Mitre (SdE)

Club Atletico Mitre is an Argentine sports club located in the Santiago del Estero. The club is mostly known for its football team, that currently plays in Primera B Nacional, the second division of Argentine football league system.

Other sports practised at the club are basketball, basque pelota, bowls, cestoball and cycling.

History

The club was founded on April 2, 1907 by Francisco Igounet, his daughter and his father-in-law. After a friendly football match between "Mendoza" and "Mitre" with the second team being the winner, the club was established naming it "Club Atletico Mitre" honoring former president of Argentina who had died a few years before. The institution choose the yellow and black colors inspired on Uruguayan club CURCC (today Penarol).

One of the most notable Mitre's footballers, Segundo Luna, was part of the Argentina national team that won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Mitre was the first team to achieve 6 consecutive titles in the Liga Santiaguena de Futbol, the regional league of the province. The club has won a total of 31 local championships to date.

The squad also participated in the 1970 Copa Argentina and several Argentino A and Argentino B championships since 2002.

In 2017, Mitre promoted to Nacional B for its first time after defeating Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza by 4–3 through penalty shoot-out in the playoffs final. The line-up for that match was: Alejandro Medina; Ricardo Tapia, Oscar Piris, Matias Moises y Franco Ledesma; Facundo Juarez, Juan Ignacio Alessandroni, Leandro De Muner, Franco Ferrari; Joaquin Quinteros, David Romero. The team was managed by Arnaldo Sialle.

Mitre plays its home matches in the "Estadio Doctores Castiglione" situated in the "Barrio 8 de Abril" on Calle 3 de Febrero.