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Atletico Tucuman is a professional football club based in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina. The club was founded on September 27, 1902, and it's one of the first social and sports clubs in the north of the country. It has a historical rivalry with San Martin de Tucuman.

In the first years of foundation, the institution was not known by "The Dean" nickname, but rather had nicknames with a more social connotation at that time. For this reason, the supporters of Atletico were first considered as "ojitos verdes" or "pitucos". This was due to the location of their stadium and the social level they had, which was much higher than that of the fans of their lifelong rivals from San Martin, who were known as "greengrocers" or "surgeons", due to their proximity to the market (Mercado de Abasto).

The "Dean" nickname was given many years later, due to since when it was baptized, Atletico had been the first soccer club founded in the Argentine North and one of the pioneers of the entire country. That is, the C.A.T. was the dean for the years that he had been spreading his football through the Argentine fields.

Atletico Tucuman was the first team in all of Argentina to wear a jersey with vertical white and light blue stripes. It's also worth noting, that the design of the shirt and the colors of the club weren't changed throughout all of history.

One of the club's most notable players is Luis Miguel Rodriguez, also known as "Pulga" Rodriguez, who played for the team for several years and helped to lead Atletico Tucuman to historic achievements, including promotion to the Primera Division and a Copa Argentina title in 2017.

Atletico Tucuman barra brava, known as La Inimitable, is dominated by two families who are actually blood relatives: the González and the Acevedo. Both families have many political connections and once managed to hang the La Inimitable flag from the balcony of the government house in Tucuman.

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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