Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata

Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata is an Argentine sports club from the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires. The club was founded on June 3, 1887. First, its members devoted themselves to the fencing ( esgrima ) and the gym ( gimnasia ), of which the name derives, which the club still carries today. The football division, which dominates the club operating arrived today, added later. Besides basketball, tennis, hockey, athletics, box, fencing, martial arts, artistic gymnastics, artistic roller skating, indoor soccer and swimming are driven in club volleyball.

Since 1924, the professional football team of the club carries out their home games at Estadio Juan Carmelo Zerillo, which (due to the renovations currently 22,000 ) spectators, with a brief interruption from 2006 to 2008 where the club fought out 33,000 its home games at the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata. The club's colors are white and ( dark) blue.

Gimnasia is jointly owned with local rivals Estudiantes de La Plata at the two traditional clubs in the city of La Plata. Since the establishment of the Argentine professional league in 1931 Gimnasia played 72 years in La Liga and 11 years in the second division. Actually, the amateur league before 1931 was already a professional league; but the players contributed " moonlighting ". The Argentine media and even many clubs tend the amateur championships to discredit what is actually wrong, because these years the core of the Argentine football form.

Achievements

In 1929 the club won its first title and his second and last in 1994; Copa Centenario. Gimnasia was vice-champion in 1924, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2005 and took part in several times the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, but unsuccessfully.

Major players in the past and present

  • Roberto Sosa: 16 goals (1998 Clausura )
  • Gonzalo Vargas: 12 goals (2006 Clausura )
  • Leandro Cufré
  • Delio Onnis
  • Sebastián Ariel Romero
  • Lucas Matías light
  • Francisco Varallo
  • Alberto Márcico
  • Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Argentina Buenos Aires Province
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