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2014 Argentine Primera División
The 2014 Torneo de Transición or Torneo Doctor Ramón Carrillo was the 124th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season was scheduled to start on August 1, 2014 but was postponed after the death of Julio Grondona, president of the AFA on July 30. Finally, it began on August 8, 2014 and ended on December 14, 2014. Originally the last match of the tournament was scheduled on December 7 but as River Plate played the finals of the 2014 Copa Sudamericana the matches Racing-Godoy Cruz and River Plate-Quilmes were played on December 14. Twenty teams competed in the league, seventeen returning from the 2013–14 season and three promoted from the 2013–14 Primera B Nacional (Championship winners Banfield, runners-up Defensa y Justicia, and 3rd place Independiente). Colón, Argentinos Juniors and All Boys had been relegated to the Primera B Nacional championship in the previous season. Format The team with most points was the champion and qualified f ...
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Argentine Primera División
The Primera División (; ), known officially as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Betano for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Argentina and the highest level of the Argentine football league system. Organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA), it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional, Primera Nacional (Second Division), with the teams placed lowest at the end of the season being relegated. Argentina held its first championship in 1891 Argentine Primera División, 1891,''Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina'', by Jorge Iwanczuk. Published by Autores Editores (1992) - making it the first country outside the United Kingdom to establish a football league. The Football League had debuted in England in 1888, followed by the Scottish and Irish leagues in 1890. In the early years, only teams from Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Greater Buenos Aires, La Plata and Rosario, Argentina, Ros ...
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Lucas Pratto
Lucas David Pratto (; born 4 June 1988) is an Argentine professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker for Paraguayan Primera División club Club Olimpia, Olimpia. Pratto has been described as possessing unusual technique and ball control for a player of strong physique. His first professional club was Boca Juniors, by whom he was loaned to Argentine sides Club Atlético Tigre, Tigre and Unión de Santa Fe, Unión, Norway's Lyn Fotball, Lyn and Chile's Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, Universidad Católica. His performances for the latter prompted a transfer to Italian club Genoa C.F.C., Genoa, shortly after which he joined Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, Vélez Sarsfield, first on loan and then permanently, when he was elected Footballer of the Year of Argentina, Argentina's 2014 Footballer of the Year. He then moved to Brazil, playing for Clube Atlético Mineiro, Atlético Mineiro and São Paulo FC, São Paulo, ...
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Club Atlético Colón
Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe (), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe , is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the second Division of the Argentine football league system, the Primera Nacional. It was born as a football club, which today still remains its main activity. It also has other disciplines like basketball, volleyball, hockey, women's football, boxing, futsal and swimming. The stadium, named Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López in honor of an Argentinian leader governor of Provincia de Santa Fe between 1818 and 1838, has a capacity for 40000 people. It is nicknamed «El Cementerio de los Elefantes» (Elephant Graveyard). The club joined the Argentine Football Association in 1948 and obtained its first championship in 1965, ascending to the First Division. The club's most important accomplishment is its First Division Argentine Primera División championship in 2021. It has also come runner up in the international C ...
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Defensa Y Justicia
Club Social y Deportivo Defensa y Justicia, commonly known as Defensa y Justicia, is an Argentine football club from Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires, established in 1935.Defensa y Justicia
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The senior squad currently plays in the Primera División, the top division of the . The team plays its home games at Estadio Norberto Tomaghello, with a capacity of approximately 20, ...
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Club Atlético Banfield
Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club based in the Banfield, Buenos Aires, Banfield city of Greater Buenos Aires. It was founded on 21 January 1896, by the British–origin inhabitants of that city (mostly English people, English, some Scottish people, Scots and Irish people, Irish). The club is mostly known for its association football, football teams, that currently competes in Argentine Primera División, Primera División, the top division of the Argentine football league system. In 2009 Banfield obtained their first Primera División title after winning the 2009–10 Argentine Primera División season, 2009 Apertura. Banfield had previously achieved a list of Argentine football national cups, national cup title in 1920, when the club won the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires after beating Boca Juniors 2–1. The club also won 10 titles in Second Division. The so-called "Southern Classic" ("Clásico del Sur"), considered a modern classic in Argentine ...
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2013–14 Primera B Nacional
The 2013–14 Primera B Nacional was the 28th season of professional Argentine second division. For this season, the total teams was raised to 22; the champion, runner-up and winner of the tiebreaker playoff were promoted to Primera División. Club information Standings 3rd. promotion playoff Since Huracán and Independiente finished tied in points, a one-match playoff had to be held to determine the 3rd. team to promote to Primera División. The match was played on June 11 at Estadio Único in La Plata. Results Relegation The bottom two teams of this table faced relegation. Clubs with an indirect affiliation with Argentine Football Association are relegated to the Torneo Argentino A, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana Primera B Metropolitana is one of two professional leagues that form the third level of the Argentine football league system. The division is made up of 17 clubs mainly from the city of Buenos Aires and ...
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Argentine Football Association
The Argentine Football Association (, ; AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine football league system, Argentine league system (from Argentine Primera División, Primera División to :es:Torneo Regional Federal Amateur, Torneo Regional Federal and Torneo Promocional Amateur), including list of Argentine football national cups, domestic cups: Copa Argentina, Supercopa Argentina, Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional and the Supercopa Internacional. The body also manages all the Argentina national teams, including the Argentina national football team, Senior, Argentina national under-20 football team, U-20, Argentina national under-17 football team, U-17, :es:Selección de fútbol sub-15 de Argentina, U-15, Argentina national under-23 football team, Olympic and Argentina women's national football team, women's squads. Secondly, it also organizes the Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino, women's, children, ...
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Julio Grondona
Julio Humberto Grondona (18 September 1931 – 30 July 2014) was an Argentine football executive. He served as president of the Argentine Football Association (''Asociación del Fútbol Argentino'') from 1979 until his death in 2014. He also served as Senior Vice-President of FIFA (''Fédération Internationale de Football Association''). Biography Arsenal Fútbol Club Julio Grondona's career in football began in 1956, when he and his brother Héctor founded Arsenal Fútbol Club, inspired by the homonymous English side, in Sarandí, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires. The team's colours, light blue and red, were chosen because of two different reasons. The light blue represents the sky and the red stripe, is in honor to Julio's grandfather, who was a fan of River Plate. Grondona was president of the club for nearly twenty years, from 1957 to 1976, when he was elected president of Club Atlético Independiente. Under his leadership the club was promoted from the lowest rank in the Argent ...
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Football In Argentina
Association football is the most popular sport in Argentina and part of the culture of Argentina, culture in the country. It is the one with the most players (2,658,811 total, 331,811 of which are registered and 2,327,000 unregistered; with 3,377 clubs and 37,161 officials, all according to FIFA)Country info
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and is the most popular recreational sport, played from childhood into old age. The percentage of Argentines that declare allegiance to an Argentine football club is about 90%. Football was introduced to Argentina in the later half of the 19th century by the English settlement in Argentina, British immigrants in Buenos Aires. The first Argentine league was contested in 1891 Argentine Primera División, 1891, making it the fifth-oldest recognised league of ...
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2015 Argentine Primera División
The 2015 Argentine Primera División or Torneo de Primera División 2015 "Julio H. Grondona" was the 125th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on February 13 and ended on December 6. Thirty teams competed in the league, twenty returning from the 2014 Torneo de Transición and ten promoted from the 2014 Primera B Nacional (Aldosivi, Argentinos Juniors, Colón, Crucero del Norte, Huracán, Nueva Chicago, San Martín (SJ), Sarmiento, Temperley and Unión). No teams were relegated to the Primera B Nacional Championship in the previous tournament. Competition format Each of the 30 teams plays the other sides once, along with an extra derby game, for a total of 30 matches for each side. The winners and runners-up of the first division qualified for the 2016 Copa Libertadores. Additionally, the winner of the 2015 Copa Argentina earned the Argentina 3 berth to the Copa Libertadores. The teams that place third to sixth in the league table advanced ...
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Atlético De Rafaela
Asociación Mutual Social y Deportiva Atlético de Rafaela, known simply as Atlético de Rafaela, is an Argentine sports club based in the city of Rafaela, in Santa Fe Province. The club is mostly known for its professional football team, that competes in Primera Nacional, the second division of Argentine football league system. It is popularly known in Argentina and other South American countries for its nickname "La Crema". Apart from football, the other sports and activities practised at the institution are basketball, chess, field hockey, artistic gymnastics, paddle tennis, roller skating, skeet shooting, swimming, tennis and volleyball. History Under the name "Club Atlético Argentino de Rafaela", the club was founded in the city of Rafaela, Santa Fe Province in 1907. In 1915 the name was changed to "Club Atlético de Rafaela". The Monumental de Barrio Alberdi concrete stadium was erected in 1951. The club was turned into a non-profit organization in 1988, and renamed ''Aso ...
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