Club Almagro

Almagro

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Full name	Club Almagro
Nickname(s)	Tricolor
Founded	6 January 1911 (1911-01-06)
Ground	Estadio Tres de Febrero, José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires
Ground Capacity	19,000
Chairman	Julián Romeo
Manager	Néstor Rapa
League	Primera B Metropolitana
2015	7th. (promoted in playoffs)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Club Almagro is an Argentine sports club from the homonymous district of Buenos Aires. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana, the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system.

History

File:Club Almagro 1930.jpg

The team that won the Primera B title in 1937.

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In 1968 Almagro won another title and promoted to Primera.

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 (with a capacity of 19,000) 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 same time: official Asociación Argentina de Football (with one of Almagro predecessors, Columbian, as one of its teams) and dissident "Asociación Amateurs de Football". During that season, Columbian was going through a severe economic crisis, disputing its last game v. Boca Juniors in the 6th fixture. Some executives of recently promoted Club Almagro, leadered by Miguel de Zárate made Columbial a merger proposal, which was accepted.

Therefore, Almagro renamed "Sportivo Almagro" and continued playing in Primera División (debuting in the 7th fixture vs Platense) 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 "reclasificatorio" tournament with first division teams and other second division teams and didn't win promotion.

The Tricolores played most of the time in second division, a few years in third division, but in 2000 and 2004 they won the promotion to Primera División, only to be relegated both times after only one season playing at the top level.

In 2000 Almagro returned to Primera División after beating Instituto de Córdoba by 1-0 (2-1 on aggregate) at relegation playoffs (named "Promoción" in Argentina).

Players

2014–15 squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Agustin Gomez GK Facundo Espindola GK Ricardo Veliz DF Richard Schunke DF Nicolas Arrechea DF Nicolas Sansotre DF Matias Di Benedetto DF Diego Ianeiro DF Brian Abel Luciatti DF Emiliano Ronconi DF Celso Esquivel MF Hernan Ruquet MF Nahuel Basualdo MF Ariel Chavez MF Matías Ruíz Sosa

No. Position Player MF Hernán Lillo MF Damian Arce MF Franco Quiroz MF Rodrigo Holgado MF Lucas Sparapani MF Juan Cruz Mena MF Willian Sosa FW Pablo Rodriguez FW Maximiliano Castano FW Nicolas Yaque FW Octavio Bilbao FW Ignacio Colombini FW Oscar Altamirano FW Martin Argañaraz

Honours

• Primera B (2): 1937, 1968
• Primera C (1): 1971

External links

• Official site (Spanish)
• Pasión Tricolor (Spanish)
• Foro Tricolor (Spanish)
• Almagro de mi Vida (Spanish)
• Azul, Blanco y Negro (Spanish)