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Club Atlético Platense (Uruguay)
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Club Atlético Platense
Club Atlético Platense is a footballFootball (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club from Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
in Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
. It currently plays in the Uruguayan 2nd Division
Segunda División Uruguay
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Platense won the 2005/2006 Liga Metropolitana Amateur, commonly known as 3rd division, to gain promotion.
Played some years of the 1990 decade as Platense Wanderers.
Notable players
- Alberto AcostaAlberto AcostaAlberto Federico 'Beto' Acosta is a retired Argentine footballer who played as a striker.In a professional career which spanned 18 years , he played for San Lorenzo in four different spells...
- Marcelo De SouzaMarcelo de SouzaMarcelo de Souza , commonly known as Marcelinho, is a Brazilian football offensive midfielder, who currently plays for Necaxa in the Primera División de México....
- Richard MoralesRichard MoralesRíchard Javier Morales Aguirre is a retired Uruguayan footballer who played as a centre forward....