Barracas Central

Club Atletico Barracas Central is an Argentine football club from the district of Barracas, Buenos Aires, which competes in the Primera B Nacional, the second level of the Argentine football league system. The club is the former home of Argentine-Paraguayan footballer Lucas Barrios.

History

Foundation and early years

Felipe Campora, a truck driver, founded Club Atletico Barracas Central on 5 April 1904 under the name "Barracas Central del Sud". Campora carried out the project and became the first president of the entity. During the early years of the club's foundation, the founders would each contribute 75¢ cents until 1906 where a monthly fee was paid. In 1911 Barracas joined the Argentine Football Association under the name "Villa Soldati" and began participating in the Argentine football intermediate division.

In 1913 the club officially changed its name to "Barracas Central". The team crowned champion of the second division, Division Intermedia, therefore gaining promotion to the Primera Division, where Barracas would play until 1931 when football became professional in Argentina, with a new dissident league, Liga Argentina de Football organizing its own championships. Barracas Central stayed in the official league (that remained amateur) until 1934 when both leagues merged, being all the amateur teams relegated to the second division.

In 1939 Barracas Central was near to promote to the first division, playing a hexagonal tournament which was eventually won by Banfield as Barracas and All Boys both finished second. The team could not escape relegation in 1941 where it would stay in the third division (Primera C) until 1944 when Barracas Central went through the season undefeated, with 14 wins and 2 draws, winning the competition.

By 1948 the club managed to get back up to the second division, but the AFA undertook a restructuring of the competitions, introducing the Division's A, B, C and D. The clubs that would take part in the C and D division's we

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