Tiro Federal

Boca Juniors capped its Argentine Apertura championship by defeating Olimpo Bahia Blanca 2-0 in the last round on Sunday at Bombonera stadium.Matias Silvestre scored off a header in the 14th minute and Rodrigo Palacio made it 2-0 in the 59th for a seventh straight win for Boca, which won the tournament last week.It was Boca's fourth cup in less than a year, after the South American Recopa and Copa Sudamericana, and the Clausura championship.Boca ended with 43 points, followed by Lanus with 35, River Plate with 34, Gimnasia Jujuy on 33, and Gimnasia La Plata at 32.River Plate defeated host Quilmes 3-1 in a match which was suspended in the 67th minute because of fan violence.Boca, Gimnasia La Plata, River, Banfield and Velez will play in the 2007 Copa Libertadores. The same teams plus Lanus and San Lorenzo will strive to wrest the Sudamericana from defending champion Boca.Instituto and Tiro Federal were relegated to second division.Argentinos Juniors and Olimpo will play with two teams from second division, and the two winners of the home-and-away series will play in the first division next season.

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Soccer Recap

Lanus drew 0-0 Saturday with Velez Sarsfield. In other games Saturday, Gimnasia La Plata beat Newell's 3-2 to move into third place, p***ing River Plate, which fell to fourth with a 2-0 loss to Racing.

Elsewhere Sunday, it was: Banfield 3, Argentinos Juniors 1; Arsenal 1, Instituto 1; Tiro Federal 1, Quilmes 1; Olimpo 1, Gimnasia Jujuy 0.

Later Sunday, Estudiantes hosted Rosario Central and Colon visited San Lorenzo.

With striker Sergio Aguero suspended, Independiente set up two defensive lines and employed only one attacker. However, it was able to create and several runs down the flanks, forcing Argentine national team keeper Roberto Abbondancieri into acrobatic saves on shots by Esteban Bujan and Gaston Machin.

Rodrigo Palacio and Martin Palermo scored one goal apiece and traded ***ists for Boca. Palacio put the Buenos Aires side ahead in the 38th with a shot from outside the penalty area after a long p*** from Palermo, who added the insurance in the 47th with a header off a cross by Palacio.

In the oldest derby in Argentine soccer, Racing beat crosstown rival River Plate, which played with a mostly reserve team to rest its regulars for the first leg of Copa Libertadores quarter-finals against Paraguay's Libertad on Thursday.

Maximiliano Moralez headed in a cross from Juan Manuel Torres in the 38th, and Claudio Fileppi made it 2-0 in injury time.

River midfielder Lucas Pusineri was red-carded in the 88th.

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Tiro Federal v Gimnasia La Plata

Gimnasia La Plata got a crucial away victory at Tiro Federal  to stay in the hunt for the championship and proved that last year’s runner-up finish was no fluke. 

Martin Cardetti and Uruguayan Gonzalo Vargas scored to give El Lobo 28 points, good for 5th place with three games left. 

Tiro Federal is 19th with just 11 points. 

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Rosario Central v Tiro Federal

Gimnasia-Jujuy continued their excellent campaign with a 3-1 win over Argentinos Juniors, Israel Damonte, Franco Sosa, from a penalty, and Matias Oyola scoring the goals.

At the other end of the table, Racing Club stayed bottom when they were beaten 1-0 at Instituto. Racing have only three points from eleven games and have yet to win a game.

Rosario Central picked up their first win under new coach Leonardo Astrada when they beat Tiro Federal 3-0. Goals from defenders Gabriel Loeschbor and German Rivarola put Central 2-0 up and striker Pablo Vitti added the third.

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Tiro Federal

Founded on March 29, 1905, it was one of the founder clubs of the Rosario amateur league in 1907, which it won in 1920, 1925 and 1926. In 1944, it joined the AFA (the national football association), years after the professionalization of the game, where it acted in the second division, but was sent to the third after a restructure of the national leagues in 1949. In 1962 Tiro Federal withdrew its team 12 rounds before the end of the competition and was expelled form the AFA. Tiro then returned to play in the Rosario league, but then financial problems made the club leave also the local league.

The businessman Carlos Dávola took over the management of the club at the end the 1990s, and started a very ambitious plan. In 1997 Tiro won the local second division, and then the first division in 1999, 2000 and 2001. At the same time it participated in the Torneo Argentino B (something like fourth division) in the 1998/99 season, achieving the second place to jump to the Torneo Argentino A.

After winning the Clausura 2003 tournament of the Torneo Argentino A, Tiro reached the Nacional B (national second division), and the next semester it won the Apertura 2004 of that league, obtaining a wonderful present for its 100th birthday: the right to play in first division.

At the end of their first tournament in the First Division, at the 2005 season, Tiro Federal ended next-to-last. However, one of their players, Javier Campora, ended as the top scorer of the tournament.

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