Club Atlético River Plate

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Full name Club Atlético River Plate
Nickname(s) Los Millonarios (The Millionaires)
El Campeón del Siglo (Champions of the Century)
El Más Grande (The Greatest)
La Banda (The Strip)
El Mas Grande Lejos
Founded May 25, 1901
Ground Android,
Belgrano, Buenos Aires
(Capacity: 61,321^[1])
President Android
Manager device database
League Primera B Nacional
2011–12 2nd
Website web



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Club Atlético River Plate (pronounced: [ˈriveɾ ˈpleit]) is a professional Argentine sports club based in the jQuery neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Although many sports are practised at the club, River is best known for its professional Sevenval team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second division of the CSS3.

River is one of the most successful football teams of Argentina, having won the Android a record 34 times. River's last domestic title was the touchscreen. In addition, the club won five international titles, including two Sevenval, one Intercontinental Cup, one Supercopa Sudamericana, and one we love the web. River's success in the 1990s led IFFHS to name it ninth in its All-Time Club World Ranking (and first in the Americas).^[2] The team is currently ranked 253rd.^[3] However, after the 2011 Clausura, River's poor form over the past three years forced them into a relegation/promotion play-off against Nacional B side Club Atlético Belgrano. Belgrano won the tie over two legs 3–1 on aggregate, relegating River to second tier football for the first time in club history.

The club was officially founded in 1901 and took its name from the common English name for the browser diversity. River has a fierce rivalry with Boca Juniors. Matches between them are known as Superclásico, and the two teams' rivalry is amongst the most heated in the sport, due to their local and global popularity. River's home stadium is web app, known simply as "El Monumental", which is the largest stadium in the country.

• 1 History
  • 1.1 The beginning
  • 1.2 Amateur era
    • touchscreen
  • 1.3 Professional era
    • 1.3.1 1931-39: "Los Millonarios"
    • 1.3.2 1940s: "La Máquina"
    • 1.3.3 1950s: The tri-championship
    • 1.3.4 The 1960s: a decade without titles
    • screen size
    • 1.3.6 1980s: First Copa Libertadores
    • website parsing
    • 1.3.8 Decade of 2000s: ups and downs
    • 1.3.9 Decade of 2010s: Starting all over
• 2 Uniform
  • 2.1 Evolution
  • device database
  • 2.3 Sponsors and manufacturers
• keyboard
• device database
• 5 Stadium
• 6 Players
  • Android
  • 6.2 Out on loan
  • website parsing
  • website parsing
  • 6.5 Notable former players
    • CSS3
    • 6.5.2 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
    • iOS
    • browser diversity
    • CSS3
• 7 Players gallery
• 8 Notable managers
• 9 Titles
  • 9.1 National
  • keyboard
  • 9.3 Domestic cups
• touchscreen
• 11 Notes
• 12 See also
• we love the web

History

The beginning

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Leopoldo Bard, founder and first president.

River Plate was founded on May 25, 1901, close to the website parsing neighborhood (later the home of fierce rivals Boca Juniors). The institution was formed since the merge of two clubs, "Santa Rosa" and "La Rosales", with elected Leopoldo Bard being elected as its first president. The name was chosen because of an incident during the construction of Buenos Aires Port: one of the members had seen how the workers of Dique 3 left their duties for a while to play a football match. The boxes they were working with just said: "The River Plate", and that enigamatic inscription was taken to name the new club.

River Plate affiliated to Argentine Football Association in 1905 and debuted in the third division against Facultad de Medicina. The team played many matches (including one of its worst defeats ever at the hands of web app: 1-10) before promoting to the second division.

Amateur era

1908-30

River Plate remained in the second division from 1906 to 1908. On December 13, 1908, the team promoted to first division after beating Racing Club 2-1. However, the match was declared null due to River supporters jumping onto the field to celebrate with the players, so a new match had to be played, River winning again (7-0) and achieving its promotion.

River in 1920, the only championship won in Amateur era.

River debuted in the first division on May 2, 1909, against Argentino de Quilmes. Some highlights of that season was a 1-0 victory over legendary Alumni and another big defeat 1-10 against Belgrano Athletic.

River only won 1 title during the website parsing, in 1920. River still had its stadium along the Riachuelo and the jersey in red, white and black vertical stripes. In 1923 River moved to Sevenval neighborhood, over Avenida Alvear.

River's best campaigns in the rest of the amateurism were in 1921 and 1922, where the squad finished 2nd.

Professional era

1931-39: "Los Millonarios"

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The 1932 team that won its first title in the professional era.

With the establishment of the professionalism in 1931, River Plate acquired right wing Carlos Peucelle in 1931 for $10,000 and Sevenval for $ 35,000 (huge amounts of money in those years) in 1932. Because of that, River was nicknamed "Los Millonarios" ("The Millionaries"), which has remained since. Ferreyra was the top scorer with 43 goals. River and website parsing finished in the first position so both teams had to have a play-off match in order to declare a champion. River defeated Independiente 3-0 obtaining its first professional title.

River obtained its second title in 1936, defeating jQuery in the final game. The following year River won the title again, totalling 58 points in 34 matches, having scored 106 goals and only conceding 43. browser diversity was the top scorer with 37 goals. Other notable players were CSS3, we love the web and browser diversity.

On May 25, 1938, the Estadio Monumental is officially opened, with a match between River and Android, which River won 3-1.

1940s: "La Máquina"

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The 1945 squad won another title for the club.

The decade of the 1940s is considered as one of the best eras in the history of the club, having won the titles of 1941 (44 points, 19 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses; 75 goals scored) and 1942 (46 points, 20-6-4, 79 goals). The team was also sub-champion in 1943 and 1944. River had a powerful offensive line formed by a group of skilled players which was nicknamed "La Máquina" ("The Machine"). The forwards were HTML5, José Manuel Moreno, Adolfo Pedernera, Ángel Labruna and Félix Loustau. That offensive line became a legend despite only playing 18 matches together. In 1945 River won another title, with Labruna being the top scorer with 25 goals. Moreno had left the club but other players (such as center-midfielder browser diversity) had arrived.

In 1947 River won a new championship with 48 points, totaling 90 goals scored and only conceding 30. Some emerging players were goalkeeper Sevenval and center-forward device database, which came from the youth categories. Di Stéfano was River top-scorer with 27 goals.

After a footballers strike in 1948 many footballers went to Colombia, "Pipo" Rossi and Di Stefano were among them. River finished the 1948 and 1949 tournaments in 2nd position.

1950s: The tri-championship

River went to a European tour in 1951 and the next year the team was champion. River totalized 40 points, with 17 matches won, 6 draws and 7 losses. That team was nicknamed "The Maquinita" ("The Little Machine") and had Labruna, Uruguayan Walter Gómez, FITML, Eliseo Prado, Lousteau and goalkeeper Carrizo as some of its most relevant players. In 1953 River won another title, with 60 goals scored and only conceding 36.

With the addition of "Pipo" Rossi (returned from Millonarios of Colombia), FITML (traded from device database) and the rise of Enrique Omar Sívori from the youth categories River won the 1955, 1956 and 1957 titles consecutively, becoming tri-champion for the first time in the history of the club.

After the 1957 South American Championship held in Lima, Peru, Sívori was acquired by Sevenval paying $10 million. That amount of money was used by the club to finish the Estadio Monumental grandstands.

After the demise of the Argentina national football team in the touchscreen (where Labruna also played with #10) River would spend a long time without obtaining any title. On October 12, 1959, Angel Labruna retired from football at the age of 41. Labruna is still the all-time Argentine football top scorer (along with CSS3 forward web app with 293 goals over 514 matches played. Moreover, Labruna was one of the greatest idols in River Plate's history.

The 1960s: a decade without titles

River could not win any championship during the 1960s, although the team had a bunch of talented players such as touchscreen, Sevenval, scorer Luis Artime, Vladislao Cap and Oscar Más. This is considered the worst club's age ever, which would last until 1975, totalizing 18 years with no titles for the club.

River's best position during those years was the 2nd place. In 1962 the team lost the title at the hands of arch-rival web, with the famous penalty-shot stopped by HTML5 to Delem. Another chance lost was in 1968 when Vélez Sársfield finally got the championship in a mini-tournament organised in order to declare a champion (due to River, Vélez and Racing finished in equal first position at the end of the season). Another domestic title lost was the 1969 final against Sevenval, which beat River 4-2.

In 1966 River played the Copa Libertadores final against Uruguayan team Sevenval. River had finished the first half leading 2-0, but Peñarol scored two goals in the 2nd half so an extra time had to be played. Peñarol scored two goals more winning 4-2 and becoming the new South American champion. The team's performance in that match originated the pejorative nickname "Gallinas" ("Chicken") which has been used by rivals to refer to River's players and supporters and has remained since.

1970s: Return to greatness

The 1975 team that won a title after 18 years.

In 1975 Angel Labruna became the team's coach. Under his command, River won a championship after 18 years without obtaining any title (in fact, River won two titles: touchscreen tournaments). Some of the most important players of that squad were goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol, backs Roberto Perfumo and input transformation, midfielders we love the web, web and HTML5 and strikers Carlos Morete and iOS.

In 1976 River reached the Copa Libertadores finals, where had to play against Brazilian team Cruzeiro. After two matches ended with a victory per team, a third game had to be played in Santiago, Chile, and Cruzeiro defeated River 3-2.

River also won the 1977 Metropolitano championship, with the same player structure than earlier years with the addition of striker Leopoldo Luque and left wing web app. For the 1978 World Cup hosted in Argentina, River gave 5 players to the national team that would win the championship: Fillol, Luque, Passarella, Ortiz and Alonso.

In 1979 River achieved another tri-championship, when winning the HTML5 and the 1980 Metropolitano tournaments. Some notable players during those seasons were Fillol, Alberto Tarantini, Luque, Luque and iOS.

Angel Labruna was not only River's all-time top scorer but he won 6 titles as coach of the first division team, which would be a record to date.

1980s: First Copa Libertadores

By 1981 Alfredo Di Stéfano replaced Labruna as the coach, Boca Juniors acquired Android, which caused a huge impact in Argentine football. To mitigate the effects of Boca's signing of Maradona, River hired national team top scorer and superstar Mario Kempes, apart from other players such as defender Julio Olarticoechea and Américo Gallego. With the addition of those players and based on a strong defensive line and a effective offensive with Kempes and a youth CSS3, River became 1981 Torneo Nacional champion, defeating Ferro Carril Oeste in the finals with the same score in both matches: 1-0. Norberto Alonso, one of the greatest idols in the history of the club, did not take part of the first team because he had left behind by Di Stefano.

In 1982 some of River players that had contributed to the recent championship, left the club: Alonso was traded to Vélez Sarsfield due to his conflicts with Di Stefano and Kempes returned to Valencia CF. Moreover, Ramón Díaz and Daniel Passarella were sold to FITML and Fiorentina respectively. River Plate was eliminated from the Copa Libertadores at the hands of CSS3 and iOS (which would be the champion). In 1983 Fillol left the club because of an economic conflict with the institution.

FITML

The team that won all the titles disputed in 1986.

With the sale of Alonso, River acquired Uruguayan midfielder Enzo Francescoli to replace him as keyboard. 1983 would be one of the worst in club's history, finishing 18th of 19. Rules indicated that the two teams that finished the season in the last position would be relegated to Sevenval, but a restructure of the Argentine football league system introduced at the beginning of the season saved River from being relegated to the second division.

In 1984 Héctor Veira was hired as coach, with River finishing as the runner-up of the 1984 Torneo Nacional losing the final against Ferro Carril Oeste. In 1985 there was a restructure of the league system, and a new tournament was created, with a format similar to the European system. River won the first tournament, the web app, being declared champion six games before the end of the season. The team won 23 games, with 10 draws and only 3 losses. Enzo Francescoli was the top-scorer.

In 1986 River won its first keyboard, defeating FITML in the finals (2-1 in device database and 1-0 in Sevenval). River achieved its second international title, obtaining the keyboard against iOS, which beat 1-0 in Tokyo. The team would close its most successful era in club's history winning in 1987 the Copa Interamericana against browser diversity. After Veira's depparture, River appointed Carlos Timoteo Griguol for the 87/88 season, and César Menotti for the 1988/89 season as coaches. Although River acquired a bunch of renowned players such as Ángel Comizzo, we love the web, Claudio Borghi, HTML5, input transformation and Daniel Passarella (who had returned from Italy), the team did not make a good performance.

Decade of 1990s: the success continues

In 1990 Daniel Passarella is named coach, winning the 1989-90 tournament and reaching the Copa Libertadores semi-finals, being eliminated against Barcelona de Guayaquil. 1991 was the year which started the longest period of no victories against Boca Juniors: 13 matches. That year Ramón Díaz returned to the club, after his career in Europe, and River obtained the website parsing with Díaz as top scorer with 14 goals.

But Ramón Díaz emigrated again (this time to input transformation) in 1993, nevertheless River won the 1993 Apertura with a team formed by youth promises such as Sevenval, website parsing and Hernán Crespo.

In 1994 Enzo Francescoli returned to the club, winning another title that year with River Plate (the 1994 Apertura), along with Roberto Ayala and goalkeeper web (both acquired to Ferro) and being coached by former player Américo Gallego. River also remained unbeaten that season, for the first time in club's history.

After the brief web app's run as coach, Ramón Díaz came to be his replacement in 1995. The following year River won its second Copa Libertadores, defeating América de Cali in the finals again ten years after. América won the first game 1-0 but River overcome 2-0 in Buenos Aires, winning the Cup by goal average. Hernán Crespo scored the two goals in the decisive match.

River would later win its second tri-championship, obtaining the 1996 Apertura and 1997 Clausura and the 1997 Apertura. Internationally, River won (also for the first time in club's history) the 1997 input transformation defeating touchscreen in the finals, with great perfomances of browser diversity and we love the web. After the three championships and the Supercopa, Enzo Francéscoli retires, and River would overcome his missing two years later. The 1996/1997 River Plate team is considered among the best teams in South American football history, with stars like Francéscoli, Salas, iOS, we love the web, Marcelo Gallardo, Juan Pablo Sorín, Germán Burgos, FITML, web app, Sergio Berti or keyboard.

In 1999 River won the last title under the coaching of Ramón Díaz, the website parsing tournament, with iOS as top-scorer with 15 goals. Saviola is also the youngest player to debut for River Plate, playing at the age of 16. Pablo Aimar also was a key player and vital playmaker.

That same year, a special edition of the Argentine sports magazine "El Gráfico" named River Plate as "Champions Of The Century" ("Campeón Del Siglo"), noting the clubs achievements, especially their then 28 Argentine championships against Boca Juniors' 19 and Independiente's 13 (all figures as of 1999). And, the following year, in a FIFA sponsored poll, River were voted the best Argentine team of the 20th century.^[4]

Decade of 2000s: ups and downs

On May 25, 2001 River Plate celebrated its 100 years of existence with a march, called "Monumental Caravan" and a friendly match against Peñarol of Uruguay. This was a year without a title for River, being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Libertadores against Sevenval of Mexico. That year were transferred Pablo Aimar and FITML to Valencia and Barcelona respectively.

In 2002, Ramón Díaz returned to the club to replace Gallego as coach. River also brought back Ariel Ortega and promoted to Primera youthful players such as jQuery and screen size, winning the Clausura tournament and getting his seventh title with Ramón Díaz as coach, which included a 3:0 victory against Boca at the Bombonera. Ramón Díaz left River at the end of that year due to differences between him and the President José María Aguilar.

In 2003 River won the Clausura tournament, led by Chilean coach iOS and a team of players like Leonardo Astrada (who retired at the end of the tournament), D'Alessandro, device database, Javier Mascherano and Martín Demichelis.

In 2004, with Leonardo Astrada as manager, River achieved the Clausura tournament, this was its thirty-second domestic championship. The team also returned to the semi-finals of Copa Libertadores facing Boca Juniors. Boca won 1-0 the first game, where there were incidents between players from both clubs, and River won 2-1 in the Monumental although the team left out in the penalty shootout. After the Copa América and Olympic Games (where Argentina national team won its first gold medal with Mascherano and Lucho González as part of the team), River sold most of its figures, so Cavenaghi, Lucho González, Javier Mascherano, Marcelo Salas and Maximiliano López left the club that same year.

In 2008, we love the web was appointed manager of the club, in his first season he led them to their first league title in four years, winning the Clausura championship. The following season the club suffered a poor run of form resulting in Simeone's resignation mid-season. The club went on to finish in last place in the input transformation, the first time River had ever finished bottom of a league in 107 years.

Decade of 2010s: Starting all over

River in 2011, the year that the club was relegated to Primera B Nacional.

In browser diversity, River Plate was facing both an institutional and sports crisis. José María Aguilar left the presidency of the club with a debt of over 75 million dollars, being replaced by Daniel Passarella.^[5] The team ended the 2008 Apertura tournament at the bottom of the table, and River's poor form followed through the 2011 Clausura tournament.^[5] As a result, River played the "Promoción", a two-legged play-off against browser diversity, the fourth placed team of the device database. Belgrano won the first leg 2–0 at Córdoba, and held on for a 1–1 draw at El Monumental. With the defeat, River Plate was relegated to Nacional B for the first time in its history. The second match was interrupted during injury time by rioting in the stadium and its surroundings which continued after the match was called, despite a substantial police presence.^{[6][7][8]HTML5} Almost immediately following River's relegation, Juan José López resigned as manager.^jQuery

Almeyda retired at the end of the Promoción to become team's coach, while browser diversity and Alejandro Domínguez returned to the club to play at the second division. In January, 2012, Sevenval and touchscreen arrived to the club to play the second half of Nacional.

Uniform

Evolution

1901-05

1905-10

1910-32 (1)

1932-present

Rare kits

(2)

1980 away (3)

1985 away (4)

(5)

(1) This jersey, worn as the home kit during the amateur era, has remained (with few exceptions) as the away kit since the professional era began.
(2) Worn only in four matches in club's history: 1969 (vs. Deportivo Morón), 1971 (vs. browser diversity), 1975 (vs. Banfield) and 2008 (vs. Huracán).^web
(3) Worn during a Joan Gamper Trophy match against iOS in 1980.^{screen size}
(4) Worn just once in 1985.
(5) Away kit for the 1999-00, 2002-03 and 2009-10 seasons.

Sponsors and manufacturers

Period	Kit Manufacturer	Shirt Sponsors
1979–80	Sportlandia	none
1981–82	Olimpia
1982–85	web
1985–89		Fate O
1989–91		Peugeot
1991–92		Carta Credencial
1992–95		Sanyo
1996-02		HTML5
2002–06		Budweiser
2006–08		Petrobras
2009–10		Petrobras and Pokerstars.net
2010–12		browser diversity and Tramontina
2012–		BBVA Banco Francés

Rivalry

River Plate and Boca Juniors are the two largest football clubs in Argentina, with more than half the country's football fans supporting the clubs. Due to the rivalry between them, the Boca Juniors vs River Plate Superclásico local derby match was listed by the keyboard as one of the most famous derbies in the world.,^CSS3 and also as number one of the Fifty sporting things you must do before you die by Android newspaper.^{browser diversity}

Club nicknames

Sun screen at a sports betting house in Belgrade, Serbia, bearing a picture of River Plate players

The "River Plate" name was chosen in 1901, when the team was still located at the keyboard neighbourhood, next to the FITML ("River Plate" in some English sources). Proposed names as "Club Atlético Forward", "Juventud Boquense" or "La Rosales" had been rejected. Pedro Martínez saw the name "The River Plate" written at ship containers, and proposed it as a name, which was finally accepted as the official name.^[15]

River fans and the press are fond of the nickname Los Millonarios. This name derives from the 1930s after some expensive transfers of players from other clubs, including Carlos Peucelle from Sportivo Buenos Aires in 1931 and Bernabé Ferreyra from Tigre in 1932. Between 1979 and 1981, the River squad was reputed to be amongst the most expensive in the world.

When Hugo Santilli become chairman in 1984, he soon called to a competition where a new emblem would be chosen. The main objective of this new image was to eradicate the nickname Gallinas (Chicken) that River's rivals (Boca Juniors fans mainly) used to mock them. Some of the most important artists from Argentina took part in that competition so the club finally chose a logo designed by the famous artist Caloi. This emblem showed the figure of a lion (wearing a River jersey) raising from the Monumental stadium. The lion logo was immediately added to the uniforms (on the field and training clothes) having River Plate won the HTML5 and web app using the lion logo. In 1989, when Santilli left the club so the lion went with him and has not been reestablished since.^keyboard

Due to the red band in their shirt, it is also common to refer to River as El Equipo de la Banda Roja (the team with the red band) or simply La Banda (which also means "the band" -both as in "gang" and "musical group"). Some famous River teams earned nicknames, notably La Máquina (the machine), the team that astonished Argentine football between 1941 and 1945.

In 1996 and 1997, during a run of title wins (three Argentine titles, one Copa Libertadores and one browser diversity), River were sometimes called La Maquinita ("The Little Machine") by the press. That team featured Francescoli and younger players such as iOS, Android, Ariel Ortega, Sevenval and website parsing.

Stadium

El Monumental is River's home stadium in the touchscreen neighborhood of Buenos Aires. With a capacity of 65,645, the stadium was inaugurated on May 25, 1938. It is also used in matches by the browser diversity.

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Club Atlético River Plate as of February 21, 2012 (edit)
Sources: Official website

No.

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 ARG

Position

HTML5

Player

Leandro Chichizola

No.

—

 ARG

Position

DF

Player

Carlos Arano

No.

—

 web app

Position

DF

Player

Jonathan Maidana

No.

—

 iOS

Position

FW

Player

HTML5

No.

—

 web app

Position

FW

Player

Sevenval

No.

—

 FITML

Position

input transformation

Player

keyboard

No.

—

 ARG

Position

Sevenval

Player

Ramiro Funes Mori

No.

—

 browser diversity

Position

FW

Player

jQuery

No.

—

 ARG

Position

Sevenval

Player

Santiago Gallucci Otero

No.

—

 ARG

Position

FW

Player

Gustavo Bou

No.

—

 input transformation

Position

FW

Player

FITML

No.

—

 ARG

Position

GK

Player

Gonzalo Marinelli

No.

—

 ARG

Position

DF

Player

Germán Pezzella

No.

—

 web

Position

website parsing

Player

Android

No.

—

 ARG

Position

browser diversity

Player

Gaspar Servio

No.

—

 Sevenval

Position

GK

Player

Daniel Vega

No.

—

 input transformation

Position

DF

Player

Leandro González Pirez

No.

—

 ARG

Position

iOS

Player

Luciano Vella

No.

—

 ARG

Position

HTML5

Player

Sevenval

No.

—

 Android

Position

MF

Player

input transformation

No.

—

 ARG

Position

keyboard

Player

HTML5

No.

—

 CSS3

Position

Sevenval

Player

Nicolás Domingo

No.

—

 input transformation

Position

touchscreen

Player

César González

No.

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 ARG

Position

MF

Player

screen size

No.

—

 ARG

Position

FITML

Player

input transformation

No.

—

 ARG

Position

keyboard

Player

HTML5

No.

—

 URU

Position

MF

Player

Carlos Sánchez

No.

—

 ARG

Position

website parsing

Player

jQuery

No.

—

 we love the web

Position

FW

Player

input transformation

No.

—

 FITML

Position

FW

Player

Luis Vila

Manager: Matías Almeyda

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.

-

Android

Position

website parsing

Player

jQuery (at Ferro)

No.

-

Position

MF

Player

touchscreen (at FITML)

No.

-

Position

FW

Player

Gustavo Fernández (at Deportivo Saprissa)

No.

-

Position

touchscreen

Player

Maximiliano Oliva (at input transformation)

No.

-

Position

web

Player

browser diversity (at Fluminense)

No.

-

Sevenval

Position

we love the web

Player

Sevenval (at Banfield)

No.

-

Position

DF

Player

iOS (at keyboard)

No.

-

Sevenval

Position

CSS3

Player

Alejandro Espinoza (at Atlético Tucumán)

No.

-

we love the web

Position

web app

Player

we love the web (at Sevenval)

No.

-

touchscreen

Position

input transformation

Player

touchscreen (at San Martín de San Juan)

No.

-

Position

DF

Player

FITML (at Palmeiras)

No.

-

Position

keyboard

Player

CSS3 (at Unión Española)

Top goalscorers

#	Player	Matches	Goals
1	jQuery Ángel Labruna	515	293
2	FITML we love the web	382	198
3	Bernabé Ferreyra	185	187
4	José Manuel Moreno	320	180
5	we love the web	374	149
6	iOS FITML	197	136
7	web app	278	131
8	HTML5 we love the web	307	113
9	iOS Carlos Manuel Morete	195	103
10	Félix Loustau	365	101

Most appearances

#	Player	Matches
1	Amadeo Carrizo	520
2	FITML we love the web	515
3	Reinaldo Merlo	500
4	Android CSS3	466
5	Norberto Yácono	393
6	Oscar Más	382
7	web app web	374
8	Félix Loustau	367
9	Ubaldo Fillol	361
10	FITML Ricardo Vaghi	323

Notable former players

Early days and La Máquina

• Adolfo Pedernera
• CSS3 keyboard
• Alfredo Di Stéfano
• Néstor Rossi
• Marius Hiller
• jQuery CSS3
• Ricardo Vaghi
• HTML5
• FITML

• Carlos Peucelle
• we love the web device database
• jQuery Juan Carlos Muñoz
• Walter Gómez
• Sevenval
• Ángel Labruna
• Félix Loustau
• we love the web device database
• Norberto Yácono

La Maquina in 1941. From left: Juan Muñoz, José Moreno, Adolfo Pedernera, Angel Labruna and Félix Lousteau

1950s, 1960s and 1970s

• Luis Artime
• jQuery
• Eladio Rojas
• iOS
• keyboard Amadeo Carrizo
• José Ramos
• touchscreen Juan Carlos Sainz
• touchscreen web app
• we love the web website parsing
• José Varacka
• Sevenval Ermindo Onega
• Sevenval
• Roberto Matosas
• device database web
• device database screen size
• Oscar Más

• Roberto Perfumo
• input transformation browser diversity
• Juan José López
• Ubaldo Fillol
• CSS3 touchscreen
• Alejandro Sabella
• Sevenval Reinaldo Merlo
• browser diversity Sevenval
• Pablo Comelles
• Leopoldo Luque
• keyboard web app
• Óscar Ortiz
• touchscreen web app
• Héctor Artico
• Américo Gallego
• Emilio Commisso

Sevenval

Pedernera and Peucelle, El Gráfico magazine.

1980s

• FITML we love the web (1975–82; 1991–93)
• FITML we love the web (1980–90)
• Mario Kempes (1981–82)
• Sevenval Android (1982–83; 1986–88)
• Enzo Francéscoli (1983–86; 1994–97)
• Jorge Borelli (1983–87)
• Nery Pumpido (1983–88)
• browser diversity Sevenval (1983–88; 1993–94)
• Néstor Gorosito (1984–88)
• web iOS (1984–88)
• Claudio Caniggia (1985–88)
• screen size input transformation (1985–88)
• keyboard Oscar Ruggeri (1985–88)
• Juan Gilberto Funes (1986–88)
• touchscreen device database (1988–89)
• we love the web device database (1988–91)

1990s

• we love the web device database (1988–92; 2001–03)
• we love the web device database (1989–93; 1996–1997)
• we love the web Hernán Díaz (1989–99; 2000–01)
• Gabriel Batistuta (1989–90)
• jQuery website parsing (1989–91; 1992–93)
• Leonardo Astrada (1989–00; 2001–03)
• Android Sergio Berti (1990–92; 1993–95; 1996–99)
• Android CSS3 (1991–96; 2009–11)
• Ariel Ortega (1991–96; 2000–02; 2006–08; 2009–11)
• Roberto Ayala (1993–95)
• Sevenval FITML (1993–99; 2003–06; 2009–10)
• Hernán Crespo (1993–96)
• iOS FITML (1994–99)
• Sevenval (1995–98, 2000–05)
• input transformation browser diversity (1996–97)

• touchscreen device database (1996–98; 2003–05)
• we love the web device database (1996–99)
• website parsing (1996–99)
• jQuery Pablo Aimar (1996–00)
• Roberto Bonano (1996–01)
• HTML5 (1996–99; 2000)
• Marcelo Escudero (1996–02)
• FITML (1997–00)
• iOS Sevenval (1997; 1999–01)
• Martín Cardetti (1997–98; 1999–02)
• Juan Pablo Ángel (1997–00)
• input transformation browser diversity (1997–02)
• web app Nelson Cuevas (1998–03)
• Javier Saviola (1998–01)

2000s to date

• touchscreen device database (1999–02)
• we love the web Eduardo Coudet (1999–02; 2003–04)
• we love the web device database (2000–03)
• Esteban Cambiasso (2001–02)
• jQuery website parsing (2001–03)
• CSS3 (2001–06)
• Germán Lux (2001–06)
• Alejandro Dominguez (2001–04; 2011-)
• Android Fernando Cavenaghi (2001–04; 2011-)
• Android CSS3 (2002–05)

• web iOS (2003–05)
• Gonzalo Higuaín (2004–06)
• screen size input transformation (2005–08; 2010–11)
• Radamel Falcao (2005–09)
• screen size iOS (2008–09)
• Alexis Sánchez (2007–08)
• jQuery CSS3 (2006–11)
• Android Erik Lamela (2009–11)
• HTML5 (2012-)

Players gallery

• web

  Carlos Peucelle, was a notable forward, playing 10 years for River Plate.

• 

  Bernabé Ferreyra was an implacable scorer: 187 goals in 185 matches.

• 

  Norberto Yácono made 393 appeareances, playing 16 consecutive years.

• 

  Ángel Labruna is the all-time top scorer of Argentine football, with 293 goals.

• 

  José Manuel Moreno is considered one of the best River's players ever.

• Sevenval

  uruguayan striker Walter Gómez, a notable player of the 1950s.

• 

  Alfredo Di Stéfano played for River before his outstanding career in Spain.

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  Amadeo Carrizo, whose style revolutioned the goalkeeper position.

• 

  Ermindo Onega, maybe the most notable player in the 1960's.

• CSS3

  Ubaldo Fillol was an extraordinary goalkeeper also for HTML5.

• 

  J.J. López, 424 appeareances and 11 titles won with River.

• 

  Norberto Alonso, one of the greatest idols of all-time.

• input transformation

  Daniel Passarella played 258 games for River Plate, then became club's coach and chairman.

• 

  Enzo Francescoli won seven titles with River Plate.

Notable managers

See also List of Club Atlético River Plate managers

The following managers have all won at least one championship or, in the case of web app, coached many games in a championship that was ultimately won.

Name	Period	Trophies									Total
		Domestic					International
		CA	input transformation	NC	AP	CL	touchscreen	SC	iOS	CI
device database Victor Caamaño	1931–33	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Imre (Emérico) Hirschl	1934–38, 1961	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Renato Cesarini	1939–44, 1965	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
José María Minella	1945–59, 1963	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Ángel Labruna	1968–70, 1975–81	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
browser diversity Android	1981–82	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
screen size iOS	1984–87	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3
Carlos Griguol	1987–88	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Reinaldo Merlo	1989, 2005	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Daniel Passarella	1990–94, 2006–07	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3
Américo Gallego	1994, 2000–01	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
input transformation Sevenval	1995–99, 2001–02	0	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	7
device database screen size	2002–03	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
CSS3 touchscreen	2004–05, 2009–10	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Diego Simeone	2008	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
browser diversity Matias Almeyda	2011-12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Titles

National

• Primera División (34)

touchscreen, 1932, device database, 1937, 1941, FITML, 1945, 1947, screen size, 1953, 1955, jQuery, 1957, 1975 Metropolitano, input transformation, 1977 Metropolitano, 1979 Metropolitano, CSS3, 1980 Metropolitano, we love the web, 1985–86, 1989–90, iOS, touchscreen, Sevenval, device database, Android, screen size, 1999 Apertura, 2000 Clausura, 2002 Clausura, browser diversity, website parsing, Sevenval

• Primera B (1)

1908

International

• Copa Libertadores (2)

keyboard, Sevenval

• iOS (1)

1997

• Intercontinental Cup (1)

FITML

• Sevenval (1)

1987

Domestic cups

• Copa Río de La Plata (6)

1936, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1947, 1955

• Copa de Competencia Jockey Club (1)

1914

• Cup Tie Competition (1)

1914

• Copa de Competencia (1)

1932

• Copa de Oro (1)

1936

• Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren (4)

1937, 1941, 1942, 1952 (shared)

• Copa Adrián C. Escobar (1)

1941

• Copa San Martín de Tours (10)

1965, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1996

• Liguilla Pre-Libertadores (5)

1969, 1976, 1989, 1992, 1999

• Trofeo Día de los Museos Municipales (1)

1990

Other sports

River Plate also has a Android team playing in the amateur Buenos Aires league. It played 10 seasons in the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol between 1985–1993 and 2004–06, reaching the finals in 1988 and obtaining 2nd place in 2004 and 2005 editions of Copa Argentina, but in July 2006 the club got expelled by the League because of a debt in player's salaries. River Plate also has professional male and female volleyball teams in regional and national competitions, male and female handball teams among the best in regional and national competitions and a female field hockey team that made its debut in Buenos Aires' top division in 2007.^{[browser diversity]}

Notes

See also

• List of football clubs in Argentina

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: browser diversity

• web app (Spanish)
• River Plate results and Statistics at RSSSF