NEWELL'S OLD BOYS

'Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys' is a football club from Rosario, Argentina, founded in 1903.

Contents

History

Stadium

Honours

National honours

International titles

Current Squad

Squad changes for Apertura 2007

Famous players

Famous supporters

External links

History

The club was named by ex-pupils of the English High School of Rosario in homage to its director and football coach, English immigrant Isaac Newell. Newell's Old Boys has an historic rivalry with Rosario Central, the other club from Rosario.
The team colors are black and red, taken from the flags of Great Britain and Germany (Isaac Newell being British and his wife German), and the team is often referred to as ''leprosos'' (lepers) because they promoted a charity match to raise funds for a leprosy clinic back in the 1920s.
Newell's Old Boys have won the Argentine Championship five times (Metropolitano 1974, 1987/88, 1990/91, Clausura 1992 and Apertura 2004) and were the Sub-Champions of the Copa Libertadores de América twice (1988 and 1992). The 1990/91 Championship was disputed between the 1990 Apertura (Newell's) and 1991 Clausura (Boca Juniors) Champions, which Newell's won in home-and-away matches. Even though the 1990 Clausura was not considered official by itself, it is considered by Newell's supporters to be their "sixth" championship.
Newell's also won a friendly mini-tournament called the Little World Cup in 1988, against River Plate, Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid and Manchester United, and is, together with Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo and Racing one of the few Argentine clubs that made a long and successful tour over Europe (in 1941), in which they defeated several important teams such as Valencia, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Real Madrid and the Spanish National "A" Team. These are the only major international achievements of the club until now (although several minor international summer tournaments were won). So as yet the club have not won an official international championship.
Newell's Old Boys is one of a very few teams to have had all their players represent the National team in a single game (another is Queen's Park of Scotland whose first team represented Scotland in the very first International match against England), when they represented Argentina in a Pre-Olympic Tournament with their undefeated Reserva Team. It classified third all over America, after Brazil and Uruguay (references).
The team has also contributed an important number of players to the Argentina national team, and exported many players to Europe's top leagues, mostly to Italy and Spain. Among its great players were Gabriel Batistuta, Balbo, Jorge Valdano, Gallego, Zanabria, Dezotti, Sensini, Samuel, Pochettino, Pontoni, Martino, Perucca and several more. It has recently produced players like teenage prodigy Lionel Messi, and Manchester United's fiery full-back Gabriel Heinze.
The club's president, manager and owner is Eduardo J. López and its coach is Pablo Marini.

Stadium

The Newell's Old Boys stadium is located in the municipal neighborhood of Parque Independencia in Rosario. Since 1911, the municipality of Rosario has rented it to the club, because the municipality is the owner of the land.
It is commonly referred to as ''El Coloso del Parque'' (The Colossus of the [Independence] Park), and its capacity was 30,000 persons before the modifications of 1997 (now holding 42,000).

Honours

National honours

★ 'Argentine First Division'

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★ 'Winners (5):' 1974 (Metropolitano), 1987/1988, 1990/1991, 1992 (Clausura), 2004 (Apertura)

International titles

★ ''None''

★ 'Copa Libertadores de América Runners-up (2):' 1988, and 1992

Current Squad

(''Last updated: 6 September 2007'')

Squad changes for Apertura 2007

'Players in'

★ Pablo Aguilar DF from Chacarita Juniors

★ Diego Barreto GK from Cerro Porteño

★ Alejandro Da Silva FW from Cerro Porteño

★ Matías Donnet MF from Belgrano

★ Marcos Gutiérrez GK from Olimpo

★ Yonny Peralta DF from Durazno

★ Santiago Salcedo FW from Jaguares

★ Rolando Schiavi DF from Grêmio

★ Diego Alberto Torres FW from Quilmes

★ Pablo Vásquez FW from Villa Mitre
'Players out'

★ Gastón Aguirre DF to San Lorenzo

★ Carlos Araujo DF to Olimpo

★ Sebastián Arrieta FW to Racing Club

★ Oscar Cardozo FW to SL Benfica

★ Maximiliano Cavalotti GK to Gimnasia (J)

★ Mauro Cejas FW to UA Guadalajara

★ Mauricio Chalar FW to Atlético Bucaramanga

★ Marcos Flores FW to Unión de Santa Fe

★ Lautaro Formica DF to San Lorenzo

★ Nahuel Guzmán GK to Independiente Rivadavia

★ Matías Miramontes MF to Gimnasia (J)

★ Adrián Peralta MF to Lanús

★ Germán Rivera DF to Talleres

Famous players

''see also ''

★ Sergio Omar Almirón (1977~1989) (Argentina National Team player)

★ Abel Balbo (Champion with Newell's, Argentina National Team player) (1987~1988)

★ Julio César Baldivieso

★ Fabián Basualdo (Champion with Newell's, River Plate and Argentina)

★ Gabriel Omar Batistuta (All-time goal scoring leader for Argentina national team) (1981~1987, 1996~1997)

★ Fernando Belluschi (Champion with Newell's}

★ Eduardo Berizzo (Champion with Newell's and Argentina) (1989~1993)

★ José Canteli (Topscorer in South American football, 1941)

★ Oscar Cardozo

★ Jaime Cruz (1941-1945)

★ Ariel Cozzoni (1985-1988, 1989-1991, 1993. Champion with Newell's)

★ Gustavo Dezotti (Champion Newell's, World Champion with Argentina)

★ Sebastián Domínguez (Champion with Newell's in 2004 and Brazilian Champion with Corinthians in 2005}

★ Aldo Duscher

★ Américo Rubén Gallego (World Champion with Argentina)

★ Sergio Goycochea (1997~1998)

★ Ariel Graziani (Champion in Ecuador)

★ Julio Libonatti Argentina & Italy international footballer. (1919~1926)

★ Diego Armando Maradona (Argentina all-time best player) (1993)

★ Gerardo Martino (Two-time champion with Newell's)

★ Alfredo Mendoza (Libertadores finalist, champion with Newell's in 1992 and top scorer in the same year)

★ Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina teenage star)

★ Alfredo Obberti (1970-1975)

★ Ariel Ortega (Multi-champion with Argentina, River and Newell's) (2004~2006)

★ Mauricio Pochettino (Champion with Newell's and Argentina) (1988~1993)

★ Víctor Ramos (1978-1984, 1987-1989)

★ Maxi Rodríguez (World Cup 2006 player) (1999~2002)

★ Mauro Rosales (Ajax Amsterdam Winger, Olympic Champion in 2004) (2001~2004)

★ Walter Samuel (Champion with Argentina U-20 squad) (1996~1997)

★ Norberto Scoponi (1981-1994)

★ Néstor Sensini (Champion with Newell's and Argentina) (1985~1989)

★ Justo Villar (Champion with Newell's in 2004 and goalkeeper of the Paraguay National Team) (2004~)

★ José Yudica (returned to the club as manager, leading them to the 1987/88 championship)

★ Mario Zanabria (Champion with Newell's)

★ Julio Zamora (Champion with Newell's)

Famous supporters

★ Marcelo Bielsa (football coach)

★ Rafael Bielsa (politician)

★ José Cura (opera singer)

★ Luciana Aymar (hockey player)

★ Vicente de la Matta (football player)

★ Gabino Sosa (founder of Central Córdoba de Rosario)

★ Alfredo Aragón (poet)

★ Gustavo Bermúdez (actor)

★ Lionel Messi (football player)

External links

★ Fan site

★ Newell's at AFA site

★ nob.com.ar Web Site

★ PasionRojinegra - Official Site

★ Fan site