Almirante Brown

Club Almirante Brown (mostly known simply as Almirante Brown) is an Argentine sports club headquartered in the San Justo district of La Matanza Partido, in Greater Buenos Aires.

Although other sports are practised at the club, Almirante Brown is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the 2nd division of the Argentine football league system. The football stadium is located in the Isidro Casanova district of the same partido. Almirante Brown has also a women's association football section.

Apart from football, other sports and activities hosted by the institution are basketball, boxing, fencing, field hockey, futsal, martial arts, artistic roller skating, rugby union, and tennis.

History

The two foundations

The club was founded on 1 July 1912 as "Club Atletico Almirante Brown". The first uniform kit acquired by the club were the striped black and yellow worn by Uruguayan CURCC (predecessor of current club Penarol), that were the only available in stores.

On 21 March 1915 the club changed its name to "Almirante Brown Athletic Club" and one year later it affiliated to Amateur Football Association where the team took part of Tercera de Ascenso, the last division of Argentine football league system. It only lasted one season so the club would be inactive since 1919.

In 1921, four dissident members of neighbor club Huracan de San Justo met with some former members of old club Almirante Brown with the purpose of reestablishing the institution. It was finally set up on 17 January 1922 as "Centro Atletico Almirante Brown", being named Segundo Boragno as president of the club. He managed Almirante Brown until his death on June 1930.

First years

Almirante Brown played football in several regional leagues, winning the first cup in 1926. In 1929 the team won the La Matanza Partido league (named "Copa Adrian Beccar Varela" honoring former president of the Association). In 1931 Almirant

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