Club Ferrocarril Mitre
| Mitre | |||
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| Full name |
Club Deportivo Ferrocarril General Mitre | ||
| Founded | April 24, 1924 [1] | ||
| Chairman | Omar Maturano [1] | ||
| Home ground |
Gral. Savio 3000, Villa Maipú,[1] General San Martín Partido | ||
| League |
Torneo Metropolitano (Men's/Women's) | ||
| Season | 2013 | ||
| Position | 2nd (Men's) | ||
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Club Deportivo Ferrocarril General Mitre, or simply Ferrocarril Mitre, is an Argentine sports club located in the Miguelete district of General San Martín Partido, Greater Buenos Aires.
Ferrocarril Mitre is mostly known for its men's and women's field hockey teams, who took part in the Torneo Metropolitano organized by the Buenos Aires Hockey Association.[2] The male team is the most successful club in Provincial hockey with 18 titles won to date.[3] The club also hosts the practise of handball, association football,[4] golf and tennis.[5]
Ferrocarril Mitre's main rival is San Fernando.[6]
The club was founded by British immigrants as "Club Central Argentino de Migueletes", then changing its name to "Ferrocarril Central Argentino" (for the Central Argentine Railway, one of the lines that served the suburban area of Buenos Aires Province).[7]
With the nationalization of the railways in Argentina in 1948,[8] all the lines changed their names to honor notable presidents of the country. The "Central Argentino" was renamed "Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre" in honor of military officer and historian Bartolomé Mitre,[9] and the club changed its name as well.
The men's team was finalist in the 2013 Torneo Metropolitano after defeating San Fernando[6] but then Mitre would lose the championship at the hands of Banco Provincia.[10][11]
The women's team was about to be relegated in 2013, but they defeated San Isidro Club by 1–0, remaining in the first division.[12]
Titles
- Men
- Torneo Metropolitano (18): 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1961,
1963, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1989, 1993, 1998, 2010 [13][14]
- Women
- Torneo Metropolitano (3): 1990, 1994, 1995
Bibliography
- Historia del Hockey en Argentina on HSRA website: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, by Eric Weil, Aug 2011
References
- 1 2 3 Ferrocarril Mitre at Guia de clubes AHBA
- ↑ Guia de Clubes at AHBA website
- ↑ Campeones de Primera División at HSRA website
- ↑ Club Ferrocarril Mitre – football blog
- ↑ Club Ferrocarril Mitre at iGlobal website
- 1 2 "Con gol de oro, Mitre ganó el clásico en la semi", HockeyMobile.com
- ↑ Club Ferrocarril Mitre – Golf en Argentina
- ↑ "General Perón and the nationalisation of railways in Argentina", Magazine of The Friends of The National Archives, Vol. 23, N° 1 Apr 2012
- ↑ British-Owned Railways in Argentina – Their Effect on Economic Nationalism, 1854–1948, by Winthrop R. Wright, University of Texas Press, London, 1974 – ISBN 978-0292707108
- ↑ "Hockey (M): Banco Provincia venció a Mitre y se consagró tricampeón", ESPN.com, 10 Nov 2013
- ↑ "Banco Provincia Campeón del torneo masculino de Buenos Aires", HockeyClub, 11 Nov 2013
- ↑ "Mitre ganó, se salvó y condenó a SIC al descenso" on HockeyMobile, 26 Oct 2013
- ↑ "Mitre lo ganó en el escritorio", Cancha Llena.com, 11 Dec 2010
- ↑ "Mitre fue campeón sin jugar", El Sol, 14 Dec 2010