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Wikipedia - Club Social y Deportivo Yupanqui
Club Social y Deportivo Yupanqui is an Argentine football club that currently plays in the Primera C Metropolitana, the fourth division of the Argentine league system. The club was named by searching for unusual words in the dictionary. Yupanqui was picked up because the meaning of the Quechua word, "the posterity will talk about you".
History
Yupanqui gained some notoriety in Argentina after a Coca-Cola television advertisement where it was referred to as the club with the least fans in Argentina.
Before the Coca-Cola advertisement, the average number of fans that would show up to each game was between 5 and 7. After the advertisement, about 50 new club members joined. Even after the spike in recognition, the money they made was used for several projects such as restoring bathrooms, build a theater, a chess room, and the soccer team didn't receive any funding, even though they were solely responsible for all the recognition the club had received.
Le stade de Yupanqui est le Estadio Ciudad de Buenos Aires, situé dans le quartier de Nueva Pompeya. Le stade a une capacité d'environ 5 000 spectateurs.
Les couleurs de Yupanqui sont le blanc et le vert. Le surnom du club est "El Trapero" (le chiffonnier), en référence au quartier populaire de La Boca où le club a été fondé.
Yupanqui a remporté la Copa Argentina en 1941 et la Segunda División en 1992-1993. Le club a également participé à plusieurs compétitions internationales, notamment la Copa Libertadores et la Copa Sudamericana.
Parmi les joueurs notables qui ont joué pour Yupanqui figurent Diego Maradona, Juan Román Riquelme et Carlos Tevez.