Sportivo Italiano

Sportivo Italiano
Full nameClub Sportivo Italiano
NicknameAzzurro
Founded7 May 1955 (1955-05-07)
GroundRepública de Italia, Ciudad Evita, La Matanza Partido, Greater Buenos Aires[1]
Capacity8,000[1]
ChairmanSalvador D'Antonio
ManagerMatías Giménez
LeaguePrimera C
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The 1974 Deportivo Italiano team that won the Primera C championship.

Club Sportivo Italiano is an Argentine professional football club located in Ciudad Evita, La Matanza Partido, Greater Buenos Aires. The team currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana, the third division of the Argentine football league system.

The club was founded on May 7, 1955[2] by Italian immigrants who lived in Florida neighbourhood (part of Vicente López Partido in the Greater Buenos Aires). The club was originally named "Associazione del Calcio Italiano in Argentina". In 1978 the institution merged with Sociedad Italiana and changed its name to "Club Deportivo Italiano". The club's last name change occurred in 2000, when it became known under its current denomination "Club Sportivo Italiano".

The team mainly appeared in the 2nd and third division of Argentine football, although in the 1986–87 played its only season in the Argentine top flight. Despite finishing bottom of the league and being relegated, this was its highest league finish ever.

Players

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  ARG Rodrigo Drago
— GK  PAR Celso Capdevila
— DF  URU Héctor Vázquez
— DF  ARG Cesar Perez
— DF  ARG Gabriel Giménez
— DF  ARG Leonardo Gómez
— DF  ARG Ariel Martínez
— DF  ARG Rubén Darío Meozzi
— DF  ARG Julián Monachelli
— MF  ARG Daniel Imperiale
— MF  ARG Diego Bulacio
— MF  ARG Gonzalo Alvarez
— MF  ARG Gustavo Britos
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  ARG Gabriel Correa
— MF  ARG Arturo Gauna
— MF  ARG Juan Augusto Huerta
— MF  ARG Sebastián Lamacchia
— MF  ARG Leonel Natalicchio
— MF  ARG Gustavo Pinto
— FW  ARG Lucas Vico
— FW  ARG Martín Castagnino
— FW  ARG Carlos Ibañez
— FW  ARG Francisco Rosa
— FW  ARG Mariano Sabadia
— FW  ARG Juan Pablo Zárate
— FW  ARG Victor Meza

Notable managers

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b "Estadio República de Italia". Copa Argentina / Web oficial de la Copa Argentina (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  2. ^ "Diario Crónica 19740509". Internet Archive. 1974-05-09. Retrieved 2025-06-17.