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8 unusual facts about Estudiantes De La Plata


1970 Copa Libertadores

Estudiantes successfully defended their title for the second straight year by defeating Peñarol in the finals.

Carlos Pachamé

As a player, Pachamé was a defensive midfielder for the Estudiantes de La Plata team that won three successive editions of the Copa Libertadores.

Eduardo Luján Manera

Eduardo Luján Manera (22 August 1944 - 15 August 2000) was an Argentine football defender, and a manager who won the Argentine Primera with Estudiantes de La Plata as player and manager.

Estadio Elías Aguirre

They play in the Primera División since 2008 and qualified to the 2010 Copa Libertadores in which the stadium hosted international matches against the Argentinian defending champions Estudiantes de La Plata and Bolivian Bolívar, Mexican Estudiantes Tecos in addition to local Alianza Lima.

Gerard Piqué

On 19 December 2009, Piqué was in the Barcelona team which beat Argentine club Estudiantes 2–1 in the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup Final.

Jeffrén Suárez

On 19 December 2009, he came on as a substitute in the 82nd minute for Thierry Henry, during the FIFA Club World Cup final against Estudiantes de La Plata.

Julio Alak

When a security regulation forbidding wooden stands came into effect in 2005, Estudiantes de La Plata relocated their home games to the Bosque (the field of rival side Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata), and later to the Quilmes stadium.

Paula Pareto

She very soon won her first tournament and when she found sense of judo she moved to bigger Club Estudiantes de La Plata.


Estadio Ciudad de La Plata

The stadium was officially reopened on February 17, 2011, and its first match was played six days later between Estudiantes and Deportes Tolima for the Group 7 of the 2011 Copa Libertadores.

Gastón Gil Romero

Gastón Gil Romero (General Roca, 6 May 1993) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Estudiantes de La Plata.

Javier Sequeyra

Javier Marcelo Sequeyra (born 23 July 1995 in Berisso) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Estudiantes de La Plata.

José David Leudo

José David Leudo Romaña (born 9 November 1993 in Apartadó) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Estudiantes de La Plata as a midfielder.

La Plata Partido

La Plata is home to one of the fiercest derby matches (clásicos) in Argentine football, contested between Estudiantes and Gimnasia y Esgrima.

Oscar Malbernat

Oscar Miguel Cacho Malbernat (born 2 February 1944) is a retired Argentine footballer, who was the captain of Estudiantes de La Plata between 1967 and 1972, when the team won a local championship in 1967, three consecutive Copa Libertadores titles (1968 to 1970) and one Intercontinental Cup (1968), where he marked Manchester United's George Best.

Pro Evolution Soccer 6

It's not only retired "legendary players" that can be bought, Juan Sebastián Verón (playing for Estudiantes de la Plata by then), Fernando Cavenaghi (then at Spartak Moscow), Freddy Adu (at DC United then) being the most notable cases.

Tony Gómez

He played for teams in Uruguay (Club Nacional de Football, Club Atletico River Plate, Montevideo Wanderers, Plaza Colonia), Argentinia (San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata), Barcelona Sporting Club in Ecuador and finally Matsunichi in China.


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