Rosario Central

Rosario Central
Rosario Central
Rosario Central logo.png
Full name Club Atlético Rosario Central
Nickname(s) Los Canallas
(The Scoundrels)
La Academia rosarina
(The Academy of Rosario)
Founded December 24, 1889
Ground Estadio Gigante de Arroyito,
Rosario, Santa Fe,
Argentina
(Capacity: 41,824)
Chairman Norberto Speciale
Manager Juan Antonio Pizzi
League Primera B Nacional
2010-11 12th
Website Club home page
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

Club Atlético Rosario Central is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina. Its football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second tier of the Argentine football league system, after being relegated in the 2009-10 season.

Rosario Central is the most successful football team not based on Buenos Aires. The club has won the Argentine's First Division four times; their last domestic title was the 1986-87 season. In addition, they have won the Conmebol Cup once. After the 2010 Clausura, Rosario Central's poor form over the past three years forced them into a relegation/promotion play-off against Nacional B side Club Atlético All Boys. All Boys won the tie over two legs 4–1 on aggregate, relegating Rosario Central to second tier football for the fourth time in their history.

The club was officially founded in 1889, being one of the oldest Argentine teams, and took its name from the British-owned Central Argentine Railway company. Rosario Central has a strong rivalry with Newell's Old Boys. The matches played between them are named "El Clasico Rosarino", and is amongst the most heated rivalries in the sport due to both teams and due to Rosario Central's local popularity. Rosario Central's home stadium is Estadio Dr. Lisandro de la Torre, known simply as "El Gigante de Arroyito", which is the largest stadium in the city.

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History

The Central Argentine Railway Athletic Club was founded on December 24, 1889 by English railway workers of the British-owned Central Argentine Railway company. The first president was Colin Calder, and all club activities were carried out in the English language. When the company took over the Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway company in 1903, the name of the club was formally changed to Club Atlético Rosario Central.

The original jersey colors were red and white; later, the club would change to a checkered blue and white, and finally settle on the blue and gold vertical stripes design used to this day.

Alternate logo

The team played in the local Rosario league until it joined the Argentine league in 1939 together with rivals Newell's Old Boys. Rosario Central was relegated in 1942 and again in 1951; both times, it was promoted on the very next season.

Rosario Central won the Nacional championship in 1971 with Angel Labruna as coach, and again in 1973, being the first of many such achievements won by the coach Carlos Timoteo Griguol.

For the 1974 season, Central acquired striker Mario Kempes from Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba (Kempes and Instituto mate Osvaldo Ardiles were to be reunited in the national team that won the 1978 World Cup).

After seven years whitout titles, Central won the 1980 Nacional with veteran Ángel Tulio Zof on the bench. That team was called "La Sinfónica" (the symphony orchestra) because they played very good, beautiful football.

After a few years with bad seasons, the team was relegated in 1985, but returned to first division the following year, and won the 1986/87 Championship. This was a first in Argentine football (oddly, Central Español performed a similar feat in Uruguay in the years 1983/84, also a first).

In 1995, Rosario Central won the CONMEBOL Cup (the precurssor of the current Copa Sudamericana), the only international title of a Santa Fe Province based team to date.

The club has participated in ten editions of the Copa Libertadores, and is currently tied for fifth place with Estudiantes de la Plata and Vélez Sársfield, all of which trail participation leaders Boca Juniors, River Plate, Independiente, and San Lorenzo de Almagro.

In the year 2010, Rosario Central is relegated for the fourth time from the first division after losing against All Boys in home-away matches (global score All Boys won 4-1).

Rosario Central fans display a gigantic banner

Stadium

Rosario Central plays in the Gigante de Arroyito stadium, located in the confluence of Avellaneda Boulevard and Génova Avenue, in the Lisandro de la Torre neighborhood (popularly known as Arroyito), in north-east Rosario. It has an official capacity of 41,654.

In that tournament, all three second-round games of the Argentine squad were played in the Gigante. Local hero Kempes enjoyed the support of the fans and went on to become the top scorer of the tournament.

Nicknames

Central's common nickname is canallas ("scoundrels", which is a rather mild insult in Argentina) because it is said that the club refused to play a charity match for a leprosy clinic in the 1920s; rival side Newell's acquired the leprosos (lepers) nickname when it did play in that event.

Rosario Central team picture from 1919

In a January 2007 press conference presenting the new jersey, Rosario native Roberto Fontanarrosa revised the definition and spelling of Central's nickname. The new spelling he gave was canaya, because according to him, people from the city of Rosario do not use the Spanish word canalla for any other reason than referring to the club.

Central is also known as La Academia (like the Argentine team Racing Club) due to the amount of players that become professional from the youth teams, and to the amount of consecutive Rosario's League titles that the club won in the amateur era, in comparison to Racing Club (called La Academia), that won a lot of championships in the Buenos Aires´ League at the same time too.

Supporters

Rosario Central's supporters are considerated one of the most significant of Argentina. The Newspaper Olé was published last January 5, 2008 by a recent study realized by the English magazine UK Football. The same one, published that a ranking with the 50 most vibrant supporters of the world. The results were the following ones: as first, Milan represents the supporters of the AC, then that of Real Madrid, and third that of the Galatasaray of Turkey. Between the Argentinians that of Rosario Central turns out to be like first in the position 14, second that of River Plate in the position 20, third turn out to be the supporters of Boca Juniors in 23, and fourth that of Racing Club in the place number 48.[1]

It is provided also with certain proper rituals, as being the « Throwing of Towel », on November 23 in recognition to the party that Rosario Central imposed on his rival for 4 on 0 and this one was considered finished to 11 minutes of the second half, is known as the day of the abandonment, or the celebration of the « Day of the Friend Canaya », which is celebrated on July 19 (date of death of Roberto Fontanarrosa) and the most important, the celebration of the Little dove of Poy, who celebrates all on December 19 in different cities of the world, raised an order so that between to the book Guinness as the most celebrated goal of the history

In popular culture

Rosario Central have featured in many films, books, songs and plays. The club has also featured on several occasions in prose. Roberto Fontanarrosa's story "19 de diciembre de 1971" is about a fan who travels to Buenos Aires for a Semi-Final match against Newell's Old Boys.

Celebrity fans include Alberto "El Negro" Olmedo, Rita la Salvaje, Libertad Lamarque, some writers such as Osvaldo Bayer and Roberto Fontanarrosa, and some musicians as well as Fito Páez, Juan Carlos Baglietto, Joaquín Sabina are all fans of the club.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a major figure of the Cuban Revolution, was a Rosario Central fan.

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Since July, 2009, the clothing of Rosario Central is provided by the company Puma, who takes from the sports uniform up to the extra-sports clothes. In turn, the jacket is sponsored by the company City Bank Ingeconser from August, 2009

Kit
Period Provider
1977–1982 Adidas
1983–1992 Topper
1992–1993 Uhlsport
1993–1995 Penalty
1995–1998 Le Coq Sportif
1998–2000 Umbro
2000–2006 Puma
2006–2009 Kappa
2009- Puma
Sponsor
Period Provider
1985–1986 Zanella
1986 Aurora Grundig
1987–1992 Zanella
1992–1998 General Paz Seguros
1998–2001 Cablehogar
2001–2002 -
2002–2005 Transatlántica
2005–2009 Paladini
2009–2011 Ciudad Ribera
2011- Ingeconser

Honours

The squad that obtained the 1971 Torneo Nacional.
The 1973 Torneo Nacional champion.
The team that won the third National title in 1980.

Amateur titles (1905–1938)

National
  • Concurso por Eliminación: 1
1913
  • Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren: 1
1915
  • Copa de Honor: 1
1916
  • Copa de Competencia Jockey Club: 1
1916
  • Copa de Competencia: 1
1920
Regional
  • Rosario's League: 12
1908, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1937, 1938

Professional league titles (1939–present)

Campeonato Nacional 1971, Campeonato Nacional 1973, Campeonato Nacional 1980, Argentine Primera 1986-87
Runners-up (4): Nacional 1970, Metropolitano 1974, Nacional 1974, Apertura 1999
1942, 1951, 1985

International titles

1995
Runners-up (1): 1998

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Rosario Central as of August 28, 2011 (edit)
Sources: Official website and BDFA

No. Position Player
 ARG GK Emiliano Bovero
 ARG GK Jorge Broun
 ARG GK Manuel García
 ARG GK Facundo Lupardo
 ARG DF Rafael Delgado
 ARG DF Paulo Ferrari
 ARG DF Cristian Godoy
 ARG DF Matías Lequi
 ARG DF Brian López
 ARG DF Franco Peppino
 ARG DF Gerardo Pérez
 ARG DF Germán Rivarola
 ARG DF Leonardo Talamonti
 ARG DF Nahuel Valentini
 ARG DF Mario Vallejo
 ARG MF Reinaldo Alderete
 ARG MF Matías Ballini
 ARG MF Pablo Becker
No. Position Player
 ARG MF Federico Carrizo
 ARG MF Ricardo Gómez
 ARG MF Lucas Lazo
 URU MF Maximiliano Lombardi
 ARG MF Diego Migueles
 URU MF Julio Mozzo
 ARG MF Martín Rivero
 ARG MF Federico Vismara
 ARG MF Omar Zarif
 ARG FW Santiago Biglieri
 ARG FW Gonzalo Castillejos
 ARG FW Fernando Coniglio
 ARG FW Ramiro Costa
 ARG FW Adrián de León
 ARG FW Matías Galvaniz
 ARG FW Antonio Medina
 ARG FW Rodrigo Salinas
 ARG FW Javier Toledo

Manager: Juan Antonio Pizzi

Former players

References

External links


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