Club Almagro is a sports club

Sports club

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 from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The club is mostly known for its football team which currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana

Primera B Metropolitana

Primera B Metropolitana is one of two leagues that form the regionalized third level of the Argentine football league system. The other league at level three is the Torneo Argentino A....

, the regionalised third division of Argentine football league system.

Almagro was founded on January 6, 1911, in the Almagro

Almagro, Buenos Aires

Almagro is a mostly middle-class barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina.The neighbourhood is delimited by La Plata avenue and Río de Janeiro street to the west, Independencia avenue to the south, Sánchez de Bustamante, Sánchez de Loria and Gallo streets to the east, and Córdoba/Estado de Israel avenues...

 neighbourhood of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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. The club still has its sports facilities there for its members, but the football stadium (with a capacity of 19,000) is located in José Ingenieros

José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires

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, Greater Buenos Aires

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.

Almagro played one year in first division in 1938 after winning the first second division tournament that awarded a promotion. Later the team won the 1968 second division tournament, but had to participate in the Reclasificatorio tournament with first division teams and other second divisioners and didn't won the promotion. The Tricolores played most of the time in second division, a few years in third division, but in 2000 and 2004 they won the promotion to first division

Primera División Argentina

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, only to be relegated both times after only one season playing at the top level.

Current Squad 2010/11

Notable former players

Humberto Recanatini Hector Ausili (1939–49)   Raimundo Orsi

Raimundo Orsi

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 (1939–40) Enrique Planisi (1948–59) Claudio Tamburini (1977-) Delio Onnis

Delio Onnis

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 (1967–68) Ricardo Caruso Lombardi

Ricardo Caruso Lombardi

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 (1986–88) Carlos Alberto Yaqué (1996–97), (2005–06) Mauricio Giganti

Mauricio Giganti

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 (1997–98) Lucas Pusineri

Lucas Pusineri

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 (1997–99)
Damián Grosso

Damian Grosso

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 (1997-01) Francisco Maciel

Francisco Diego Maciel

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 (1998-01) Lucas Sparapani (1999-01), (2003–05), (2006–08)   Jonathan Santana

Jonathan Santana

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 (2000–01) Sebastián Carrera

Sebastián Carrera

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 (2001–04) Federico Nieto

Federico Nieto

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 (2002–05) Juan Cobián

Juan Cobián

Juan Manuel Cobián is a former Argentine footballer who played at right back for clubs including Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town, Aberdeen and Boca Juniors....

 (2004–05) Emmanuel Culio

Emmanuel Culio

Juan Emmanuel Culio is an Argentine football player who currently plays for Orduspor on loan from Galatasaray. in Turkey's Süper Lig...

 (2004–05) Osvaldo Miranda

Osvaldo Miranda

Osvaldo Noé Miranda is an Argentine football striker currently playing for Astra Ploieşti.Miranda started his career in 2002 at Luján de Cuyo in the 3rd division interior...

 (2004–05)

Titles

• Primera B
  Primera B Metropolitana
  Primera B Metropolitana is one of two leagues that form the regionalized third level of the Argentine football league system. The other league at level three is the Torneo Argentino A....
  
  : 2

1937, 1968

• Primera C
  Primera C Metropolitana
  The Primera C is one of the two leagues that form the regionalised fourth level of the Argentine football league system. The other league at level four is the Torneo Argentino B....
  
  : 1

1971

External links

• Official site (Spanish)
• Pasión Tricolor (Spanish)
• Foro Tricolor (Spanish)
• Almagro de mi Vida (Spanish)
• Azul, Blanco y Negro (Spanish)