Racing Club is an Argentine professional sports club based in Avellaneda, a suburb of Greater Buenos Aires. Founded in 1903, Racing has been historically considered one of the “big five” clubs of Argentine football. Racing currently plays in the Primera División, the top division of the Argentine league system.
Racing has won the Primera División 16 times (with a record 7 consecutive championships during the amateur era), apart from winning many domestic competitions such as five Copa Ibarguren, four Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires and one Copa de Honor Adrián Beccar Varela. Due to those achievements the team was nicknamed “La Academia” (“The Academy of Football”) which still identifies the club and its supporters.
On the international stage, the club won in 1967 both the Copa Libertadores, the first edition of the Supercopa Sudamericana in 1988 and the Intercontinental Cup, therefore being the second Argentine team to become South American champion, and the first to become club world champion. During the amateur era Racing also won two Copa Aldao and one Copa de Honor Cousenier, both tournaments organized by AFA and AUF together.
On 12 May 1901, a group of students of Colegio Nacional Central founded the Football Club Barracas al Sud, Pedro Werner becoming its first president. Less than one year after the establishment, an internal conflict about what color of jersey should be adopted caused a group of members to found Colorados Unidos, due to wanting to use a red jersey uniform. This division did not last too long so on March 1903 both clubs agreed to merge into a new club under the same name.
The first uniform worn by Racing was completely white, until on 25 July 1904 it was decided to use a yellow and black vertical striped jersey. Nevertheless the New Jersey only lasted a week, being replaced by a design proposed by president Luis Carbone. The jersey had four squares, two lightblue and two pink.
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This lightblue and pink design would be worn until 1910, when one of Racing founding members, Germán Vidaillac, displayed a French sports magazine where a team named “Racing Paris” was portraited. The suggestion was well received and the name “Racing Club” was immediately approved. Unlike its French homonym, Racing Club would not adopt the light blue and white colors from its French homonym until 1910, in commemoration of the May Revolution 100th anniversary due to being the first football team formed by criollos.
Racing Club plays its home games at “Estadio Presidente Perón” (named in honor of former President of Argentina Juan Domingo Perón), popularly known as “El Cilindro de Avellaneda” due to its cylindrical shape. It was opened in 1950 and restructured in 1997.
The measures of the field are 105 x 70 mts. The Racing stadium is the 2nd. largest after River Plate stadium. At the beginning the venue could host a capacity of 120,000 but subsequent restructurings reduced its capacity to 64.161.
Racing faced economical problems that erupted in 1998, when the club declared bankruptcy attending to a request of president Daniel Lalín. In 2000, Racing switched management to the Blanquiceleste S.A corporation. Despite the financial crisis that ruined the club, Racing won the 2001 Apertura title, 35 years after its last local championship in 1966. The team was coached by Reinaldo Merlo who became an idol due to this achievement. Maximiliano Estévez, Gabriel Loeschbor, Claudio Ubeda, Adrián Bastía and Rafael Maceratesi were part of that team.
During the successive tournaments, Racing made poor campaigns with few exceptions (such as 2005 Clausura when the squad finished 3rd.). In 2008, the club switched back management to become a civic association again. On 21 December, Rodolfo Molina was elected as new president of the club so during the period when the club was managed by the S.A. its members were not allowed to vote.
Since then, Racing was coached by Ricardo Caruso Lombardi and then by Miguel Angel Russo. During this era the club hired talented playmaker Giovanni Moreno and striker Gabriel Hauche, although the team did not a good performance that season. The irregular campaigns forced the left of Russo, replaced by Diego Simeone.
In 2012, Racing reached the final of the 2012 Copa Argentina Final although the squad lost to Boca Juniors by 2-1.
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