Club Atlético Tigre
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| Full name | Club Atletico Tigre | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Matadores | |||
| Founded | 3 August 1902 | |||
| Ground | Coliseo de Victoria, Victoria, Buenos Aires (capacity: 29,000) |
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| Chairman | Rodrigo Molinos | |||
| Manager | Néstor Gorosito | |||
| League | Primera División | |||
| 2012 Inicial | 19th | |||
| Website | Club home page | |||
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Club Atlético Tigre (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko ˈtiɣɾe]) is an Argentine sports club from Victoria, Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in Argentine Primera División. The club has participated in 28 seasons in the Argentine first division. The years in which Tigre played in the Primera were: 1931–33, 1935–42, 1946–50, 1954–58, 1968 and 1980 and 2007–present.
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History [edit]
Founded on 3 August 1902 in the city of Tigre, the football team began to dispute official tournaments in 1911 at the second division. In 1912 Tigre won its first title (in the Intermediate category of the Federación Argentina de Foot-Ball) defeating Argentinos de Vélez Sársfield (now Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield) 4–2 and promoting to the first division where the team lasted until 1931 where professiona era began.
In 1931 the "Liga Argentina de Fútbol" is founded and Tigre affiliated to it along with other 17 teams. Tigre's first professional match was on 31 May 1931, playing against San Lorenzo de Almagro in the Viejo Gasómetro stadium. The first win came in the 3rd fixture when defeated Racing 1–0.
The 14th fixture (played on August, 30) was the debut of legendary striker Bernabé Ferreyra, which scored all the goals in the 4–1 victory over Quilmes. Ferreyra soon became an outstanding scorer playing for Tigre (before being traded to River Plate). One of his most memorable games was the disputed against San Lorenzo on 27 September, when Ferreyra scored 3 goals in the last 15 minutes, giving Tigre a victory after losing 2–0 at the first half. The performance of Bernabé in that match gained him the nickname "La Fiera" ("The Fierce") which remained during the rest of his career as footballer.
Bernabé scored 19 goals over 13 matches played before being sold to River Plate, which acquired him for $35,000, a record in those years. In 1935 Tigre began to built its stadium in Victoria and that same year the team was relegated to the second division (then named "Segunda de Ascenso") along with Quilmes, returning the next year to the first division. That year Tigre also opened its stadium in Victoria.
In 1937 Juan Marvezzi (Tigre's all-time top scorer) arrived to the club. He would score 116 goals over 173 matches between 1937 and 1943.
In 1940 Tigre began to wear the traditional blue jersey with a horizontal red stripe, although sometimes the team wore the blue with red collar or the blue with red vertical stripes (similar to San Lorenzo's). That year Tigre also got its biggest victory ever, a 7–2 over Rosario Central. In 1942 Marvezzi is acquired by Racing: the squad lost its most important player and made a poor campaign that year, being relegated to the Segunda de Ascenso again.
In 1945 Tigre won the second division championship promoting to the top level again, with 28 victories, 4 draws and 8 losses, scoring 128 goals (an average of 3 per game). In 1950 Tigre was relegated for the 3rd time in its history, returning to Primera after winning the 1953 title, with 87 goals scored and only 44 received.
In 1956 Tigre went on a tour over America, playing matches against clubs and national teams. The tour (where Tigre played 25 games) was a great success, with 16 wins, 4 draws and only 3 losses, having scored 87 goals and conceded 37. The biggest victory was an 8–1 to Haiti, apart from other great results such as a 7–1 over Club Kingston of Jamaica, a 6–0 to Selección del Valle de Cali (Colombia), and a 4–1 over Deportes Tolima.
After some seasons alternating promotions and relegations to the second division, in 1970 Tigre was relegated to Primera C Metropolitana, the third division of the Argentine football league system, returning to Primera B two years after, with a record of 21 matches without receiving any goal. Goalkeeper Pepe achieved a record of 906 minutes unbeaten.
In 1979 and after a great campaign, Tigre returned to Primera División, with Juan Carlos Lorenzo as the sports director. A curious fact about that season: Tigre (being in second division) sold more tickets that first division teams Racing, San Lorenzo and Independiente. Nevertheless, Tigre finished last in 1980 season returning to Primera B, although the squad achieved some wins against Boca Juniors (2–0) and Vélez Sársfield (3–2).
In 1986 the Argentine league system is restructured and Tigre got a place in the Primera B Nacional which became the second division of Argentine football. Five years later Tigre was relegated to Primera B Metropolitana (now the third division), returning to Nacional B in 1995 defeating Argentino de Rosario 2–1 in the third match (after two tied games). Juan Carlos Kerle was the coach. But the following year Tigre was relegated to Primera B Metropolitana again after a poor campaign in the second division. In 1998 Tigre won another promotion to Primera B Nacional, being Argentino de Rosario the rival again.
Ricardo Caruso Lombardi (who had been appointed as coach in 2003) personally chose players in order to form a competitive team that could be promoted to the upper divisions. Tigre finally obtained the 2004 Primera B Metropolitana Apertura defeating Platense 2–0 in Vicente López Partido. During that season, a goalkeeper (Cristian Campestrini) scored a goal for Tigre for the first time in club's history, during a match against Ferro Carril Oeste.
Tigre also won the next tournament (2005 Clausura) proclaiming bi-champion and promoting directly to Primera B Nacional. The team also remained unbeaten during all season. Besides, the club achieved a record totaling 93 from 120 points (a 77.50% accuracy, which became a record for Argentine football and second in international football, after Manchester United).
At the end of 2006 Diego Cagna was hired as coach replacing Caruso Lombardi (who had left to coach Argentinos Juniors, recommended by Diego Maradona), being his first experience as coach in first division. With Cagna on the bench, Tigre remained 13 consecutive matches unbeaten during the Clausura tournament. In the 2005 Apertura the team finished 3rd. In the 2007 Clausura Tigre qualified to play the "Torneo Reducido", which won, giving it the chance to play with a team of Primera División (Nueva Chicago) in order to dispute a vacant place at the top level of Argentine football.
Tigre defeated Nueva Chicago 1–0 and 2–1, returning to Primera after 27 years. Some of its most relevant players were goalkeeper Daniel Islas, Alexis Ferrero, Diego Castaño and Leandro Lázzaro. During the second final game, hundreds of Chicago's hooligans jumped into the field without being stopped by the police (although there were 200 police man in the stadium), taking off the uniforms to players and then attacking Tigre's supporters which were peacefully celebrating their return to Primera División. The violent acts continued outside the stadium, where the hooligans of both teams clashed and a fan of Tigre, Marcelo Cejas, was killed.
Tigre disputed the 2007 Apertura achieving some resounding results such as the 4–1 victory over River Plate apart from the wins over Racing (3–2) and Boca Juniors (2–1). At the end of the tournament, Tigre finished 2nd (Lanús was the champion), which was club's best campaign ever in the top category.
In 2008 Apertura Tigre made the best campaign of its history, sharing the 1st place with Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo with 39 points at the end of the season. Therefore, those teams had to play a mini-tournament in order to proclaim a champion, which would finally be Boca Juniors. Although Tigre defeated Boca 1–0, the Xeneize won the title due to its best goal average. During the regular season, Tigre achieved some highlights, beating all the most popular teams: Boca Juniors (3–2), River Plate (3–1), Independiente (1–0), San Lorenzo (1–0), Huracán (3–0), and former champion Lanús (3–0).
In 2009 Tigre made its first appearances in an international club competition playing two games in Copa Sudamericana 2009, having been defeated by San Lorenzo in the first round due to the away goals rule.
In 2012 Tigre made history by reaching its first International competition final on the 2012 Copa Sudamericana after beating Millonarios in the semi-final and faced São Paulo in the final. The match, however, went unfinished, due to Tigre (who were at a 0–2 deficit by the end of the first half in the second leg) refusing to return for the second half as they have claimed of security problems at halftime. Therefore, São Paulo were declared as the champion.
Kit evolution and rare models [edit]
The first jersey worn by Tigre was blue with white collar. The original name of the club, "Juventud del Tigre" was embroidered on the chest. Then a blue jersey but with red collar would be wear by the team.
Between 1911 and 1919, Tigre began to wear a red and blue vertical stripes jersey (similar to San Lorenzo's and used in seen in the pictures of the 1945 and 1953 champion teams). Tigre would wear this pattern in 1945, when winning the Primera B title promoting to Primera División.
At the beginning of the 1960s Tigre occasionally wore another model, blue with many red horizontal stripes. Those jerseys had been donated by Ernesto Cucchiarioni, who had worn them in the Sampdoria of Italy. The currently jersey (blue with a horizontal sash) began to be worn at the middle of the 1940s, and is considered the traditional Tigre's jersey.
Other models were a blue jersey with a red "T" on the chest (worn during Tigre's run on Primera División in 1980), and the blue with red sleeves (used for just one match in 1979).[1]
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Stadium [edit]
Tigre have had three different stadiums in its history, being the most known the "Monumental de Victoria", which is the current venue. In the beginning, friendly matches were disputed in a field located in Tigre, Buenos Aires.
As years went by, Tigre moved to its first stadium, mostly known as "Los Perales". When Tigre promoted to Primera División, the team hosted all its games in the Club San Fernando (now a rugby union team).
Finally, on 1 September 1913, the club rent a land near Reconquista River in Tigre neighborhood, which was opened in December that same year. As Tigre became more popular, the managers decided to move to a more accessible zone in order to build a new stadium there. That was because Tigre's venue was located in a zone which often flooded so clubs from Buenos Aires had decided not to play there).
Players [edit]
Current squad [edit]
Current squad of Club Atlético Tigre as of March 24, 2013 ()
Sources: Official website & Argentine Soccer
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Manager: Néstor Gorosito
Out on loan [edit]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Former players [edit]
Managers [edit]
Ricardo Caruso Lombardi (July 2003 – December 2006)- Diego Cagna (January 2006 – December 2009)
- Ricardo Caruso Lombardi (January 2010 – December 2010)
- Rodolfo Arruabarrena (December 2010 – October 2012)
- Néstor Gorosito (Oct 2012–)
Titles [edit]
- Primera B (4)
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- 1945, 1953, 1979, 2004–05
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