Club Atlético River Plate (Montevideo)

River Plate de Montevideo

Full name	Club Atlético River Plate
Nickname(s)	Darseneros
Founded	May 11, 1932
Ground	Estadio Saroldi, Montevideo, Uruguay (Capacity: 6,000 (all seated))
Chairman	Miguel Grisoglio
Coach	Guillermo Almada
League	Primera División
2009-10	4th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Atlético River Plate is an Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club currently plays in the Primera División. River is the result of the merger of former clubs Olimpia and Capurro.

River Plate have won the Segunda División title 6 times, this is a record they share with Sud América.

History

The beginnings

After its foundation on May 11, 1932, one of the first objectives reached was the settlement of a new football pitch. By those days, managers decided to establish the "Olimpia Park" (today called Estadio Saroldi) as its home stadium. The name of the stadium was settled in honour of the first River's goalkeeper, Federico Omar Saroldi, who died after playing a match against Central Español from an injury suffered during that game.

During the first years (from 1932 until 1942) some of the greatest players in Uruguay's history played in River Plate, such as Severino Varela and Héctor Sena Puricelli.

Rise in the Primera División

River Plate's highest position was reached in 1992. Osvaldo Canobbio, Juan Ramón Carrasco, Luis Diego López and Edgardo Adinolfi were involved in the squad by those times. Nacional won the title based on the skills of the notable forward Julio Dely Valdes.

Another great performance of the team was reached in 2007/2008 season, when River achieved the second position in the annual qualifying. Some of the best players of the tournament were involved in that squad; Robert Flores was considered the best player of the season, another great players such as Pablo Tiscornia, Henry Giménez, Mauricio Prieto, Bruno Montelongo and goalkeeper Álvaro García were also part of the first roster. Some of the most important victories during the tournament were obtained against Peñarol (6-3), Defensor Sporting (5-1) and Danubio (5-1). The highest score registered was reached against Rampla Juniors (7-0).

Kit

C.A. River Plate's kit is similar to that used by River Plate F.C., one of the giants of the amateur era. C.A. River Plate's away kit is sometimes a sky blue jersey, black shorts and socks. This kit was adopted by the Uruguay national football team in 1910 as a homage to the disbanded River Plate F.C. (four times champions of Uruguay) who defeated the best team of the Americas at the time, the Argentine team Alumni. Thus, the worldwide known "celeste" jersey was taken by the national team from the club away kit. Before 1910 Uruguay wore several jerseys including dark blue, green, striped white and sky blue, similar to that of Argentina among others.

1932

1994

1996

1996 away

2001

2005-06 away

2007-10 away

Rivalries

River is based in the same neighbourhood where Bella Vista and Montevideo Wanderers play. These three clubs have a long history of rivalry with each other.

Recently, River have had the upper hand in Derby Matches against both rivals winning most of the matches played.

Current squad

As of August 11, 2011^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Luciano dos Santos 2 DF Claudio Herrera 3 DF Cristian González 4 MF Mario Rizotto 5 DF Rodrigo Cabrera 6 DF Salvador Maidana 7 GK Fernando Laforia 8 FW Gabriel Leyes 9 MF Gonzalo Porras 10 MF Pablo Gaglianone 11 MF Nicolás Pereira 12 FW Pablo Olivera 13 FW Danilo Pires

No. Position Player 14 GK Mauricio Damiano 15 DF Harold Cummings 16 DF Luis Torrecilla 17 FW Felipe Laurino 18 GK Oscar Castro 19 MF Baltasar Silva 20 MF John Varela 21 MF Janderson Pereira 22 MF Martín Icart 23 FW Sebastián Taborda 24 FW Maureen Franco 25 FW Alan Peniche DF Mauricio Prieto

Achievements

National

• Segunda División: 1943, 1967, 1978, 1984, 1991, 2004

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Sudamericana: 3 appearances (2008, 2009 and 2010)
  • Best: Semifinals (2009)
• Copa CONMEBOL: 2 appearances (1996 and 1998)
  • Best: Quarterfinals (1996)

Other titles

• Copa Aerosur: 1 appearance
  • Best: champions ( 2010 )

Famous players

Jorge Cristian Córdoba Brian Diego Fuentes Gustavo Fuentes José Vicente Grecco Diego Sosa Richard Porta Andrezinho Gabriel Marques Paulo Vinícius Flavio Córdoba Carlos Sánchez Luis Marín Polo Carrera Edgardo Adinolfi Nelson Agresta Diego Aguirre

Iván Alonso Deivis Barone Washington Cacciavillani Osvaldo Canobbio Fernando Cardozo Juan Ramón Carrasco Gabriel Cedrés Oscar Chirimini Mateo Corbo Fernando Correa Gabriel Correa Juan Ramón Curbelo Darío Flores Robert Flores Henry Giménez Carlos Goyén

Isabelino Gradín Pablo Granoche Elbio Hernández Baudilio Jáuregui Hernán Rodrigo López Luis Diego López Walter López Sergio Markarián Alejandro Mello Bruno Montelongo Carlos María Morales Fernando Morena Pedro Catalino Pedrucci Julio Pérez Fernando Picún Gustavo Poyet

Héctor Sena Puricelli Hebert Revétria Jorge Marcelo Rodríguez Martín Rodríguez Adrian Sarkissian Santiago Silva Tabaré Silva Pablo Tiscornia Severino Varela Waldemar Victorino Oscar Zubia Andreé González Giancarlo Maldonado

Famous coaches

• Roque Máspoli
• Martín Lasarte
• Victor Pua
• Fernando Morena
• Juan Ramón Carrasco
• Aníbal Ruiz

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Unofficial website