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| Racing Club |
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| Full name |
Racing Club de Montevideo |
| Nickname(s) |
Racinguistas, Cervezeros |
| Founded |
April 6, 1919 |
| Ground |
Estadio Osvaldo Roberto
Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Capacity |
8,500 |
| Chairman |
Raul Rodriguez |
| Manager |
Gaston Machado |
| League |
Segunda División Profesional |
| 2006/2007 |
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[edit] Racing Club de Montevideo
Racing Club de Montevideo are a football club from Montevideo in Uruguay. They currently play in the Uruguayan 2nd Division.
Racing Club is known as "La Escuelita" (The Little School) due to the excellent players that resulted from the team, it was like a player machine. Racing is one of Uruguay's traditional teams, in terms of victories and fans; However, nowadays Racing is facing problems of all types, most of its fans are senior people.
[edit] Notable Players
Mazurkewicz, also known as Mazurka started played as a defender for Racing, in his early years, then he would become the world's best goalkeeper. On a match that were playing Peñarol vs. Racing at the Centenario Stadium, Racing's goalkeeper was expulsed and they didn't have any more variants, so Ladislao entered as a goalkeeper, he didn't even imagined how his life would change, his magnificient goalkeeping abilities attached him to the goal forever. He retired as a hero form Peñarol and Uruguay's National team. He is now Peñarol's goalkeeper trainer. He was also elected as the best goalkeeper of the World Cup of México 1970.
[edit] Titles
- Segunda División Amateur 1923
- Segunda División Amateur 1929
- Segunda División 1955
- Segunda División 1958
- Segunda División 1974
- Segunda División 1989
- Segunda División Apertura 1999
[edit] special kits
[edit] External links
Racing Club de Montevideo Official Website (Spanish)
