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San Lorenzo

History

Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro is an Argentine sports club based in Boedo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, mostly known because of its football team.
San Lorenzo was the first Argentine football team which won a championship without being defeated, and also the only team which achieved 2 titles that way (1968 and 1972), apart from being the first team which obtained 2 titles in the same year (1972 Metropolitano championship and Nacional championships)

In the early 1900s, a street gang based in the Almagro neighbourhood would invite gangs from other neighborhoods to play street football by writing in graffiti: Los Forzosos de Almagro desafían (Almagro's strongmen dare you). As tramway and bus lines extended into Almagro, street playing became dangerous; following an accident in which a tramway car seriously injured a footballer, Catholic priest Lorenzo Massa started hosting the games in the backyard of his parish church in México avenue. Under his guidance, San Lorenzo de Almagro was formally established on April 1, 1908 honoring Father Massa, the Battle of San Lorenzo, Saint Lawrence and, of course, the barrio.
Due to the team did not have a stadium, San Lorenzo began to play its home games in a field property of the Club Martínez, placed in the neighbourhood of the same name. The squad played its first match on April 26, 1914, and at the end of the seaon San Lorenzo had to play a final match facing Excursionistas to proclaim a champion. San Lorenzo won the series (the results were 0-0 and 5-0). This title allowed San Lorenzo to dispute the playoffs in order to promote to the Argentine Primera División, which finally obtained after beating Club Honor y Patria by a score of 3-0.

In 1916 San Lorenzo inaugurated its own stadium (later nicknamed El Gasómetro) in a match against Estudiantes de La Plata. The stadium was located in Boedo neighbourhood, on La Plata Avenue, where remained until its closure in the 1980s.
Since its promotion to Primera in 1915 San Lorenzo participated in the Primera División Amateur until 1930, when the club decided (along with other teams of Argentina) to create a professional league. In February, 1919, San Lorenzo participated of the Torneo Caballito, which finally won. The other teams taking part on the tournament were Club Atlético Atlanta, Club Atlético Huracán, Ferro Carril Oeste, Estudiantil Porteño and Sportivo Almagro.
San Lorenzo also won 3 titles more in 1923, 1924 and 1927 and ended in the 2nd place in 1925 and 1926. Likewise, the squad gained international reputation winning the Copa Aldao (a competition played by the champions of Argentina and Uruguay) in 1923 and 1927.
San Lorenzo soon became one of the top clubs in Buenos Aires; ever since the start of professionalism in 1931, it was counted in the top five (cinco grandes) together with Boca Juniors, Independiente, River Plate and Racing.

n the 1930s, Isidro Lángara and other players of Basque descent endeared San Lorenzo to the Basque community. The team also relied on players from the provinces, known as los gauchos, and won its first professional title in 1933.

In 1946, San Lorenzo broke the River Plate monopoly and won the league title; the team then went on to a tour of Spain and Portugal that was one of the highlights of the club's history. After losing to Real Madrid, it went on to defeat Barcelona and both the Spanish and Portuguese national teams; the Spanish press acclaimed San Lorenzo as "the best team in the world". Player René Pontoni was offered a contract with Barcelona but declined to leave Argentina (Barcelona then drafted River Plate's Alfredo Di Stéfano). Fellow player Reinaldo Martino did stay in European football and would later become a star with Juventus.

In the 1960s, a generation of players known as carasucias (literally: dirty faces) were the darling of Argentine fans because of their offensive, careless playing and their bad-boy antics off the pitch. The 1968 team was nicknamed los matadores as it won the championship without losing a single game, this team was recognized as the best team in the world by many journalists. In the years 1968-1974 San Lorenzo won a total of four league titles, its best harvest ever. In 1972, the club became the first Argentine team to win two league titles in one year.
Unfortunately, poor administrations led San Lorenzo to a huge economic crisis, that even forced it to sell their well located stadium. The team was relegated in 1981, only to return to the top division with great fanfare in the 1982 season, which set all-time attendance records for the club.
By that time, the club had no stadium and was plagued by debt and irregularities. Controversial president Fernando Miele (1986-2001) delivered both the new stadium and two league titles: the Clausura '95 (after 21 years without winning a first division title) and the Clausura 2001 (in which the team achieved 11 consecutive victories). San Lorenzo finished the Clausura 2001 with 47 points in a tournament of 19 matches, setting the record for the highest points haul since the inception of the Apertura and Clausura system in 1990.
In late 2001, San Lorenzo won their first international title: the Copa Mercosur 2001, becoming the only Argentine team to win that international cup, because the others champions were all from Brazil.
San Lorenzo also won the first edition of the Copa Sudamericana in December 2002, claiming their second international title, and getting the opportunity to play the Recopa against the Copa Libertadores champion Olimpia
San Lorenzo is identified with the middle class atmosphere of the Boedo neighborhood. Its derby rival from the southern part of Buenos Aires are Huracán, who were promoted back to the first division for the 2007-08 season.
In 2007, San Lorenzo won the First Division League, Clausura 2007 beating Boca Juniors in the race for the title. Led by manager Ramón Díaz, San Lorenzo secured the title after the 17th roand of fixtures, with two games still to play. They finished the tournament with 45 points.

Stadium

The old Estadio Gasómetro stadium in Boedo was a venue of great renown, where many international games were held. During the military government in 1979 San Lorenzo was forced to sell the stadium to a low amount of money. After 14 years of stadium rent San Lorenzo with the help of fans inaugurate the new stadium, called the Nuevo Gasómetro opened December 1993 in the intersection of the Perito Moreno and Varela avenues in the Flores, Buenos Aires neighborhood. Fans were never able to adapt to the new place and so their old stadium and place is still claimed by San Lorenzo and their fans to this day, the April 12, 2011 was a demonstration which was attended by over 20,000 people in claim its place in the world.
The official name of the stadium is Estadio Pedro Bidegain after a former club president. It has a capacity of 43,494 and the pitch size is 110 x 70 m.

Titles

Amateur
Primera División (3): 1923, 1924, 1927
Domestic
Primera División (11): 1933, 1936 (Copa de Honor), 1946, 1959, 1968 Metropolitano, 1972 Metropolitano, 1972 Nacional, 1974 Nacional, 1995 Clausura, 2001 Clausura, 2007 Clausura
International
Copa Mercosur (1): 2001
Copa Sudamericana (1): 2002
Other
Copa Río de la Plata (3): 1923, 1927, 1946
Copa Confraternidad Escobar - Gerona (1): 1941
Copa de la República (1): 1943
Copa Jorge Newbery (1): 1964
Liguilla Pre-Libertadores (2): 1988 y 1991
Copa San Martín de Tours (1): 1994

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