The popular Posadas club celebrates another year of its creation. He knew how to be in the highest echelon of national football. Today, with a sporting moment different from that one, its fans remember this date with hope for a better future.
This Wednesday, the Guaraní Antonio Sports Club Frank It’s a birthday He reaches 92 years of history within football and missionary society. He June 12, 1932, a group of young people from the Posada neighborhood of Villa Sarita, after the disappearance of the Club Sportivo Colomboat the suggestion of Antonio Franco, a Public Health nurse, met at his warehouse located on Ivanowski and Ayacucho (the latter street is currently called Ángel Acuña). On that occasion, they decided to found a club.
At the suggestion of Pablo Osvaldo Ruiz, director of Public Assistance, where Antonio Franco worked, the name of Guarani, in tribute to the indigenous people of Misiones. That day, the most popular sports club in the province was born, which gained greater national significance. Years later, in homage to its first president, it was called Guaraní Antonio Franco.
The people who attended the founding of the new club were: Antonio Franco, Eusebio Álvez (owner of the house that Antonio Franco rented to set up his warehouse), Félix Noguera, Juan Noguera, Nicolás Báez, Claudio Báez, Gabriel Ayala (who had his house in front of Franco’s warehouse), Ernesto Vargas, José Pérez, Rito Gómez, Zenón Rojas, Juan Pícoli, Tito Romero (brother of Genes Romero), Tomasito Martínez, Leopoldo Martínez, Hermes Valenzuela and Héctor Daniel Valenzuelaamong others.
Debut in local tournaments
A few days after its founding, after paying 10 pesos as the registration fee in the Posadeña League, to the enthusiasm of the group of young people who made it up, it debuted in local tournaments. That first game was against Racing de Posadas.
Guaraní Antonio Franco participated in numerous regional tournaments and rose to the national championships in 1971, 1981, 1982 and 1985.
In 1971, he was promoted after leaving Coronel Aguirre de Rosario on the road in the final (he won in Posadas 3 to 0 and tied on the Central Córdoba court in Rosario 3 to 3). In Nacional’s first game they lost to Boca Juniorsin Posadas 1 to 0 with a goal from Rogel.
In 1981, they defeated Biblioteca Miter de Baldisera, Córdoba, in the final. They tied in Córdoba 0-0 and won in Posadas 2-0 with goals from “Beto” Delpiano and “Puma” Ortiz. That year they tied with River Plate in Posadas 2 to 2. Passarella, Gallego and Kempes, among others, played for River.
In 1982, they defeated Patria de Formosa in the final. He played Nacional’s first game with Vélez Sarsfield, and lost 2 to 0 with goals from Bianchi from a penalty and Bujedo.
Ascent
In 1985 they were promoted to the National championship after beating Chaco For Ever. in both games, home and away, by the same score: 3 to 2. Also, on April 21, 1985, Guaraní beat the powerful Boca Juniors 6 to 0, who played with all his stars, in a friendly match. The xeneize came out underestimating the rival and encountered a Guaraní who did not forgive him.
He also won the Regional to access the National in 1986. As the dispute system was restructured, previously, for having achieved that classification, he participated in the Pre-Libertadores Liguilla, in which he lost to San Lorenzo 4 to 1 and 3 to 0. That The league was played by the winners of the Regional and as a consequence they earned a place in the Nacional B, where they remained for two seasons.
He faced the big clubs in the country
In those years, in addition to Boca and River, Guaraní faced Independiente, (Guaraní Antonio Franco won 1 to 0 with a goal from Arce). Also to San Lorenzo de Almagro (Guaraní won 3 to 2 in the Old Gasómetro).
Guaraní was unable to take advantage of promotion opportunities in 1989, with Atlético Ledesma (2-2 and 0-1). In 1993, they lost in the semifinals with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy (1-2 and 1-2). In 1994, the final was against Godoy Cruz de Mendoza (0-1 and 0-0).
After participating in the first Argentine Tournament A, he stopped playing national tournaments until the 2003/04 season, in which he began to play the Argentine Tournament B. On 06/17/2012 he was promoted to the Argentine Tournament A. It was after tying the match first leg of the final in Tucumán 0-0 and defeat San Jorge from that province 3-0 at home.
For the First B National
After two years in the Argentine A tournament, on June 8, 2014 he played in the final for the second promotion to Primera B Nacional against Juventud Unida de San Luis. They won 1-0 at their stadium in Villa Sarita, with a goal from Tobías Albarracín.
In 2015, those from Misiones beat Arsenal de Sarandí 2-1 in the Argentine Cup in Formosa, after turning the match around. Santiago Silva scored Arsenal’s goal (26m of the first half), while Miguel Alba and Mauro Gómez turned it around. The fringes had Telmo Gómez as their coach.
On July 23, they beat Argentinos Juniors 1-0 on the Temperley field with a goal from Pablo Ostrowski 25 minutes into the second half. This is how he managed to get into the round of 16. In that instance he faced Boca Juniors, who became champion. Guaraní was defeated 4 to 0. In this way, the fringed team would culminate its best participation in the national competition.
Today, it is far from the levels of previous years, in the fight to be in regional tournaments. He aspires to return to the Federal A Tournament of Argentine soccer. Guaraní Antonio Franco It will always be one of the great representative clubs of Misiones.
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