RIVER PLATE WINS CUPS

Always on the look out for a Blog theme, I bumped into a young lad, Tom, in the gym today and he was sporting this wonderful shirt. He said he was off travelling so I hope he might be heading for Argentina, a wonderful experience?

The sponsor's logo on his shirt threw me a tad, thinking the club might be French in origin, but when I asked Tom "which club?" it was, he said, "River Plate". Of course, so here is a small blogette on the other team in Argentina...as opposed to Boca Juniors.

So Club Atletico River Plate and Boca are arch rivals, both based in Buenos Aires, RP in Belgrano district, on the River Plate estuary, an economic lifeline. RP have just won in the quarter-finals of the Copa Liberatordes, second leg, 8-0 beating Jorge Wilstermann 8-3 on aggregate! Some come back?

Like Boca, RP, founded in 1901, is a club that supports a multitude of other activities, assuming the title of being Los Millonaires. They presently hold second pace in the Primera Division, whereas Boca, come TOP! Gnashing of teeth.
The club has been voted by FIFA as the 9th best club of the century (Global). Choose the other 8?

Not too sure about the keepers opposite "stripe"? This is the successful promotional team in 1908 leaping up to the Primera.
originally it was dockers who played football during their breaks who started the whole thing off and it was boxes on the docks labelled River Plate that gave the club its name! By 1914 RP had won their first domestic trophy and even wore Torino's colours having close connections with the Italian side, another European link. Alfredo di Stefano played for the club before joining Real Madrid, along with Crespo, Ortega and the goalkeeper Carrizo whose style revolutionised his position.