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Newell's Old Boys
Full name	Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys
Nickname(s)	Los Leprosos (The Lepers)
Founded	November 3, 1903
Ground	Estadio Newell's Old Boys, El Coloso del Parque (The Colossus of the Park) Rosario, Santa Fe (Capacity 42,000)
Chairman	Eduardo López
Manager	Ricardo Caruso Lombardi
League	Argentine Primera División
Clausura 2007	14th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is a football club from Rosario, Argentina, founded in 1903.

Contents 1 History 2 Stadium 3 Honours 3.1 National honours 3.2 International record 4 Current Squad 5 Notable former players 6 Famous supporters 7 External links

The club was named by ex-pupils of the English High School of Rosario in homage to its director and football coach, English immigrant Isaac Newell. Newell's Old Boys has an historic rivalry with Rosario Central, the other club from Rosario.

The team colors are black and red, taken from the flags of Great Britain and Germany (Isaac Newell being British and his wife German), and the team is often referred to as leprosos (lepers) because they promoted a charity match to raise funds for a leprosy clinic back in the 1920s.

Newell's Old Boys have won the Argentine Championship five times (Metropolitano 1974, 1987/88, 1990/91, Clausura 1992 and Apertura 2004) and were the Sub-Champions of the Copa Libertadores de América twice (1988 and 1992). The 1990/91 Championship was disputed between the 1990 Apertura (Newell's) and 1991 Clausura (Boca Juniors) Champions, which Newell's won in home-and-away matches. Even though the 1990 Clausura was not considered official by itself, it is considered by Newell's supporters to be their "sixth" championship.

Newell's also won a friendly mini-tournament called the Little World Cup in 1988, against River Plate, Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid and Manchester United, and is, together with Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo and Racing one of the few Argentine clubs that made a long and successful tour over Europe (in 1941), in which they defeated several important teams such as Valencia, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Real Madrid and the Spanish National "A" Team. These are the only major international achievements of the club until now (although several minor international summer tournaments were won). So as yet the club have not won an official international championship.

Newell's Old Boys is one of a very few teams to have had all their players represent the National team in a single game (another is Queen's Park of Scotland whose first team represented Scotland in the very first International match against England), when they represented Argentina in a Pre-Olympic Tournament with their undefeated Reserva Team. It classified third all over America, after Brazil and Uruguay (references).

The team has also contributed an important number of players to the Argentina national team, and exported many players to Europe's top leagues, mostly to Italy and Spain. Among its great players were Gabriel Batistuta, Balbo, Jorge Valdano, Gallego, Zanabria, Dezotti, Sensini, Walter Samuel, Pochettino, Pontoni, Martino, Perucca and several more. It has recently produced players like teenage prodigy Lionel Messi, and Argentine internationals Gabriel Heinze and Maxi Rodriguez.

The club's president, manager and owner is Eduardo J. López and its coach is Ricardo Caruso Lombardi.

Main article: Estadio Newell's Old Boys

The Newell's Old Boys stadium is located in the municipal neighborhood of Parque Independencia in Rosario. Since 1911, the municipality of Rosario has rented it to the club, because the municipality is the owner of the land.

It is commonly referred to as El Coloso del Parque (The Colossus of the [Independence] Park), and its capacity was 30,000 persons before the modifications of 1997 (now holding 42,000).

Argentine First Division

• Metropolitano 1974
• 1987/1988
• 1990/1991
• Clausura 1992
• Apertura 2004

• Copa Libertadores de América Runners-up (2): 1988, and 1992

(Last updated: 6 September 2007)

No. Position Player 1 GK Justo Villar 2 DF Miguel Ángel Torren 3 DF Yonny Peralta 4 MF Claudio Husaín 5 DF Hernán Bernardello 6 DF Rolando Schiavi 7 FW Héctor Steinert 8 DF Pablo Aguilar 9 FW Santiago Salcedo 11 MF Adrián Lucero 13 FW Pablo Vranjicán 14 DF Alexis Machuca 15 DF Cristian Ansaldi 16 DF Germán Ré 17 MF Mauricio Sperdutti 18 MF Matías Donnet 19 FW Diego Alberto Torres

No. Position Player 20 FW Alejandro Da Silva 21 MF Leonel Vangioni 22 GK Marcos Gutiérrez 23 MF Leonardo Torres 24 DF Augusto Mainguyague 25 FW Lucas Scaglia 26 MF Pablo Pérez 27 MF Ariel Hernán Zapata 28 MF Pablo Vázquez 29 MF José Luis Villagra 30 DF Nicolás Spolli 31 DF Héctor Gaitan 32 FW Mauro Formica 33 MF Emanuel Lazzarini 36 MF Martín Seri GK Diego Barreto

Roque Alfaro (1975~1983, 1987~1988) Sergio Omar Almirón (1977~1989) Abel Balbo (1987~1988) Julio César Baldivieso (1994~1997) Pastor Barreiro (1970s) Fabián Basualdo (1982~1988, 1993~1996)) Gabriel Omar Batistuta (1981~1987, 1996~1997) Fernando Belluschi (2002~2006} Eduardo Berizzo (1988~1993) José Berta (1970s) Alfredo Berti (1992~1995) José Canteli (1940s) Armando Capurro (1970s) Oscar Cardozo (2006~2007) Alberto Carrasco (1960s & 1970s) Sebastián Cejas (1994~2001) Jaime Cruz (1941-1945) Ariel Cozzoni (1985-1988, 1989-1991, 1993) Gustavo Dezotti (1982~1988) Sebastián Domínguez (1998~2004} Cristian Domizzi (1991~1992, 2002~2003) Aldo Duscher (1995~1998) Darío Franco (1987~1991) Miguel Angel Fullana (1980s & 1990s) Américo Rubén Gallego (1974~1980) Fernando Gamboa (1988~1993, 1999~2000) Fabián Garfagnoli (1990~1996) Sergio Goycochea (1997~1998) Ariel Graziani (1993) Velko Iotov (1996~1998) Julio Libonatti (1919~1926) Gabriel Heinze (1996–1997)

Juan Manuel Llop (1981~1994) Ricardo Lunari (1991~1992) Damian Manso (1996~2001, 2002~2005) Diego Armando Maradona (1993) Gerardo Martino (1980~1990, 1991~1994, 1995) Alfredo Mendoza (1992~1995) Lionel Messi (youth) Alfredo Obberti (1970~1975) Ariel Ortega (2004~2006) Jorge Pautasso (1982~1990) José Luis Pavoni (1973~1977) Carlos Picerni (1972~1978, 1982~1983) Mauricio Pochettino (1988~1994) Gustavo Raggio (1991~1996) Víctor Ramos (1978-1984, 1987-1989) Andrés Rebotarro (1970~1978) Arsenio Ribeca (1971~1976) Juan Ramón Rocha (1972~1978) Maxi Rodríguez (1999~2002) Mauro Rosales (2001~2004) Juan José Rossi (1983~1989, 1992) Julio Saldaña (1989~1993, 1996~2002) Walter Samuel (1996~1997) Santiago Santamaría (1971~1975, 1980~1985) Norberto Scoponi (1981-1994) Néstor Sensini (1985~1989) Juan Simón (1977~1983) Jorge Theiler (1983~1989, 1993) Jorge Valdano (1971~1975) José Yudica (1954~1958) Mario Zanabria (1970~1975) Julio Zamora (1983~1987, 1990~1993, 1997~1998)

see also Cat:Newell's Old Boys footballers

• Marcelo Bielsa (football coach)
• Rafael Bielsa (politician)
• José Cura (opera singer)
• Luciana Aymar (hockey player)
• Vicente de la Matta (football player)
• Gabino Sosa (founder of Central Córdoba de Rosario)
• Alfredo Aragón (poet)
• Gustavo Bermúdez (actor)
• Lionel Messi (football player)

• Fan site (Spanish)
• Fan site (Spanish)
• Newell's at AFA site
• nob.com.ar Web Site(Spanish)
• PasionRojinegra - Official Site(Spanish)
• Fan site (Spanish)

v • d • e Newell's Old Boys – current squad

1 Villar • 2 Torren • 3 Peralta • 4 Husaín • 5 Bernardello • 6 Schiavi • 7 Steinert • 8 Aguilar • 9 Salcedo • 11 Lucero • 13 Vranjicán • 14 Machuca • 15 Ansaldi • 16 Ré • 17 Sperdutti • 18 Donnet • 19 D. Torres • 20 Da Silva • 21 Vangioni • 22 Gutiérrez • 23 L. Torres • 24 Mainguyague • 25 Scaglia • 26 Pérez • 27 Zapata • 28 Vázquez • 29 Villagra • 30 Spolli • 31 Gaitan • 32 Formica • 33 Lazzarini • 36 Seri •  Barreto • Manager: Caruso Lombardi

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