Club Atlético River Plate
1995-2000
COACH: Ramón DÍAZ
SQUADGOALKEEPERS: Roberto BONANO Germán BURGOSDEFENDERS: Celso AYALA Juan Pablo SORÍN Eduardo BERIZZO
Diego PLACENTE
Pedro SARABIA
Hernán DíAZ
Guillermo Daniel RIVAROLA
Roberto TROTTA
MIDFIELDERS: Santiago SOLARI Pablo AIMAR Marcelo ESCUDERO
Leonardo ASTRADA
Sergio BERTI Ariel ORTEGA Marcelo GALLARDOFORWARDS: Marcelo SALAS Enzo FRANCESCOLI (C)
Juan Pablo ÁNGEL
Javier SAVIOLA Ramón Medina BELLO
Hernán CRESPO********************************************************************************************RESERVESGOALKEEPERS: Franco COSTANZO
DEFENDERS: Mario YEPES Ricardo Daniel ALTAMIRANO
MIDFIELDERS: Matías ALMEYDA Cristian Raúl LEDESMA
Roberto MONSERRAT
FORWARDS Martín CARDETTI
Nelson CUEVAS
Gabriel CEDRES
Julio Ricardo CRUZ Juan Antonio PIZZIINFO:River Plates success in the 1990s had led IFFHS to name them ninth in their All-Time Club World Ranking (and first in the Americas). They are currently ranked 253rd. However, after the 2011 Clausura, River's poor form over the past three years forced them into a relegation/promotion play-off against Nacional B Club Atlético Belgrano. Belgrano won the tie over two legs 3–1 on aggregate, relegating River to second tier football for the first time in their history.
River Plate have won 33 Argentine professional championships, as well as the Intercontinental Cup in 1986 and the Copa Libertadores (twice) in 1986 and 1996, both times beating the same club in the final, América de Cali. They also won the Copa Interamericana in 1987, beating LD Alajuelense from Costa Rica and the Supercopa in 1997, beating São Paulo FC. River was the first team in Argentina to simultaneously win an international title (Supercopa) and a First Division Championship (Torneo Apertura 1997). This series of successes led the club to first place in the IFFHS ranking for six consecutive months, the first Argentine club to do so. They are also the only Argentine club ranked as the best World team in a full season (1997–1998).
1996: After ten years, River won La Copa again. In the first round won its group, who shared with San Lorenzo de Almagro, the other Argentine champions, and the club of Venezuela Minervén and Caracas FC. Later they defeated the Peruvian club Sporting Cristal; then San Lorenzo de Almagro and Universidad de Chile in the semis. Finally, River must play the decisive matches against the same rival of 1986, América de Cali. Though La Banda lost the first leg at Cali (0–1), won the second leg in Monumental 2–0 (both goals scored by "Valdanito" Crespo). The lineups of River that match was: Germás Burgos; Hernán Díaz, Daniel Rivarola, Carlos Altamirano; Marcelo Escudero, Matías Almeyda, Gabriel Cedrés; Ariel Ortega, Hernán Crespo, Enzo Francescoli (captain). The coach was Ramón "El Pelado" (the bald) Díaz.
In 1999, a special edition of the Argentine sports magazine "El Gráfico" named River Plate as "Champions Of The Century" ("Campeón Del Siglo"), noting the clubs achievements, especially their then 28 Argentine championships against Boca Juniors' 19 and Independiente's 13 (all figures as of 1999). And, the following year, in a FIFA sponsored poll, River were voted the best Argentine team of the 20th century.
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