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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.
Yupanqui spiller sine hjemmekamper på Estadio Islas Malvinas, som har en kapasitet på 2.000 tilskuere. Klubben har vunnet to Segunda División-titler (andre divisjon) i 1998 og 2011, og har også spilt i Primera B Nacional (tredje divisjon) ved flere anledninger.
Noen av kjente spillere som har spilt for Yupanqui inkluderer:
* Oscar "Pinino" Más
* Mario Husillos
* Luis Islas
* Fernando Quiroz
* Leonel Ríos
Yupanqui har en sterk tilhengerskare med kjærlig tilnavn "Los Traperos del Bajo Flores" (Lappetøflene fra Bajo Flores). Klubben er kjent for sin lidenskapelige spillestil og lojale tilhengere.