Rampla Juniors

Rampla Juniors Fútbol Club, short Rampla Juniors, ( nickname: Picapiedras, Rojiverdes, Los de la Villa ) is a football club from Montevideo in Uruguay.

The association, which plays its home games at the Estadio Olímpico and once Uruguayan champion, was playing in the 2013/14 season in the second Uruguayan league Segunda División.

History

The club was founded on January 7, 1914. Founding place was the Rambla Portuaria, corner Solís. Therefore, the club was originally located in the Ciudad Vieja near the Customs House ( Aduana of ). In the seventh year after the foundation, however, was moved to the Barrio Cerro. For the same neighborhoods of Montevideo Club Atlético Cerro, the arch rival of the club comes from.

Men's team

The Rampla Juniors rose in 1922 for the first time on the highest Uruguayan league. Already in the following year, it was Uruguayan runner-up. His biggest success to date then the Association celebrated in 1927 with the win of the Uruguayan championship. This season, the national championship series was first organized by the UP.

The champion team of Rojiverdes to Captain Pedro Arispe here was composed of the following players: Pedro Arispe Pedro Aguirre, Enrique Ballestrero, Pedro Cabrera, Julio Nieto, José Magallanes, Juan M. Labraga, Luis Gaitán, Conrado Haeberli, Vital Ruffatti Conrado Bidegain Also in the squad were: José Bertone, Camilo Bondanza, Atilio Patiño, Alfonso Rocco, Alfredo Castillo, Óscar Peluffo, Juan Carlos Alzugaray, Manuel Carballal, Juan Masciadri, Rígoli Antonio, Alberto and Rampoldi Francisco Conde.

1928 could be won again the runner-up. In the late 1920s the good performances of the Uruguayan team had not gone unnoticed in Europe, so that the Rampla Juniors 1929 European tour completed, when they contested 19 games. Opponents were there. Among other things, Benfica, Ajax, Olympique Marseille and the German club Tennis Borussia Berlin, they won against the April 21, 1929, 1-0 1932, the first year of professional football in Uruguay, followed by another of the seven vice championship (1923, 1928, 1932, 1940, 1947, 1958 and 1964). By the year 1943, the Rampla Juniors still belonged to the national forefront of clubs. In that year, however, the transition into the second class had to be commenced. Already in the following year was but after a season without a single defeat, stood at the end of 1944, the championship title of the second league, the return to the Football House of Lords. In the years 1949 to 1953 was celebrated five consecutive winning the Copa Montevideo. The Rojiverdes also won the 1950 Copa Maracana and 1953, the Torneo Cuadrangular. 1950 and 1955 it was also victorious at the Torneo Competencia.

A year after this last triumph then followed by another of the twelve international tours in the club's history the Montevideaner. In addition to Brazil you toured this time in 1956 after 25 years back through Europe and also visited two Asian countries. Germany, France, Spain and England were some of the stops on this tour, on the 22 games were played. Here, the team achieved a historic victory, as you could on April 11, 1956 win the first success of a Uruguayan soccer team on English soil in the 3-1 against Portsmouth. Other opponents included the 1st FC Nuremberg, Fortuna Dusseldorf, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Valencia, Espanyol, the Sport Club do Recife, the Santa Cruz Futebol Clube, the Queens Park Rangers, Luton Town and the Danish national football team. Other sources for this round trip of 24 games in 71 days. Eleven wins and six draws were against seven defeats. At the meetings the Rampla Juniors scored a total of 39 goals. Domingo Pérez twelve and Ángel Omarini with eleven goals stabbed emerged as the scorers.

1958 and 1964 again second in the Uruguayan championship, followed by a next title win in 1969, as you could see the once discharged Torneo de Copa decide for themselves. Already in the following season, the Rojiverdes had but again the passage in the second division compete. It was not until ten years later, the re- emergence as the unbeaten champion of the Segunda División was recorded. However, you could not build on the successes of past days, over the next decades. Back in 1987, stood at the next descent. In 1992 they returned to the second division championship won in the Primera División back, but in 1999 the time of Erstligazugehörigkeit was ended again. There was probably the most difficult phase of the club's history, as the last place you in 2002 Segunda División occupied and not participated in the following year due to financial difficulties in the game mode. Back in 2004, returned the Rojiverdes but again in the Primera División back. At the end of the Torneo Apertura season 2007 /08 Sporting one was tied with Danubio behind the round winner Defensor classified and qualified for the season finale even as a Fifth -placed for the Liguilla Pre- Libertadores.

Achievements

  • Uruguayan champion: 1927
  • Uruguayan Vice-Champion: 1923, 1928, 1932, 1940, 1947, 1958 and 1964
  • Torneo de Copa: 1969
  • Copa Montevideo: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
  • Torneo Competencia: 1950, 1955
  • Copa Maracana: 1950
  • Torneo Cuadrangular: 1953

Women's team

Since October 16, 1988 there has also been a women's football department at the club. The ladies team of the club is one of the dominant of the Uruguayan football and has seen a number of successes. A total of nine Uruguayan championship was won in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008.

Tricot

The first worn by the Rampla Juniors sport shirt was always green but provided in the color design with a red stripe. The design of the jerseys underwent in the course of time, a slight change, while shorts and socks, with some exceptions in the 1990s, were almost exclusively black. By 2006, the alternative combination consisted of white jerseys with black shorts and socks combined.

Tricot as the Rojiverdes ( in German: red-green ) designated Rampla Juniors is nowadays of red shirts with green vertical stripes and black colored shorts and socks. The alternative apparel is made ​​on the side of the chest half each red or green top, composed with white sleeves and just such a color on the back, combined with white pants and white stockings.

Former Players

  • Uruguay Antonio Alzamendi
  • Brazil Beto
  • Uruguay Martín Barlocco
  • Uruguay José Batista
  • Uruguay Wilmar Cabrera
  • Uruguay Juan Ramón Carrasco
  • Uruguay Juan Ferreri
  • Uruguay Mateo Figoli
  • Uruguay Jorge Fossati
  • Uruguay Eugenio Galvalisi
  • Argentina Gonzalo Garavano
  • Uruguay Fernando Kanapkis
  • Uruguay Juan Labraga
  • Argentina Ángel Labruna
  • Uruguay Jorge Manicera
  • Argentina Facundo Martínez
  • Uruguay William Martínez
  • Uruguay Gerardo Morales
  • Uruguay Marcelo Otero
  • Uruguay Rubén Paz
  • Uruguay Héctor Salvá
  • Uruguay Mauricio Weber
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