Rugby Club Los Matreros, simply known as Los Matreros, is an Argentine rugby union and field hockey club sited in Castelar, a city of Morón Partido in Greater Buenos Aires. The rugby union team is also member of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires (URBA).
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| Full name | Rugby Club Los Matreros | |
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| Union | URBA | |
| Founded | 28 August 1928 | |
| Ground(s) | Castelar, Argentina[1] | |
| Chairman | Guillermo Ugartemendia [1] | |
| League(s) | URBA Primera A | |
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History
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The team was founded on August 28, 1928 and less than a year later it would join the Argentine Rugby Union to play at the third division, competing with 22 teams.
The club's name was chosen as a tribute to the Martín Fierro, the most renowned poem of the "Gauchesco" literature in Argentina. Martín Fierro (the character) is described by the author, José Hernández as a "matrero" ("smart", "clever" in English) gaucho. The election of the club name is also related to the place where it was founded: Morón (today a populous city of the Greater Buenos Aires) was an uninhabited land by the time and some battles for the independence had been fought there in the past.[2]
In 2011 Los Matreros was relegated to second division after finishing 11th in Zona Reubicación.
References
edit- ^ a b Los Matreros at URBA website
- ^ "Historia de Los Matreros" Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Topper website