Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba

Full name

Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba

Nickname(s)

Tomba
Expreso ("Express")
Bodeguero ("Wine-Producer")

Founded

21 June 1921

Ground

Estadio Malvinas Argentinas,
Godoy Cruz, Mendoza

Capacity

21,774

Chairman

José Eduardo Mansur

Manager

Sebastián Méndez

League

Primera División

2016

2° of Zona 1

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, known simply as Godoy Cruz, is an Argentine sports club from Godoy Cruz, Mendoza. The club is best known for its football team, that plays in the Primera División, the top level of the Argentine football league system.

Other activities practised at Godoy Cruz are basketball, team handball, field hockey, tennis and volleyball.

History

The team of 1954.

The club was founded on 21 June 1921 under the name sportivo Godoy Cruz, and changed to its current name on 25 April 1930 after the fusion with Deportivo Bodega Antonio Tomba. In 1959, Godoy Cruz' stadium, the [Estadio Feliciano Gambarte], was constructed. The stadium is nicknamed La Bodega (Spanish for "wine cellar") and holds 14,000 people.

Godoy Cruz played in the regional league for several years before reaching the national level. The club won the Mendoza first division championship in 1944, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1968, and also in 1989 and 1990 that qualified to play in the defunct Torneo del Interior national-level tournament.

Winning the Torneo del Interior in 1994, Godoy Cruz reached the Primera B Nacional (Argentine second division) that year. After more than ten years in the second division, the club was finally promoted to the Primera División in 2006, after winning the 2005–06 season of the Primera B Nacional, defeating Nueva Chicago in the final.

Twenty-year-old Enzo Pérez scored the first goal by Godoy Cruz in the Argentine Primera, in a 1–1 draw with Belgrano on 9 September 2006.

At the end of the 2006–07 season, Godoy Cruz was relegated from the Primera after losing their promotion/relegation play-off with Huracán. Their stay in the second division was short, as they earned automatic promotion to the first division after finishing runners-up to San Martín de Tucumán during the 2007–08 season.

Godoy Cruz secured their best ever league position of 3rd place under Omar Asad's management during the 2010 Clausura. In that tournament, they also achieved the best-ever point total (37) for a team indirectly affiliated to the Argentine Football Association (meaning clubs under the administration of the Federal Council branch of AFA, which are teams outside Buenos Aires, Greater Buenos Aires, Rosario and Santa Fe). These results qualified them for the 2011 Copa Libertadores, their first appearance in this tournament. When Godoy Cruz made their Copa Libertadores debut in February 2011 in a 2–1 win against 2008 champions LDU Quito they became the first indirectly affiliated side ever to represent Argentina in the Copa Libertadores.^[1]

Nickname

Godoy Cruz is nicknamed Tomba and Bodeguero, in reference to the wine selling activity of the Deportivo Bodega Antonio Tomba, one of the merging clubs of 1921. Since the stadium is located near a railway, the club is also called El Expreso ("The Express").

Current squad

Current squad of Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba as of October 16, 2016 (edit)
Sources: Argentine Soccer

No.		Position	Player
1	ARG	GK	Rodrigo Rey
2	ARG	DF	Leonel Galeano
3	ARG	DF	Marcelo Benítez
5	PAR	DF	Diego Viera
6	ARG	DF	Pablo Alvarado
7	ARG	FW	Juan Fernando Garro
8	ARG	MF	Facundo Silva
9	ARG	FW	Javier Correa
10	ARG	MF	Gastón Giménez
11	ARG	MF	Guillermo Fernández
12	ARG	GK	Roberto Ramírez
14	ARG	DF	Sebastián Olivares
16	ARG	DF	Gastón Suso
17	ECU	FW	Jaime Ayoví

No.		Position	Player
18	URU	FW	Santiago García
19	ARG	MF	Fabián Henríquez
20	ARG	MF	Ángel González
21	ARG	MF	Fabrizio Angileri
22	ARG	DF	Ezequiel Bonacorso
23	URU	FW	Maximiliano Sigales
24	ARG	GK	Juan Cruz Bolado
25	ARG	GK	Sebastián Moyano
27	ARG	MF	Gabriel Carabajal
28	ARG	DF	Facundo Cobos
29	ARG	DF	Luciano Abecasis
30	ARG	MF	Juan Andrada
32	ARG	MF	Nicolás Sánchez
35	ARG	MF	Maximiliano Correa

Manager: Sebastián Méndez

Friendly matches

Godoy Cruz played friendly matches against patriotic clubs and other countries. A memorable friendly played in 1964, against Santos Football Club, with soccer star Pele ended in favor of the Brazilian team by a score of 3-2. In 1969, against Universidad de Chile, the "Expreso" claimed a 3-0 victory. Another match in 1990, against Sevilla in which the team from Mendoza claimed victory by a score of 2-1. In 2007, a visiting Godoy Cruz squad were defeated 5-nil by Nacional de Montevideo. Godoy Cruz also played several friendly matches against national teams, such as Argentina in 1969, Chile in 1970, and Poland in 1977.

A source of historical pride for the team's supporters are two friendly matches won against Argentine giants: in 1965, they defeated Boca Juniors 4–0, and in 1997 they defeated River Plate by the same margin.

Godoy Cruz won the summer 2009 edition of the friendly pentagonal cup known as the "Copa Ciudad de Tandil", after defeating both Chacarita Juniors and Quilmes in penalty shootouts.^[2]

Managers

Humberto Grondona (1996–98)
Luis Manuel Blanco (2002)
Pedro Troglio (2004)
Juan Manuel Llop (April 5, 2005 – June 30, 2007)
Sergio Batista (Jan 1, 2007 – Sept 1, 2007)
Daniel Oldrá (2007–08)
Diego Cocca (Oct 1, 2008 – Dec 1, 2009)
Enzo Trossero (Nov 8, 2009 – Dec 31, 2009)
Omar Asad (Jan 1, 2010 – Dec 31, 2010)
Jorge "Polilla" da Silva (Dec 15, 2010 – Dec 18, 2011)
Nery Pumpido (Dec 24, 2011 – April 16, 2012)
Omar Asad (April 19, 2012 – Nov 18, 2012)
Martín Palermo (Nov 21, 2012 – Dec 6, 2013)
Jorge Almirón (Dec 9, 2013 – July 18, 2014)
Carlos Mayor (July 19, 2014 – Oct 8, 2014)
Daniel Oldrá (Oct 9, 2014 – June 14, 2015)
Gabriel Heinze (2015)
Daniel Oldrá (2015)
Sebastián Méndez (Dec 1, 2015 – Present)

Stadium

Feliciano Gambarte, La Bodega, in 2015.

The official Stadium Club is the Estadio Feliciano Gambarte opened in 1959. In 2004, the team played his last professional match, pitting Tiro Federal, matching ending 0–0. Since that time, the team plays its home games at the provincial Estadio Malvinas Argentinas. Since 2014, the fans campaigned to return to play in the Stadium Club.

Honours

National

Primera B Nacional (2): Apertura 2005, 2005–06
Torneo del Interior (1) 1993–94

Regional

Mendoza Football League (12): 1944, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1968, Apertura 1987, Apertura 1989, 1989, 1990, Clausura 1993, Apertura 1993.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba.

Official website (Spanish)

Primera División

Argentine Football Association

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League format	Calendar-year (1891–1966, 2015–2016) Metropolitano and Nacional (1967–85) European style (1985-90, 2016–) Apertura and Clausura (1991–2012) Inicial and Final (2012–14)

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Dissident bodies	Federación Argentina de Football (1912-14) Asociación Amateurs de Football (1919-26) Liga Argentina de Football (1931-34)

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