Argentinos Juniors

Sports club in Argentina
not to be confused with Boca Juniors
Football club

Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an argentine sports clubhouse based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. The club is by and large known for its football team, which presently plays in the Argentine Primera División, and was recognized as one of the most authoritative football teams of South America by FIFA. [ 1 ] It is one of the eight Argentine first division teams that have won the Copa Libertadores. The continental trophy was won in the cabaret ‘s first entrance to the contest, in 1985. The most noteworthy sign of this team is the office of its young teams, which unveiled some of the most talented footballers in argentinian football history, with Diego Maradona as the greatest case of all. As a consequence it has been described as “ one of Argentina ‘s most distinctive football clubs ”. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

early years [edit ]

team of Argentinos Juniors in 1907 The club was founded in the Villa Crespo neighborhood of Buenos Aires on 14 August 1904, by a group of anarchist boys that were share of club “ Mártires de Chicago ” ( chosen in court to the eight anarchists imprisoned or hanged after the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago ). [ 4 ] Leandro Ravera Bianchi was named president of the recently created club. The club immediately adopted the bolshevik and whiten colors as an court to deputy Alfredo Palacios, the first congressman elected from the Socialist Party in Argentina. The club affiliated itself with the Liga Central de Football, a minor league in which small clubs and companies took region of. The first equal played by Argentinos Juniors was against Club La Prensa, which Argentinos Juniors lost by a catastrophic scoreline of 12–1. however, the team would be crowned champion at the end of the season. Argentinos Juniors played its home matches in the field located on Gaona Avenue and Añasco Street. After the club was evicted, Argentinos Juniors played at several fields, first gear renting one in Villa Ballester, returning to their neighborhood of beginning in 1907. After a brief stretch in Villa Urquiza, the golf club returned to Caballito, subsequently moving to Fraga and Estomba streets in Villa Ortúzar. In 1909, Argentinos gained affiliation with the Argentine Football Association, but in 1912 the club was involved in the first gear schism in Argentine football when Argentinos joined the breakaway “ Federación Argentina de Football “ ( FAF ). During those years, the baseball club re-adopted its green and whiten colors as there were teams in the league using loss jerseys. In 1920, the Argentinos Juniors played a promotion play-off with El Porvenir, which saw El Porvenir prevail 3–2 on aggregate. In 1921, the team secured promotion to the Argentine top division, making its debut in the 1922 season, where Argentinos finished 6th. In 1925, the Argentinos Juniors moved to its current localization in La Paternal region, acquiring land at San Martín Avenue and Punta Arenas Street and building a stadium with a capacity of 10,000. With the modern stadium finished, Argentinos Juniors was runner-up in 1926 behind champions Boca Juniors. The club had besides increased its membership to 1,000. In 1927, the two separate football associations were reunified and Argentinos played in a massive 34 team league. later, the league was expanded to 36 and Argentinos managed to keep its place until 1930 .
In 1931 Argentinos joined 17 early clubs in forming a breakaway professional league, a move that marked the beginning of the professional era of Argentine football. In 1934 the amateurish league was broken up and Argentina once again had a unified foremost division. As share of this motion, Argentinos Juniors were unified with Club Atlético Atlanta, the temper progressed badly, and after 25 rounds the union was dissolved due to fiscal irregularities in the Atlanta books. Argentinos Juniors played on but finished bottom of the league with alone 2 wins from 39 games. Argentinos was allowed to keep its place in the Primera, but succumbed to relegation in 1937 after finishing second from bottom of the table .
The team that won the Primera B championship in 1940. In 1940 Argentinos enjoyed a good crusade in a fresh stadium, which culminated in winning the 2nd division, [ 5 ] but the cabaret were not allowed promotion because their establish did not meet the requirements of the Primera División, and AFA would not make an exception for Argentinos to play at another ground, even though they had done so for several early promoted clubs in former seasons .
The Argentinos Juniors team that in 1955 won the backing promoting to Primera División. In 1943 Hector Ingunza made his first appearance for the golf club, and went on to become the lead scorer in the club ‘s history with 143 goals in official games between 1943 and 1946. In 1948 Argentinos suffered another injustice at the hands of the AFA. They had qualified to the end of season playoff for promotion to the Primera and were top of the league after 7 of the 11 rounds when a players rap interrupted the contest. AFA finally abandoned the playoff and gave automatic promotion to the teams that had been relegated in 1946 and 1947 rather. In 1954 Argentinos finished 2nd in the league having scored 88 goals, making it the highest seduce team by far. In 1955 the team finally secured promotion back to the Primera after 18 hanker years. Argentinos returned to top flight competition in 1956 and after finishing near the bottom of the board that year, the team secured comfortable mid-table finishes over the following few seasons. In 1960 there was a complete overhaul of the Argentinos Juniors team. The newfangled team performed well and it was alone on the end crippled of the temper that they missed out on the championship. Argentinos finished in 3rd place, only 2 points below the eventual champions Independiente. Although the team did n’t win the championship, it is fondly remembered by those old enough to have seen them play. [ 6 ] In the following years the team did not live up to expectations, rarely finishing in the top half of the table .
1967 saw the insertion of the Metropolitano and Nacional system, Argentinos struggled to adapt and entirely barely survived relegation from the Metropolitano in the inauguration season. Over the future few seasons Argentinos had to play in several curtly tournaments to earn the right to stay in the Metropolitano and were far from qualifying to play in the Nacional. From 1971 Argentinos stabilized themselves and avoided the lower positions in the board, they besides qualified to play in the elaborate Nacional tournaments of the early ’70s, they performed well enough, but failed to qualify for the concluding stages. In 1975 Argentinos Juniors finished 19th of 20 teams, but were fortunate in that no teams were relegated from the Metropolitano that temper .
On Thursday 20 October 1976, fans of Argentinos Juniors and a few travel Talleres de Córdoba fans witnessed credibly the most significant debut in the history of Argentine football. With Argentinos losing 1–0 the coach, Juan Carlos Montes sent on a fifteen-year-old debutant named Diego Armando Maradona making him the league ‘s youngest ever player until his criminal record was broken by Sergio Agüero in 2003. Argentinos lost the game but Diego went on to propel the club forward over the future four years and to achieve great successes with other clubs and the Argentina national team. In the 1979 Metropolitano Diego became the youngest topscorer in the history of Argentine football with 14 goals, he went on to become clear scorekeeper in the follow three tournaments, matching José Sanfilippo ‘s record of being Argentina ‘s topscorer on four straight occasions. In 1980 Argentinos finished 2nd in the Metropolitano and reached the quarter finals of the Nacional. The 2nd-place coating was their best since the begin of the professional era in 1931. Maradona was sold to Boca Juniors in 1981 for a fee of £1 million. Maradona never won a entitle with Argentinos but his massive transfer fee allowed Argentinos to strengthen their team for the years ahead, although his deviation about cost Argentinos their position in the peak fledge as they needed a last day win over San Lorenzo to avoid relegation at San Lorenzo ‘s expense. In 1982 Argentinos failed to progress to the latter stages of the Nacional and finished in mid postpone in the Metropolitano. The season of 1983 saw a discrete improvement under the leadership of Ángel Labruna, he had brought in a new group of players a new system of play and moved them to the Estadio Ricardo Etcheverry of Ferro Carril Oeste to give the team a wide pitch to play on. The team were making good progress, they had made it to the semi-finals of the Nacional and were in the middle of the Metropolitano when Labruna died suddenly on 20 September 1983, the team held themselves in concert under newly coach Roberto Saporiti for a mid table coating. They then made it to the quarter-finals of the Nacional in 1984 .

1984–1985 : inaugural titles and Copa Libertadores [edit ]

The team that won its first ( and lone to date ) Copa Libertadores in 1985 Saporiti had kept faith with Labruna ‘s attacking stylus of play, and largely retained the same group of players. Argentinos managed to win the championship by a unmarried point over Ferro Carril Oeste on the last sidereal day of the season. This was the first major title in the club ‘s history and gave them automatic qualification to the Copa Libertadores in 1985. Saporiti was replaced as coach by José Yudica who had worked wonders in previous seasons including leading unfashionable Quilmes Atlético Club to the Metropolitano backing in 1978 and rescuing San Lorenzo from the 2nd division at the first time of asking. The Nacional backing of 1985 was the last, and featured by far the most complicate structure in the history of the Argentine Primera. Once the contest reached the knockout stage, the eliminate teams got another gamble to play on in the losers knockout. Argentinos won the winners group with a 4–2 penalties win against Vélez Sársfield after a 2–2 sum score, but Velez got another chance to play for the deed after beating River Plate in the losers final examination. Argentinos and Velez played for the title and after a 1–1 guide, Velez won the punishment gunfight, but because they had come from the losers group a fresh game was needed, which Argentinos won 2–1 .
The 1985 edition of the Copa Libertadores saw the inclusion of three Argentine teams, Independiente as the previous years champions, Ferro Carril Oeste as the champions of the 1984 Nacional and Argentinos Juniors as the champions of the 1984 Metropolitano. In the first gear round Argentinos and Ferro were put into the lapp group with brazilian teams Fluminense and Vasco da Gama. The group was dominated by the two Argentine teams, who finished level on points at the peak of the group. This necessitated a playoff game to determine which team would progress to the semi-final, which Argentinos won 3–1. In the semi-final turn Argentinos found themselves in a group of three with Independiete who had received a bye to the semi-finals and baseball club Blooming of Bolivia. Argentinos progressed thanks to a 2–1 winnings in Independiente ‘s stadium in the last fastness of the group. The final examination was against América de Cali of Colombia, after a 1–0 home succeed each, the final went to a decide game in Asunción, Paraguay. The game finished 1–1 and Argentinos won 5–4 on penalties. It was only the second prison term the rival had been decided on penalties, and marked the finest accomplishment in the history of Argentinos Juniors.

worsen [edit ]

In 1985 Argentinos Juniors represented South America in the Intercontinental Cup against Juventus F.C. of Italy, the game ended in a 2–2 disembowel, but Argentinos lost in the punishment gunfight. Argentinos went on to win another trophy in 1986. They won 1–0 in the Copa Interamericana against Defence Force of Trinidad and Tobago. Argentinos qualified for the 1986 Copa Libertadores, receiving a adieu to the second gear round as holders, but was eliminated in the group of three, behind River Plate of Argentina who went on to win the tournament. 1985–1986 saw the start of European-style seasons. Argentinos performed well, finishing in the top half of the postpone for most of the rest of the 1980s and never fearing relegation, although Argentinos besides never in truth challenged as style rival. By 1988 the majority of the Libertadores champions had gone and Argentinos were a vastly different team. On 20 November 1988 the cabaret set a earth record for the longest penalty gunfight, which occurred in a league pit against Racing Club, the gunfight finished 20–19 to Argentinos after 44 penalties were taken. The rules of the clock granted an extra point for the winner on penalties after a attract match. 1990 saw the introduction of the Apertura and Clausura system in Argentina, Argentinos enjoyed a phone number of properly finishes, although the team finished 19th in Apertura 1992 and was saved from relegation by the points averaging system .

relegation and tax return to Primera [edit ]

Argentinos finished 20th and concluding in 1995 Clausura and was again saved by the points averaging system, the future class squad finished bottom of the Clausura and was relegated from the Primera División only eleven years after being champions of South America. In the 1996–1997 season Argentinos won the second class under director Osvaldo Sosa to bounce spinal column into the Primera at the beginning try. The team remained in the top flight until it was relegated again after another sequence of hapless finishes. The best finish Argentinos managed in that period was 4th in the 2001 Clausura. Argentinos spent two seasons in the 2nd class before returning in 2004 through a playoff with Talleres de Córdoba who had finished the season in 3rd rate in the Primera, but had to play in the relegation playoff due to effect of their poor people mannequin in the previous 2 seasons on their standings in the points averaging table. Argentinos spent a couple of anxious seasons narrowly avoiding delegating in 2005 by beating Atlético de Rafaela in a playoff. The following season it survived a playoff against Huracán. The 2006–2007 season saw Argentinos ultimately claw its way well-defined from the relegation places after over two years of flirting with relegation. In 2008 Argentinos earned the right to play in an international tournament for the first gear meter in 12 years by qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana 2008. The team finally progressed to the semi-final where it was eliminated by Estudiantes de La Plata over two legs despite beating them 5–0 in the league game which was sandwiched between the cup ties. In June 2009, former asterisk musician Claudio Borghi took over as coach of the club following a inadequate performance in the 2009 Clausura tournament where the club had finished 20th and last in the table with only 2 wins from their 19 games. At the beginning of the Clausura 2010 championship, Argentinos set itself the target of matching or improving on the 61 points from the 2007–08 season to avoid dropping promote down the relegation mesa. The team recorded an impressive 6–3 succeed against Lanús in its second fixture of the campaign, but after 5 games this would be its lone victory, with two draws and two defeats. Argentinos won its sixth regular against Estudiantes de La Plata which was the start of a 14-game unbeaten streak that saw Argentinos polish 1-point ahead of Estudiantes at the end of the season. The most significant leave in this 14 crippled run was in the penult fixture against style challengers Independiente, which saw Argentinos come back from 1–3 down to win 4–3, which featured two goals in the final examination minutes of the game to seal the win and leave Argentinos at the top of the table with one game to play. Argentinos last won its first gear domestic championship in 25 years with a 1–2 off win against Huracán in the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó. In April 2014, they were relegated to the Primera B Nacional .

Kit undifferentiated evolution [edit ]

Although the loss color has been historically identified with Argentinos Juniors, the first jersey was green with white vertical stripes. Some sources country that this jersey was worn during the inaugural years of the team because the Argentine Football Association did not allow Argentinos Juniors to register a red undifferentiated due to it having been previously adopted by Club Atlético Independiente. [ 7 ]

Main consistent [edit ]

early patterns [edit ]

Notes

^[8] Argentinos Juniors adopted their definitive red color, inspired by the club ‘s socialist beginnings .
^ Worn in 1960, 1983, 1998, 2001–02, 2018 .
^ Worn in 1935–36, 1975–76, 2002–04, 2007, 2008–09, 2011–18 .

Players [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

As of 18 June 2021.[9]

notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loanword [edit ]

note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

noteworthy players [edit ]

To appear in this section a player must have played at least 50 games for the club or set a club record
[ 10 ]

former coaches [edit ]

Presidents [edit ]

Pablo Paolella (1901–07)
Leandro Ravera Bianchi (1904–07)
Tomás Tericone (1907–11)
Teófilo Pebe (1911–16)
Emilio Couy (1916–22)
Pipo Manujovich (1922–27)
Juan Guglielmetti (1927–32)
Domingo Capitani (1932–39)
Gastón García Miramón (1939–43)
Emilio Ardoy (1943–47)
Antonio Delporto (1947–54)
Mario Fiore (1954–62)
Juan Bautista Molinari (1962–66)
Domingo Deker (1966–70)
Arturo Gracía Vázquez (1970–73)
Osvaldo Sanguinetti (1973–75)
Mariano Boggiano (1975–76)
Florentino Alen (1976–77)
Carlos Pascual Osorio, Juan Fiori & Omar Santiago Gallo (1977)
Próspero Víctor Cónsoli (1977–81)
Domingo Tesone (1981–92)
Luis Veiga (1992–95)
Ricardo Bravo (1995–96)
Oscar Giménez (1996-02)
Luis Segura (2002–2014)
Rubén Forastiero (2014–2015)
Cristian Malaspina (2015–)

stadium [edit ]

The club presently plays in the Estadio Diego Armando Maradona which is besides much referred to as La Paternal after the La Paternal zone of Buenos Aires where the cabaret is based. The stadium was named after Diego Maradona because he started his career in the Argentinos youth team. between 1983 and 2003 Argentinos had a groundshare with Ferro Carril Oeste at Estadio Ricardo Etcheverry. The club has had a number of other homes in its history, all based in the city of Buenos Aires .

Nicknames [edit ]

The club, which is nicknamed Bichos Colorados (Red Bugs), is one of the most fecund sources of football players in Argentina. Diego Maradona, Fernando Redondo and Juan Román Riquelme being some of the most celebrated players who began their career at the club. This ability to keep producing global class players has given them the nickname El Semillero, meaning the Nursery or the “ Seed Garden ” .

Honours [edit ]

National [edit ]

International [edit ]

Notes

a b Although having won the championship, the team did not earn promotion to Primera División .