Newell's Old Boys
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| Full name | Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Los Leprosos (The Lepers) | ||
| Founded | November 3, 1903 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Newell's Old Boys, El Coloso del Parque (The Colossus of the Park) Rosario, Santa Fe (Capacity: 39,121) |
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| Chairman | Guillermo Lorente | ||
| Manager | Roberto Sensini | ||
| League | Argentine Primera División | ||
| Apertura 2008 | 5th | ||
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Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is a football club from Rosario, Argentina, founded in 1903. The club plays the Rosario derby against Rosario Central, a club with which it has a huge historical rivalry.
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[edit] 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 England and Germany (Isaac Newell being English and his wife German). The team is often referred to as leprosos (lepers) because they played in 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 runners-up of the Copa Libertadores de América twice (1988 and 1992). The 1990/91 Championship was contested 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, Abel Balbo, Jorge Valdano, Américo Gallego, Mario Zanabria, Gustavo Dezotti, Roberto Sensini, Walter Samuel, Mauricio Pochettino, René Pontoni, Diego Maradona, Gerardo Martino, Ángel Perucca and several more. It has recently produced players like Argentine internationals Gabriel Heinze, Maxi Rodriguez and Lionel Messi.
The club's president is Guillermo Lorente who was recently elected. Former player Roberto Sensini has been appointed as manager.
[edit] Stadium
The Newell's Old Boys stadium has been in the Parque Independencia neighborhood of Rosario since 1911, and is commonly called El Coloso del Parque (the Colossus of the [Independence] Park). Capacity was increased from 30,000 to 39,121 in 1997[1],
[edit] Honours
[edit] National honours
- Metropolitano 1974
- 1987/1988
- 1990/1991
- Clausura 1992
- Apertura 2004
[edit] International record
- Copa Libertadores de América Runners-up (2): 1988, and 1992
[edit] Current Squad
Current squad for Newell's Old Boys as of 29 March 2009 ()
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Manager: Roberto Sensini
[edit] Notable former players
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see also Cat:Newell's Old Boys footballers
[edit] 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)
- Lionel Messi (football player)
[edit] External links
- Official site (Spanish)
- Fan site (Spanish)
- Soy de Newell's (soydenob.com.ar) Fan site (Spanish)
- Newell's at AFA site
- nob.com.ar Web Site(Spanish)
- nob sos todo(Spanish)
- Fan site (Spanish)
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