Sportivo Italiano
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| Sportivo Italiano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Club Sportivo Italiano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | El ACIA, Azzurro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | May 7, 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio de sportivo Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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| Capacity | 6,200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Salvador D´Antonio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Juan Carlos Díaz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Primera B Metropolitana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apertura 2006 | 14th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club Sportivo Italiano are a football club from Buenos Aires in Argentina. They currently play in the regionalised third tier of the Argentine Football Association.
They were founded on May 7, 1955 by Italian immigrants in the Florida neighbourhood of the Vicente López Partido in the Buenos Aires Province, next to Buenos Aires city. The club were originally named Associazione del Calcio Italiano in Argentina, in 1978 they merged with Sociedad Italiana and became known as Deportivo Italiano, the clubs third and latest name change occurred in 2000, when they became known as Club Sportivo Italiano.
The club have mainly appeared in the 2nd and third tiers of Argentine football, although in the 1986/87 they played their only season in the Argentine top flight. Despite finishing bottom of the league and being relegated, this was their highest league finish ever.
[edit] Titles
- Tercera de Ascenso 1960,
- Primera División C 1962,
- Primera División C 1974,
- Primera B 1986,
- Primera B Metropolitana Apertura 1995.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Club Website (Spanish)
- Sportivo Italiano Micro-Site (Spanish)
| Primera B Metropolitana (2006/07) |
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