Gimnasia La Plata

Full name	Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata
Nickname(s)	Los Triperos, Mensanas, El Lobo
Founded	1887
Ground	Juan Carlos Zerrillo El Bosque, La Plata, Argentina
Capacity	33,000
Chairman	Juan José Muñós
Manager	Pedro Troglio
League	Argentine Primera División
2005 Clausura	7th
Home colours Away colours

Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata is a sports club in La Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, mostly known for its successful basketball team of the 1970s and 1980s and for its professional football team. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (393x607, 37 KB)Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Platas Logo Image by http://hqfl. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... This is a list of major football (soccer) stadiums, grouped by country and ordered by capacity. ... Primera División (first division) is the top category of Argentine football (soccer), and its organized by the Argentine Football Association. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... soccer jersey with navy horizontal stripe. ... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... shorts of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... soccer jersey with white horizontal stripe File links The following pages link to this file: Motherwell F.C. Chicago Fire (soccer) Middlesbrough F.C. Template talk:Football kit VfB Stuttgart Jordan national football team Vicenza Calcio K.A.A. Gent Olimpia Asunción Clube de Regatas Brasil Olaria Atlético... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... shorts of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... The Buenos Aires province (IPA: , Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the largest, wealthiest and most populated province of Argentina. ... Basketball is very popular in U.S. colleges. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...

The basketball team peaked during the 1978 and 1979 campaigns, prevailing both times over favorite Obras Sanitarias for the Metropolitano title, with players such as González, Gehrmann, Peinado, and Americans Michael Jackson, Lawrence Jackson, and point-guard Clarence Edgar Metcalfe, the team's leader and the league MVP in 1979. Gimnasia were runners-up in the 2003/04 Argentine league tournament, only to be relegated to Second Division on the next season. 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (LNB) its the Argentine National Basketball League, and controlled by the Asociación de Clubes de Básquetbol (Basketball Clubs Organization). ...

The rest of this article is related to the football team.

History

The club was founded on June 3, 1887, and is the oldest Argentine first division side. In 1905, a group of students who felt left out by the management founded a second club, rivals Estudiantes de La Plata. June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Estudiantes de La Plata is a sports club in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, with a history of achievement in professional football. ...

Gimnasia was relegated in 1979 but returned to the top division a few years later. This page refers to the year 1979. ...

In 1995 Gimnasia took second place in the league championsip, and in the next year it repeated this performance; the championship title was denied to them at the last day of the 1996 season. Those were the team's most successful seasons ever, with coach Carlos Timoteo Griguol at the helm. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The performances of the last several years have been inconsistent. Due to the averaging system used in Argentina (seePrimera División de Argentina), the team courted relegation danger during the 2005 Clausura, but a string of victories near the end of that tournament helped Gimnasia clear that hurdle. Primera División (first division) is the top category of Argentine football (soccer), and its organized by the Argentine Football Association. ...

Stadium

The "Juan Carlos Zerrillo" stadium, known as el Bosque (the forest, because it is located in the La Plata park of the same name, within walking distance of Estudiantes' field) has a capacity of roughly 33,000.

Even though a new stadium has been built for the city of La Plata, both Gimnasia and Estudiantes have chosen (as of July 2005) to keep hosting home games at their respective fields.

Fan Base

Within the city of La Plata and its environs, the Gimnasia fan base is identified with the working class, contrasting with the mostly middle-class Estudiantes constituency. There are very few Gimnasia fans outside the La Plata area. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... The middle class refers to people neither at the top nor bottom of a social hierarchy. ...

Nicknames

Gimnasia is called el lobo (the wolf) because its stadium is inside the bosque (forest). Binomial name Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 The Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), also known colloquially as the wolf, is a mammal of the Canidae family and the ancestor of the domestic dog. ...

Another nickname, mensanas, derives from the Latin motto Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body). Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

The name triperos (gut-handlers) comes from the many supporters who worked in the meat-processing plants of nearby Berisso. Curiously, the same nickname is used for the population of Porto in Portugal. District Porto Mayor   - Party Rui Rio PSD Area 41. ...

Rivals taunt Gimnasia by calling them subcampeones (runners-up) as they finished four times in second place but never attained a championship title in the professional era.

The fans' collective calls itself la 22.

List of Famous Players

• Hugo Orlando Gatti (el Loco)
• Carlos Della Savia
• Alberto Beltran
• Carlos Carrio
• Guillermo Barros Schelotto
• Gustavo Barros Schelotto
• Ricardo Kuzemka
• Alfredo Rojas
• Diego Bayo
• Delio Oniss
• Mariano Messera
• Lucas Lobos
• Facundo Sava
• Guillermo Sanguinetti
• Jose Battle Perdomo
• Pablo Bengoechea
• Alberto José Márcico (Beto)
• Andrés Guglielminpietro (Guly)
• Roberto Sosa (Pampatop goalscorer 1998)
• Claudio Enría

Guillermo Barros Schelotto (born May 4, 1973 in La Plata, Argentina) is a football player, who plays for Boca Juniors of Primera División Argentina. ...

External Links

• Official Web Site
• AFA site