Club Atlético Platense

CA Platense
	CA Platense
Basic data
Surname	Club Atlético Platense
Seat	Vicente López
founding	May 25, 1905
Colours	white and brown
president	Adolfo Donzelli
Website	cap.org.ar
First soccer team
Head coach	Alberto Pascutti
Venue	Estadio Ciudad de Vicente López
Places	31,000
league	Nacional B
2008/09	18th place ; Nacional B
home	Away

The Club Atlético Platense - known as Los Calamares , Tense and Marrón - is an Argentine sports club from Vicente López , a partido from the Gran Buenos Aires metropolitan area in the province of Buenos Aires , which is best known for its football department. The club colors are white and brown. The club's stadium is the Estadio Ciudad de Vicente López , with space for 31,000 spectators.

history

The association was founded on May 25, 1905. In 1910 they played in the Copa Bullrich and began that year in the second-rate Campeonato de Ascenso with em games. 1913 rose for the first time in the highest Argentine league, the Primera División . There they became Argentine runner-up behind Racing Club in 1916.

Platense played in the Primera División for many decades. In 1976 one won the title in the Nacional B. In 2006, by winning the Primera B Metropolitana, he returned to the second-class Nacional B, in which Platense is currently still active. Well-known former players in Europe include the French international David Trezeguet , who started his career at CA Platense.