Argentinos Juniors

Argentinos Juniors
	Argentinos Juniors
Basic data
Surname	Asociación Atlética ; Argentinos Juniors
Seat	La Paternal , Buenos Aires
founding	August 15, 1904
president	Cristian Malaspina
Website	argentinosjuniors.com.ar
First soccer team
Head coach	Alfredo Berti
Venue	Estadio Diego ; Armando Maradona
Places	24,800
league	Primera División
2018/19	26th place

The Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors - often called Argentinos for short - is an Argentine football club from the La Paternal district in Buenos Aires . The association was founded in 1904 in an anarchist bookstore in the Villa Crespo district under the name Mártires de Chicago ( Spanish for martyrs of Chicago ) - in memory of the workers who demonstrated for the eight-hour day who were shot in the Haymarket Riot in Chicago , Illinois in 1886 - founded. This event once led to the introduction of May 1st as Labor Day . Soon after it was founded, he took part in the official game operations of the Argentine capital as Asociación Atlética y Futbolística Argentinos Unidos de Villa Crespo .

The 1985 Copa Libertadores winner was a founding member of the Argentine professional league in 1931. Argentinos is also Diego Maradona's original club . Other important players who come from the youth of the club are for example Juan Román Riquelme , Esteban Cambiasso and Fernando Redondo .

history

The association, also known by the nickname El Bicho , was founded on August 15, 1904 in the La Paternal district.

After the introduction of the Argentine professional league in 1931, the club remained in the top division until 1937, but then had to relegate. From 1938 to 1955 Argentinos Juniors played in the 2nd league, then the championship title and thus the promotion could be achieved. Since 1956 the club has been represented in the Primera División except for three seasons (1996/97, 2002/03 and 2003/04).

The most successful times of the Argentinos Juniors were the years 1984, 1985 and 1986, in which two championship titles as well as the Copa Libertadores and Copa Interamericana were won. Only in 2010 was another title won with the Clausura .

successes

Copa Libertadores: 1985
Copa Interamericana: 1986
Argentinian Championship Primera División: 1984 (Metropolitano), 1985 (Nacional), 2010 (Clausura)

Stadion

The Estadio Diego Armando Maradona, which opened on December 26, 2003 ( 34 ° 36 ′ 22 ″ S , 58 ° 28 ′ 21 ″ W, coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 22 ″ S , 58 ° 28 ′ 21 ″ W ) has a capacity of 24,800 Places. Due to the difficult economic situation of the club, the construction time was almost ten years. -34.606111111111 -58.4725