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| Leagues | Liga Nacional de Básquetbol | |||
| Founded | March 27, 1917 | |||
| History | 1926 – present | |||
| Arena | Estadio Obras Sanitarias | |||
| Location | Buenos Aires, Argentina | |||
| Team colors | Black and Gold | |||
| President | Fabián Borro | |||
| Head coach | Bernardo Augusto Murphy | |||
| Championships | 3 Campeonato Argentino de Clubes 1 Intercontinental Cup |
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| Website | www.clubosn.com.ar | |||
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Club Atlético Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (known simply as Obras Sanitarias or Obras) is a sports club located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although was conceibed riginally as a rugby union club, Obras Sanitarias is mostly known for its basketball team.
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Obras Sanitarias was founded in 1917 by employees of the state enterprise Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (translatable in English to "Sanitation Works of the Nation"). In 1978, Obras inaugurated the indoor arena Estadio Obras Sanitarias and, two years later, the first synthetic field hockey pitch in South America.
Sports played at the club include: basketball, rugby union, field hockey, swimming, tennis, volleyball and chess.
Obras Sanitarias plays in the professional Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (Argentine first division). Its home games are played at Estadio Obras Sanitarias and Polideportivo Municipal de San Rafael.
Obras Sanitarias, along Brazilian Esporte Clube Sírio, were the only two South American team that won the Intercontinental Cup. Obras did so in 1983, defeating Italian Jollycolombani Cantù.
Obras, it's also known as "Los Tacheros" (The Taxi Drivers, in english), because of the colours of his home jersey (yellow and black, as it is the taxis in Buenos Aires).
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