Newell's Old Boys
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Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is a popular football team from Rosario, Argentina, founded in 1903. It 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 Great Britain and Germany (Isaac Newell being British and his wife German), and the team is often referred to as leprosos (lepers) because they promoted 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 Sub-Champions of the Copa Libertadores de América twice (1988 and 1992). The 1990/91 Championship was disputed 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 mini-tournament called 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, 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).
Newell's Old Boys leads all Argentine clubs in victories in the Rosario League (42), the Reserva tournaments (16), the Inferiores Young National Tournaments (78), the Latinoamerican U-17 Championships (5) and the Youth World Cups F.I.F.A. aka Nike Cup (1).
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 non-defeated Reserva Team. It classified third all over America, after Brazil and Uruguay.
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, Balbo, Jorge Valdano, Gallego, Zanabria, Dezotti, Sensini, Samuel, Pochettino, Pontoni, Martino, Perucca and several more. It has recently produced players like teenage prodigy Lionel Messi, and Manchester United's fiery full-back Gabriel Heinze.
Its president and manager is Eduardo J. López and its coach is Nery Pumpido, who once was a famous Argentine goalkeeper (following the resignation of Américo Rubén Gallego after obtaining the 2004 Apertura title, and former player Arsenio Ribeca).
Stadium
The Newell's Old Boys stadium is located in the neighborhood of Parque Independencia in Rosario. Finished in 1911, it is commonly referred to as El Coloso del Parque (The Colossus of the [Independence] Park), and its capacity was 30,000 persons before the modifications of 1997 (now holding 39,557).Famous players
- Abel Balbo (Champion with Newell's, Argentina National Team player)
- Fabián Basualdo (Champion with Newell's, River Plate and Argentina)
- Gabriel Omar Batistuta (All-time goal scoring leader for Argentina national team)
- Gustavo Berizzo (Champion with Newell's and Argentina)
- Gustavo Dezotti (Champion Newell's, World Champion with Argentina)
- Américo Rubén Gallego (Champion with Newell's as player and as coach, with River Plate as player and as coach, and World Champion with Argentina as player)
- Sergio Goycochea
- Ariel Graziani (Champion with Newell's, Ecuador and Argentina)
- Diego Armando Maradona (Argentina all-time best player)
- Ariel Ortega (Multi-champion with Argentina, River and Newell's)
- Mauricio Pochettino (Champion with Newell's and Argentina)
- Walter Samuel (Champion with Newell's and Argentina)
- Néstor Sensini (Champion with Newell's and Argentina)
- Mario Zanabria (Champion with Newell's)
- Julio Zamora (Champion with Newell's)
- Justo Villar (Champion with Newell's in 2004 and goalkeeper of the Paraguay National Team)
Famous supporters
- Marcelo Bielsa (football coach)
- Rafael Bielsa (politician)
- José Cura (opera singer)
- Luciana Aymar (hockey player)
- Vicente de la Matta (football player)
- Gabino Sosa (founder of Central Córdoba de Rosario)
- Alfredo Aragón (poet)
- Gustavo Bermúdez (actor)
External links
- [Official Site]
- [NOB Web Site]
- [Club Atletico Newell's Old Boys]
- [Newell's at AFA]
- [Fan site] (spanish)
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