Central Cordoba de Rosario
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| Surname | Club Atlético Central Cordoba | ||
| Seat | Rosario | ||
| founding | 1906 | ||
| president | Jorge Cornú | ||
| Website | www.centralcordobarosario.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Jorge Forgues | ||
| Venue | Estadio Gabino Sosa | ||
| Places | 17,000 | ||
| league | Primera C | ||
| 2013/14 | 11th place | ||
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The Club Atlético Central Córdoba is an Argentine football club from Rosario . The club was founded in 1906 and plays its home games at the Estadio Gabino Sosa . Central Córdoba de Rosario is currently playing in Primera C , the fourth Argentinian league.
history
The Club Atlético Central Córdoba was founded on October 20, 1906 in Rosario , the third largest city in Argentina with a population of just under million and located in the province of Santa Fe , by a group of workers from the local railway company. The club colors have been blue and white since the club's early days.
In its now more than 100-year history, Central Córdoba de Rosario only spent two seasons in the Primera División , the top division of Argentine club football. With a victory in the playoff for first place in Primera B 1957 against Quilmes AC , Central Córdoba made the leap into the Primera División for the first time in the 1958 first division season. There they occupied a considerable tenth place in the table in their first year. Fifteen points separated the outsider from the only relegated CA Tigre . The following year, however, things went less well for the men from Rosario, they finished the Primera División in 1959 in the last of sixteen places in the classification and had to go back to the second division after two years. Two points separated Central Córdoba after the end of all game days from local rival Rosario Central and thus from the saving shore.
After relegation from the Primera División, it was pretty quiet around Central Córdoba de Rosario. The club did not manage to return to the first Argentine soccer league to this day, but for decades went back and forth between second, third and fourth class. The team is currently playing in Primera C, one of the two fourth-highest divisions in Argentina . In 2012/13, however, a small exclamation mark succeeded in the Copa Argentina , when the big local rivals Rosario Central were duped 2-1 in their stadium and moved into the next round.
In the run-up to the 1974 World Cup , Central Córdoba and some of the club's players, especially Tomás Carlovich , caused a sensation. In a friendly match between the Argentine national team with the formation that was planned for the World Cup in Germany and a selection of players from the clubs from Rosario, the latter team was already leading 3-0 at halftime. Carlovich got all three goals from Central Córdoba, so the Argentine national coach Vladislao Cap asked his counterpart from Rosario to take Carlovich out at halftime. He did that too and the team from Rosario didn't score another goal. But since the national team of Argentina could only contribute one goal, it was 3-1 for Team Rosario in the end, whereupon the Argentine public expressed considerable doubts about Cap's team's suitability for the World Cup. A few weeks later, Argentina was eliminated in the second round of the World Cup, but overall they could hardly convince at the tournament. Vladislao Cap then lost his job as national coach and the Argentine federation heralded a change with the signing of César Luis Menotti , which finally led to the world championship in his own country four years later.
successes
- Primera B : 1 × (1957)
- Primera B Metropolitano : 1 × (1990/91)
- Primera C : 4 × (1952, 1973, 1982, 1987/88)
Known players
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Sergio Omar Almirón , spent many years of his career with the Newell's Old Boys from Rosario, also six-time Argentine international, 1992 to 1994 with Central Córdoba de Rosario -
Gabriel Caballero , Mexican participant in the 2002 World Cup and active in Santos Laguna and Pachuca, started his career with Central Córdoba from 1989 to 1993 -
Fabián Cancelarich , Argentine World Cup participant from 1990, active for Ferro Carril Oeste, Belgrano Córdoba and Platense for a long time, from 2000 to 2004 career finale at Central Córdoba de Rosario
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Tomás Carlovich , played a large part of his career with Central Córdoba de Rosario, in 1974 triple goalscorer in a 3-1 win of a team from Rosario against the Argentine national team
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Vicente de la Mata , great striker for Independiente Avellaneda in the 1930s and 1940s, went through the youth departments of Central Córdoba and made his professional debut there
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Gabino Sosa , fifteen-time national player from Argentina and South American champion from 1921, spent his entire career at Central Córdoba, which has given the club's stadium its name since 1969