Racing and Independiente will face each other This Sunday, August 25th at the Juan Domingo Perón Stadium, in a new edition of the ‘Avellaneda Classic’ and there is a list of around 70 players who wore both the ‘Academia’ and ‘Rojo’ shirts.
This Sunday from 5 pm at the Juan Domingo Perón Stadium, for the twelfth date of the Professional Football League, the match will be played 223rd edition of the ‘Clásico de Avellaneda’ in the era of professionalism where Julio Vaccari’s teambetween national leagues and cups, They dominate with 85 victories over 69 draws and 68 wins for Gustavo Costas’ team.
Throughout the long and rich history of the classic, There are around 70 players who wore both shirts The most important pass being that of José Omar Pastoriza to Independiente in 1966 in exchange for 12 million pesos plus the registration of Miguel Ángel Moriwho became Racing idol after winning the 1967 Copa Libertadores -the only footballer to win the continental competition on both sides- and the Intercontinental Cup of the same year against Scottish side Celtic.
By moving to the red side of Avellaneda, ‘Pato’ began a long journey where he established himself as a hero in the history of Independiente winning, as a player, three local tournaments and the 1972 Copa LibertadoresAs a coach, He won three domestic championships and three international ones: the 1973 Inter-American Cup, the 1984 Libertadores Cup and the Intercontinental Cup of that same year. against English Liverpool.
In addition to Pastoriza and Mori, four more players are part of the Olympus of Avellaneda football by shouting “champion” with both shirts: Norberto Raffo, Miguel Angel Ludueña, Hugo ‘Perico’ Perez and Nery Dominguez who won the Copa Sudamericana in 2017 with ‘El Rojo’ and became local champion with Racing in 2019.
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On the Independiente side, there is a long list of footballers who won the championship only with the ‘Rojo’ and passed through the ‘Academia’ without much fanfare: The authors declare that they are in compliance with the provisions of the DSU.
As for Racing, only seven players were consecrated in the ‘Academy’ alone: Donato Hernandez, Manuel Blanco, Norberto Cupo, Nestor Rambert, Joao Cardoso and Martin Vitali.
There are also those who played in both Avellaneda teams but went unnoticed in both: Ricardo Albisbeascoechea, José Fabían Albornoz, Bartolo Álvarez, Eduardo Bargas, Sergio Bermúdez, Adolfo Bordón, Juan Carlos Corazzo, Emanuel Culio, Eduardo Domínguez, Osvaldo Escudero, Flores, Esteban Fuertes, Claudio Graf, Damián Ledesma, Bernardo Leyenda, Osvaldo y Leonel Miranda , Sebastián Penco, Gerardo Reinoso, Marcelo Saralegui, Jorge Tabar, Cristián Tavio and Sergio Vittor.
The last players who passed through Racing and Independiente
Also, the last players to cross over from one side to the other were: Nestor Clausen from Racing to Independiente in 1995, Jose Serrizuela from Independiente to Racing in 1996, Martin Vitali from Independiente to Racing in 2001, Osvaldo Miranda from Racing to Independiente in 2006, Damian Ledesma from Independiente to Racing in 2009 and Nery Dominguez from Independiente to Racing in 2018.
