Club Banco Hipotecario
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| Full name | Club del personal del Banco Hipotecario de la Nación | ||
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| Union | Unión Argentina de Rugby | ||
| Founded | 15 December 1956[1] | ||
| Location | Villa Celina, La Matanza Partido, Argentina | ||
| Ground(s) | Villa Celina | ||
| Chairman | Gabriel Pittaluga | ||
| League(s) | Torneo de la URBA Grupo II | ||
| 2016 | 13° of Reubicación G2 [2] | ||
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Club del Personal del Banco Hipotecario Nacional, mostly known as Banco Hipotecario, is an Argentine sports club based in Villa Celina, in La Matanza Partido of Greater Buenos Aires.
The rugby union team competes in the Torneo de la URBA Grupo II, the second division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system. Banco HIpotecario also hosts other activities such as field hockey, swimming and artistic roller skating.
In 2011 some representatives of RSF (with former Puma Marcelo Loffreda as their most notable player) travelled to South Africa to play a match there with the objective to pay tribute to anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.[3][4][5] The organization has also an inclusive plan to encourage down syndrome children to practise the game of rugby, named "Rugby Inclusivo".[6]
References
- ^ Banco Hipotecario on URBA website
- ^ Posiciones 2016, URBA
- ^ "En la piel de Mandela", Página12, 2011-11-05
- ^ "Un partido en honor a Mandela", Clarín, 2011-11-07
- ^ "Rugby Sin Fronteras y un Homenaje inédito a Mandela", Los Andes Online, 2011-11-05
- ^ Rugby Inclusivo Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine