Club Atlético Independiente is an Argentine professional sports club, which has its headquarters and stadium in Avellaneda, a city of the Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its football
Degiorgi brothers, founders (1905 photograph)
Independiente players with the club's first official trophy (1909)
The 1926 squad won the club's second league title and the nickname Diablos Rojos
Sastre and Erico with the 1938 Copa Aldao, first international trophy
In Argentine football, the Big Five refers to the traditional top five clubs: Boca Juniors, Independiente, Racing, River Plate and San Lorenzo.
Club Atlético Independiente
…Avellaneda, a city of the Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its football team, which plays in the Primera División and is considered one of Argentina's Big Five football clubs. Independiente was officially founded on 1 January 1905 as Independiente Foot-Ball Club, although the institution had been formed on 4…
Cover of Historia de los 5 Grandes del Fútbol Argentino, published in 1937, featuring the Big Five, fltr: Boca Juniors, River Plate, Racing, Independiente and San Lorenzo.
Advertisement by "Cigarrillos Imparciales" featuring "the big seven", c. 1950