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The Club Estudiantes de La Plata is a social and sports club in Argentina, located in the city de La Plata, province of Buenos Aires. It was founded on August 4, 1905 and its main activity is football.
The institution participates in the First Division championship in Argentina, and its greatest footballing achievement was obtained in 1968, when he was champion of the world by beating Manchester United in the Intercontinental Cup final. Students
is one of only six Argentine teams that could achieve maximum club championship worldwide. Also played in the finals of the cup in 1969 and 1970, being the only club in La Plata to have obtained official national and international titles, regular character in the professional era.
devoted champion of Argentine soccer four times and, internationally, also achieved three times consecutively in the Copa Libertadores de America, for what it is, until today, the third most capped Argentine team got it.
always in the First Division as well as being the club that broke the hegemony of titles the so-called Big Five in 1967, also reached the Copa Interamericana 1969, two domestic cups regular not, Escobar Cup 1944 and the Republic Cup 1945, and an official tournament for the amateur era, in 1913.
Students is one of six teams with the most appearances in the Primera Division (76 seasons) and is regarded by FIFA as one of 27 top members of the World. History
Its beginnings
On August 4, 1905, in the shoe "New York" street 7 between 57 and 58 of the city of La Plata, on the initiative of a group of young men interested in creating an institution whose main activity was the practice of football, founded what was then called "Club Atlético Estudiantes. Its first president, Miguel Gutierrez was elected on 28 August of that year.
those days, the sport and passions aroused in our land, equipment and Lomas Athletic Club, Quilmes, Belgrano Athletic Student Porteño, Reformer, San Isidro or Argentino de Quilmes, among others, faced in successive tournaments organized by the newly Argentine Football Association (then called the Argentine Association Football League), whose winners were the aforementioned standard AC Lomas and Belgrano, and the representative team of graduates from the "Inglés High School, Alumni. In
1905, because of disagreements with the management of football gymnastics performed driving, then the most important club in La Plata, a group of football fans (Gymnastics sport at that time was abandoned and prohibited such activity) decided to create a club again.
Owing its identification to the student status of its founders, Estudiantes de La Plata, its final name, was from the beginning, a club devoted primarily to the first football practice in the city of La Plata from its very foundation , although over the years sports development has been extended to disciplines such as handball, tennis, swimming, golf, hockey on grass and basketball.
colors and design of the jersey the club used since its founding in the red and white vertical stripes, were established at a meeting held on February 28, 1906, when the first members who had bowed to the institution the alumni, the Argentine soccer team highlights from the first decade of the twentieth century, where he won ten championships amateur first division between 1900 and 1911.
Also, according to some historians, students used during their early years, a red shirt with a white chest, because the Argentine soccer's governing body would not let him join with the model voted by club members because of its similarity to the Alumni.
Students followers, according to the most popular and widespread since the beginning of last century, are nicknamed "Pincharratas" due to the existence of many supporters, including medical students, they used to do experiments with rats in their academic work. Also calls itself "three-time champions," in reference to students won the Libertadores Cup three consecutive times, and the club is identified with the lion as a mascot. Swollen
Swollen, as defined, is a term used in Argentina and several countries Latin America to refer to organized group of fans and supporters to a sport and a partial team, whose performance is characterized by the use of chants of encouragement. The supporters of Estudiantes de La Plata, like most Argentine football teams, being the most popular sport in the country, block by this definition.
According to various social research studies related to football, the fans of Students is one of the most significant of Argentina. A recent survey by the consulting firm Equis, in March 2006, ranks as the 7th Student. Argentine soccer team with the highest number of fans across the country, exceeded only Rosario Central (1.5% versus 1.7%) and so-called Big Five, in that order.
The study was conducted over three years and has a margin of error of just 1% according to the director of the consultancy, Artemio López, also reveals that students is the 5th. more supporters club is in the central region (to be taken into consideration for polling the provinces of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Santa Fe and Entre Rios), over Racing Club, a so-called big teams, and only below Boca Juniors, River Plate, Independiente and Rosario Central. Even the club is not called Big Five has more fans in the Patagonia region.
The same consultant conducted a similar study in 2003 which found that in La Plata, as in other cities like Santa Fe and Rosario, predominant are supporters of local clubs, in this case students and gymnastics, relegating the fans the two most popular clubs, Boca Juniors and River Plate.
Other surveys of the same characteristics at the national level, however, such as that conducted by the consultant for the magazine Entrepreneur Figure in 1998, reveals that students are the most popular team in La Plata, surpassing by 18 points to its traditional rival, Gymnastics.
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