Club Deportivo Armenio
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Deportivo Armenio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Club Deportivo Armenio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Founded | November 2, 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ground | Estadio Armenia, Ingeniero Maschwitz Buenos Aires (Capacity 8,000) |
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Chairman | Noray Nakis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manager | Fernando Ruiz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | Primera B Metropolitana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-08 | 7th reached playoff SF |
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Club Deportivo Armenio are a lower league football club, from Ingeniero Maschwitz in Buenos Aires Province Argentina. The currently play in Primera B Metropolitana, which is the regionalised 3rd tier of Argentine football.
The club were founded in 1962 under the name Club Armenio de Fútbol by members of the Armenian community in Argentina. They changed their name to Club Deportivo Armenio two years later they became members of Argentine Football Association (AFA).
Their original colours were black and white, they changed to green and white stripes before finally settling on their current colours of red and white. Their away colours of red, orange and blue are inspired by the Armenian flag.
The pinacle of their success to date was a brief spell in the Argentine Primera, their highest ever finish was 13th in the 1987/88 season, followed by relegation the season after.
The most memorable victory in their history was a 2-0 away win against River Plate in the 1987/88 season.
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[edit] Titles
- Primera B Nacional 1986/87
[edit] Notable former players
- Carlos Barisio (1984)
- José André Bilibio (1997~2002)
- Renato Corsi (1988~1989)
- Alberto Fanesi (?-1968)
- Miguel Oviedo (1987~1992)
- Héctor Horacio Scotta (?)
- Guillermo Suarez (2001~2002)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Club website
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