Central Ballester

Central Ballester

Full name	Club Social y Deportivo Central Ballester
Nickname(s)	Canalla
Founded	October 26, 1974
League	Primera D Metropolitana
2010-11	13th
Home colours Away colours

Central Ballester is an Argentine football club, based in General San Martín Partido of the Buenos Aires Province. The team currently plays in the regionalised 5th level of Argentinian football Primera D Metropolitana.

History

The club was founded on October 26, 1974, by a group of fans who did not accept the closure of the club where they use to meet (Club Atlético Central Argentino). Not conceived as a continuity of the original, Central Ballester promoted to Primera C Metropolitana but soon returned to the lowest division of AFA affiliated football.

Central Ballester's uniform colors and pattern are based on Rosario Central's kit, and its squad and supporters are nicknamed the same than the City of Rosario club (Canallas) as well.

During the 1995 Torneo Apertura, the team clothes (including the jersey uniforms worn on field) were stolen from the club lockers. Consequently Central Ballester began a desperate search for new equipment in order to assist to play the next fixture but the club had not enough money to buy new uniforms due to its debts (something common in lowest level of the Argentine football). The solution came from the Club Rosario Central which donated its own uniforms with the badge and sponsors printed on jerseys. Central Ballester finally won the 1995 Apertura using the Rosario Central original jerseys for most part of that tournament. ^[1]

Titles

• Primera D: 1

Clausura 1995

See also

• List of football clubs in Argentina
• Argentine football league system

References

1. ^ "Rosario siempre estuvo cerca... de Ballester", Clarín newspaper, 2011-10-13

External links

• Unofficial website (Spanish)
• Blog site (Spanish)