Rampla Juniors

Rampla Juniors Fútbol Club, commonly known as Rampla Juniors, is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo.

Rampla Juniors
Full nameRampla Juniors Football Club
Nickname(s)Picapiedras, Rojiverdes, Friyis (until the 1960s)
Founded7 January 1914
GroundEstadio Olímpico,
Montevideo, Uruguay
Capacity6,000
ChairmanIgnacio Durán
CoachEduardo Espinel
LeagueSegunda División
2019Primera División, 14th (relegated by average)
WebsiteClub website

Origin and colours

Rampla Juniors were founded in the Aduana area, (also the birthplace of River Plate FC), then moved first to the Aguada neighbourhood, and finally, around 1920, to the Cerro neighborhood. Their colours are taken from Fortaleza, a club that existed in the early years of Rampla's stint in the Cerro area. Another story of how they chose their colours, is similar to how Boca Juniors supposedly got the idea for their kit colors from a Swedish flag on a ship. It is rumored that Rampla's founders took the red and green from an Italian flag on a ship that arrived in Montevideo Bay. It is also said that the basketball team CA Aguada (founded in 1922) took their colours from Rampla Juniors.

Derby

Rampla Juniors's archrivals are Cerro, and as such, the second biggest rivalry in the country.

Trivia

Rampla in 1927 won the Uruguayan Primera División, the 1927 Squad was: Pedro Arispe (Captain), Pedro Aguirre, Enrique Ballestrero, Pedro Cabrera, Julio Nieto, José Magallanes, Juan Miguel Fermín "Ruso" Labraga, Luis Gaitán, Conrado Haeberli, Vital Ruffatti and Conrado Bidegain.

Rampla was once called the third "big" (meaning popular or best) of Uruguay's clubs, Peñarol and Nacional being first and second, due to the huge number of followers and positive results. In 2007, Rampla finished tied in 2nd place with Danubio in the Uruguayan 1st division. Their team record was (9 wins, 4 draws, and 2 losses, in 15 games).

In his early days Rampla Juniors had strong ties with the meat packing industries that forged the neighborhood that he so proudly represents, notably the Chicagoan companies Swift, and Armour. From those companies workforce came several important players to Rampla Juniors. Until the mid 1960s Ramplas' supporters where known as Friyis, as the sound resembled Fridges (from the meat packing industries).

In the 1980s the club replaced the stadium's old wooden stands with new ones made with concrete. The supporters came forward and merrily helped breaking the stones for the restoration. Hence their new nickname, the Picapiedras (stone breakers).

Titles
  • Uruguayan Primera División: 1
Amateur Era (1): 1927
  • Segunda División Uruguay: 3
1944, 1980, 1992
  • Divisional Intermedia (2nd level): 1
1921

Other Official Domestic Honours
  • Torneo Competencia: 2
1950, 1955
  • Torneo de Copa: 1
1969
  • Torneo Cuadrangular: 1
1953


Current squad

Updated 15 March 2019 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  URU Kevin Larrea
2 DF  URU Emiliano García
4 DF  URU Joan Gamboa
5 MF  URU Gastón Díaz
6 DF  URU Gastón Roselló
7 MF  ARG Gaspar Vega
8 FW  URU Delis Vargas
9 FW  URU Santiago Vega
10 MF  URU Juan Ángel Albín
11 DF  URU Mauricio Felipe
12 GK  URU Silvio Samurrio
13 DF  URU Emanuel Beltrán
14 MF  URU Gastón Gorrostorrazo
15 FW  URU Santiago Gaspari
16 MF  URU Gustavo Machado
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 DF  URU Diego Rosa
18 DF  URU Matías Soto
19 FW  URU Carlos Núñez
20 DF  URU Lucas Rodríguez
21 FW  URU Rodrigo Piñeiro
22 MF  URU Jhony Galli
23 FW  URU Mathías Saavedra
24 DF  URU Gonzalo Rizzo (on loan from Rentistas)
25 GK  URU Rodrigo Odriozola
27 DF  URU Claudio Servetti
28 FW  URU Christopher Chávez
30 MF  URU Juan Viacava
32 MF  URU Ignacio Panzariello
33 MF  URU Facundo Guichón

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

Notable players

Managers
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