Colegiales

Club Atletico Colegiales is an Argentine football club based in Florida Oeste, Buenos Aires. The squad plays in Primera B Metropolitana, the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system.

History

The beginning

The club was founded on 1 April 1908, in Buenos Aires by a group of anarchists who discussed fighting for better conditions for the working class. That was the reason that originated its first name, Club Atletico Libertarios Unidos, naming Jose Garrone as its first president. The colors adopted were red with a horizontal black stripe paying tribute to their anarchist ideology.

Libertarios Unidos' first field was placed just beside the Defensores de Belgrano stadium, in the corner of Blandengues and Manzanares streets of Buenos Aires. Libertarios Unidos was soon forced to change its name, because the government had prohibited any anarchist expression (some sources state that it was the Police Chief Ramon Falcon himself who obliged them to change the name). So the club was renamed as Sportivo del Norte in 1919.

1920 decade

Sportivo del Norte obtained the promotion to Primera B in 1919 and one year later the team was playing its first match in Primera Division, where it finished 8th. In 1924 Sportivo had to leave its field in Blandengues and Manzanares, moving to Colegiales district. The club soon renamed honoring its new home, changing not only its name to "Club Atletico Colegiales" (in 1925) but its uniform colors, which became blue, red and gold. They have remained the club colors up to present days.

In 1926 Colegiales registered to dissident body, Asociacion Amateurs de Football (AAmF) where the team made a good campaign with a squad nicknamed "Los Fenomenos (The Phenomenons)" due to the skilled players that formed it. Most frequently line-up was: Tauzlet; Rossi, Tachini; Del Corro, Machiavello, Alberico; Martinez, Toscano, Giudice, Granara Costa, Paduano.

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