Atlético de Rafaela

Atlético de Rafaela

Full name	Asociación Mutual Social y Deportiva Atlético de Rafaela
Nickname(s)	La Crema
Founded	13 January 1907 (1907-01-13)
Ground	Estadio Nuevo Monumental Rafaela, Santa Fe Province
Ground Capacity	16,000
Chairman	Homero Ingaramo[1]
Manager	Leonardo Astrada[2]
League	Primera División
2014 Final	16th
Home colours Away colours

Asociación Mutual Social y Deportiva Atlético de Rafaela (locally: [asosjaˈsjon muˈtwal soˈsjal i deporˈtiβa aˈtletiko ðe rafaˈela]; usually known simply as Atlético de Rafaela) is an Argentine sports club from the city of Rafaela, in Santa Fe Province. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera División, the top level of Argentine football league system.

Other sports practised at the institution are basketball, field hockey, gymnastics, roller skating, fronton, skeet shooting, swimming, tennis and volleyball.^[3]

History

Under the name Club Atlético Argentino de Rafaela, the club was founded in the city of Rafaela, Santa Fe Province in 1907 . In 1915 the name was changed to Club Atlético de Rafaela. The Monumental de Barrio Alberdi concrete stadium was erected in 1951.

The club was turned into a non-profit organization in 1988, and renamed Asociación Mutual Social y Deportiva Atlético de Rafaela ("Social and Sport Association Rafaela Athletic"). Only a year later Rafaela reached the second division after defeating Atlético Ledesma by 3-0 with goals scored by López (20 ST and 40ST) and Poelman (35ST).^[4]

Atlético de Rafaela played 14 years in the second division until the team won the Apertura 2002 and the Clausura 2003 to finally reach first division. After losing the promoción against Huracán de Tres Arroyos, Atlético de Rafaela was relegated to the second division again.

The following season Atlético lost its chance to return to the first division, after losing the promoción, against Argentinos Juniors.

In 2009 Rafaela earned another chance to return to the Primera División via a playoff against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. After winning the first final 3-0, Rafaela lost the second match by the same score (0-3), and had to stay in the second division once again.

Atlético de Rafaela fans are referred as Cremosos or Celestes, as well as the group of people that follows the team everywhere is known as La Barra de los Trapos .

The institution has also an important car racing circuit since 1919, which hosts many competitions including Turismo Carretera (since 1941) and TC 2000 (since 1983).

The 21st of May 2011, after defeating Atlético Tucumán by 2-0 with goals scored by Carniello and Castro, they earned a spot back on the first division for the 2011-12 season.^[5]

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Atlético de Rafaela as of April 6, 2015 (edit)
Sources: BDFA and Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player 1  URU GK Esteban Conde 2  ARG DF Sebastián Sánchez 3  ARG DF Lucas Kruspzky 4  ARG DF Dimas Morales 5  ARG MF Matías Fissore 6  ARG MF Mateo Castellano 7  ARG FW Nicolás Orsini 8  ARG MF Guillermo Marino 9  ARG FW Mauro Quiroga 10  ARG MF Guillermo Fernandez 11  ARG FW Federico González 12  ARG FW Guido Rosetti 13  ARG FW Rodrigo Depetris 14  ARG MF Adrián Bastía (captain) 15  ARG MF Germán Rodríguez Rojas 16  ARG DF Germán Ré 17  ARG MF Pablo Gaitán

No. Position Player 18  ARG FW Sergio Sosa 19  ARG FW Franco Jominy 20  ARG GK Axel Werner 21  ARG DF Alexis Niz 22  URU DF Mauricio Gómez 23  ARG FW Ignacio Pussetto 24  ARG DF Joel Sacks 25  ARG GK Carlos de Giorgi 26  ARG MF Diego Montiel 27  ARG DF Rodrigo Colombo 28  ARG MF Juan Eluchans 29  ARG MF Walter Serrano 30  URU DF Díaz Pena 31  ARG DF Nicolás Canavessio 32  ARG DF Lautaro Petri 34  ARG MF Osmar Ferreyra

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either played at least 50 games for the club, set a club record or played for their national team.

Gustavo Alfaro (1988–92) Gabriel Schürrer (1989–90) Gustavo Semino (1996–97), (1998–99), (2000–01), (2004–05), (2007) Gonzalo del Bono (1997–99), (2000–06), (2007–08)[lower-alpha 1] Raúl "Speedy" González (1997–00) Federico García (1997–04), (2005–06), (2009) Lucas Bovaglio (1998–00), (2001–04), (2006), (2009–11), (2012–14) Carlos Bonet (1998–02) [lower-alpha 2] Carlos Goyen (1992-95) [lower-alpha 3] Hugo Barrientos (2000–04) Franco Mendoza (2000–05) Ibrahim Sekagya (2001–02)[lower-alpha 4]

Darío Gandín (2001–04), (2011–13) Iván Juárez (2001–04), (2005–11), (2011–13) [lower-alpha 5] Ezequiel Medrán (2001–04) Carlos Araujo (2002–04) Marcelo Barovero (2002–07) Leonardo Di Lorenzo (2003–04) [lower-alpha 6] Sergio Marclay (2004–05), (2006–07), (2009–10) Lucas Aveldaño (2005–08) Claudio Bieler (2006–07) Martín del Campo (2006–07) [lower-alpha 7] Alejandro Faurlín (2007) Cesar Carignano (2010–11), (2012–13) [lower-alpha 8]

Managers

Horacio Bongiovanni (Dec 21, 1988–?)[9] Francisco Calabrese (1992–?)[9][10][11] Roberto Rogel (1993-94) [12] Angel Hugo Bargas (?)[10] Carlos Biassutto (?)[10] Gustavo Alfaro (1992–95), (1998–00)[13] Jorge Ghiso (Nov 12, 1997–1998), (2001-2002), (2006-2007)[14] Oscar Blanco (2002–Nov 4, 2003)[15][16] Alejandro Zurbriggen (interim) (Nov 9, 2003)[17] Osvaldo Piazza (Nov 11, 2003–July 4, 2004)[18] Omar Labruna (interim) (Aug 16, 2004)[19]

José Luis Brown (2004–2005)[20] Jorge Ginarte (April 21, 2005–Oct 18, 2005)[21][22] Óscar Garré (2005–06)[23] Juan Amador Sánchez (June 14, 2007–08)[24] Carlos Marcelo Fuentes (June 23, 2008–June 30, 2009)[25] Carlos Trullet (2009–March 12, 2012)[26] Rúben Darío Forestello (March 13, 2012–Nov 18, 2012)[27][28] Victor Bottaniz (interim) (Oct 6, 2012–Dec 3, 2012) Jorge Burruchaga (Dec 3, 2012–May 26, 2014) [29] Roberto Sensini (June 10, 2014–April 4, 2015) [30][31] Leonardo Astrada (Apr 14, 2015–present)[2]

Institutional

Current Board

Executive Board 2014–2016^[32]

• President: Homero Ingaramo
• 1st Vice-president: Gabriel Carlucci
• 2nd Vice-president: Eduardo Gays

Chairmen

Eduardo Ripamonti (1907–1910) Alfredo Miles (1911) Eloy Gaitán (1912) Eusebio Forns (1913) Calesancio Stoffel (1914) Virgilio Fanti (1915) Ermindo Bertolaccini (1916) Juan Pablo Fiorillo (1917) Virgilio Fanti (1918) Octavio Zóbboli (1919–1921) Ermindo Bertolaccini (1922) Santiago Rodríguez (1923 – 1924) Ermindo Bertolaccini (1925) Bernardo Strubia (1926) Santiago Rodríguez (1927) Miguel Villabrica (1928) Ernesto Remonda (1928) José Gutiérrez (1929–1930) Pablo Comtesse (1931) Carlos Casabella (1932) Rinaldo Ripamonti (1933) Juan Cagliero (1934) José Gutiérrez (1935)

Carmelo Sáenz (1936) Juan Báscolo (1936–1937) Carmelo Sáenz (1943) Juvenal Viotti (1944) Luis Radicci (1945–1946) Ricardo Santi (1947–1948) Luis Radicci (1949) Juan Cagliero (1950) Juan Báscolo (1951–1954) Juan Berzero (1955–1958) Ricardo Santi (1959–1960) Néstor Ruatta (1961–1964) Bernardo Kuschnir (1965–1968) Eduardo Ricotti (1969–1972) Aníbal Alberto (1972) David Alujes (1973–1976) Edison Valsagna (1977) Isidro Dellasanta (1977–1980) Egidio Bocco (1981–1989) Silvio Fontanet (1990–1996) Gabriel Gaggiotti (1997–2001) Ricardo Tettamantti (2002–2014)

Records

• Torneo del Interior: 1

1988–89 ^[33]

• Primera B Nacional: 2

2002–03,^[34] 2010–11^[35]

• Copa Ciudad de Rosario: 1

2012^[36]

• Copa Centenario Patronato de Paraná: 1

2014^[37]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• La Crema es de Primera (Spanish)

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