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Club Atletico San Martin de San Juan
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
Nestor Craviotto (1999~2000)
Christian La Grotteria (1997~1998)
Pablo Marini (1996~2000)
Luciano Olguin (2004)
German Pietrobon (2005~2006)
Rodolfo Rodriguez (1985~2006)
Ismael Sosa (2006)
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 February 11 2008
Coach: Fernando Quiroz
(Players ordered by number. These positions are generic and do not contemplate players that play multiple positions or more specific positions.)External links
Soy Verdinegro Club Website (Spanish)
San Martin (SJ) Micro-Site (Spanish)
CuyoNoticias - Todos los partidos incluso con video (Spanish)
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