Club Atletico San Martin are a football club from San Juan in Argentina. In the 2007-08 season they play in the Primera Division.
The club previously had only played one season in the Argentine top flight. They played in the National championship of 1970 but they finished bottom of their group after winning only four of their 20 games.
The 2006-2007 season saw San Martin gain promotion to the Primera Division when they beat Club Atletico Huracan 3-2 on aggregate in the playoff for the second automatic promotion place; scoring an equalising goal at the end of the second half. The winning goal, that gave them the promotion, came eight minutes into injury time.
Notable players
Nicolas Hernandez
Christian La Grotteria
Esteban Mon Tarrio
Martin Alejandro Pilz Serra
Guido Pozzi
Matias Veiga
Martin Tamareu
Nicolas Gustavo Tamareu
Alan Federico Poleri
Tomas Norberto Bove
Gaston Angel Maspero
Juan Pablo Galvan
History
This is the first time a football team from San Juan enters to the Primera Division Argentina. Actually the team is playing friendly matches beetwen the players of the first team and the reserve at the installations of Instituto Santisima Virgen Nina.
Current squad
As of August 7 2007
Coach: Fernando Quiroz
(Players ordered by number. These positions are generic and do not contemplate players that play multiple positions or more specific positions.)
Squad changes for Apertura 2007
Players in
Ariel Carreno from FC Thun
Ariel Franco from Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
Pablo Frontini from Gimnasia de Jujuy
Fernando Alloco DF from Colon de Santa Fe
Martin Bravo FW from Colon de Santa Fe
Sebastian Malandra MF from Colon de Santa Fe
Players out
References
External link
Soy Verdinegro Club Website (Spanish)
San Martin (SJ) Micro-Site (Spanish)
CuyoNoticias - Todos los partidos incluso con video (Spanish)
