Estudiantes de La Plata

Estudiantes de La Plata is a sports club in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, with a history of achievement in professional football.

Nicknames

The nickname pincharratas (rat-stabbers), often shortened to pinchas, is generally attributed to the laboratory work done by the many Medicine students among the club's early members. This nickname extends to the fans.

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Others claim that the early training fields were infested with rats, and the players spent much time and effort chasing after them, hence the nickname.

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Yet another version claims that the name comes from the nickname of one Felipe Montedónica, a bodyguard of the team in the 1910s, who was known as "el pincharratas".

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The fans also call the team el león (the lion), orgullo de la ciudad (pride of the city), los capos de La Plata (the bosses of La Plata), and Tricampeón (three-time champion) because of its Libertadores Cup three-peat.

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