Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys

Full name

Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys

Nickname(s)

La Lepra ("The Leprosy")

Founded

3 November 1903 (109 years ago)

Ground

Estadio Marcelo Bielsa,
Rosario, Argentina
(capacity: 39.095)

Chairman

Guillermo Lorente

Manager

Gerardo Martino

League

Primera División

2012 Inicial

2nd

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario, Santa Fe. The club was founded on 3 November 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football. Newell's is best known for its football team, that plays in the Argentine Primera División, the top division of the Argentine league system.

Originally member of Rosario's Football Association, Newell's affiliated to the Argentine Football Association (AFA) in 1939. They have won AFA's Primera División five times throughout their history, the first being in the 1974 Metropolitano and the last in the 2004 Clausura. Newell's has also been twice Copa Libertadores runner-up (in 1988 and 1992).

The club's football stadium is the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa, named after the team's former player and manager Marcelo Bielsa (twice champion, and runner-up of one Copa Libertadores). Newell's plays the Rosario derby against Rosario Central, a club with which they have a huge historical rivalry.

Newell's is also notable for its youth divisions, being the club with most national titles in AFA's youth tournaments.^[1] Players from the club's youths who have represented Argentina at World Cups are Gabriel Batistuta, Américo Gallego, Jorge Valdano, Gabriel Heinze, Roberto Sensini, Mauricio Pocchettino and Maxi Rodríguez, among others. Lionel Messi also played in the club's youths, but left at a young age to Barcelona to seek treatment for his growth hormone deficiency, while Diego Maradona played briefly for the first team in 1993 (5 games).

Other sports practised at the club are basketball, boxing, field hockey, martial arts, roller skating and volleyball.

1 History
2 Stadium
3 Players
- 3.1 Current squad
- 3.2 Former players
4 Managers
5 Honors
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

History[edit]

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.^[2]

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.

The squad that won the 1974 Metropolitano 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, Gerardo Martino, Ángel Perucca and several more. It has recently produced Argentine internationals Gabriel Heinze, Maxi Rodríguez and Lionel Messi.

El Coloso del Parque

The club's president is Guillermo Lorente who was recently elected.

Stadium[edit]

Main article: Estadio Marcelo Bielsa

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 38,095 in 1997. On 22 December 2009 the stadium was renamed to Marcelo Bielsa, in honor to the former player and coach of the team.^[3]

Players[edit]

Current squad[edit]

Current squad of Newell's Old Boys as of March 3, 2013 (edit)
Sources: Official website and Argentine Soccer

No.		Position	Player
1	ARG	GK	Nahuel Guzmán
4	PAR	DF	Marcos Cáceres
5	ARG	MF	Diego Mateo
6	ARG	DF	Víctor López
7	ARG	MF	Lucas Bernardi
8	ARG	MF	Pablo Pérez
11	ARG	MF	Maximiliano Rodríguez
12	ARG	GK	Rodrigo Rey
14	PER	MF	Rinaldo Cruzado
15	ARG	MF	Milton Casco
16	ARG	MF	Víctor Figueroa
17	ARG	MF	José Agüero
18	ARG	MF	Horacio Orzán
19	ARG	MF	Gabriel Hachen
20	ARG	DF	Gabriel Heinze
22	ARG	GK	Sebastián Peratta
24	ARG	MF	Lorenzo Faravelli

No.		Position	Player
25	ARG	MF	Eugenio Isnaldo
26	ARG	DF	Cristian Díaz
27	ARG	DF	Santiago Vergini
28	ARG	MF	Martín Tonso
29	ARG	MF	Juan Ignacio Vieyra
30	ARG	DF	Guillermo Ferracutti
31	ARG	DF	Jonathan Valle
32	ARG	FW	Ignacio Scocco
33	ARG	MF	Raúl Villalba
34	ARG	FW	Hernán Altolaguirre
36	ARG	MF	Marcos Pérez
37	ARG	FW	Maximiliano Urruti
39	ARG	FW	Fabián Muñoz
42	ARG	DF	Guillermo Ortiz

Manager: Gerardo Martino

Former players[edit]

To appear in this section a player must have made at least 50 appearances for the club

Julio Libonatti (1919–26)
José Canteli (1940's) (1970–75)
Raul Miralles (1951–59)
Andrés Rebotarro (1970–78)
Santiago Santamaría (1971–75), (1980–85)
Jorge Valdano (1971–75)
Arsenio Ribeca (1971–76)
Carlos Picerni (1972–78), (1982–83)
Juan Ramón Rocha (1972–78)
José Luis Pavoni (1973–77)
Américo Gallego (1974–80)
Ricardo Giusti (1975–78)
Roque Alfaro (1975–83), (1987–88)
Juan Simón (1977–83)
Sergio Omar Almirón (1977–89)
Víctor Ramos (1978–84), (1987–89)
Gerardo Martino (1980–90), (1991–94), (1995)
Gabriel Batistuta (1981–87), (1996–97)
Juan Manuel Llop (1981–94)

Norberto Scoponi (198 1–94)
Fabián Basualdo (1982–88), (1993–96)
Gustavo Dezotti (1982–88)
Jorge Pautasso (1982–90)
Julio Zamora (1983–87), (1990–93), (1997–98)
Juan José Rossi (1983–89), (1992)
Jorge Theiler (1983–89), (1993)
Ariel Cozzoni (1985–88), (1989–91), (1993)
Roberto Sensini (1985–89)
Darío Franco (1987–91)
Eduardo Berizzo (1988–93)
Fernando Gamboa (1988–93), (1999–00)
Mauricio Pochettino (1988–94)
Julio Saldaña (1989–93), (1996–02)
Miguel Angel Fullana (1980's & 1990's)
Fabián Garfagnoli (1990–96)
Cristian Domizzi (1991–92), (2002–03)
Ricardo Lunari (1991–92)
Gustavo Raggio (1991–96)

Alfredo Berti (1992–95)
Alfredo Mendoza (1992–95)
Julio César Baldivieso (1994–97)
Sebastián Cejas (1994–01)
Aldo Duscher (1995–98)
Gabriel Heinze (1996–97),(2012–present)
Velko Iotov (1996–98)
Damián Manso (1996–01), (2002–05)
Sebastián Domínguez (1998–04)
Maxi Rodríguez (1999–02),(2012–present)
Mauro Rosales (2001–04)
Fernando Belluschi (2002–06)
Ariel Ortega (2004–06)
Ignacio Scocco (2004–06)
Hugo Colace (2004–08)
Justo Villar (2004–08)

Managers[edit]

Roque Alfaro (1993)
Jorge Solari (1993)
Mario Zanabria (1996–97)
Mirko Jozić (1998)
Ricardo Dabrowski (Jan 1998–Dec 1998)
Andrés Rebottaro (1999–00)
Juan Manuel Llop (2001–02)
Julio Alberto Zamora (2002)
Héctor Veira (2002–04)
Américo Gallego (2004)

Juvenal Olmos (2005)
Nery Pumpido (Oct 2005–July 6)
Pablo Alejandro Marini (March 2007–Sept 2007)
Ricardo Caruso Lombardi (Sept 2007–Aug 2008)
Fernando Gamboa (Aug 2008–Jan 2009)
Roberto Sensini (Jan 2009–April 2011)
Javier Torrente (April 2011–Sept 2011)
Diego Cagna (2011)
Gerardo Martino (Dec 2011–)

Honors[edit]

Primera División (6): 1974 Metropolitano, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1992 Clausura, 2004 Apertura, 2013 Final
Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires (1): 1911
Copa Ibarguren (1): 1921
Copa Adrián C. Escobar (1): 1949

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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v t e Newell's Old Boys

Founded November 3, 1905

Club	Footballers Head coaches

Stadiums	Marcelo Bielsa

Rivals	Rosario Central (Rosarian derby)

Key Personnel	Chairman: Guillermo Lorente Head coach: Gerardo Martino

National Titles (6)	1974 Metropolitano 1987-88 1990-91 1992 Clausura 2004 Apertura

Supporters	Newell's Old Boys supporters

Website: www.newellsoldboys.com.ar

v t e Primera División

2012–13 teams	All Boys Argentinos Juniors Arsenal Atlético de Rafaela Belgrano Boca Juniors Colón Estudiantes (LP) Godoy Cruz Independiente Lanús Newell's Old Boys Quilmes Racing River Plate San Lorenzo San Martín (SJ) Tigre Unión Vélez Sársfield

Former teams*	Banfield Rosario Central Huracán Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) Ferro Carril Oeste Platense Chacarita Juniors Atlanta Alumni San Isidro Estudiantil Porteño Lomas AC Sportivo Barracas Talleres (C) Olimpo Instituto Colegiales Dock Sud El Porvenir Barracas Central Sportivo Palermo Porteño Defensores de Belgrano Nueva Chicago Argentino (B) Tiro Federal Talleres (RE) Almagro Sportivo Buenos Aires Estudiantes (BA) Del Plata Flores Central Córdoba (R) Belgrano AC Argentino (Q) Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA)

Seasons	1891 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13

Other articles	Amateur era All-time table Promotion and Relegation statistics Players Records Top scorers Fillol Award

*Former teams with 50 games or more played in the division, ordered by total number of games.

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