Club del Personal del Banco Hipotecario Nacional, mostly known as Banco Hipotecario, is an
Argentine sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
based in Villa Celina, in
La Matanza Partido
La Matanza ('The Slaughter' in Spanish) is a '' partido'' (county or department) located in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
This provincial subdivision had 1,775,272 inhabitants (at the 2010 Cen ...
of
Greater Buenos Aires. The club was established in 1956 by employees of
Banco Hipotecario
Banco Hipotecario ( BCBAbr>BHIP is a commercial bank and mortgage lender in Argentina.
Overview
The institution was chartered on September 24, 1886, as the ''Banco Hipotecario Nacional'' (''National Mortgage Bank'') by a bill (Law 1804) signed b ...
, the main
mortgage
A mortgage loan or simply mortgage (), in civil law jurisdicions known also as a hypothec loan, is a loan used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate, or by existing property owners to raise funds for any ...
bank of Argentina.
The
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
team competes in Tercera, the sixth division of the
URBA
Orbe (; la, Urba; older german: Orbach, ; frp, Orba) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the former district of Orbe and is now part of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
History
Orbe is first mentioned about 2 ...
league system. The club has also a women's rugby team competing in "Torneo Femenino", organised by the same body.
Banco Hipotecario also hosts other activities such as
field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...
, swimming and artistic roller skating.
In 2011 some representatives of RSF (with former ''
Puma''
Marcelo Loffreda
Marcelo Loffreda (born May 17, 1959, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine former rugby union footballer and coach. Loffreda won 44 caps with one as captain, playing at centre for the Argentine rugby union side (''los Pumas''). He played muc ...
as their most notable player) travelled to South Africa to play a match there with the objective to pay tribute to anti-
apartheid
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leader
Nelson Mandela. The organization has also an inclusive plan to encourage
down syndrome
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children to practise the game of rugby, named "Rugby Inclusivo".
Rugby Inclusivo
References
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Women's rugby union teams in Argentina