Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys

Full name	Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys
Nickname(s)	Los Leprosos (The Lepers)
Founded	November 3, 1903
Ground	Estadio Marcelo Bielsa, El Coloso del Parque (The Colossus of the Park) Rosario, Santa Fe (Capacity: 39,121)
Chairman	Guillermo Lorente
Manager	Roberto Sensini
League	Argentine Primera División
Clausura 2010	6th
Home colours Away colours

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.

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.^[1]

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, Gerardo Martino, Ángel Perucca and several more. It has recently produced players like Argentine internationals Gabriel Heinze, Maxi Rodriguez and Lionel Messi.

El Coloso del Parque

The club's president is Guillermo Lorente who was recently elected. Former player Roberto Sensini has been appointed as manager.

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. On December 22, 2009 the stadium was renamed to Marcelo Bielsa, in honor to the current coach of the Chilean national football team and a former player and coach of the team. ^[2]

Newell's Old Boys squad in 1974

Honours

National honours

Argentine First Division

• Metropolitano 1974
• 1987/1988
• 1990/1991
• Clausura 1992
• Apertura 2004

International record

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

Current squad

Current squad for Newell's Old Boys as of October 25, 2010 (edit)
Sources: Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player 1  ARG GK Nahuel Guzmán 2  ARG DF Alexis Machuca 3  VEN DF Gabriel Cichero 4  ARG DF Agustín Alayes 5  ARG MF Diego Mateo 6  ARG DF Rolando Schiavi 7  ARG MF Lucas Bernardi 8  ARG DF Luciano Vella 9  URU FW Sebastián Taborda 10  ARG MF Mauro Formica 12  ARG GK Lucas Hoyos 13  ARG DF Cristian Lema 14  ARG MF Mauricio Sperdutti 15  ARG MF Federico Domínguez

No. Position Player 16  PAR FW Marcelo Estigarribia 17  ARG MF Franco Dolci 18  ARG FW Luis Rodríguez 19  ARG MF Leandro Velázquez 20  ARG FW Iván Borghello 21  ARG MF Leonel Vangioni 22  ARG GK Sebastián Peratta 23  ARG FW Daniel Salvatierra 26  ARG DF Cristian Díaz 27  ARG MF Mauricio Scaglia 30  ARG DF Marcelo Blanc 31  ARG FW Emanuel Dening 33  ARG MF Raúl Villalba 39  ARG DF Ignacio Fideleff

Manager: Roberto Sensini

Notable former players

see also Category:Newell's Old Boys footballers

References

External links

• Official site (Spanish)
• The Offside (English)
• 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)