Atlético de Rafaela

Full name	Asociación Mutual Social y Deportiva Atlético de Rafaela
Nickname(s)	La Crema
Founded	13 January 1907
Ground	Estadio Nuevo Monumental Rafaela, Santa Fe Province
Capacity	14.660[1]
Chairman	Homero Ingaramo[2]
Manager	Juan Manuel Llop
League	Primera División
2016	15° of Zona 2
Home colours Away colours

Asociación Mutual Social y Deportiva Atlético de Rafaela (locally: [asosjaˈsjon muˈtwal soˈsjal i deporˈtiβa aˈtletiko ðe rafaˈela]; usually known simply as Atlético de Rafaela) is an Argentine sports club from the city of Rafaela, in Santa Fe Province. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera División, the top level of Argentine football league system.

Other sports practised at the institution are basketball, field hockey, gymnastics, roller skating, fronton, skeet shooting, swimming, tennis and volleyball.^[3]

History

Under the name Club Atlético Argentino de Rafaela, the club was founded in the city of Rafaela, Santa Fe Province in 1907 . In 1915 the name was changed to Club Atlético de Rafaela. The Monumental de Barrio Alberdi concrete stadium was erected in 1951.

The club was turned into a non-profit organization in 1988, and renamed Asociación Mutual Social y Deportiva Atlético de Rafaela ("Social and Sport Association Rafaela Athletic"). Only a year later Rafaela reached the second division after defeating Atlético Ledesma by 3–0 with goals scored by López (20 ST and 40ST) and Poelman (35ST).^[4]

Atlético de Rafaela played 14 years in the second division until the team won the Apertura 2002 and the Clausura 2003 to finally reach first division. After losing the promoción against Huracán de Tres Arroyos, Atlético de Rafaela was relegated to the second division again.

The following season Atlético lost its chance to return to the first division, after losing the promoción, against Argentinos Juniors.

In 2009 Rafaela earned another chance to return to the Primera División via a playoff against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. After winning the first final 3–0, Rafaela lost the second match by the same score (0–3), and had to stay in the second division once again.

Atlético de Rafaela fans are referred as Cremosos or Celestes, as well as the group of people that follows the team everywhere is known as La Barra de los Trapos .

The institution has also an important car racing circuit since 1919, which hosts many competitions including Turismo Carretera (since 1941) and TC 2000 (since 1983).

The 21st of May 2011, after defeating Atlético Tucumán by 2–0 with goals scored by Carniello and Aldana, they earned a spot back on the first division for the 2011–12 season.^[5]

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Atlético de Rafaela as of October 16, 2016 (edit)
Sources: Official website and Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player 1  ARG GK Lucas Hoyos 2  ARG DF Rodrigo Colombo 3  PAR DF Teodoro Paredes 4  ARG DF Eros Medaglia 5  ARG MF Mateo Castellano 6  ARG DF Nicolás Canavesio 7  ARG MF Fernando Luna 8  ARG MF Gabriel Guidiño 9  ARG FW Ramiro Costa 10  ARG FW Gabriel Morales 11  ARG FW Mauro Albertengo 12  ARG GK Ramiro Macagno 13  ARG MF Diego Montiel 14  ARG DF Tomás Baroni 15  URU MF Emiliano Romero 16  URU DF Mathías Abero 17  ARG MF Mariano Puch

No. Position Player 18  ARG MF Lucas Pittinari 19  PAR FW Robin Ramírez 20  ARG DF Oscar Carniello 21  ARG MF Facundo Soloa 22  ARG DF Gastón Campi 23  ARG FW Marco Borgnino 25  ARG MF Enzo Copetti 26  ARG FW Ramón Barraza 27  ARG FW Sergio Sosa 28  ARG MF Gianfranco Ferrero 29  ARG MF Walter Serrano 30  ARG MF Santiago Paz 31  ARG DF Nelson Benítez 32  ARG GK Guido Rosetti 33  ARG GK Matías Tagliamonte 34  ARG FW Sergio Almirón

Notable players

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To appear in this section a player must have either played at least 50 games for the club, set a club record or played for their national team.

Gustavo Alfaro (1988–92) Gabriel Schürrer (1989–90) Gustavo Semino (1996–97), (1998–99), (2000–01), (2004–05), (2007) Gonzalo del Bono (1997–99), (2000–06), (2007–08)[lower-alpha 1] Raúl "Speedy" González (1997–00) Federico García (1997–04), (2005–06), (2009) Lucas Bovaglio (1998–00), (2001–04), (2006), (2009–11), (2012–14) Carlos Bonet (1998–02) [lower-alpha 2] Carlos Goyen (1992–95) [lower-alpha 3] Hugo Barrientos (2000–04) Franco Mendoza (2000–05) Ibrahim Sekagya (2001–02)[lower-alpha 4] Darío Gandín (2001–04), (2011–13)

Iván Juárez (2001–04), (2005–11), (2011–13) [lower-alpha 5] Ezequiel Medrán (2001–04) Carlos Araujo (2002–04) Marcelo Barovero (2002–07) Leonardo Di Lorenzo (2003–04) [lower-alpha 6] Sergio Marclay (2004–05), (2006–07), (2009–10) Lucas Aveldaño (2005–08) Claudio Bieler (2006–07) Martín del Campo (2006–07) [lower-alpha 7] Alejandro Faurlín (2007) Cesar Carignano (2010–11), (2012–13) [lower-alpha 8] Rodrigo Depetris (2009–2015) [lower-alpha 9]

Managers

Mário Imbelloni (1970) Horacio Bongiovanni (Dec 21, 1988–??)[10] Francisco Calabrese (1992–??)[10][11][12] Roberto Rogel (1993–94)[13] Ángel Bargas (19??)[11] Carlos Biasutto (19??)[11] Gustavo Alfaro (1992–95), (1998–00)[14] Jorge Ghiso (Nov 12, 1997–98), (2001–02), (2006–07)[15] Oscar Blanco (2002 – Nov 4, 2003)[16][17] Alejandro Zurbriggen (interim) (Nov 9, 2003)[18] Osvaldo Piazza (Nov 11, 2003 – July 4, 2004)[19] Omar Labruna (interim) (Aug 16, 2004)[20]

José Luis Brown (2004–05)[21] Jorge Ginarte (April 21, 2005 – Oct 18, 2005)[22][23] Óscar Garré (2005–06)[24] Juan Amador Sánchez (June 14, 2007–08)[25] Carlos Marcelo Fuentes (June 23, 2008 – June 30, 2009)[26] Carlos Trullet (2009 – March 12, 2012)[27] Rúben Darío Forestello (March 13, 2012 – Nov 18, 2012)[28][29] Victor Bottaniz (interim) (Oct 6, 2012 – Dec 3, 2012) Jorge Burruchaga (Dec 3, 2012 – May 26, 2014), (Jan 4, 2016 – March 24, 2016)[30] [31] [32] Roberto Sensini (June 10, 2014 – April 4, 2015)[33][34] Leonardo Astrada (April 14, 2015 – Nov 8, 2015)[35] [36] Juan Manuel Llop (March 28, 2016 – present) [37]

Institutional

Current Board

Executive Board 2014–2016^[38]

• President: Homero Ingaramo
• 1st Vice-president: Gabriel Carlucci
• 2nd Vice-president: Eduardo Gays

Chairmen

Eduardo Ripamonti (1907–1910) Alfredo Miles (1911) Eloy Gaitán (1912) Eusebio Forns (1913) Calesancio Stoffel (1914) Virgilio Fanti (1915) Ermindo Bertolaccini (1916) Juan Pablo Fiorillo (1917) Virgilio Fanti (1918) Octavio Zóbboli (1919–1921) Ermindo Bertolaccini (1922) Santiago Rodríguez (1923–1924) Ermindo Bertolaccini (1925) Bernardo Strubia (1926) Santiago Rodríguez (1927) Miguel Villabrica (1928) Ernesto Remonda (1928) José Gutiérrez (1929–1930) Pablo Comtesse (1931) Carlos Casabella (1932) Rinaldo Ripamonti (1933) Juan Cagliero (1934) José Gutiérrez (1935)

Carmelo Sáenz (1936) Juan Báscolo (1936–1937) Carmelo Sáenz (1943) Juvenal Viotti (1944) Luis Radicci (1945–1946) Ricardo Santi (1947–1948) Luis Radicci (1949) Juan Cagliero (1950) Juan Báscolo (1951–1954) Juan Berzero (1955–1958) Ricardo Santi (1959–1960) Néstor Ruatta (1961–1964) Bernardo Kuschnir (1965–1968) Eduardo Ricotti (1969–1972) Aníbal Alberto (1972) David Alujes (1973–1976) Edison Valsagna (1977) Isidro Dellasanta (1977–1980) Egidio Bocco (1981–1989) Silvio Fontanet (1990–1996) Gabriel Gaggiotti (1997–2001) Ricardo Tettamantti (2002–2014)

Records

• Torneo del Interior: 1

1988–89^[39]

• Primera B Nacional: 2

2002–03,^[40] 2010–11^[41]

• Copa Ciudad de Rosario: 1

2012^[42]

• Copa Centenario Patronato de Paraná: 1

2014^[43]

Notes

1. Maximum goal scorer of the club with 56 goals.
2. Foreign player with highest number of appearances (124 matches) with the club.^[6]
3. Foreign player with second highest number or appearances (98 matches) with the club.^[6]
4. Foreign player with third highest number or appearances (35 matches) with the club.^[6]
5. Highest number of appearances with the team with 312 games played^[7]
6. Highest number of appearances with in the Primera División Argentina, with 35 games.
7. Foreign player with fourth highest number of appearances (35 matches) with the club.^[6]
8. Top goalscorer of the Primera B Nacional 2010–2011 season, with 21 goals.^[8]
9. Scored the goal of the victory against Colón in a match tiebreak.^[9]

References

1. Stadium Capacity.
2. Homero Ingaramo, Atlético de Rafaela's new chairman.
3. Deportes amateur on A. Rafaela website, 8 Oct 2014.
4. 1989's Promotion. Archived February 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
5. "An appropriate triumph from a champ", Diario Olé.
6. Foreigns in Alberdi.
7. "It's a see you later" – DiarioLaOpinion.com.ar Archived April 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
8. Season 2010–2011 is over.
9. Atlético de Rafaela defeated Colón and sent him to the second division.
10. Atlético de Rafaela History. Archived February 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
11. "A cycle of good statistics", Diario La Opinion. Archived May 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
12. "2 decades from the last derby", Diario La Opinion. Archived May 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
13. Roberto Roger: "The Rabbit". Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
14. Interview with Carlos González: Alfaro's right hand.
15. Guiso is back.
16. Bottaniz joins to bring expertise.
17. Oscar "Cachin" Blanco is no longer Atlético de Rafaela's coach.
18. Another one has slowed down the pace.
19. Osvaldo Piazza is now the coach of Atlético de Rafaela.
20. Rafaela paid expensive his mistakes.
21. "World Champions" – Clarin.com.
22. Jorge Ginarte is Atlético de Rafaela's new coach.
23. Jorge Ginarte left his spot of coach in "la Crema".
24. "Oscar Garré: Argentina is always favorite to win the World Cup".
25. Juan Amador Sánchez will lead Atlético Rafaela.
26. Carlos Marcelo Fuentes is the new coach of Atlético Rafaela.
27. Trullet is no longer the coach of Atlético Rafaela.
28. Forestello is the new coach of Atlético de Rafaela.
29. Forestello left his spot as coach of Rafaela.
30. Burruchaga ends his cycle in Atlético de Rafaela. Archived May 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
31. Burruchaga returns to Atlético de Rafaela - infonews.com
32. Burruchaga left Atlético de Rafaela
33. It is finally official.
34. Roberto Sensini is no longer Atlético de Rafaela's Coach.
35. The club authorities confirmed Astrada as new coach.
36. Astrada says 'bye' to Atlético de Rafaela
37. "Chocho Cream" Diario Ole
38. "Atlético de Rafaela official website:Executive Board.". atleticorafaela.com.ar. 18 April 2015.
39. Torneo del Interior 1988–1989. Archived December 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
40. Pagina 12 – Atlético de Rafaela, champion.
41. AFA – Atlético de Rafaela is the new champion of Primera B Nacional.
42. Rafaela won Rosario City Cup 2012.
43. Patronato celebrated its centenary but Rafaela won the cup.

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• La Crema es de Primera (Spanish)