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The Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield is a sports, social and culture of Argentina, whose main activity is professional football. It also emphasizes the practice of volleyball, basketball, hockey and many multi-sport and recreational activities, in addition to joining the education system formal. The headquarters and the Estadio Jose Amalfitani are located in the district of Liniers, west of the City of Buenos Aires. History
The foundation of the club took place on January 1, 1910, in the neighborhood of Villa Luro, with the name of Club Atletico Velez Sarsfield Argentinos. The name was chosen because the playing field where the founders were among those who were around the railroad station, Vélez Sarsfield, Floresta station today. It was decided that the first uniform was white shirts because they were cheap and readily available. Nicolas Marin
Moreno said, referring to the beginning of the club:
"Most Vélez Sarsfield was a large pasture, a lonely and neglected soccer field. One day we took shelter from the rain in the tunnel of the station and we decided to really start a club "
On October 23, 1913 it was decided to remove the" Argentine "the name, shortened to its current name. In 1914 he replaced official shirt (which since 1912 was navy blue) with a vertical red stripes, green and white evoke the Italian flag, country of origin of the founders of the club. In fact, these shirts were brought directly from Italy. But soon had to stop wearing these shirts. The reason was because he had broken the First World War, and Italy was involved in that conflict. It is no longer exported more t-shirts, and had to take a different color, and that was made in the country. Then, they saw in the locker room, hanging, a white shirt with a "V" in blue across the front from the shoulders to the chest, which actually were about rugby players, but just adopted them. Holders would use them as T-shirts for the rest of its history.
amateur During the period of Argentine football, the club was affiliated to various associations, beginning to play in first division in 1919, the creation of the Amateur Football Association. In his first appearance in the top category managed to be runner-up behind Racing, seven-time champion in a row. In 1920, Santiago Carreras is devoted scorer of the tournament with 20 goals.
The March 13, 1923 became president José Amalfitani, a key figure for the growth of the club. Shortly afterwards he rented land in the district of Villa Luro which built the stadium. The club rents a property located at the intersection of Basu and National Guard. In 1928 she played the first night game of Argentine football in the same outpost between the Olympic football team and the national cumin. Subsequently, the same stadium would be called now identifies himself: "The Fort".
magazine's editorial Velez Sarsfield! January 1923 stated:
"The club rests on solid and immovable. Fleet in an intimate environment convinced that their future lives will be huge and great" Jose Amalfitani
On February 7, 1913 had José Amalfitani associated club, a man who besides being key to the club's history, became the paradigm of sports official. Velez was president for over 30 years, and the architect of the reconstruction after the crisis of early 1940. His commands included the following periods: 1923 to 1925 and 1941, 1969.
Amalfitani died May 14, 1969, leaving a large gap in Argentine football. Al met his death three years, the AFA announced through its Financial Raul D'Onofrio the decision to declare 14 May as Leader Sports Day "in honor of Amalfitani. Age of Professionalism
entered the professionalism Velez Sarsfield in 1931 as one of the teams who organized the Liga Argentina de Football. In his first official match on 31 May of that year, lost the road against 1-0 Platense.
born in 1932 the club's nickname (Fortin), when the newspaper Critica published a note where the journalist Hugo Marini, head of the sports section, described the stadium Villa Luro as "Fort" because it was hard to beat playing at home.
Headline: "San Lorenzo" Tomorrow Will Render the "Fort" of V. Luro?, (P. 12, Review Journal, Wednesday, July 13, 1932)
'"And also because it's there, nestled in a swirl of streets Dusty and rugged, sheltered by a wall of humble houses and looks analyzers, the Villa faithful Luro is a true "Fortress" (The Graphic, May 6, 1933)
One theory on the origin of the white shirt with blue V, suggests that in 1933 a merchant leaders offered a lot of white shirts with a "V" blue chest, commissioned by a rugby team that never folded. The club agreed and well adopted its current uniform.
December 17, 1935, at Velez Sarsfield Stadium, was played the first football match at night of Argentine professionals. It was between the local and Platense. Velez was winning by 4 to 2.
In 1940 the club lost more by beating Atlanta Independent suspected 6:4 in a match arrangement, where independent 4 minutes and lost 2:0, and at halftime Atlanta outcome favored by 6:0. It has been argued that this striking result may have been the result of the defeat inflicted Vélez Independiente him missing five games. With the final outcome, Atlanta edged out Velez at one point. With the decline, the club was evicted from the grounds of the stadium and went into a deep crisis that was overcome by the work of José Amalfitani. New lands were obtained, they moved the stage and, finally, returned to first division in 1943 after champions of the second category. The 40s found Velez in poor positions, in what would be their worst football season.
Velez Sarsfield in the 50s made for regular tournaments acceptable. New stadium opened in 1951. Two years later, in 1953, earned his first runner-up being 4 points of River Plate. Swollen
fans
A Velez Sarsfield are called mostly "Fortineros" coming this nickname for the referral to the court dubbed "The Fort".
Vélez's penchant experienced a remarkable growth in recent decades, where the traditional institutional grandeur, coupled with local and international titles, led the club to put up with the great football teams Argentina and internationally recognized. These motives drive the fans consider among the most popular Fortinera of Argentina, referencing various technical studies that show this. Some of them ranks as the 6th (sixth) team over the Argentine Football fans, as the official survey by the Media Secretariat of the Nation [23], which included men and women across the country. It was posted on March 27, 2007.
As additional data in a survey in the Federal Capital and Greater Buenos Aires, fans Fortinera sits in sixth place in the preferences. Estadio José Amalfitani
Velez Sarsfield
played their first home games in a pasture between Ensenada Street, United Provinces (now Juan Bautista Alberdi), Mariano Acosta and Convention (now Jose Bonifacio).
After a brief stint in the "Quinta de Figallo" in 1914 the court moved to Villa Luro, in the area between the streets Bacacay, Victor Hugo, Cortina and the Arroyo Maldonado.
In 1924 he rented land in Villa Luro where he built the first stage, between the streets Schmidl, Pizarro, Basualdo and National Guard. The stadium became the first country to have artificial lighting. The first Argentine football night game took place on 7 December 1928 and was confronted by a combined Argentine Olympic team members in front of 20,000 spectators (10,000 were left outside).
During the crisis following the fall of 1940 the club was evicted from the grounds of Villa Luro, thus leaving no place to play golf. José Amalfitani Ferrocarril Oeste got the club will give way to swamp waterlogged soils Maldonado, deemed irrecoverable. Fill the land took more than two years after it began to lift achieved with planks of the old fort the new stadium, which opened on April 11, 1943 with a friendly against River.
In 1947 he laid the foundation stone of the current stadium, which opened on April 22, 1951. On November 10, 1968 is imposed on the stadium's name José Amalfitani. On 6 December the same year opened the new lighting, the best of America at that time, with a friendly against Santos of Pele. Vélez-shirts appeared with Brazilian club Fluminense, equal to the old tricolor of the first times.
In 1978 the stadium was named one of the subsites of the World Cup. The last stage was built between 1977 and 1978 when the World Championship financed the remodeling. This is done according to FIFA regulations, and building new audiences capacity rises to 50,000 locations. Today
stage [29] stands as one of the best soccer in the country, and is also regularly used for events and concerts. The playing field measures 105 x 70 meters. Located at Avenida Juan B. Just 9200, in the district of Liniers of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
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