Club Sportivo Barracas is an Argentine
sports club
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from
Buenos Aires
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. The institution was born as a
rowing
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club, nevertheless it is mostly known for its
football
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activities nowadays. The team currently plays in
Primera D Metropolitana
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, the fifth division of the
Argentine football league system
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. The club has also a
women's football section.
Apart from football, Sportivo Barracas also hosts the practice of
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,
artistic roller skating
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, and other disciplines.
History
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The club was founded on October 30, 1913, in its headquarters still located in the
barrio
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of
Barracas in
Buenos Aires
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, as "Club Sportivo Barracas", after Riachuelo F.C. merged to it. The club bought the Riachuelo F.C. facilities on Iriarte and Santa Elena streets to play football there. Riachuelo had played its only season in Primera División in
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 ...
, being relegated to
División Intermedia after finishing last. Sportivo Barracas took its place in the division.
As Sportivo Barracas won the Intermedia championship in 1916, it promoted to Primera División.
["Sportivo Barracas" history on Viejos Estadios blogsite] The team made its debut in the
Argentine Primera División
The Primera División (; en, "First Division"), known officialy as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Binance for sponsorship reasons, is a professional football league in Argentina, organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
Th ...
in
1917
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January
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, finishing 5th. The team played in Primera until the league became professional in
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.
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.
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Sportivo became one of the clubs to make the decision of staying amateur so it remained at the official body, Argentine Association. This decision paid dividends because the following year Sportivo Barracas won the 1932 championship. It remained unaffiliated to
Argentine Football Association
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from 1936 to 1967, never regaining its amateur notability since its return.
Following an influx of external financial support, the club moved to play its football matches to
Bolivar, Buenos Aires Province, in 2003, changing its name to "Club Sportivo Barracas Bolívar", as well as the shirt colors and crest. However, all other activities of the club remained in
Buenos Aires
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.
In 2010, the club left the city of Bolívar, playing its home games at
Acassuso
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stadium of
San Isidro, Buenos Aires
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History
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. Sportivo Barracas has a major rivalry with
Barracas Central
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, the other team in the
Barracas neighbourhood.
In March 2011, the club put the image of former President of Argentina
Néstor Kirchner
Néstor Carlos Kirchner (; 25 February 195027 October 2010) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, Secretary General of UNASUR and ...
on the jersey as a tribute to him. In May 2012, Sportivo Barracas was disaffiliated for one season after finishing last in the Primera D championship. The vacant place was filled by
Puerto Nuevo which returned to the division.
In 2015, Sportivo Barracas won the
Primera D
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championship, promoting to the upper level.
Stadium
In 1919 the club began works to build its own stadium,
Estadio Sportivo Barracas on the land next to former Riachuelo F.C. The first official match played at Sportivo Barracas was the
1919 Tie Cup Final
The 1919 Tie Cup was the 20° and last edition of this competition. It was contested by the champions of Copa de Competencia Jockey Club (Argentina) and Copa de Competencia (Uruguay).
Boca Juniors beat Nacional) at Estadio Sportivo Barracas, th ...
, when
Boca Juniors
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beat Uruguayan team
Nacional
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2–0. Nevertheless, the stadium was officially inaugurated on July 14, 1920, a friendly game between Rosarian teams
Newell's Old Boys
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A ...
and
Tiro Federal
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, won by Newell's 1–0. The
Argentina national team played its first game there on July 25, 1920, a
Copa Newton
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match v
Uruguay
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attended by 18,000 people.
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In the 1920s and 1930s the Sportivo Barracas stadium was one of the most important stadiums in Argentina. It held 30,000 spectators and was used as a venue for the ]South American Championship 1921
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and South American Championship 1925
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In 1925, the participating countries were Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Chile and Uruguay withdrew from the tournament, making t ...
.
An important anecdotic fact related to the stadium took place on the match between Argentina and Uruguay, on October 2, 1924. In June of that year, Uruguay had attained the Olympic
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football crown at Paris
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, which at that moment was a kind of unofficial world title, since the World Cup
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was not be played until 1930
Events
January
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. The rivalry between Argentina and Uruguay was already an important one, so the match generated much expectancy. After the Uruguayan title, two matches were to be played between Uruguay and Argentina. The first one was in Montevideo
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and finished 1–1. The second one in Buenos Aires was to be played on September 28, but there were so many people at the stadium that day that the field itself was occupied by supporters. The Uruguayans asked for the suspension of the match and a perimeter to separate people from players on the next encounter, which was finally played on October 2, 1924.
That day, before playing the match, the Uruguayans celebrated their Olympic title by circumvallating the field, something described then as ''la vuelta de los olímpicos'' (''the round of the Olympic ones''), lately just ''vuelta olímpica'' (''Olympic round''). Argentina won that match 2–1 ( Onzari 1–0 at 15’, Cea 1–1 at 29’, and Tarasconi 2–1 at 53’), but it was Onzari's goal
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which was to be remembered, because it was converted directly from a corner kick
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. The International Board had specifically modified the football rules
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on this point on June 14, 1924, allowing goals to be scored like that. Since then, a goal like Onzari's is referred as a ''Gol olímpico'' or ''Olympic goal
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'' in almost all Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
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, and even some parts of Europe
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. It is the first time that an Olympic goal is called that way, as well as its the debut of the expression ''vuelta olímpica'' in Latin America."El gol olímpico cumple 80"
''Clarín'', 2004-10-02 Onzari was at that moment playing for
Huracán.
The field was also used in 1925 for the first
boxing
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fight in open space of
Luis Ángel Firpo
Luis Ángel Firpo (October 11, 1894 – August 7, 1960) was an Argentine boxer. Born in Junín, Argentina, he was nicknamed ''The Wild Bull of the Pampas''.
Boxing career
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. From 2003 to 2010 the club played its home games at the Estadio Municipal de Bolívar.
Honours
*
Primera División (1):
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
*
Copa de Competencia Jockey Club
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History
The Cop ...
(1): 1921
*
División Intermedia (1): 1916
*
Segunda División
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(1): 1919
*
Primnera D (4): 1931, 1932, 2003–04, 2015
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References
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