Club Atlético Estudiantil Porteño, mostly known as Estudiantil Porteño is an
Argentine
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sports club
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Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
, located in the
Ramos Mejía
Ramos Mejía is a Town in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The town has an area of and a population of 98,547. The city is one of the largest commercial districts in the Western Zone of Greater Buenos Aires.
History
The l ...
district of
Greater Buenos Aires
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.
The institution hosts many activities such as
artistic roller skating
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* Figures: the individual follows the figure circle lin ...
,
basketball
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,
football
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,
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
,
gymnastics
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,
handball
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,
karate
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roller hockey,
swimming
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,
tennis
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and
volleyball
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.
History
The football team gained relevance during the years it played in the top division of
Argentine football, the
Primera División, having made its debut in the
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
season.
Argentine football 1913 at RSSSF
When in 1931 football became professional in Argentina with the creation of dissident Liga Argentina de Football
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, Estudiantil Porteño stayed in the official league that had remained amateur. The club won the 1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
(defeating Almagro
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*Diego de Almagro (1475–1538), Spanish explorer
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*Nicolás ...
3–1 at the final) and 1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
(played in a round-robin format) titles, just before both leagues merged and all the amateur league teams were relegated to the Second Division
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because of the merging.
Estudiantil Porteño played at the second division only 4 seasons, disaffiliating from the Association at the end of the 1938 tournament.[Argentina Second Level 1938 at RSSSF]
/ref> Since then, the club has not played any football championship organised by the Argentine Association.
Honours
* Primera División (2): 1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
, 1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
References
External links
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Association football clubs established in 1902
Football clubs in Buenos Aires Province
1902 establishments in Argentina
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