontinental Cups, womens football has a national league since 1991, the Campeonato de Fútbol Feminino. In turn, the national representative qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 2007. In futsal, Argentina were FIFUSA/AMF Futsal World Cup champions in 1994 and they also compete in the FIFA code of futsal, where they finished third in the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Cup. The team also won the FIFA Futsal Copa América in 2003, moreover, Argentina was world champion in futsal for the visually impaired in 1998. Argentina also compete in the beach football World Cup, where their best finish was third in 2001. British citizens founded social and sports clubs where they could practise their sports, such as bowls, cricket, football, golf, horse riding, rugby union and tennis amongst others. Two English immigrants Thomas and James Hogg organized a meeting on 9 May 1867 in Buenos Aires where the Buenos Aires Football Club was founded. The first recorded match in Argentina took place on this pitch on 20 June 1867. This newspaper, published in Argentina, was the first one to cover football matches in the country, the game was played between two teams of British merchants, the White Caps and the Red Caps. In the 19th century it was practice for teams to be distinguished by caps rather than jerseys. The teams consisted of 8 players each as the organisers were unable to more players for the match. The line-ups were, Thomas Hogg, James Hogg, William Forrester, T. B. Smith, J. W. Bond, Smith, William Heald, T. R. Best, U
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All Boys
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Club Atlético All Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Floresta, Buenos Aires. The institution is known by its football team, which currently plays at the Primera B Nacional. Other sports practised at the club are basketball, roller skating, in 1914 All Boys registered to Argentine Football Association and began to play at División Intermedia qualifying to play the Copa Competencia. The team promoted to Primera División in 1922, making its debut in the top division on 11 March 1923, against Temperley, the first official goal in Primera was scored against Porteño in a game that ended 1–1. All Boys won its first game in Primera in the 3rd fixture, All Boys disaffiliated from the Association in 1926 but the team returned to Segunda División one year later when both associations merged into one. In 1931, All Boys was promoted a second time, remaining in Primera until 1934 when the Amateur Association joined Professional league and all its teams were relegated. In 1945 the team went down to the division for the first time. That season All Boys played 24 matches and scored 91 goals, one of those teams relegated was All Boys. The following year All Boys won its second championship with a victory over Tiro Federal which brought The Albo back to Primera, in 1972 All Boys hired José Paladino as coach. Under his command, the squad won 11 consecutive games, obtaining 29/30 points, therefore, on 14 October 1972, All Boys became Primera B champion defeating Excursionistas 1–0 with a goal scored by Benítez. Some notable players of team were Valentín Sánchez, José Romero. After promotion to the Primera, All Boys remained eight years in that division, All Boys also defeated Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo, Independiente and Racing. In 1980 All Boys was relegated to Primera B, for the 1992–93 season Mario Rizzi was hired as the team coach, and were incorporated some players such as Marcelo Blanco, Marcelo Yanino, Rubén Urquiza. The Floresta team won its 4th championship, being promoted to Primera B Nacional, in 2001 the team was relegated to Primera B Metropolitana again. For the 2002–03 season the club hired Ricardo Caruso Lombardi as coach, the team won 8 consecutive games and qualified to play the Torneo Reducido, which won but then lost promotion at the hands of El Porvenir. For the 2007–08 season the club incorporated Ariel Zárate, Hernán Grana, former player José Romero was designated as coach. On 6 May 2008, All Boys won a new championship after the match vs. Atlanta and this score also returned All Boys to Primera B Nacional. At the end of the 2009–10 Primera B Nacional season, All Boys finished 4th qualifying to play the playoff in order to gain a place in Primera División
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Argentino de Banfield
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Argentino Football Club de Banfield mostly known as Argentino de Banfield was an Argentine football club from the Banfield district of Greater Buenos Aires. The team played in Primera División during the 1920s and 1930s before merging with Club Atlético Temperley, the club was founded on 1 November 1915 and established its headquarters in Banfield, Buenos Aires, while building its stadium in Lomas de Zamora. The football team affiliated to Argentine Football Association and made its debut in Primera División in 1923, Argentino only spent one season in the second division, returning to Primera at the end of 1927 season. The team finished 2nd after champion El Porvenir therefore both teams promoted to the highest division of Argentine football, Argentino played from 1928 to 1931 in the Asociación Amateurs with poor campaigns in those seasons. With the creation of the first professional league in Argentina, dissident Liga Argentina de Football in 1931. Nevertheless it did not last so long because on March 15,1932, Temperley to form Argentino de Temperley, although both clubs Argentino and Temperley continued their social and other sports activities separately. Under the new name, the squad played the 1933 and 1934 championships in the official amateur league. When both associations, LAF and AFA merged at the end of the season, all its teams were relegated to the second division, finally on 12 July 1935 members of the club renamed it as Club Atlético Temperley again
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Argentino de Quilmes
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Club Atlético Argentino de Quilmes, simply known as Argentino de Quilmes, is an Argentine football club from Quilmes, Buenos Aires. The team currently plays in Primera C, the division of the Argentine football league system. Unlike Quilmes AC, which honored visiting players with the tea, the recently founded club Argentino de Quilmes offered mate. That originated the nickname which Argentino would be known for, in 1902 Argentino affiliated to Argentine Football Association and began participating in the domestic championships, making its debut in Primera División in 1912. The team lasted there until 1918 when it was relegated to the second division, in 1938 Argentino de Quilmes won the Primera B title after defeating its main rival Quilmes Atlético Club, and therefore promoting to Primera División. Nevertheless, during the 1939 season Argentino made its worst campaign ever, obtaining only 4 points over 34 matches played, Argentino conceded 148 goals, scoring only 35, being relegated to the second division. At the end of the 2005–06 season, Argentino was relegated to Primera D, Primera B,1938 Primera C,1945, 1988–89 Primera D, 2012–13 Official website Ultimamente berazategui se lo vive gar chan do
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Sportivo Barracas
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Club Sportivo Barracas is an Argentine sports club from Buenos Aires. The institution was born as a club, nevertheless it is mostly known for its football activities nowadays. The team currently plays in Primera C, the division of the Argentine football league system. The club was founded in 1913 in its headquarters located in the barrio of Barracas in Buenos Aires. The football squad made its debut in the Argentine Primera División in 1917, the team played in Primera until the league became professional in 1931. Sportivo became one of the clubs to make the decision of staying amateur so it remained at the official body and this decision paid dividends because the following year Sportivo Barracas won the 1932 championship. It remained unaffiliated to Argentine Football Association from 1936 to 1967, however, all other activities of the club remained in Buenos Aires. In 2010, the left the city of Bolívar, playing its home games at Acassuso stadium of San Isidro. Sportivo Barracas has a rivalry with Barracas Central, the other team in the Barracas neighbourhood. On March 2011, the club put the image of former President of Argentina Néstor Kirchner on the jersey as a tribute to him, in May 2012, Sportivo Barracas was disaffiliated for one season after finishing last in the Primera D championship. The vacant place was filled by Puerto Nuevo which returned to the division, in 2015, Sportivo Barracas won the Primera D championship, promoting to the upper level. In the 1920s and 1930s the Sportivo Barracas stadium was one of the most important stadiums in Argentina and it held 30,000 spectators and was used as a venue for the South American Championship 1921 and South American Championship 1925. The field was used in 1925 for the first boxing fight in open space of Luis Ángel Firpo. From 2003 to 2010 the club played its games at the Estadio Municipal de Bolívar. Primera División,1932 Copa de Competencia Jockey Club,1921 División Intermedia,1916 Primera C,1919 AAm Primera D,1931,1932, 2003–04,2015 Sportivo Barracas
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Sportivo Dock Sud
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Club Sportivo Dock Sud is an Argentine football club based in the Dock Sud district of Avellaneda Partido, Greater Buenos Aires. The club is known for its football team, which currently plays in Primera C Metropolitana. A club called Club Atlético Dock Sud was founded in 1914, in 1916 the same individuals formed a new club named Sportivo Dock Sud, which has continued since then. Dock Sud played at the top division of Argentine football, the Primera División, the club stayed in Primera between 1922 and 1926, being its best campaign in 1924 when finishing in the 3rd. The squad returned to the first division in 1933 and 1934, Dock Suds finest achievement to date was winning the 1933 amateur AAF league title. The team has had success since turning professional other than a few lower league titles. In May,2011, Dock Sud obtained a new title, Primera División,1933 Primera B,1921,1932 Primera D,1984, 2010-11 Official site Dock Sud blog Eze Docke
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Estudiantes de La Plata
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Club Estudiantes de La Plata, simply referred to as Estudiantes, is an Argentine sports club based in La Plata. The clubs football team competes in the Primera División, where it has spent most of its history. The club is amongst the most successful teams in Argentina, in 1967, Estudiantes was the first team outside of the traditional big five to win a professional league title. Since then, the squad has won four league titles to bring the total to five. It has had even greater success, having won six international titles. Estudiantes international silverware consists of four Copa Libertadores, an Intercontinental Cup, the club was founded in 1905 when a group of players and fans decided to break away from Gimnasia de La Plata, which favored indoor sports over football. Matches between the two clubs are known as the Clásico Platense, the Estudiantes home stadium is undergoing renovations, so the team plays in the city-owned Estadio Único de La Plata. Other sports where Estudiantes competes are basketball, team handball, field hockey, golf, swimming, judo, and volleyball. Thus, on August 4,1905, in the shoestore New York on 7th Street and its first president, Miguel Gutiérrez, was elected on the very same night, when the club charter was drafted by card-carrying member #1, Alfredo Lartigue. In those days, teams like Lomas A. C. Quilmes, on 28 February 1906 Estudiantes adopted a jersey design of striped red and white, in honor of Alumni, that had won ten championships between 1900 and 1911. However, during the years, Estudiantes had to use a red shirt with a white stripe in the chest. A year later, Estudiantes enrolled in the Associación Amateurs de Football, the stadium on 1st Avenue opened on 25 December 1907. Estudiantes first achievement was the 1911 Primera B title which allowed the team to play at the top division of Argentine football, just two years later Estudiantes won its first title in Primera, playing at the dissident Federación Argentina de Football. That season the team disputed 18 matches, winning 14 with only 1 lost, in 1914 Estudiantes made another great campaign but the team finished 2nd to Porteño. 1919 saw Estudiantes finishing 2nd to champion Boca Juniors although the Association put an end to the tournament with 14 fixtures still to be played, the Association alleged that the championship took longer than expected so it was suddenly finished. In subsequent years, Estudiantes made irregular campaigns, in some cases finishing at the bottom of the table, nevertheless, the team made a great performance in 1928 when finishing 3rd to champion Huracán and Boca Juniors. The last year of amateur era saw Estudiantes being runner-up to Boca Juniors, the team totalized 56 points in 35 matches, with 27 won and 7 losses. Alberto Zozaya scored the first goal of professional football in Argentina and was the top goalscorer of the first professional tournament
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Argentinos Juniors
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Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. The club is known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera B Nacional. It is one of the eight Argentine first division teams that won the Copa Libertadores, the continental trophy was won in the clubs first entry to the contest, in 1985. The club was founded in the Villa Crespo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires on 14 August 1904, after several moves in its first few years, the club settled in Villa Urquiza. In 1920 Argentinos played a playoff with El Porvenir but it lost 3–2 on aggregate. In 1921 the team secured promotion to the Primera, making its debut in the 1922 season, the club endured a terrible season in 1925, but they followed it up in 1926 with a 2nd-place finish behind champions Boca Juniors. In 1927 the two football associations were reunified and Argentinos played in a massive 34 team league. Later, the league was expanded to 36 and Argentinos managed to keep its place until 1930, in 1931 Argentinos joined 17 other clubs in forming a breakaway professional league, a move that marked the beginning of the professional era of Argentine football. In 1934 the amateur league was broken up and Argentina once again had a unified first division, Argentinos Juniors played on but finished bottom of the league with only 2 wins from 39 games. Argentinos was allowed to keep its place in the Primera, in 1943 Hector Ingunza made his first appearance for the club, and went on to become the top scorer in the clubs history with 143 goals in official games between 1943 and 1946. In 1948 Argentinos suffered another injustice at the hands of the AFA and they had qualified to the end of season playoff for promotion to the Primera and were top of the league after 7 of the 11 rounds when a players strike interrupted the competition. AFA eventually abandoned the playoff and gave automatic promotion to the teams that had been relegated in 1946 and 1947 instead, in 1954 Argentinos finished in 2nd place in the league having scored 88 goals in the league, making it the highest scoring team by far. In 1955 the team secured promotion back to the Primera after 18 long years. Argentinos returned to top competition in 1956 and after finishing near the bottom of the table that year. In 1960 there was an overhaul of the Argentinos Juniors team. The new team performed well and it was only on the last game of the season that they missed out on the championship, Argentinos finished in 3rd place, only 2 points below the eventual champions Independiente. Although the team didnt win the championship, it is remembered by those old enough to have seen them play. In the following years the team did not live up to expectations,1967 saw the introduction of the Metropolitano and Nacional system, Argentinos struggled to adapt and only just survived relegation from the Metropolitano in the inaugural season
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Club El Porvenir
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Club El Porvenir is an Argentine football club, located in the Gerli district of Lanús Partido in Greater Buenos Aires. The team currently plays in Primera C, the fourth division of the Argentine football league system. The club was established on 12 September 1915 in Villa Porvenir, Avellaneda Partido, the football team debuted in official tournaments in 1918, playing its home games at the Club Sígame Si Puede. After its first season in Primera División, El Porvenir finished 5° in the 1921 championship, nevertheless, after the 15° fixture of the 1926 season, El Porvenir lost affiliation to the body, along with All Boys, Colegiales, Nueva Chicago, Temperley and Sportivo Barracas. One year later, El Porvenir won the Primera B title, when football became professional in Argentina in 1931, El Porvenir remained in the official amateur association, making its best performance in 1934 when the squad finished 5° of 23 teams. However, El Porvenir would be relegated again when both associations, the amateur and dissident Liga Argentina de Football merged to form an unicque body, El Porvenir won another title, the Primera C championship, in 1954. The squad achieved another title in 1997-98 when winning the Primera B Metropolitana championship, therefore promoting to Primera B Nacional, during the decade of 1920, El Porvenir rented several fields until it inaugurated its own one, in Lanús, where the team played until 1939. The first international played by El Porvenir was on 12 October 1920. In 1941 the club was disaffiliated by the Association due to it did not have a field, so El Porvenir began to build an stadium in Gerli, the stadium was opened on 4 April 1942, then enlarged in 1943 to host 10,000 spectators. This venue was used until 1968, the current stadium was erected in lands donated by the Government of Argentina and was inaugurated on 24 April 1971. The first match played there was against defunct club Defensores de Almagro, note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality, josé Basualdo Norberto Raffo División Intermedia,1920 Primera B,1927, 1997–98 Primera C,1943,1954 Primera D,2016 Official site Fans site Soy del Porve Porvenir Al Día
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Sportivo Palermo
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Club Sportivo Palermo was an Argentine football club that played in the Primera División during the 1920s. After being relegated in the 1930s and having played at lower divisions, on May 18,1908, Club Sportivo Palermo was established, adopting blue as its jersey color. One of those leagues was the Federación Argentina de Football, which run until 1914 when it merged with AFA, Sportivo Palermo wanted to affiliate to the new association, so the team merged with Club Atlas, an institution from La Paternal, Buenos Aires, in 1915. The name Sportivo Palermo prevailed over Atlas for the new club and its home field was placed in Caseros, Buenos Aires, moving to Palermo neighborhood in 1922. Palermos first participation in Primera División was in 1920, playing consecutively in the top division of Argentine football until 1932, at the beginning of 1922 the club managers got a field that was property of then British-owned company Ferrocarril Central Argentino. That land was located in the crossing of Canning Avenue and the railway tracks, Sportivo Palermo started to build a stadium there, finishing the works in 1924. Sportivos best campaign in Primera was in 1922 when finishing in place after champion Huracán. The squad won 11 matches with only 2 losses, also achieving a great 3–2 victory over Boca Juniors, in 1928, Argentina national football team won the silver medal at the Olympic Games, after losing the final at the hands of Uruguay. That squad had six players of Sportivo Palermo in its roster, Paternóster, Weismuller, Zumelzú, Bidoglio, Herman, in 1931 football became professional in Argentina, with a new league established, Liga Argentina de Football. That body and official Asociación Argentina de Football organised their championships simultaneously, Sportivo Palermo remained competing in the official body. The team played the 1931 and 1932 tournaments, finishing in the last position in 1932, in 1933 Sportivo Palermo merged with Club Atlético Palermo and the recently formed team played the 1933 and 1934 AAF championships as Atlético y Sportivo Palermo. After the 1934 season the AAF and the Liga Argentina de Football merged to form the Asociación del Football Argentino which has remained professional to date, at the end of that season, Sportivo Palermo and Club Atlético Palermo separated. Sportivo kept out of the tournaments until 1956, when the club was re-affiliated to Association to play the Primera D championship. That was a year for the club so Sportivo Palermo promoted to Primera C along with champion Almirante Brown
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Club San Fernando
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Club San Fernando is an Argentine multi-sports club based in San Fernando, Buenos Aires. The 6, 000-capacity Estadio Nacional de Hockey is their home venue, Football is currently practised as an amateur activity at San Fernando. Nowadays the club has teams of womens field hockey, which plays in the regionalized Torneo Metropolitano. The other sport taking part in senior leagues is rugby union, which plays at the Grupo II. The meeting was held in a room of Club Social Unión because Tiro Federal refused to host the meeting, the club soon affiliated to the Argentine Association, playing some friendly matches against Uruguayan teams Nacional, Palmira and Club Náutico Carmelo. In 1918 San Fernando promoted to División Intermedia after winning over Del Plata by 2–1 at Independiente stadium, therefore, Atlético San Fernando established its headquarters there. At the end of the 1910s, the Municipality annulled the property given to Magaldi, not only the club refused but some the neighbors declared against the request so the municipality desisted from demanding the restitution of the land. Two years later, Atlético promoted to Primera División, to play at the top division, the Association demanded the clubs to have their stadiums in optimal conditions due to security reasons, otherwise they would not be allowed to play. Therefore, the club had to build grandstands and a fence surrounding the field, for which it was suggested that San Fernando merge with clubs Social Unión, Fénix did not accept to merge but so did Social Unión. Atlético San Fernando debuted in the 1922 season playing in official league, the colors that identify the club simbolized seriousness, purity and hope respectively. On 3 March 1923, seventy-two members of clubs Social Unión and Atlético San Fernando gave their approval to the merger, San Fernando continued playing at the top division of football until 1931 when the team was relegated after finishing in the last place. That same year, the decided to disaffiliate from the Football Association. Tennis was the sport to be introduced at San Fernando. It was practised only at lower levels until 1932, when the club affiliated to Asociación Argentina de Lawn Tenis, one year later, the club took part in its first official tournament, finishing second. In 1937, the team promoted to Segunda División. Basketball began to be practised at the club in 1925 when the first court was built, in 1930, the club had 1,600 members. In March 1932 a female team named San Fernando Hockey Club requested the permission to play their games in its fields. Then president Francisco Charlin approved the request and not only the girls were admitted, the female team was affiliated to Argentine league to play at second division
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Boca Alumni
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Boca Alumni was an Argentine football team established in La Boca district of the city of Buenos Aires. Boca Alumni participated in the Argentine Football Association tournaments from 1922 to 1931 when the team disaffiliated, Boca Alumni was established on 1 September 1907 in a bar located in Garibaldi street of La Boca. The club had its first stadium in Wilde, Buenos Aires, Boca Alumni finally established its venue in the Mihanovich Shipping Company stadium, which was located in the Isla Maciel of Dock Sud district in Avellaneda Partido. That stadium was placed close to the coast of Riachuelo. In 1922 the team promoted to Primera División that gave it the chance to play against the team called Boca. Both teams faced for the first time in a match on 26 March 1922. But Boca Alumni would defeat Boca Juniors 2–1 in their first official match, Boca Alumni played in the second division from the 1927 season where the team finished last with only 13 points in 34 games. Nevertheless, the team would make its best campaign in 1931, therefore Boca Alumni had to play a playoff in order to define what team would promote to Primera after Liberal Argentino. Finally it was All Boys which won the minitournament promoting to the top division, the match that Boca Alumni lost to Progresista by 2–1 was the last game that Boca Alumni played in official tournaments
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Estadio G.E.B.A.
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The Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires stadium is a multi-use stadium in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the ground of the association football and rugby union teams of the club and was the stadium where all games of the first Copa America were played. Legendary team Alumni played its last official game at Gimnasia y Esgrima before being dissolved that same year, the stadium is located on the Sede Jorge Newbery, one of the three facilities of the club. Its current capacity is 12,000 spectators, nowadays the stadium is mostly used for music concerts. The club usually rents two of its facilities for concerts and events, being the Jorge Newbery facility the most used for those purposes, many international artists touring on Argentina have played at Estadio GEBA. A list of performing there includes
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Argentina
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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a federal republic in the southern half of South America. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2, Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the second largest in Latin America, and the largest Spanish-speaking one. The country is subdivided into provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system, Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The earliest recorded presence in the area of modern-day Argentina dates back to the Paleolithic period. The country has its roots in Spanish colonization of the region during the 16th century, Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a Spanish overseas viceroyalty founded in 1776. The country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with waves of European immigration radically reshaping its cultural. The almost-unparalleled increase in prosperity led to Argentina becoming the seventh wealthiest developed nation in the world by the early 20th century, Argentina retains its historic status as a middle power in international affairs, and is a prominent regional power in the Southern Cone and Latin America. Argentina has the second largest economy in South America, the third-largest in Latin America and is a member of the G-15 and it is the country with the second highest Human Development Index in Latin America with a rating of very high. Because of its stability, market size and growing high-tech sector, the description of the country by the word Argentina has to be found on a Venice map in 1536. In English the name Argentina probably comes from the Spanish language, however the naming itself is not Spanish, Argentina means in Italian of silver, silver coloured, probably borrowed from the Old French adjective argentine of silver > silver coloured already mentioned in the 12th century. The French word argentine is the form of argentin and derives of argent silver with the suffix -in. The Italian naming Argentina for the country implies Argentina Terra land of silver or Argentina costa coast of silver, in Italian, the adjective or the proper noun is often used in an autonomous way as a substantive and replaces it and it is said lArgentina. The name Argentina was probably first given by the Venitian and Genoese navigators, in Spanish and Portuguese, the words for silver are respectively plata and prata and of silver is said plateado and prateado. Argentina was first associated with the silver mountains legend, widespread among the first European explorers of the La Plata Basin. The first written use of the name in Spanish can be traced to La Argentina, a 1602 poem by Martín del Barco Centenera describing the region, the 1826 constitution included the first use of the name Argentine Republic in legal documents. The name Argentine Confederation was also used and was formalized in the Argentine Constitution of 1853. In 1860 a presidential decree settled the name as Argentine Republic
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Ludovico Bidoglio
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Ludovico Bidoglio was an Argentine football defender, and one of Boca Juniors idols during the 1920s. Vico made his debut with Sportivo Palermo in 1916, playing as forward, during a match in which a fullback was injured, he had to take his place as a defender and from then on, Bidoglio would never play again in an attack position. After playing for Eureka between 1918 and 1921, he made his debut with Boca Juniors in 1922, against Independiente, anecdotically, because their names had not been registered yet, Independiente was called Juventus de Avellaneda and Boca Juventud de la Boca for that match. His unexpected retirement was in 1931 during a match in which Boca Juniors played Estudiantes de La Plata, Bidoglio collided with Alberto Zozaya being seriously injured, therefore he had to leave the field. Bidoglio would never return to play, Boca went on to win the 1931 Primera División championship, meaning that Bidoglio had helped the squad to win the 7th. After his retirement from football Bidoglio worked as an electrician until his death in 1970. Boca Juniors Primera División,1931 Copa de Competencia Jockey Club,1919,1925 Copa Estímulo,1926 Argentina Copa América,1925,1927 Boca campeon web Statistics and profile at Historia de Boca
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Pedro Calomino
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Bleo Pedro Fournol Calomino was an Argentine football striker. He played nearly all of his career for Boca Juniors, he also played 37 games for the Argentina national football team scoring 5 goals and it is claimed that Calomino invented the bicycle kick. Calomino made his debut for Boca in 1911 scoring a goal in a 2–1 victory over Independiente and he played for the club until 1924, except a single season with Hispano Argentino in 1914. He played a total of 222 games for Boca scoring 97 goals and he was Boca Juniors top scoring player in six seasons,1913,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919. This record has only surpassed by Martín Palermo, who accomplished the feat eight times. Calomino represented Argentina in four South American Championships,1917,1919,1920 and 1921, in his final tournament, he captained Argentina to victory
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Racing Club de Avellaneda
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Racing Club, also known simply as Racing, is an Argentine professional sports club based in Avellaneda, a city of Greater Buenos Aires. Founded in 1903, Racing has been considered one of the big five clubs of Argentine football. Racing currently plays in the Primera División, the top division of the Argentine league system, Racing has won the Primera División 17 times, apart from winning 12 National cups such as five Copa Ibarguren, four Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires and one Copa Beccar Varela. Due to those achievements the team was nicknamed La Academia which still identifies the club, in addition, Racing won two Campeonato Rioplatense Copa Dr. Ricardo C. Aldao and one Copa de Honor Cousenier, the first team plays its home games in the Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón, nicknamed El Cilindro de Avellaneda. Apart from football, other sports practised at Racing are artistic gymnastics, basketball, boxing, field hockey, handball, martial arts, roller skating, tennis and volleyball. On 12 May 1901, a group of students of Colegio Nacional Central founded the Football Club Barracas al Sud, with Pedro Werner becoming its first president. Less than one year after the establishment, a conflict about what color of jersey should be adopted caused a group of members to found Colorados Unidos. This division did not last too long, and in March 1903, the club took its name from a French car racing magazine, brought to Argentina by Germán Vidaillac. The suggestion was received and the name Racing Club was immediately approved. Racing was the first football team formed by criollos. The first shirts worn by Racing were white, until 25 July 1904, nevertheless, the new jersey only lasted a week, being replaced by a design proposed by president Luis Carbone. The jersey had four squares, two blue and two pink. This light blue and pink design would be worn until 1908, finally, Racing adopted the light blue and white colors in 1910, in commemoration of the May Revolutions 100th anniversary that same year. Racing affiliated to the Argentine Football Association in 1905, and began playing in the divisions of Argentine football league system. One year later Racing competed in a playoff for a place in the Primera División, Racing were promoted to Primera in 1910, winning the playoff final against Boca Juniors with an attendance of 4,000. The line-up that won the promotion was, Fernández, Seminario, Allan, Winne, Juan Ohaco, Angel Betular, Oyarzábal, A. Ohaco, Firpo, Frers, Frers and Ohaco were the scorers for Racing. In 1911 they competed in the AFA Championship Cup, finishing in fourth place, one year later, Racing won its first domestic cup, the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires
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Barracas Central
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The club is the former home of Argentine-Paraguayan footballer Lucas Barrios. Felipe Cámpora, a driver, founded Club Atlético Barracas Central on 5 April 1904 under the name Barracas Central del Sud. Cámpora carried out the project and became the first president of the entity, during the early years of the clubs foundation, the founders would each contribute 75¢ cents until 1906 where a monthly fee was paid. In 1911 Barracas joined the Argentine Football Association under the name Villa Soldati, in 1913 the club officially changed its name to Barracas Central. Barracas Central remained in the league until 1934 when both leagues merged, being all the amateur teams relegated to the second division. In 1939 Barracas Central was near to promote to the first division, playing a tournament which was eventually won by Banfield as Barracas. By 1948 the club managed to get back up to the second division, from 1950 to 1970, Barracas played in the Division C when their best performance came in 1957 when they ranked in third position among 18 teams. Despite a steady performance in 1970 season, Barracas Central finished in the zone, alongside Flandria. The two played off in a fixture, where Flandria avoided relegation by defeating Barracas 2–1. This sent Barracas down to the Primera D Metropolitana for the 1981 season, the 1981 Primera D was split into two zones, where which Barracas Central and Defensa y Justicia had both finished in first place in their respective zones, promoting both teams to the Primera C. After almost gaining promoted to the Primera B Metropolitana, Barracas fell short in 1985 and were relegated to the Primera D. The success was short lived as Barracas would finish in second last spot among 19 teams in the 1989–90 season, over two years, Barracas Central strengthen and once more climbed the ladder to Primera C. Those were the years when the club fought against relegation, rather than for promotion, having won the Primera C Metropolitanas Apertura title of 2003, Barracas Central could have achieved direct success of winning the Clausura of 2004. However, Barracas finished in place which saw them face Argentino de Rosario in a two-legged play-off to determine who would gain promotion to the Primera B Metropolitana. The two sides met at Newells Old Boys Estadio Marcelo Bielsa for the first-leg which saw Barracas Central lose by 2–1, the second leg was played at Huracáns Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó which saw Barracas win by 2–1. The game was decided by a penalty shootout which saw the side from Rosario win at 5–4 to gain promotion inplace of Barracas. A few years later, in the 2006–2007 season, Barracas reached the position again where which they would again face Argentino de Rosario in a play-off. Like 2004, Argentino de Rosario went out as winners, breaking the hearts of Los Baraqueños, the 2007–2008 season saw Barracas lead the table at one point but faded to finish fifth
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Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
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Apart from football, GELP also hosts other activities such as athletics, basketball, fencing, futsal, gymnastics, field hockey, martial arts, tennis, roller skating and volleyball. The Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata was founded on 3 June 1887 as a civil association, the club also claims to be the oldest football club in the Americas, despite other football clubs, such as Peruvian Lima Cricket F. C. have older foundation dates. Its foundation came barely five years after the creation of the City of La Plata in 1882, the first sports offered to its members were, as its Spanish name indicates, gymnastics and fencing. Clubs supporting these sports were common among the classes at the end of the 19th century. Later on, other disciplines were added, including track and field, football, basketball, the institution changed name a few times, from April to December 1897 it was called a Club de Esgrima because fencing was the only activity practised at that moment. On 17 December 1897 it returned to its name, Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima. From July 1952 to 30 September 1955, the club was named Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima de Eva Perón, because the city of La Plata itself had been renamed Eva Perón in 1952, after Eva Peróns death. The city returned to its previous name during the government of the Liberating Revolution, however, it remained unduly identified legally as Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, a mistake that was corrected on 7 August 1964 after the new statute was approved. Gimnasia y Esgrima was promoted to the first division after becoming champions of the División Intermedia of Argentine football in 1915, later, in 1929, the club won its first Primera División championship. During successive years, Gimnasia became champion of Primera B in 1944,1947 and 1952, additionally, the squad has been a runner-up in the Primera División on five occasions. The club has remained at the top level of Argentine football for 73 seasons, the Clásico Platense is the nickname given to the match between La Platas two main football teams, Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata and Estudiantes de La Plata. The first official derby took place as part of the Primera División season on 27 August 1916, on that occasion, Gimnasia won 1–0 over Estudiantes, with an own goal by Ludovico Pastor. The first derby of the era took place on 14 June 1931. Between 12 August 1932 and 9 September 1934 Gimnasia won five consecutive La Plata derbies, on 25 June 1963 Gimnasia obtained a 5–2 victory, this being the best result so far against Estudiantes. On the other hand, Gimnasias worst result was a 7–0 defeat on 15 October 2006, a curiosity among the derbies occurred on 5 April 1992, when Gimnasia won over Estudiantes 1–0 at the latters stadium. On that date, as the stands erupted and Gimnasias fans shouted in celebration at the goal being scored and that goal was scored by the Uruguayan José Perdomo on a freekick, and it has been known ever since as El gol del terremoto. Through more than 120 years of history, the Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata has had 56 Presidents, many of them contributed to the growth of the club over the years. Some of them have remained vivid in the fans memory for their achievements or outstanding works
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Club Almagro
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Club Almagro is an Argentine sports club from the homonymous district of Buenos Aires. The football team plays in the Primera B Metropolitana, the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system. Almagro was founded on January 6,1911, in the Almagro neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, the club still has its sports facilities there for its members, but the football stadium is located in José Ingenieros, in the Tres de Febrero Partido of Greater Buenos Aires. In 1919 there was a new splitting in Argentine football, so both leagues were played at the time, official Asociación Argentina de Football and dissident Asociación Amateurs de Football. During that season, Columbian was going through an economic crisis. Some executives of recently promoted Club Almagro, leadered by Miguel de Zárate made Columbial a merger proposal, therefore, Almagro renamed Sportivo Almagro and continued playing in Primera División under its new denomination, which avoided the club to be disaffiliated. Almagro played one year in first division in 1938 after winning the first second division tournament that awarded a promotion. Later the team won the 1968 second division tournament, but had to participate in the tournament with first division teams and other second division teams. In 2000 Almagro returned to Primera División after beating Instituto de Córdoba by 1–0 at relegation playoffs, note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality, Primera B,1937,1968 Primera C,1971 Official site Pasión Tricolor Foro Tricolor Almagro de mi Vida Azul, Blanco y Negro
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Club Sportivo Buenos Aires
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Club Sportivo Buenos Aires is a defunct Argentine football club from the city of Buenos Aires that played in Primera División during the 1920s. The club was founded on 1 February 1918, when clubs Buenos Aires Isla Maciel, the Sportivo Argentino had been founded in 1915 by former players of Boca Juniors youth and senior players separated from the club due to problems with its managers. The first name chosen for the club was Petrolero but it was rejected by the Argentine Football Association so they changed to Sportivo Argentino. When football became professional in Argentina, Buenos Aires continued its tenure on the league which lasted until 1934. Sportivo Buenos Aires was relegated to the division as well as all teams that took part in the AAF. The team continued to play in the division until 1939 when it was relegated to the third division. Buenos Aires remained there until 1941 when the club disaffiliated from the Association and it is believed that the club was dissolved in the 1960s. The first stadium was located in the Isla Maciel of Dock Sud district in Avellaneda Partido, in 1923 the club moved to La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, in the same place where the River Plate stadium had been erected before moving to Núñez. The clubs last location was on the corner of Alvarez Jonte and Sanabria streets in Floresta neighborhood, most notable player for the club was striker Carlos Peucelle who played there from 1927 and 1930. He was acquired by River Plate in 1930 for $10,000, due to this transaction River Plate was nicknamed The Millionaires, which has remained as the most distinctive nickname for both the club and its supporters. During his run on River Plate Peucelle played 307 matches scoring 113 goals and he also disputed with Argentina national team the 1930 World Cup held in Uruguay
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Defensores de Belgrano
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Club Atlético Defensores de Belgrano is an Argentine sports club from Belgrano, Buenos Aires. The football team plays in Primera B, the regionalised second division of the Argentine football league system. Defensores has never played in the top flight of Argentine football since the professional era begun, Defensores de Belgrano was founded on 25 May 1906 by a group of young people who wanted to participate in the football leagues of Buenos Aires. The team made its debut in Primera División in 1915, being relegated to the division at the end of that season. During the amateur era, the colors were light blue and light pink but would later be changed to the red. The stadium was at the Plaza Alberti in the suburb of Belgrano, in 1934 two players of the club, Ernesto Belis and Luis Izetta went on to play for the Argentina national team in the 1934 FIFA World Cup held in Italy that year. For many decades Defensores played the games between the B and the C Leagues, gaining promotion and also being relegated. Throughout that period a rivalry against Platense was developed, on August 2011, the veteran 37-year-old player Ariel Ortega was signed by Defensores de Belgrano. The Burrito made his debut in the match against Deportivo Morón scoring a goal by penalty shot, the Estadio Juan Pasquale is located in the Nuñez district of Buenos Aires. It is approximately 10 walking blocks away from Monumental stadium, the capacity of the stadium holds 9,000 people. Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. The club operates its junior divisions, beginning from age categories of Sub-7 until Sub-20 level, División Intermedia,1914 FAF,1917 Primera B,1967, 2000–01 Primera C,1953,1958,1972, 1991–92 Official website Defe Defelandia
