Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys
Newell's Old Boys
Newells Old Boys logo.svg
Full name Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys
Nickname(s) La Lepra ("The Leprosy")
Founded November 3, 1903
Ground Estadio Marcelo Bielsa,
Rosario, Argentina
(Capacity: 38,095)
Chairman Guillermo Lorente
Manager Diego Cagna
League Primera División
2011 Clausura 19th
Website Club home page
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football. Newell's is best known for their association football team, that plays in the Argentine Primera División (top level of the Argentine league system).

Originally member of Rosario's Football Association, Newell's affiliated to the Argentine Football Association (AFA) in 1939. They have won AFA's Primera División five times throughout their history, the first being in the 1974 Metropolitano and the last in the 2004 Clausura. Newell's has also been twice Copa Libertadores runner-up (in 1988 and 1992).

The club's football stadium is the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa, named after the team's former player and manager Marcelo Bielsa (twice champion, and runner-up of one Copa Libertadores). Newell's plays the Rosario derby against Rosario Central, a club with which they have a huge historical rivalry.

Newell's is also notable for their youth divisions, being the club with most national titles in AFA's youth tournaments.[1] Players from the club's youths who have represented Argentina at World Cups are Gabriel Batistuta, Américo Gallego, Jorge Valdano, Gabriel Heinze, Roberto Sensini, Mauricio Pocchettino and Maxi Rodríguez, among others. Lionel Messi also played in the club's youths, but left at a young age to Barcelona to seek treatment for his growth hormone deficiency, while Diego Maradona played briefly for the first team in 1993 (5 games).

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History

The club was named by ex-pupils of the English High School of Rosario in homage to its director and football coach, English immigrant Isaac Newell. Newell's Old Boys has an historic rivalry with Rosario Central, the other club from Rosario.

The team colors are black and red, taken from the flags of England and Germany (Isaac Newell being English and his wife German). The team is often referred to as leprosos (lepers) because they played in a charity match to raise funds for a leprosy clinic back in the 1920s.[2]

Newell's Old Boys have won the Argentine Championship five times (Metropolitano 1974, 1987/88, 1990/91, Clausura 1992 and Apertura 2004) and were the runners-up of the Copa Libertadores de América twice (1988 and 1992). The 1990/91 Championship was contested between the 1990 Apertura (Newell's) and 1991 Clausura (Boca Juniors) Champions, which Newell's won in home-and-away matches. Even though the 1990 Clausura was not considered official by itself, it is considered by Newell's supporters to be their "sixth" championship.

Newell's also won a friendly mini-tournament called the Little World Cup in 1988, against River Plate, Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid and Manchester United, and is, together with Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo and Racing one of the few Argentine clubs that made a long and successful tour over Europe (in 1941), in which they defeated several important teams such as Valencia, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Real Madrid and the Spanish National "A" Team. These are the only major international achievements of the club until now (although several minor international summer tournaments were won). So as yet the club have not won an official international championship.

Newell's Old Boys is one of a very few teams to have had all their players represent the National team in a single game (another is Queen's Park of Scotland whose first team represented Scotland in the very first International match against England), when they represented Argentina in a Pre-Olympic Tournament with their undefeated Reserva Team. It classified third all over America, after Brazil and Uruguay (references).

The team has also contributed an important number of players to the Argentina national team, and exported many players to Europe's top leagues, mostly to Italy and Spain. Among its great players were Gabriel Batistuta, Abel Balbo, Jorge Valdano, Américo Gallego, Mario Zanabria, Gustavo Dezotti, Roberto Sensini, Walter Samuel, Mauricio Pochettino, René Pontoni, Gerardo Martino, Ángel Perucca and several more. It has recently produced players like Argentine internationals Gabriel Heinze, Maxi Rodriguez and Lionel Messi.

El Coloso del Parque

The club's president is Guillermo Lorente who was recently elected.

Stadium

The Newell's Old Boys stadium has been in the Parque Independencia neighborhood of Rosario since 1911, and is commonly called El Coloso del Parque (the Colossus of the Independence Park). Capacity was increased from 30,000 to 38,095 in 1997. On December 22, 2009 the stadium was renamed to Marcelo Bielsa, in honor to the former player and coach of the team. [3]

Newell's Old Boys squad in 1974

Honours

National honours

Metropolitano 1974, 1987/88, 1990/91, Clausura 1992, Apertura 2004

Current squad

Current squad of Newell's Old Boys as of November 7, 2011 (edit)
Sources: Official website & Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player
1  ARG GK Nahuel Guzmán
2  ARG DF Alexis Machuca
4  ARG DF Hernán Pellerano
5  ARG MF Diego Mateo
7  ARG MF Lucas Bernardi
8  ARG MF Pablo Pérez
12  ARG GK Lucas Hoyos
13  ARG MF Leandro Torres
14  ARG FW Mauricio Sperduti
15  COL FW Carmelo Valencia
16  ARG MF Víctor Figueroa
17  PAR MF Marcos Riveros
18  ARG FW Ricardo Noir
21  ARG MF Leonel Vangioni
22  ARG GK Sebastián Peratta
23  PAR FW Víctor Aquino
No. Position Player
24  ARG MF Lorenzo Faravelli
25  PAR MF Néstor Camacho
26  ARG DF Cristian Díaz
27  ARG DF Santiago Vergini
28  ARG MF Martín Tonso
29  ARG MF Juan Vieyra
30  ARG DF Guillermo Ferracuti
31  ARG DF Jonathan Valle
32  ARG DF Marcos Benítez
33  ARG MF Raúl Villalba
34  ARG FW Maximiliano Velasco
36  ARG MF Marcos Pérez
37  ARG FW Maximiliano Urruti
38  ARG FW Federico Falcone
39  ARG FW Fabián Muñoz

Manager: Diego Cagna

Former players

To appear in this section a player must have made at least 50 appearances for the club

see also Category:Newell's Old Boys footballers

References

External links


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