Deportivo Español

Club Social, Deportivo y Cultural Español (until 2003 Club Deportivo Español) is an Argentine football club based in Buenos Aires, the capital of the country. The club was founded in 1956 and plays its home matches at the Estadio Nueva España. Currently plays Deportivo Español in the Primera B Metropolitana, the third Argentine league.

History

Deportivo Español was founded on 12 October 1956 under the name Club Deportivo Español Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. The founding date was chosen in memory of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492 derived from this historical fact is also the name of the club, since Columbus sailed for the Spanish crown and the area that is now Argentina, long time under Spanish rule stood.

In the first years Deportivo Español played in lower leagues of Argentine football. 1958 came with the first place in the Tercera de Ascenso promotion to the Primera C that you like again later ended the 1960 season in the 1979 season as a masterpiece and was ascended to the second division. In the time when Deportivo Español played for the first time second-rate, the club had with Carlos Bilardo a player under contract, which was to celebrate later especially as a coach with Estudiantes de La Plata and the Argentina national football team great success. Bilardo played from 1961 to 1965 at Deportivo Español, before he went to Estudiantes de La Plata.

Properly stir worry Deportivo Español in the 1985/86 season, when they in La Liga, in which one was in 1985 went up as champions of the Primera B, finished third behind CA River Plate and CA Newell 's Old Boys. A third place in the table has been reached two more times, namely 1988/89 and 1992 in the Clausura. At the time Deportivo Español experienced its best time considered sporty. It played at that time, among other players such as José Luis Brown and Héctor Enrique, both world champions in 1986, serves the national team of Carlos Bilardo, moreover, or the Uruguayan World Cup participants from 1986, José Batista, at the club.

With the relegation from the Primera División after the end of the season 1997/98 ended the successful times Deportivo Español. Since 1997, the club constantly shuttled between second and third league. After relegation to the Primera B Metropolitana, the third league in 2003, the association declared bankrupt and was dissolved. From the fans, a new club was created as a successor organization to life, the name of the Club Social, Deportivo y Cultural Español been given short Deportivo Español. The Argentine Football Association accepted the new foundation, and today the club plays in the third division.

Achievements

  • Primera B: 1x (1984 )
  • Primera C: 2x (1960, 1979)
  • Primera B Metropolitana: 1x (2001/ 02)
  • Tercera de Ascenso: 1x (1958 )

Known player

  • Uruguay José Batista
  • Argentina Carlos Bilardo
  • Argentina José Luis Brown
  • Argentina Héctor Enrique
  • Argentina Carlos Veglio
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