Argentinos Juniors
By: Jeremy | November 1st, 2008First up on our little tour of teams in the primera is Argentinos, or more precisely, Asociación Atlética
Argentinos Juniors. According to the club website, the team was founded in 1904 as the Mártires de Chicago.
Today the club is commonly known as Argentinos, or by it’s nickname, el Bicho. Based in the La Paternal section of Buenos Aires, their stadium is the Estadio Diego Armando Maradona.
Winners of two league titles (1984 Metropolitano and 1985 Nacional) and the 1985 Copa Libertadores, Argentinos is perhaps best known for giving the world a little soccer prodigy you might have heard of some number of years back, or maybe even this week. Argentinos is the club that produced Diego Armando Maradona. He never won a title with Argentinos, moving on to Boca Juniors and Europe before Argentinos glory days.
Yep, the newly minted head of the albiceleste and arguably the greatest ever footballer was a product of Argentinos Juniors. Interestingly, his new assistant and reigning U-20 and Olympic coach Sergio Batista is also from Argentinos and won the Copa with them, as were a host of other big name players. I’m too lazy to list them all, but check out the club page to see more players.
Although he hasn’t updated in a bit, Scott over at the Argentinos Juniors page here on the Offside tries to keep us up to date with the Bicho Colorado.
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A couple of current Premiership players’ beginnings can be traced back to Argentinos. Julio Arca of Middlesborough
and Fabricio Coloccini of Newcastle.Esteban Cambiasso, who started today for Inter in their match against Anothorsis also began his career in La Paternal. He left for Real Madrid before ever debuting in the Argentine Primera, at the young age of 16.
Juan Román Riquelme of Boca Juniors fame, Juan Pablo Sorín who is now playing at Cruzeiro in Brazil, club where he is an idol. And finally, Diego Placente, who was on the bench for his club today, Bordeaux of France’s Ligue Un.
Argentine national team coaches Diego Maradona and Sergio Batista both began their playing careers for Argentinos.
Former players and now coaches Claudio Borghi (unemployed) and Diego Cagna (now coaching league co-leaders Tigre) also came from the youth divisions of Argentinos.
Retired in recent years, Fernando Redondo who was instrumental for Real Madrid’s run to Champions League glory in 1998. Cristian Traverso, more famous for his days at Boca Juniors, also started his career with Argentinos.
One note, Batista and Borghi were the only players in this list who won a significant trophy with the club. This list only includes players who came up through the youth ranks.
My father tells me that lots of talent comes out of Argentinos because they offer the kids that don’t have much of a chance to play elsewhere in Argentina a chance to play with them.
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Mauro, are you by chance a closet Argentinos fan?
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