Club San Cirano
Encyclopedia
Club San Cirano is an Argentine
rugby union
and field hockey
club from Villa Celina in the Greater Buenos Aires
. Founded in 1971 by alumni of the Colegio San Cirano (San Cirano High School), the institution is a member of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires
.
The rugby team won the national rugby title in 1998.
Two years later, the association became a sports club
and changed its name to Club San Cirano which remains nowadays. The main sport played at the club has allways been rugby union, registering San Cirano with the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires
in July 1973.
In 1974 a field hockey
section opened and the club registered with the Asociación Amateur Argentina de Hockey sobre Césped.
San Cirano has the particularity of having won the national title without ever winning a provincial title. In 1998, San Cirano reached the final of the Nacional de Clubes
and drew with San Luis
, hence sharing the title. It also has a great swollen called "LA 36".
Today the club is mostly competitive at underage levels and has become one of the best rugby academies in Buenos Aires. In 2011, San Cirano came back to the higher category of the URBA to play at first division for the 2012 season.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
and field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
club from Villa Celina in the Greater Buenos Aires
Greater Buenos Aires
Greater Buenos Aires is the generic denomination to refer to the megalopolis comprising the autonomous city of Buenos Aires and the conurbation around it, over the province of Buenos Aires—namely the adjacent 24 partidos or municipalities—which nonetheless do not constitute a single administrative...
. Founded in 1971 by alumni of the Colegio San Cirano (San Cirano High School), the institution is a member of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires
Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires
This article is about a Rugby organization. URBA can also refer to the URBA mass transport system.The Buenos Aires Rugby Union , usually referred as URBA, is the governing body that organises and controls the rugby union in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as the Buenos Aires Provincial...
.
The rugby team won the national rugby title in 1998.
History
In 1971, the Asociación de Ex alumnos del Colegio San Cirano was created as a social club by former pupils of San Cirano College in Buenos Aires.Two years later, the association became a sports club
Sports club
A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports...
and changed its name to Club San Cirano which remains nowadays. The main sport played at the club has allways been rugby union, registering San Cirano with the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires
Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires
This article is about a Rugby organization. URBA can also refer to the URBA mass transport system.The Buenos Aires Rugby Union , usually referred as URBA, is the governing body that organises and controls the rugby union in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as the Buenos Aires Provincial...
in July 1973.
In 1974 a field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
section opened and the club registered with the Asociación Amateur Argentina de Hockey sobre Césped.
San Cirano has the particularity of having won the national title without ever winning a provincial title. In 1998, San Cirano reached the final of the Nacional de Clubes
Nacional de Clubes
Nacional de Clubes is a club rugby union competition in Argentina. Originally, the competition involved 16 teams from most provincial unions. From 2009, the competition was reduced to only 4 teams, 2 from the Torneo del Interior and 2 from the Buenos Aires tournament.-1993 to 2008:From 1993 to...
and drew with San Luis
Club San Luis
San Luis Fútbol Club, known more commonly as San Luis or San Luis Potosí, is a Mexican professional football club from the city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico...
, hence sharing the title. It also has a great swollen called "LA 36".
Today the club is mostly competitive at underage levels and has become one of the best rugby academies in Buenos Aires. In 2011, San Cirano came back to the higher category of the URBA to play at first division for the 2012 season.