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Newell's Old Boys

Full name	Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys
Nickname(s)	Los Leprosos (The Lepers)
Founded	November 3, 1903
Ground	Estadio Newell's Old Boys, El Coloso del Parque (The Colossus of the Park) Rosario, Santa Fe (Capacity: 39,121)
Chairman	Guillermo Lorente
Manager	Roberto Sensini
League	Argentine Primera División
Clausura 2009	15th
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is a football club from Rosario, Argentina, founded in 1903. The club plays the Rosario derby against Rosario Central, a club with which it has a huge historical rivalry.

Contents 1 History 2 Stadium 3 Honours 3.1 National honours 3.2 International record 4 Current Squad 5 Notable former players 6 Famous Hinchas 7 References 8 External links

[edit] History

The club was named by ex-pupils of the English High School of Rosario in homage to its director and football coach, English immigrant Isaac Newell. Newell's Old Boys has an historic rivalry with Rosario Central, the other club from Rosario.

The team colors are black and red, taken from the flags of England and Germany (Isaac Newell being English and his wife German). The team is often referred to as leprosos (lepers) because they played in a charity match to raise funds for a leprosy clinic back in the 1920s.

Newell's Old Boys have won the Argentine Championship five times (Metropolitano 1974, 1987/88, 1990/91, Clausura 1992 and Apertura 2004) and were the runners-up of the Copa Libertadores de América twice (1988 and 1992). The 1990/91 Championship was contested between the 1990 Apertura (Newell's) and 1991 Clausura (Boca Juniors) Champions, which Newell's won in home-and-away matches. Even though the 1990 Clausura was not considered official by itself, it is considered by Newell's supporters to be their "sixth" championship.

Newell's also won a friendly mini-tournament called the Little World Cup in 1988, against River Plate, Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid and Manchester United, and is, together with Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo and Racing one of the few Argentine clubs that made a long and successful tour over Europe (in 1941), in which they defeated several important teams such as Valencia, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Real Madrid and the Spanish National "A" Team. These are the only major international achievements of the club until now (although several minor international summer tournaments were won). So as yet the club have not won an official international championship.

Newell's Old Boys is one of a very few teams to have had all their players represent the National team in a single game (another is Queen's Park of Scotland whose first team represented Scotland in the very first International match against England), when they represented Argentina in a Pre-Olympic Tournament with their undefeated Reserva Team. It classified third all over America, after Brazil and Uruguay (references).

The team has also contributed an important number of players to the Argentina national team, and exported many players to Europe's top leagues, mostly to Italy and Spain. Among its great players were Gabriel Batistuta, Abel Balbo, Jorge Valdano, Américo Gallego, Mario Zanabria, Gustavo Dezotti, Roberto Sensini, Walter Samuel, Mauricio Pochettino, René Pontoni, Diego Maradona, Gerardo Martino, Ángel Perucca and several more. It has recently produced players like Argentine internationals Gabriel Heinze, Maxi Rodriguez and Lionel Messi.

The club's president is Guillermo Lorente who was recently elected. Former player Roberto Sensini has been appointed as manager.

[edit] Stadium

The Newell's Old Boys stadium has been in the Parque Independencia neighborhood of Rosario since 1911, and is commonly called El Coloso del Parque (the Colossus of the Independence Park). Capacity was increased from 30,000 to 39,121 in 1997. On December 22, 2009 the stadium will be renamed to Marcelo Bielsa, in honor to the current coach of the Chilean national football team and a former player and coach of the team ^[1]

[edit] Honours

[edit] National honours

Argentine First Division

• Metropolitano 1974
• 1987/1988
• 1990/1991
• Clausura 1992
• Apertura 2004

[edit] International record

• Copa Libertadores de América Runners-up (2): 1988, and 1992

[edit] Current Squad

Current squad for Newell's Old Boys as of 9 October 2009 (edit)

No. Position Player 1 GK Germán Caffa 2 DF Alexis Machuca 3 DF Juan Leandro Quiroga 4 DF Pablo Aguilar 5 MF Diego Mateo 6 DF Rolando Schiavi 7 MF Lucas Bernardi 8 MF Franco Dolci 9 FW Cristian Núñez 10 MF Mauro Formica 11 FW Diego Torres 12 GK Lucas Hoyos 13 DF Cristian Díaz 14 MF Mauricio Sperdutti 15 MF Nahuel Roselli 16 FW Federico Falcone 17 FW Jorge Achucarro

No. Position Player 18 MF Cristian Sánchez Prette 19 MF Hugo Barrientos 20 FW Alejandro Da Silva 21 MF Leonel Vangioni 22 GK Sebastián Peratta 27 MF Hernán Zanni 29 DF Juan Manuel Insaurralde 30 DF Marcelo Blanc 31 FW Emanuel Dening 34 FW Joaquín Boghossian 37 MF Gustavo Pinto 38 DF Walter Payer 39 DF Ignacio Fideleff GK Nahuel Guzmán DF Augusto Mainguyague MF Leandro Benítez MF Matías Quiroga

Manager: Roberto Sensini

[edit] Notable former players

Roque Alfaro (1975~1983, 1987~1988) Sergio Omar Almirón (1977~1989) Abel Balbo (1987~1988) Pastor Barreiro (1970s) Fabián Basualdo (1982~1988, 1993~1996)) Gabriel Omar Batistuta (1981~1987, 1996~1997) Fernando Belluschi (2002~2006} Eduardo Berizzo (1988~1993) José Berta (1970s) Alfredo Berti (1992~1995) José Canteli (1940s) Armando Capurro (1970s) Sebastián Cejas (1994~2001) Jaime Cruz (1941-1945) Hugo Colace (2004-2008) Ariel Cozzoni (1985-1988, 1989-1991, 1993) Gustavo Dezotti (1982~1988) Sebastián Domínguez (1998~2004} Cristian Domizzi (1991~1992, 2002~2003) Aldo Duscher (1995~1998) Darío Franco (1987~1991) Miguel Angel Fullana (1980s & 1990s) Américo Rubén Gallego (1974~1980) Fernando Gamboa (1988~1993, 1999~2000) Fabián Garfagnoli (1990~1996) Ricardo Giusti (1975~1978) Sergio Goycochea (1997~1998) Julio Libonatti (1919~1926) Gabriel Heinze (1996–1997) Juan Manuel Llop (1981~1994) Ricardo Lunari (1991~1992) Damian Manso (1996~2001, 2002~2005) Diego Armando Maradona (1993) Gerardo Martino (1980~1990, 1991~1994, 1995) Lionel Messi (1995-2000)

Alfredo Obberti (1970~1975) Ariel Ortega (2004~2006) Jorge Pautasso (1982~1990) José Luis Pavoni (1973~1977) Carlos Picerni (1972~1978, 1982~1983) Mauricio Pochettino (1988~1994) Gustavo Raggio (1991~1996) Víctor Ramos (1978-1984, 1987-1989) Andrés Rebotarro (1970~1978) Arsenio Ribeca (1971~1976) Juan Ramón Rocha (1972~1978) Maxi Rodríguez (1999~2002) Mauro Rosales (2001~2004) Juan José Rossi (1983~1989, 1992) Julio Saldaña (1989~1993, 1996~2002) Walter Samuel (1996~1997) Santiago Santamaría (1971~1975, 1980~1985) Natso Scocco (2004~2006) Norberto Scoponi (1981-1994) Néstor Sensini (1985~1989) Juan Simón (1977~1983) Jorge Theiler (1983~1989, 1993) Jorge Valdano (1971~1975) José Yudica (1954~1958) Mario Zanabria (1970~1975) Julio Zamora (1983~1987, 1990~1993, 1997~1998) Julio César Baldivieso (1994~1997) Velko Iotov (1996~1998) Ariel Graziani (1993) Ernest Mtawali (1990s) Oscar Cardozo (2006~2007) Alfredo Mendoza (1992~1995) Alberto Carrasco (1960s & 1970s) Justo Villar (2004~2008)

see also Cat:Newell's Old Boys footballers

[edit] Famous Hinchas

• Marcelo Bielsa (football coach)
• Rafael Bielsa (politician)
• José Cura (opera singer)
• Luciana Aymar (hockey player)
• Vicente de la Mata (football player)
• Gabino Sosa (founder of Central Córdoba de Rosario)
• Alfredo Aragón (poet)
• Lionel Messi (football player)
• Pablo Granados (comediant)
• Pachu Peña (comediant)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site (Spanish)
• Fan site (Spanish)
• Soy de Newell's (soydenob.com.ar) Fan site (Spanish)
• Newell's at AFA site
• nob.com.ar Web Site(Spanish)
• nob sos todo(Spanish)
• Fan site (Spanish)

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