Argentinos Juniors
The Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors - often called short Argentinos - is an Argentine football club based in the district of La Paternal, Buenos Aires. The club was in 1904 in an anarchist bookstore in the district of Villa Crespo under the name Martires de Chicago, " Martyrs of Chicago " - founded - in memory of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago in 1886, USA, shot, demonstrating for the eight-hour day workers. This event once led to the introduction of May 1st as a day of work. Soon after its founding, he took as Asociación Atlética y Futbolística Argentinos Unidos de Villa Crespo participate in the official game of the operation of the Argentine capital.
The Copa Libertadores winners from 1985 in 1931 founding member of Argentina's professional league. Argentinos is also the original club of Diego Maradona. Other important players are taken from the youth of the association, for example, Juan Román Riquelme, Esteban Cambiasso and Fernando Redondo.
History
The association, which is also known by the nickname El Bicho, was founded on August 15, 1904 in the district of La Paternal.
After the introduction of the Argentine professional league in 1931, the club remained until 1937 in the top league, but then had to descend. From 1938 to 1955 Argentinos Juniors played in the second league, then the league title and thus the re-emergence could be achieved. Since 1956, the club is down to three seasons (1996 /97 and 2002/ 03 and 2003/ 04) represented in the Primera División.
The most successful period of Argentinos Juniors were the years 1984, 1985 and 1986, in which two league titles and the Copa Libertadores and Copa Interamericana was recovered. Only in 2010 a title has been won with the Clausura again.
Achievements
- Copa Libertadores: 1985
- Copa Interamericana: 1986
- Argentine Championship La Liga: 1984 ( Metropolitano ), 1985 (Nacional ), 2010 (Clausura)
Stadium
The December 26, 2003 opened the Estadio Diego Armando Maradona (34 ° 36 ' 22 " S, 58 ° 28' 21" W 34.606111111111 - 58.4725Koordinaten: 34 ° 36 ' 22 " S, 58 ° 28' 21" W) a capacity of 24,800 seats. Due to the difficult economic situation of the club, the construction took almost 10 years.
Known player
- Roberto Miguel Acuña Paraguay
- Argentina Sergio Batista
- Argentina Lucas Barrios
- Honduras Eduardo Bennett
- Argentina Claudio Borghi
- Argentina Diego Cagna
- Esteban Cambiasso Argentina
- Fabricio Coloccini Argentina
- Argentina Adrián Domenech
- Argentina Carlos Ereros
- Argentina Ubaldo Fillol
- Argentina Leonel Gancedo
- Cristian Raúl Ledesma Argentina
- Argentina Juan José López
- Argentina Diego Maradona
- Colombia Faryd Mondragón
- Argentina Leonel Núñez
- Argentina Julio Olarticoechea
- Argentina Jorge Olguín
- Paraguay Néstor Ortigoza
- Argentina Pedro Pasculli
- Chile Nicolás Peric
- Argentina Leonardo Pisculichi
- Argentina Diego Placente
- Argentina Jorge Quinteros
- Argentina Fernando Redondo
- Argentina Juan Roman Riquelme
- Argentina Ismael Sosa
- Argentina Juan Pablo Sorin
- Uruguay Andrés Scotti
- Uruguay Liber Vespa
- Argentina Enrique Vidallé
Other sports
In addition to football, the club Argentinos Juniors is also in basketball, handball, taekwondo and hockey active.