Defensa y Justicia

Defensa y Justicia
Full name	Club Social y Deportivo Defensa y Justicia
Nickname(s)	El Halcón (The Hawk)
Founded	March 20, 1935
Ground	Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello; Buenos Aires; (Capacity: 8,000)
Chairman	José Lemme
Manager	Ricardo Rodríguez
League	Primera B Nacional
2010-11	17th
Website	Club home page
Home colours	Away colours

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Club Social y Deportivo Defensa y Justicia (usually known simply as Defensa y Justicia) is an Argentine football club from Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The institution was founded on March 20, 1935, and its football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, which is the second division of the Argentine league system. Home games are played at the Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello which has a capacity of approximately 8,000 seats.

Even though the club was founded as early as 1935, Defensa had to wait until 1977 to make its debut in the regionalised 5th tier of Argentine football, Primera D Metropolitana. The team quickly promoted to upper levels, first to Primera C Metropolitana in 1982, and then to Primera B Metropolitana in 1985.

The team colours used to be blue and white, but in 1981 they were changed to yellow and green according to the colours of its sponsor, the local bus company "El Halcón".

In the 2005/06 season the club finished 5th in the Apertura and 17th in the Clausura. Despite finishing 11th overall, results over the previous 2 seasons ensured that Defensa finished second bottom of the Metropolitana relegation table. As a result, Defensa needed to play in a 2 legged promotion/relegation playoff against Club Deportivo Morón. The game finished 4-4 on aggregate with goals in 92 and 95 minutes in the second leg, and Defensa y Justicia finally could kept its place in Nacional B.

[edit] Current squad 2011/2012

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Ramiro Biscardi
		GK	Carlos Bossio
		GK	Martín Perafán
		DF	Pablo Aguilar
		DF	Fernando Fayart
		DF	Esteban Goicoechea
		DF	Rolando García
		DF	Luciano Goux
		DF	Martín Guarino
		DF	Diego Ianiero
		DF	Franco Lazzaroni
		DF	Sergio Velázquez
		MF	Nélson Acevedo
		MF	Marcelo Benitez
		MF	Luis G. Bustamante

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Matías Díaz
		MF	Pedro Irala Vergara
		MF	Luis Jerez Silva
		MF	Emmanuel Jorge Ledesma
		MF	Juan Martín Lucero
		MF	Jorge Medina
		MF	Carlos Javier Rearte
		MF	Marcelo Ricci
		MF	Facundo Sánchez
		MF	Facundo Silva
		MF	Rodrigo Vilariño
		FW	Nestor Martinena
		FW	Víctor Píriz Alvez
		FW	Rolando Zárate
		FW	Jonathan_López