Club Atlético Nueva Chicago

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Nueva Chicago
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Full name Club Atlético Nueva Chicago
Nickname(s) Los Toritos de Mataderos (Mataderos Little Bulls)
Founded July 1, 1911
Ground Estadio Nueva Chicago
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Capacity 28.500
Chairman Argentina Antonio Filomeno
Manager Argentina Rodolfo Motta
League Argentine Primera División
2006 Apertura 14th
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Nueva Chicago is an Argentine football club based out of the Mataderos barrio of Buenos Aires, which is also called Nueva Chicago.

The club, that plays at Estadio Nueva Chicago, has won the 1930 (amateur) the 1981 Argentine Second Division, and the 2006 Second Division Clausura.

Chicago was noted during the 1980s for their raucous supporters. In a publicized episode in the early 1980s (during the "Proceso" dictatorship), many fans were jailed for short terms for singing the Peronist march during a game.

Its nickname, el torito ("the little bull") is an allusion to 1930s Mataderos boxer Justo Suárez, known as "el torito de Mataderos".

[edit] Notable players

[edit] Squad 2006-2007

No. Position Player
1 Argentina GK Daniel Vega
2 Argentina DF Adrián González
6 Argentina MF Nicolás Sánchez
7 Argentina FW Federico Higuaín
8 Argentina MF Omar Zariff
10 Argentina FW César Carranza
-- Argentina DF Mariano Fernández
14 Argentina DF Harnén Mattiuzzo
-- Colombia DF Jesús Sinisterra
-- Argentina MF Mauricio Hanuch
-- Argentina FW Cristian Pellerano
20 Argentina DF Jorge Martínez
No. Position Player
22 Argentina DF Mariano Donda
25 Argentina FW Lucio Filomeno
-- Argentina MF Juan Pietravallo
-- Colombia MF Rubén Darío Velásquez
38 Argentina MF Cristian Zermatten
-- Argentina FW Juan Matías Fischer
-- Uruguay FW Edgardo Simovic
-- Argentina MF Pablo Andrés Mannara
-- Argentina DF Carlos Daniel Soto
-- Argentina DF Cristian David Wernly
-- Argentina DF Leonardo Sigali

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