Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba

Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, known simply as Godoy Cruz, is an Argentine sports club from Godoy Cruz, Mendoza. The club is best known for its football team, that plays in the Primera División, the top level of the Argentine football league system.

Godoy Cruz
Full nameClub Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba
Nickname(s)Tomba
Expreso ("Express")
Bodeguero ("Wine-Producer")
Founded1 June 1921 (1921-06-01)
GroundEstadio Feliciano Gambarte,
Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, Mendoza Province
Capacity14000
ChairmanJosé Eduardo Mansur
ManagerDiego Martínez
LeaguePrimera División
2019–2024th
WebsiteClub website

Other activities practised at Godoy Cruz are basketball, team handball, field hockey, tennis and volleyball.

History

Godoy Cruz was born as an institution in 1921. It all started when a group of friends, gathered in the "Victoria Bar" (located opposite the departmental square at that time), decided to found a club, taking advantage of the boom at the time . Thus was born on 1 June 1921, the Club Sportivo Godoy Cruz with the novice presidency of Don Romero Garay.

The team of 1954.

The club was founded on 21 June 1921 under the name sportivo Godoy Cruz, and changed to its current name on 25 April 1930 after the fusion with Deportivo Bodega Antonio Tomba. In 1959, Godoy Cruz' stadium, the [Estadio Feliciano Gambarte], was constructed. The stadium is nicknamed La Bodega (Spanish for "wine cellar") and holds 21,000 people.

Godoy Cruz played in the regional league for several years before reaching the national level. The club won the Mendoza first division championship in 1944, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1968, and also in 1989 and 1990 that qualified to play in the defunct Torneo del Interior national-level tournament.

Winning the Torneo del Interior in 1994, Godoy Cruz reached the Primera B Nacional (Argentine second division) that year. After more than ten years in the second division, the club was finally promoted to the Primera División in 2006, after winning the 2005–06 season of the Primera B Nacional, defeating Nueva Chicago in the final.

Twenty-year-old Enzo Pérez scored the first goal by Godoy Cruz in the Argentine Primera, in a 1–1 draw with Belgrano on 9 September 2006.

At the end of the 2006–07 season, Godoy Cruz was relegated from the Primera after losing their promotion/relegation play-off with Huracán. Their stay in the second division was short, as they earned automatic promotion to the first division after finishing runners-up to San Martín de Tucumán during the 2007–08 season.

Godoy Cruz under Omar Asad's management during the 2010 Clausura can be considered as a turning point in the club's success in top-level competition, earning accolades from both fans and sport journalists alike. In that tournament, they achieved the best-ever point total (37) at the time, for a team indirectly affiliated to the Argentine Football Association (meaning clubs under the administration of the Consejo Federal (Federal Council) branch of AFA, which are teams outside Buenos Aires, Greater Buenos Aires, Rosario and Santa Fe). These results qualified them for the 2011 Copa Libertadores, their first appearance in this tournament.

The club's Superliga Argentina 2017/18 season, can be considered as the club's finest performance in Primera Division, finishing second place. After an erratic start to the season which lead to the sacking of Lucas Bernardi and his Uruguayan replacement, Mauricio Larriera, Godoy Cruz —placed midtable (twelfth after Matchday 12) in league standing at the time— improvised to begin the 2018 half of the season by promoting manager Diego Dabove whom had been coaching the reserve team since 2017. Dabove restructured the starting 11 into an efficient counter-attacking unit. Although the club rarely dominated possession statistics game after game, "El Tomba" amassed 56 points in 27 games played, with in-form striker Santiago García —who converted 17 goals; earning him the Top Goals Scored and Best Forward awards— helping the team set their own club record of 6 consecutive wins during a late season push (Matchday 18 to 23) to keep eventual title winners Boca Juniors unable to clinch the division title until the penultimate matchday. Perhaps in hindsight, Godoy Cruz's early season inconsistency and Matchday 24 draw away at Banfield with a last-gasp 90'+3 goal-line save by Banfield defender Adrián Sporle, were key factors in finishing only two points behind Boca's 58 points.

South American Tournament Qualification

Godoy Cruz is the first club in Mendoza and the fifth indirectly-affiliated (to AFA) club to play in CONMEBOL tournaments.

The club's absolute debut in the 2011 Copa Libertadores Group 8, pitted the club against a trifecta of historic Libertadores champions: 2008 winners LDU Quito from Ecuador, 5-time champions Peñarol of Uruguay, and the record-holding 7-time champions (as the most successful club in the cup's history) Independiente. The opening match (and resulting 2-1 home win) on 17 February 2011 against LDU Quito marked a historic moment; Godoy Cruz had become the second indirectly affiliated side ever to represent Argentina in the Copa Libertadores (Talleres de Córdoba qualified to the 2002 Copa Libertadores), however was the first of these to win their debut match. The "Tomba" was eliminated in the group stage.[1]

Later in 2011, the club debut in the 2011 Copa Sudamericana tournament in the Second Stage round, defeating Lanús on an away goal tiebreaker (2-2 away / 0-0 home), arriving until Round of 16, losing in Peru to Universitario on penalties (2-3; after drawing both home & away legs 1-1) on 20 October 2011.

In 2012 he plays his second Copa Libertadores, playing in the group stage against Peñarol, Universidad de Chile and Atlético Nacional The "Express" could not pass another instance more than this phase.

In 2014, Godoy Cruz would play the second Copa Sudamericana, being eliminated before Club Atlético River Plate (champion of the edition of this tournament) in parties of ida (0:1) and return (0:2).

In 2017, Tomba will play for the third time in its history of the Copa Libertadores, fruit of the good championship that secured in 2016, and thus achieving the classification of the name of the tournament.

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2011 Copa Libertadores Second stage LDU Quito 2–1 0–2 4th
Peñarol 1–3 1–2
Independiente 1–1 3–1
2011 Copa Sudamericana Second stage Lanús 0–0 2–2 2–2 (a.)
Round of 16 Universitario 1–1 1–1 2–2 (p. 2–3)
2012 Copa Libertadores Second stage Universidad de Chile 0–1 1–5 3rd
Atlético Nacional 4–4 2–2
Peñarol 1–0 2–4
2014 Copa Sudamericana Second stage River Plate 0–1 0–2 0–3
2017 Copa Libertadores Group stage Atlético Mineiro 1–1 1–4 2nd
Libertad 1–1 2–1
Sport Boys 2–0 3–1
Round of 16 Grêmio 0–1 1–2 1–3
2019 Copa Libertadores Group stage Olimpia 0–0 1–2 2nd
Sporting Cristal 2–0 1–1
Universidad de Concepción 1–0 0–0
Round of 16 Palmeiras 2–2 0–4 2–6

Rivalries

Godoy Cruz's classic rival is Andes Talleres Sport Club, a neighborhood classic that has not been played since 1993, thanks to the "Tomba" promotions and the "Azulgrana" soccer debacle.

In addition, Godoy Cruz has provincial classics such as San Martín de Mendoza, Independiente Rivadavia and Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza.

He also has a rivalry with San Martin de San Juan, with whom he plays the Cuyo Classic.

Nickname

Godoy Cruz is nicknamed Tomba and Bodeguero, in reference to the wine selling activity of the Deportivo Bodega Antonio Tomba, one of the merging clubs of 1921. Since the stadium is located near a railway, the club is also called El Expreso ("The Express").

Players

Current squad
As of 1 February 2020.[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ARG Roberto Ramírez
2 DF  ARG Joaquín Varela
3 DF  URU Christian Almeida
4 DF  PAR Danilo Ortiz
6 DF  ARG Tomás Cardona (Captain)
7 DF  PAR Richard Prieto (on loan from General Díaz)
8 DF  ARG Gabriel Carrasco (on loan from Lanús)
9 FW  URU Miguel Merentiel
10 MF  ARG Valentín Burgoa
11 MF  ARG Leandro Vella
13 DF  ARG Marcos Rouzies
14 DF  ARG Marcelo Herrera (on loan from Lanús)
15 MF  ARG Franco González
16 MF  ARG Agustín Manzur
17 MF  ARG Marcelo Freites
18 FW  URU Santiago García
19 MF  ARG Fabián Henríquez
21 DF  ARG Gabriel Alanís
22 DF  ARG Gianluca Ferrari (on loan from San Lorenzo)
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF  ARG Enzo Ybañez (on loan from Argentinos Juniors)
24 DF  ARG Zaid Romero
25 GK  ARG Juan Cruz Bolado
26 MF  ARG Juan Brunetta
27 FW  ARG Sebastián Lomonaco
29 FW  ARG Tomás Badaloni
30 MF  ARG Juan Andrada
31 MF  ARG Agustín Álvarez
32 GK  ARG Rodrigo Rey (on loan from PAOK)
33 FW  ARG Ezequiel Bullaude
— MF  ARG Luis De Faría
— MF  ARG Luciano Pizarro
— MF  ARG Iván Smith
— FW  ARG Julián García
— MF  PER Wilder Cartagena
— FW  ECU Jaime Ayoví (on loan from Al-Ahli)
— FW  ARG Joaquín Mateo
— DF  ARG Facundo Rodríguez
For recent transfers, see List of Argentine football transfers winter 2018–19.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  ARG Brian Alferez (at Gimnasia (M))
— DF  ARG Agustín Aleo (at Argentinos Juniors)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  ARG Jalil Elías (at Unión (SF))
— FW  ARG Victorio Ramis (at Argentinos Juniors)

Friendly matches

Godoy Cruz played friendly matches against both domestic clubs and from other countries. A memorable friendly played in 1964, against Santos Football Club, with soccer star Pelé ended in favor of the Brazilian team by a score of 3-2. In 1969, against Universidad de Chile, the "Expreso" claimed a 3-0 victory. Another match in 1990, against Sevilla in which the team from Mendoza claimed victory by a score of 2-1. In 2007, a visiting Godoy Cruz squad were defeated 5-nil by Nacional de Montevideo. Godoy Cruz also played several friendly matches against national teams, such as Argentina in 1969, Chile in 1970, and Poland in 1977.

A source of historical pride for the team's supporters are two friendly matches won against Argentine giants: in 1965, they defeated Boca Juniors 4–0, and in 1997 they defeated River Plate by the same margin.

Godoy Cruz won the summer 2009 edition of the friendly pentagonal cup known as the "Copa Ciudad de Tandil", after defeating both Chacarita Juniors and Quilmes in penalty shootouts.[3]

Managers

Stadium
Feliciano Gambarte, La Bodega, in 2015.

The official club stadium is the Estadio Feliciano Gambarte opened in 1959. It was last used for AFA-sanctioned matches in 2004, hosting Tiro Federal, to a 0–0 draw. AFA applied changes to the "Reglamento General" competition rulebook in 2005, leading to the club's stadium no longer meeting the new standards indicated in Article 74. The club have since rented the provincial Estadio Malvinas Argentinas for use on matchdays.

A vocal group of fans, supported by a select group of local media personalities, began infrequent campaigns since 2014 to begin renovations to the club stadium, in a bid to gain AFA re-certification. These campaigns have accomplished to this date the repair and repainting of the grandstands, as well as some general refurbishments to the roof and pressbox structures and perimeter fencing of the turf.

Coquimbito Practice Facility

The club owns a 12-hectare "High-Performance Sports Park" in the rural district of Coquimbito, Maipu. Incorporating hotel-styled player barracks, a multimedia library for team research, press/media rooms, and 11 separate fields —of various dimensions, field, and turf types— it is one of the largest practice facilities of this type in Argentina outside of Buenos Aires.

Honours

National

Regional
  • Regional Tournament (1) 1993–94
  • Mendoza Football League (12): 1944, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1968, Apertura 1987, Apertura 1989, 1989, 1990, Clausura 1993, Apertura 1993.
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References
  1. Rise of the interior? at Fútbol Fútbol Fútbol
  2. "Godoy Cruz squad". Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. "Godoy Cruz venció a Quilmes por penales y se trajo la Copa Tandil" (in Spanish). MDZ Online. 23 January 2009. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  4. Mauricio Larriera (Soccerway)
  5. "La primera víctima de la crisis: echaron a Mario Sciacqua de Godoy Cruz" (in Spanish). Clarín. 15 May 2020. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
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