Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba

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Godoy Cruz
Full nameClub Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba
Nickname(s)Tomba
Expreso (Express)
Bodeguero (Wine-Producer)
Founded1 June 1921; 102 years ago (1921-06-01)
GroundEstadio Feliciano Gambarte
Capacity17,000
ChairmanAlejandro Chapini
ManagerSergio Gómez
LeaguePrimera División
20239th
WebsiteClub website
Current season

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

team handball, field hockey, tennis and volleyball
.

History

Godoy Cruz was born as an institution in 1921. It all started when a group of friends, gathered in the "Victoria Bar" (located opposite the departmental square at that time), decided to found a club, taking advantage of the boom at the time . Thus was born on 1 June 1921, the Club Sportivo Godoy Cruz with the novice presidency of Don Romero Garay.

The club was officially 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 21,000 people.

The team of 1954

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 under Omar Asad's management during the 2010 Clausura can be considered as a turning point in the club's success in top-level competition, earning accolades from both fans and sport journalists alike. In that tournament, they achieved the best-ever point total (37) at the time, for a team indirectly affiliated to the Argentine Football Association (meaning clubs under the administration of the Consejo Federal (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.

The club's

Adrián Sporle
, were key factors in finishing only two points behind Boca's 58 points.

South American Tournament Qualification

Godoy Cruz is the first club in Mendoza and the fifth indirectly-affiliated (to AFA) club to play in CONMEBOL tournaments.

The club's absolute debut in the

LDU Quito marked a historic moment; Godoy Cruz had become the second indirectly affiliated side ever to represent Argentina in the Copa Libertadores (Talleres de Córdoba qualified to the 2002 Copa Libertadores), however was the first of these to win their debut match. The "Tomba" was eliminated in the group stage.[1]

Later in 2011, the club debut in the 2011 Copa Sudamericana tournament in the Second Stage round, defeating Lanús on an away goal tiebreaker (2-2 away / 0-0 home), arriving until Round of 16, losing in Peru to Universitario on penalties (2-3; after drawing both home & away legs 1-1) on 20 October 2011.

In 2012 he plays his second Copa Libertadores, playing in the group stage against Peñarol, Universidad de Chile and Atlético Nacional The "Express" could not pass another instance more than this phase.

In 2014, Godoy Cruz would play the second Copa Sudamericana, being eliminated before Club Atlético River Plate (champion of the edition of this tournament) in parties of ida (0:1) and return (0:2).

In 2017, Tomba will play for the third time in its history of the Copa Libertadores, fruit of the good championship that secured in 2016, and thus achieving the classification of the name of the tournament.

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2011 Copa Libertadores Second stage
LDU Quito
 2–1 0–2 4th
Uruguay Peñarol 1–3 1–2
Argentina Independiente 1–1 3–1
2011 Copa Sudamericana Second stage Argentina Lanús 0–0 2–2 2–2 (a.)
Round of 16
Universitario
 1–1 1–1 2–2 (p. 2–3)
2012 Copa Libertadores Second stage Chile Universidad de Chile 0–1 1–5 3rd
Colombia Atlético Nacional 4–4 2–2
Uruguay Peñarol 1–0 2–4
2014 Copa Sudamericana Second stage Argentina River Plate 0–1 0–2 0–3
2017 Copa Libertadores Group stage Brazil Atlético Mineiro 1–1 1–4 2nd
Paraguay Libertad 1–1 2–1
Bolivia Sport Boys 2–0 3–1
Round of 16
Grêmio
 0–1 1–2 1–3
2019 Copa Libertadores Group stage Paraguay Olimpia 0–0 1–2 2nd
Peru Sporting Cristal 2–0 1–1
Chile Universidad de Concepción 1–0 0–0
Round of 16
Palmeiras
 2–2 0–4 2–6

Rivalries

Godoy Cruz's classic rival is

San Martin de San Juan, with whom they play the Cuyo Classic
.

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").

Players

Current squad

As of 31 January, 2024.[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Argentina ARG Franco Petroli
2 DF Argentina ARG Pier Barrios
3 DF Chile CHI Thomas Galdames
4 DF Argentina ARG Lucas Arce
6 MF Argentina ARG Tomás Pozzo
7 FW Argentina ARG Bautista Cejas
8 MF Argentina ARG Julián Eseiza
9 FW Argentina ARG Nahuel Ulariaga
10 MF Argentina ARG Hernán López
11 FW Argentina ARG Tomás Conechny
12 GK Argentina ARG Roberto Ramírez
13 MF Argentina ARG Nicolás Fernández
15 DF Argentina ARG Braian Salvareschi
16 МF Argentina ARG Mariano Santiago (on loan from Almirante Brown)
17 FW Argentina ARG Luciano Cingolani
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW Uruguay URU Salomón Rodríguez
20 DF Argentina ARG Facundo Butti (on loan from All Boys)
21 DF Argentina ARG Elías Pereyra
22 FW Argentina ARG Martín Pino
23 DF Argentina ARG Federico Rasmussen
25 MF Argentina ARG Bruno Leyes
28 MF Uruguay URU Marcos Montiel (on loan from Club Nacional)
30 MF Argentina ARG Juan Andrada
32 DF Argentina ARG Manuel Guillén (on loan from River Plate)
34 FW Argentina ARG Tomás Badaloni
36 FW Argentina ARG Daniel Barrea (on loan from Belgrano)
37 DF Argentina ARG Martín Luciano (on loan from Newell's Old Boys)
39 MF Argentina ARG Valentín Burgoa
— MF Uruguay URU Vicente Poggi (on loan from Necaxa)

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Argentina ARG Gianluca Ferrari (at Atlético Tucumán)
— GK Argentina ARG Rodrigo Saracho (at Ferro Carril Oeste)
— DF Argentina ARG Leonel González (at Melgar)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Argentina ARG Luciano Pizarro (at Club Atlético Güemes)
— FW Argentina ARG Sebastián Lomonaco (at Panetolikos)

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in football

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW Uruguay URU Santiago García (2016–21) (posthumous honour)[3][4][5]

Notable players

See also: Category:Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba footballers

Friendly matches

Godoy Cruz played friendly matches against both domestic clubs and from other countries. A memorable friendly played in 1964, 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.[6]

Managers

See also: Category:Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba managers

Stadium

Feliciano Gambarte, La Bodega, in 2015.

The official club stadium is the

Tiro Federal
, to a 0–0 draw. AFA applied changes to the "Reglamento General" competition rulebook in 2005, leading to the club's stadium no longer meeting the new standards indicated in Article 74. The club have since rented the provincial Estadio Malvinas Argentinas for use on matchdays.

A vocal group of fans, supported by a select group of local media personalities, began infrequent campaigns since 2014 to begin renovations to the club stadium, in a bid to gain AFA re-certification. These campaigns have accomplished to this date the repair and repainting of the grandstands, as well as some general refurbishments to the roof and unfinished pressbox structures and perimeter fencing of the turf.

An official request to play at the stadium was made during the 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional as the turf of the Malvinas Argentinas required re-seeding among other refurbishments in preparation to host matches for the 2021 Copa América. The restrictions on stadium capacity were exempted amidst the on-going global COVID-19 pandemic which in Argentina implied severe reductions to public access at sporting events. The club, along with volunteering fans,[13] set forth on more renovations, which included full stadium repainting, rebuilding the previously unfinished press cabins, new pavement ingress areas for the club busses, new expansions to the dressing rooms, new pitch line dimensions (a 2m increase of length to 105m by 68m),[14] as well as new stadium LED floodlighting suitable for night-time HD broadcasts which was earmarked for future install.[15]

On 11 April 2021, Godoy Cruz hosted Arsenal de Sarandí at the Gambarte,[16] 5775 days after the previous official match there.

Coquimbito Practice Facility

The club owns a 12-hectare "High-Performance Sports Park" in the rural district of Coquimbito, Maipu. Incorporating hotel-styled player barracks, a multimedia library for team research, press/media rooms, and 11 separate fields —of various dimensions, field, and turf types— it is one of the largest practice facilities of this type in Argentina outside of Buenos Aires.

Titles

National

Regional

  • Regional Tournament (1): 1993–94
  • Mendoza Football League (12): 1944, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1968, 1987 A, 1989, 1989-A, 1990, 1993-C, 1993-A.

References

  1. ^ Rise of the interior? at Fútbol Fútbol Fútbol
  2. ^ "Godoy Cruz squad". Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Godoy Cruz retira la camiseta de Morro García". argentina.as.com. 6 February 2021.
  4. ^ Godoy Cruz retirará la camiseta 18 on El Gráfico, 6 February 2021
  5. ^ Muerte de Morro García: Godoy Cruz retirará la camiseta 18 on TyC, 6 February 2021
  6. ^ "Godoy Cruz venció a Quilmes por penales y se trajo la Copa Tandil" (in Spanish). MDZ Online. 23 January 2009. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  7. ^ Mauricio Larriera (Soccerway)
  8. ^ "La primera víctima de la crisis: echaron a Mario Sciacqua de Godoy Cruz" (in Spanish). Clarín. 15 May 2020. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Diego Martínez, el aprendiz de Guardiola que empezó en la D y llega a Godoy Cruz" (in Spanish). Clarín. 27 May 2020. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Diego Martínez renunció como técnico de Godoy Cruz" (in Spanish). El Ciudadano. 28 December 2020. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Sebastián Méndez inicia su segundo ciclo como DT de Godoy Cruz" (in Spanish). La Voz. 18 January 2021. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Godoy Cruz announced Diego Flores, Marcelo Bielsa's assistant at Leeds United as DT". La Pelotita. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Pasión por los colores: Hinchas del Tomba pintaron el Gambarte". Archived from the original on 25 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Así luce el renovado Feliciano Gambarte para la vuelta del Tomba". Archived from the original on 10 April 2021.
  15. ^ "El Feliciano Gambarte estrenó su nueva iluminaria". Archived from the original on 23 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Arsenal, el aguavinos". 11 April 2021. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021.

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