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 of the English county of Kent, one of the pioneers of Argentine football.
Club Atlético Rosario Central, more commonly referred to as Rosario Central, is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina, that plays in the Argentine Primera División. The club was officially founded on December 24, 1889, by a group of railway workers, taking its name from the British-owned Central Argentine Railway company. One of the oldest Argentine and Latin American teams, it is considered a pioneer in its hometown and the only one of current Santa Fe province teams to have won an international title organised by CONMEBOL, the Copa Conmebol, won by the club in 1995.
Juan Román Riquelme is an Argentine former professional footballer and current president of Boca Juniors, the club where he spent the majority of his playing career. He is considered by various journalists, players and coaches as one of the greatest playmakers of all time.
Walter Nicolás Gaitán Sayavedra is a retired Argentine professional footballer.
Racing Club de Avellaneda, officially known as Racing Club, is an Argentine professional sports club based in Avellaneda, a city of the Buenos Aires Province. Founded in 1903, Racing has been historically considered one of the Big Five clubs of Argentine football, and is also known as El Primer Grande, for becoming the first club in the world to win seven league titles in a row, first Argentine club to win a national cup, and the first world champion Argentine club. Racing currently plays in the Primera División, the top division of the Argentine league system, and plays its home games at Estadio Presidente Perón, nicknamed El Cilindro de Avellaneda.
Miguel Ángel Russo is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the current manager of Rosario Central.
César Luis Menotti, known as El Flaco ("Slim"), was an Argentine football player and manager who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the Argentina national team.
Alfredo Rubén "Alfio" Basile, nicknamed Coco, is an Argentine football manager and former player. He played for Racing Club de Avellaneda and Huracán before becoming a manager. He coached many teams during his career, being most notable Racing Club de Avellaneda, the Argentina national team and Boca Juniors, where he won five titles in two years.
Rodolfo Martín Arruabarrena is an Argentine professional football manager and former player, who was most recently the head coach of the United Arab Emirates national team. A left-back, he spent most of his career with Boca Juniors, where he began his professional career, and Spanish club Villarreal.
Leandro Daniel Somoza is an Argentine football coach and former player who played as a defensive midfielder.
Diego Fernando Latorre is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker or as an offensive midfielder.
Federico Vairo Moramarco was an Argentine football defender who won three consecutive league titles with River Plate and represented Argentina at the 1958 World Cup.
Roberto Marcos Saporiti is an Argentine retired footballer. He played as a striker, but is currently a manager. He has managed clubs in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia.
Juan José Pizzuti was an Argentine football player and manager. A striker, he enjoyed his most notable successes as player and manager with Racing Club de Avellaneda.
Hernán Darío Bernardello is a former Argentine footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
This is a list of major records of the Argentine Primera División, the top level of the Argentine football league system. The first season was held in 1891.
José María Silvero was an Argentine professional football defence player and coach.
The 2013–14 Primera División season was the 123rd season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. It started on August 2, 2013 and ended on May 24, 2014. Twenty teams competed in the league, seventeen returning from the 2012–13 season and three promoted from the Primera B Nacional Championship. For first time Independiente did not compete in the Primera División championship.
The origins of Argentine sports club Boca Juniors can be traced to the early 1900s, when a group of teenagers decided to establish a football club in La Boca, a working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Most of the original founders of the club were of Italian descent, as the southern barrio had been settled by Ligurian migrants during the 19th century; to this day, Boca supporters are known as "Xeneizes".
The 2018–19 Argentine Primera División – Superliga Argentina was the 129th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. The season began on 10 August 2018 and ended on 7 April 2019. Boca Juniors were the defending champions.
