Obras Sanitarias

Obras Sanitarias
Nickname	Tachero, Aurinegro
Leagues	Liga Nacional de Básquetbol
Founded	27 March 1917 (1917-03-27)
History	1926 – present (basketball section)
Arena	Estadio Obras Sanitarias
Location	Núñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Team colors
President	Fabián Borro
Head coach	Julio Lamas
Championships	3 Campeonato Argentino de Clubes 1 Intercontinental Cup 1 South American League
Website	obrasbasket.com
Uniforms
Home Away

Club Atlético Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (known simply as Obras Sanitarias or Obras) is an Argentine sports club located in the district of Núñez, Buenos Aires. Although originally conceived as a rugby union club, Obras Sanitarias is mostly known for its basketball team, which currently plays in the Liga Nacional de Básquet, the first division of the Argentine basketball league system.

Apart from basketball, other disciplines practised at the club are rugby union, field hockey, swimming, tennis, volleyball and chess.

Obras Sanitarias has been nicknamed Los Tacheros, a lunfardo word used to refer to Argentine taxi drivers, due to taxi cabs are painted in black and yellow (the same colors that Obras' jersey uniform).

History

Obras Sanitarias was founded in 1917 by employees of the state-owned water supply company, Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (translatable in English to "Sanitation Works of the Nation").

On March 22, 1925, the club opened its sports facilities, allowing members to practise athletics, basque pelota, bowls, football, rugby union, swimming and tennis there. In 1941 Obras inaugurated its headquarters in the city of Buenos Aires for the practise of indoor sports.

In 1978, Obras inaugurated the indoor arena Estadio Obras Sanitarias and, two years later, the first synthetic field hockey pitch in South America.

Basketball

Logo for the basketball section of the club.

Obras Sanitarias, along with the Brazilian clubs Sírio and Flamengo, is one of only three South American basketball clubs that have won the FIBA Intercontinental Cup. Obras did so in the 1983 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, by defeating the Italian League club Jollycolombani Cantù. In February 2012, Obras won the South American League for the first time, winning the 2011 edition of the tournament, after beating the Brazilian club Pinheiros, by a score of 88-73 in the final.^[1]

Current roster

Obras Sanitarias roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Age 5.0 !C 4 ARG ! Gutiérrez, Juan Pedro 7000204999999999999♠2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 7001320000000000000♠32 – (1983-10-10)10 October 1983 1.0 !PG 6 URU ! Fitipaldo, Bruno 7000184000000000000♠1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 7001240000000000000♠24 – (1991-08-02)2 August 1991 1.0 !PG 11 ARG ! Barral, Pedro 7000181000000000000♠1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) 7001210000000000000♠21 – (1994-10-20)20 October 1994 5.0 !C 12 ARG ! Delía, Marcos 7000210000000000000♠2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 7001230000000000000♠23 – (1992-04-08)8 April 1992 4.5 !F/C 13 ARG ! Basualdo, Iván 7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001260000000000000♠26 – (1990-01-16)16 January 1990 3.0 !SF 15 ARG ! Safar, Selem 7000190000000000000♠1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 7001280000000000000♠28 – (1987-05-06)6 May 1987 3.5 !F 17 ARG ! Lugrín, Juan Pablo 7000194000000000000♠1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001190000000000000♠19 – (1996-11-05)5 November 1996 3.0 !SF 18 ARG ! Zanzottera, Tomás 7000190000000000000♠1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 7001220000000000000♠22 – (1993-12-08)8 December 1993 4.5 !F/C 19 USA ! Horner, Dennis 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7001280000000000000♠28 – (1988-02-05)5 February 1988 3.0 !SF 23 ARG ! Marziali, Mateo 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001190000000000000♠19 – (1996-11-14)14 November 1996 3.5 !F 31 USA ! Wade, Lorrenzo 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001300000000000000♠30 – (1985-11-23)23 November 1985 3.5 !F 32 ARG ! Tabárez, Patricio 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001240000000000000♠24 – (1991-06-26)26 June 1991 5.0 !C 39 ARG ! Zailo, Lauriano 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7001200000000000000♠20 – (1995-09-03)3 September 1995	Head coach Julio Lamas Assistant coach(es) Iván Najnudel Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 2015-09-23

Notable former players

Rugby union

Club's rugby installations are located in La Matanza Partido of Greater Buenos Aires. The club was affiliated to the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires in 1917, soon after its establishment.

In 1953, Obras won the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires (URBA) championship, which is its only title to date. The team currently plays at Grupo III, the third division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system.

Titles

Basketball

• Campeonato Argentino de Clubes (3): 1975, 1976, 1982
• FIBA Intercontinental Cup (1): 1983
• Liga Sudamericana (1): 2011
• Torneo InterLigas (1): 2011
• Torneo Nacional de Ascenso (1): 1996

Rugby union

• Torneo de la URBA (1): 1953

References

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Rugby blog (Spanish)