Sportivo Italiano

Sportivo Italiano
Full name	Club Sportivo Italiano
Nickname(s)	El ACIA, Azzurro
Founded	May 7, 1955
Ground	Estadio de Sportivo Italiano, La Matanza; Buenos Aires, Argentina; (Capacity: 6,200)
Chairman	Salvador D'Antonio
Manager	Mauricio Piersimone
League	Primera B Metropolitana
2010-11	16th
Website	Club home page
Home colours	Away colours

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Club Sportivo Italiano is an Argentine football club located in Ciudad Evita, La Matanza Partido, Greater Buenos Aires. The team currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana, the third division of the Argentine football league system.

The club was founded on May 7, 1955, by Italian immigrants who lived in Florida neighbourhood (part of Vicente López Partido in the Greater Buenos Aires). The club was originally named Associazione del Calcio Italiano in Argentina. In 1978 the institution merged with Sociedad Italiana and changed its name to Club Deportivo Italiano, but the clubs third and latest name change occurred in 2000, when it became known as Club Sportivo Italiano.

The team mainly appeared in the 2nd and third division of Argentine football, although in the 1986–87 played its only season in the Argentine top flight. Despite finishing bottom of the league and being relegated, this was its highest league finish ever.

[edit] Current Squad 2011/12

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	Albano Anconetani
		GK	Celso Capdevila
		DF	Héctor Vázquez
		DF	Maximiliano Blanco
		DF	Gabriel Giménez
		DF	Leonardo Gómez
		DF	Ariel Martínez
		DF	Rubén Darío Meozzi
		DF	Julián Monachelli
		MF	Daniel Imperiale
		MF	Emiliano Ronconi
		MF	Gonzalo Alvarez
		MF	Gustavo Britos
		MF	Gabriel Correa
		MF	Arturo Gauna

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Juan Augusto Huerta
		MF	Sebastián Lamacchia
		MF	Leonel Natalicchio
		MF	Gustavo Pinto
		MF	Andrés San Martín
		FW	Federico Astudillo
		FW	Martín Castagnino
		FW	Carlos Ibañez
		FW	Juan Manuel López
		FW	Cristian Rami
		FW	Francisco Rosa
		FW	Mariano Sabadia
		FW	Gonzalo Verón
		FW	Juan Pablo Zárate