Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario, Santa Fe. The club was founded on 3 November 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell of the English county of Kent. Club has won six Argentine Primera División championships plus three National cups throughout their history. The team’s football stadium is the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa, named after the team’s former player and manager MarceloBielsa.
About Newell’s Old Boys in brief
Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario, Santa Fe. The club was founded on 3 November 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell of the English county of Kent, one of the pioneers of Argentine football. A founding member of Liga Rosarina de Football, the club affiliated to the Argentine Football Association (AFA) in 1939. Club has won six Argentine Primera División championships plus three National cups throughout their history. The team’s football stadium is the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa, named after the team’s former player and manager MarceloBielsa. Newell’s is also notable for its youth divisions. Players from the club’s youths who have represented Argentina at World Cups are Gabriel Batistuta, Éver Banega, Walter Samuel, Américo Gallego, Jorge Valdano, Gabriel Heinze, Roberto Sensini, Mauricio Pochettino and Maxi Rodríguez.
Other sports practised at this club are basketball, boxing, field hockey, martial arts, roller skating and volleyball. Club got its nickname, the lepers, after playing in a charity match for a leprosy clinic in the 1920s. Diego Maradona played briefly for the first team in 1993, while Lionel Messi played for the youth team in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Club won the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires 9 times between 1907 and 1930. The Copa Santiago Pinasco tournament moved to that division and Copa Nicasio Vila was created to be played by the first division teams.
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