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Club Atletico Los Andes
Club Atletico Los Andes are a football club from the city of Lomas de Zamora in the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. They currently play in Primera B Metropolitana, which is the regionalised third tier of the Argentine Football Association.
The club were founded by a group of young people in 1917, the name was chosen to commemorate the first balloon flight across the Andes mountain range a year earlier in 1916.
Los Andes have had 2 spells in the Argentine Primera Division, the first lasted 4 seasons between the 1968 Metropolitano and the 1971 Metropolitano. Their best ever finishes were 6th in Group A 1968M, and 8th overall in 1968N.
Other than those two decent finishes the club has never finished outside the bottom two places in the Primera.
The clubs 2nd spell in the primera lasted only one season, the 2000/01 campeign saw them finish 19th out of 20 teams in both the Apertura and the Clausura. They were relegated back to B Nacional with the worst points average in the division.
Titles
Primera Amateur 1938,
Primera Division C 1957,
Primera B 1960
Notable players
Jose Andre Bilibio
Hector Bracamonte
Sebastian Carrera
German Gustavo Denis
Hernan Diaz
Esteban Fuertes
Victor Lopez
Ezequiel Carlos Maggiolo
Jonathan Maidana
Alfredo Obberti
Miguel Oviedo
Gustavo Paruolo
Dario Sala
Jose Serrizuela
Fernando Ariel Troyansky
See also
List of football clubs in Argentina
Argentine football league system
External links
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