Club Atlético Boca Juniors, more commonly referred to as simply Boca Juniors, is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the Argentine Primera División. The team has won 74 official titles, the most by any Argentine club. National titles won by Boca Juniors include 35 Primera División championships, and 17 domestic cups. Boca Juniors also owns an honorary title awarded by the Argentine Football Association for their successful tour of Europe in 1925.
The Argentine Football Association is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine league system, including domestic cups: Copa Argentina, Supercopa Argentina, Copa de la Liga Profesional, Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional and the Supercopa Internacional. The body also manages all the Argentina national teams, including the Senior, U-20, U-17, U-15, Olympic and women's squads. Secondly, it also organizes the women's, children, youth, futsal, and other local leagues.
Club Atlético River Plate, commonly known as River Plate, is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1901, the club is named after the English name for the city's estuary, Río de la Plata. River's home stadium, Estadio Monumental, is the largest in South America. River had the highest average home attendance of any association football club in the world in 2023 with 84,567. With more than 350,000 members at the end of 2023, River is one of the largest sports clubs by membership.
The practice of sports in Argentina is varied due to the population's diverse European origins and the mostly mild climate. Association football is the most popular discipline and other sports played both professionally and recreatively athletics, auto racing, basketball, boxing, cycling, field hockey, fishing, golf, handball, mountaineering, mountain biking, padel tennis, polo, roller hockey, rowing, rugby union, sailing, skiing, swimming, tennis, and volleyball. Argentine achievements can be found in team sports such as association football, basketball, field hockey and rugby union, and individual sports such as boxing, golf, tennis and rowing. Pato, the national sport, is not very popular.
The Estadio Bumeran Diego Armando Maradona is a football stadium located in the district of Villa General Mitre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the home venue of club Argentinos Juniors, and has a capacity of 22,023 spectators.
The Argentina men's national basketball team represents Argentina in men's international basketball officially nicknamed The Argentine Soul, and it is controlled by the Argentine Basketball Federation.
The Argentina women's national football team represents Argentina in international women's football. Like their men's counterpart, the women's team has been known or nicknamed "La Albiceleste".
Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy are the reserve and youth academy teams of Boca Juniors. Boca Juniors reserve team plays in the "Primera División de Reserva", the reserve division of Primera División. Home matches are played at the "Boca Juniors Training Center", inaugurated in 2017 and sited in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. The Boca Juniors reserves are the team with the most Torneo de Reserva championships with 20 titles, since the squad was established in 1910.
Boca Juniors Femenino is the women's football team of Argentine sports club Boca Juniors. Established in 1990, it has been the leading force in the Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino since the late 1990s, having won 27 editions of the competition, including a ten-years streak winning both the Apertura and Clausura championships. Former men's squad player Juan Román Riquelme is in charge of the section since the beginning of 2020.
The Argentina national badminton team represents Argentina in international badminton team competitions and is administered by Argentine Badminton Federation. Badminton has been played in Argentina since the 20th century in clubs and schools across the nation. The sport was promoted in the 1970s by the Argentine Youth Christian Association but did not garner much attention.
ESPN Latin America is the Latin American division of ESPN Inc., and broadcasts sports-related programming for the region in Spanish. It was launched on 31 March 1989. Its programming is adapted to the likes of viewers, who tend to prefer football and Hispanic baseball players to the more locally produced programs.
Ignacio Ezequiel Agustín Fernández Carballo, popularly known as Equi Fernández is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah.
Argentina is scheduled to compete at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile from October 20 to November 5, 2023. This was Argentina's 19th appearance at the Pan American Games, having competed at every edition of the games since the inaugural edition in 1951.
Handball competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held from October 24 to November 4, 2023. The venue for the competition is the Gimnasio Polideportivo located in Viña del Mar.
The 2022 South and Central American Men's Youth Handball Championship took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the La Casa del Handball Argentino, from 8 to 12 November 2022. It acted as the South and Central American qualifying tournament for the 2023 Men's Youth World Handball Championship.The tournament also serves as a qualification event for the Intercontinental Phase of the IHF Trophy.
The 2022 South and Central American Men's Junior Handball Championship took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the La Casa del Handball Argentino, from 8 to 12 November 2022. It acted as the South and Central American qualifying tournament for the 2023 Men's Junior World Handball Championship. The tournament also serves as a qualification event for the Intercontinental Phase of the IHF Trophy.
Fanatiz is an international over-the-top sports streaming service. It focuses on South American sport.
The 2023 South and Central American Women's Junior Handball Championship took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at La Casa del Handball Argentino stadium from 14 to 18 November 2023. It acted as the South and Central American qualifying tournament for the 2024 Women's Junior World Handball Championship.
The 2023 South and Central American Women's Youth Handball Championship took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at La Casa del Handball Argentino stadium from 21 to 25 November 2023. It acted as the South and Central American qualifying tournament for the 2024 Women's Youth World Handball Championship.
Lara Casas is a field hockey player from Argentina.
