Club Olimpo

Olimpo

Full name	Club Olimpo
Nickname(s)	Aurinegro (Golden-black), Abeja Mecánica (Clockwork Bee), Abejita (Lil' Bee)
Founded	October 15, 1910
Ground	Estadio Roberto Natalio Carminatti Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (Capacity: 16,000)
Chairman	Alfredo Dagna
Manager	Omar de Felippe
League	Primera División
2011 Clausura	5th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Club Olimpo, usually referred to as Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, is a sports club based in the city of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The club was founded on October 15, 1910, and their main activities are basketball and association football. The football team currently plays in the Primera División, the top level of the Argentine football league system. Olimpo is nicknamed Aurinegro (in English: "Golden-blacks"), for their jersey colors.

Football

Being from Bahía Blanca, Argentina's basketball capital, most of the Olimpo's associates and energies were pointed towards that sport. However, by the late 1990s, the football team became increasingly important as they were pass-promoted into several divisions, finally reaching the Primera División in 2001.

During the 2000s, Olimpo has been a yo-yo club. They were promoted to the first division for the 2002–03 season, staying until their relegation in the 2005–06 season. After winning back-to-back the Apertura and Clausura of the Primera B Nacional (second division) 2006–07 season, the team returned to the Argentine Primera. However, they were again relegated during their first season back in the division, the 2007–08. After two seasons back in the B Nacional, Olimpo won promotion for the third time to play the 2010–11 season in the Argentine topflight.

During the Apertura the club looked doomed to relegation again after they could only obtain 18 points in 19 games but in the Clausura their fortunes began to improve. On March 20, 2011 In the sixth round they beat Boca Juniors at the Bombonera for the first time in their history.^[1] This result meant that they escaped the relegation zone for the first time in six months and became stand alone leaders of the Primera División for the first time in their history.^[2]

Current squad

Current squad of Club Olimpo as of August 31, 2011 (edit)
Sources: Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player 1  ARG GK Laureano Tombolini 3  ARG DF Cristian Villanueva 4  ARG DF Eduardo Casais 5  ARG MF Ariel Rosada 6  ARG DF Emir Faccioli 7  ARG MF David Vega 8  ARG MF Juan Pablo Scheffer 9  PAR FW Néstor Bareiro 10  ARG MF Martín Rolle 11  ARG MF Leonel Ríos 12  ARG GK Ezequiel Viola 14  ARG MF Damián Musto 15  ARG DF Pablo Jerez 16  ARG DF Eric Verón 17  ARG FW Andrés Franzoia 18  ARG MF Adrián Lucero

No. Position Player 19  ARG MF Emiliano Romero 20  PAR DF Arturo Aquino 22  URU DF Juan Tejera 23  ARG MF Martín Pérez Guedes 24  ARG MF Juan Mauri 25  ARG DF Gabriel Díaz 27  ARG GK Matías Ibáñez 28  ARG FW Marcos Litre 29  ARG GK Gabriel Arias 30  ARG FW Julio César Furch 31  ARG FW Nicolás Pavlovich 44  VEN DF Oswaldo Vizcarrondo —  ARG DF Federico Mancinelli —  ARG DF Matías Palavecino —  ARG DF Guillermo Sánchez

Manager: Omar de Felippe

Honours

National

• Primera B Nacional
  • Winners (3): 2001–02, 2006–07, 2009–10
• Torneo del Interior
  • Winners (1): 1989

Regional

• Liga del Sur
  • Winners (27): 1921, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1995, 2009
• Torneo Regional
  • Winners (2): 1984, 1985

Former players

Main category: Olimpo footballers.

Institutional

Presidents

Jorge Avellanal (1910) Emilio Cabral (1911), (1912), (1915) Roberto Claverie (1912) Celso Gutiérrez (1913) Juan Odiccini (1914) Roberto Carminatti (1915), (1923), (1924), (1927–45), (1962), (1963) Genaro Mucci (1916–20), (1946) Armando Salvarezza (1921), (1922), (1925), (1926) Domingo Ighina (1947–61) Alberto Fortunatti (1961) Eduardo Giustozzi (1964), (196–)

Martín Broggi (1965–70) Mario Oscar Macagno (1971–80) Roberto Oscar Migliorini (1981–85) Jorge Scoccia (1985–89) Ricardo Rabbione (1989–92) Carlos Lemos (1992–95) Paulino Martínez (1995–99) Jorge Ledo (1999–07) Sergio Zabaloy (2008) Jorge Ledo (2008–2011) Osvaldo Risacher (2011-)

Executive Board 2011

• President : Mr. Alfredo Dagna.
• Vice-president : Mr. Juan Héctor Ayerbe.
• Vice-president 2º : Mr. Osvaldo Risacher.
• General Secretary : Mr. Leonardo Virkel.

Basketball

In basketball, Olimpo was runner-up to Ferro Carril Oeste in the 1986 season of the Liga Nacional de Básquet, the Argentine top division.

See also

• Category:Olimpo de Bahía Blanca

References

1. ^ Game of the week - Boca 0-2 Olimpo
2. ^ Clausura 2011 Fecha 6

External links

• Olimpo de Bahía Blanca (Spanish)
• unofficial website (Spanish)