Tiro Federal

Tiro Federal

Full name	Club Atlético Tiro Federal Argentino
Nickname(s)	Los Tigres
Founded	29 March 1905
Ground	Fortín de Ludueña, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina (Capacity: 18.000)
Chairman	Carlos Dávola
Manager	Jorge Rebbotaro
League	Torneo Argentino A
2010-11	19th Primera B Nacional
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Atlético Tiro Federal Argentino (mostly known just as Tiro Federal or Tiro Federal de Rosario) is an Argentine sports club from the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, whose football team currently plays in Primera B Nacional Argentina, the Argentine 2nd division.

Founded on March 29, 1905, they were one of the founding members of the Rosario amateur league in 1907, which they won in 1920, 1925 and 1926. In 1944, they joined the AFA (the national football association), 13 years after the professionalization of the game, where they competed in the second division, but they were relegated to the third after a restructure of the national leagues in 1949. In 1962 Tiro Federal withdrew their team 12 rounds before the end of the competition and was expelled from AFA. Tiro then returned to play in the Rosario league, but then financial problems made the club leave the local league.

Businessman Carlos Dávola took over the management of the club at the end the 1990s, and started a very ambitious plan. In 1997 Tiro won the local second division, and then the first division in 1999, 2000 and 2001. At the same time it participated in Torneo Argentino B (the regionalized fourth division) in the 1998–99 season, achieving the second place to win promotion to Torneo Argentino A.

After winning the Clausura 2003 tournament of Torneo Argentino A, Tiro reached Nacional B (national second division), and the next season they won the Apertura 2004 of that league, obtaining a wonderful present for its 100th birthday: the right to play in the Primera División Argentina.

At the end of their first tournament in the First Division, in the 2005 season, Tiro Federal ended 19th out of 20 teams. However, one of their players, Javier Cámpora, ended as the top scorer of the tournament.

On April 8, 2006, Tiro Federal was relegated to the Second Division.

At the end of 2010-2011 season, after four years in the Argentina 2nd division, Tiro federal relegated to the Torneo Argentino A, the 3rd division in Argentina, due to bad place in the relegation table.

Stadium

Tiro Federal's stadium is located at the Ludueña neighborhood of Rosario. Known as "El Fortín de Ludueña" (Ludueña's Fortress), the stadium doesn't comply with regulations for first division matches^{[citation needed]}. It currently plays at the Club Real Arroyo Seco's stadium in the nearby city of Arroyo Seco, and for specially important matches, at Newell's Old Boys's stadium.

Current squad

As of September 21, 2010.^[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 GK Darío Capogrosso GK Miguel Cárdenas GK Fernando Cosentino GK Matías Vega DF Alfredo Benítez DF Ezequiel Benítez DF Juan Casarini DF Alfredo González Bordón DF Claudio Greco DF Daniel Leites DF Carlos López DF Franco Miranda DF Eduardo Neumayer DF David Charles Pérez DF Lucas Rosales DF Mariano Viola MF Diego Calgaro MF Gonzalo Cozzoni

No. Position Player MF Nicolás Crocce MF Franco Esbutoni MF Sebastián Ferreira MF Gustavo Maccarone MF Elvio Martínez MF Gastón Menicocci MF Cristian Morales MF Damián Navarro MF Emanuel Pajón MF Lihúe Prichoda MF Héctor Rueda MF Eduardo Vilce FW Leandro Armani FW Federico Bugatti FW Nicolás Cesare FW Bernardo Cuesta FW Javier Rossi FW Iván Saucedo

References

1. ^ Club Atlético Tiro Federal squad at BDFA.

External links

• (Spanish) Official Website