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Arsenal de Sarandí is a sports club based in the Avellaneda Partido of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to football, the club hosts other sports such as field hockey, futsal, and handball.

Compared to other Argentinean clubs, Arsenal is a relatively young club, having been founded in 1957, by the former president of AFA, Julio Humberto Grondona. Arsenal reached the first division for the first time in 2002 and has won five titles in its history. Arsenal won its first Primera División championship in 2012, having previously won the Copa Sudamericana in 2007.

The club's colors are red and light blue, in honor of Avellaneda's traditional teams, Independiente and Racing. The club's nickname "El Viaducto" refers to the Avellaneda viaduct, a railway bridge over the Riachuelo River. It has become a symbol of the club and is featured prominently in its logo.

Jorge Burruchaga is the club's most famous former player, having started his career at Arsenal in 1979, and having served as a coach on several occasions. Burruchaga, or "Burru" as he is nicknamed, scored the winning goal for Argentina in the 1986 FIFA World Cup final against Germany.

The fans of Arsenal are known as "La Mafia". Although the club is relatively new and doesn't have a traditional clásico rival, it is believed that Club El Porvenir could be its closest one. Quite a few matches were played between the two clubs, due to the constant presence in different leagues of Argentine football.

Club Atlético Banfield is a sports club based in Banfield, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The team plays its home games at the Estadio Florencio Sola, which was built in 1940 and is named after a former president of the club. The team is nicknamed "El Taladro", which means "the Drill", due to the way they used to "drill" their opponents' defenses.

Banfield also has a women's football section, which started in 1997 and was affiliated with AFA in 2018. In 2018, the club made history by electing Lucía Barbuto as the first woman president in the Argentine highest division. Aside from football, Banfield also has several other sports practiced at the club, including boxing, chess, field hockey, futsal, gymnastics, handball, roller skating, taekwondo, tennis, and volleyball.

The club's colors are green and white. But in the beginning, they were brown and old gold. It's considered that due to the railroad origin of most of the partners, these colors were similar to danger signs on the barriers. In the reorganization of 1904 white and green were adopted, due to the Irish origin of some of his players. Under the influence of the brilliant 1974 Dutch national team "A Clockwork Orange", Banfield introduced orange into his clothing. Currently, that color persists in the alternative shirt, always mixed with green and white.

Julio César Falcioni is considered one of the club's greatest idols, having coached the team four times and led them to their first-ever championship in the Primera División. Banfield fans consider Falcionismo to be the best philosophy of the game in football, and they call themselves "Falcionistas".

Several famous players began their careers at Banfield, including James Rodriguez, who debuted in Argentine soccer at the age of 17 and became the youngest foreign player to do so. Other notable players who started at Banfield include Javier Zanetti and Rodrigo Palacio.

The rivalry between Lanús and Banfield is known as the Clásico del Sur. The clásico began to be contested as such in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Both clubs are located in the south of the Buenos Aires suburbs, their stadiums being approximately 4 km apart, separated only by the town of 

The second most important clásico for Banfield fans is against Quilmes. Another important rivalry is with Temperley, the third team in the Southern Zone.

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