Olimpo

Full name	Club Olimpo
Nickname(s)	El Aurinegro El Equipo de la Ciudad
Founded	15 October 1910; 105 years ago (1910-10-15)
Ground	Estadio Roberto Natalio Carminatti Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Ground Capacity	18,000[1]
Chairman	Alfredo Dagna
Manager	Diego Osella
League	Primera División
2014 Final	10th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Olimpo, usually referred to as Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, is an Argentine sports club based in the city of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province. The club was founded on 15 October 1910, and its main activities are basketball and association football. The football team currently plays in the Primera División, the top level of the Argentine football league system.

History[edit]

The club is based in Bahía Blanca, having been founded in 1910.^[2]

In 1982 Olimpo played the Torneo Regional, where it lost in the Group 1 play-off to Mariano Moreno.^[3]

The team were relegated from the first division in the 2005–06 season, losing a playoff against Belgrano.^[4]

After winning the Apertura and Clausura of the Primera B Nacional in 2006–07 season, Olimpo returned to the first division. However, the team would be relegated during its first season back in the division, the 2007–08 season.

After two seasons back in the Primera B Nacional, Olimpo won promotion for the third time to play the 2010–11 season in the Argentine topflight.

During the Apertura the club looked doomed to relegation again after Olimpo could only obtain 18 points in 19 games but in the Clausura the team's performances improved. On March 20, 2011, the squad beat Boca Juniors at the "Bombonera" for the first time in the club's history.^[5] As a consequence of this, Olimpo left the relegation zone, also becoming sole leaders of the championship for the first time in the team's history.^[6]

Honours[edit]

• Primera B Nacional: 2009–10^[7]

Players[edit]

Current squad[edit]

Current squad of Club Olimpo as of July 27, 2015 (edit)
Sources: Official website and Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player 1  ARG GK Nereo Champagne 2  ARG DF Iván Furios 3  ARG DF Cristian Villanueva 4  ARG MF Adrián Martínez 5  ARG MF Juan Manuel Cobo 6  ARG DF Néstor Moiraghi 7  ARG FW Joel Acosta 9  ARG FW Gonzalo Klusener 10  PAR FW Orlando Gaona Lugo 12  ARG GK Ezequiel Viola 13  ARG DF Lucas Orozco 14  ARG DF Marcelo Herrera 16  ARG DF Juan Leandro Quiroga

No. Position Player 17  ARG FW Joel Amoroso 18  ARG MF Jonathan Blanco 19  ARG MF Jacobo Mansilla 20  ARG MF David Vega 21  ARG DF Juan Ignacio Sills 22  ARG MF Marcelo Vidal 24  ARG DF Ezequiel Parnisarri 25  ARG MF Elías Borrego 27  ARG MF Diego Sosa 28  ARG FW Walter Acuña 30  ARG FW Javier Soñer 32  ARG MF Hernán Encina 33  ARG MF Matías Porcari

Manager: Diego Osella

Notable former players[edit]

Former managers[edit]

^{[citation needed]}

• Gustavo Alfaro (1 July 2001–30 June 02)
• Julio César Falcioni (1 July 2002–30 June 03)
• Gregorio Pérez (1 July 2004–30 June 05)
• Omar Labruna (1 Jan 2005–31 Dec 06)
• Leonardo Madelón (1 July 2006–30 June 07)
• Guillermo Rivarola (13 June 2007–26 Sept 07)
• Roberto Saporiti (1 Jan 2008–0?)
• Omar De Felippe (4 April 2009–21 Nov 11)
• Héctor Rivoira (3 Nov 2011–1 April 12)
• Walter Perazzo (5 April 2012–12 April 2015)
• Diego Osella (21 April 2015–)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Olimpo de Bahía Blanca page at ESPN