Club Atlético Acassuso

Club Atlético Acassuso is an Argentine sports club headquartered in San Isidro, Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in Primera B, the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system.

Acassuso
Full nameClub Atlético Acassuso
Nickname(s)Quemero
Suso
Founded7 September 1922; 101 years ago (1922-09-07)
GroundEstadio La Quema, Boulogne Sur Mer
Capacity500
ChairmanAlberto Trípoli
ManagerAlejandro Friederich
LeaguePrimera B
2018-195th

Acassuso has its own stadium in the Boulogne Sur Mer district, the club plays its home venues at Sportivo Italiano stadium.

History edit

 
In 1937 Acassuso won its third title, the Primera Amateur championship
 
The team that won the 1971 Primera D title
 
Club headquarters in San Isidro

The club was established as "Villa Acassuso Football Club" on September 7, 1922, by a group of football enthusiasts from Villa Acassuso in San Isidro Partido. At the end of 1923 the team began to participate in the third division of Asociación Amateurs de Football (a dissident league formed in 1919), winning the title and promoting to the upper division that same year.

In 1923 the club also built its first field because of a donation by Don Ernesto de las Carreras. The field was located on Márquez Avenue and Haedo in San Isidro and was inaugurated on November 4. Two years later the club changed its name to "Club Atlético Acassuso". The name also honored Domingo de Acassuso, founder of San Isidro partido.

Acassuso obtained a place in the official Argentine Football Association league because many of the major clubs had left to form a breakaway professional league, Liga Argentina de Football. Therefore, Acassuso played in the first division, although the squad finished in the last positions before the league was disbanded in 1934. That participation was its only spell in the top division.

Playing at the third division, Acassuso won another title in 1937, therefore promoting to Primera B Metropolitana. In 1946 the team was near to promote to the top level, Primera División, but lost to Argentinos Juniors which finally achieved promotion to the first division.

In 1946 the team was relegated and its field was expropriated by the Municipality. Soon after the club got a land on De las Carreras Avenue and Camino de la Legua and established there. Nevertheless, that new land would be also expropriated. In 1977 the Municipality of San Isidro gave the club a land on Santa Rita street to build a new stadium. It was opened in 1983 under the name "Estadio La Quema".

In 2007 the club was promoted to Primera B after winning both the Apertura 2006 and Clausura 2007 of Primera C.

Players edit

Current squad edit

As of 13 October 2019

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK   ARG Lucas Álvarez
GK   ARG Augusto Vantomme
DF   ARG Agustín Benítez
DF   ARG Braian Brandán
DF   ARG Rodrigo Castillo
DF   COL Alejandro Gutiérrez
DF   ARG Lucas Medina
DF   AUS Zhong Yi Qiu
DF   ARG Federico Real
DF   ARG Marcelo Tinari
DF   ARG Andrés Zanini
MF   ARG Diego Amarilla
MF   ARG Julián Bartolo
MF   ARG Lauro Gamba
MF   ARG Rodrigo Godoy
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   ARG Nicolás Magno
MF   ARG Lorenzo Monti
MF   ARG Christian Moreno
MF   ARG Emanuel Pentimalli (on loan from Defensores Unidos)
MF   ARG Enzo Ritacco
MF   ARG Matías Rojas
MF   ARG Franco Torres
FW   ARG Agustín Auzmendi
FW   ARG Franco Caballero
FW   ARG Emanuel Grespán (on loan from Ferro Carril Oeste)
FW   ARG Rafael Monti
FW   ARG Alejandro Monzón
FW   ARG Damián Salvatierra
FW   ARG Federico Sellecchia

Honours edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The Asociación Amateurs de Football (AAm) was a dissident association that organized its own tournaments from 1919 to 1926.

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