Basketball
Ferro affiliated to Federación Argentina de Básquetbol in 1921, but the club did not debuted in first division until 1933. That same year Ferro played its first international game against Atenas de Montevideo, losing by a difference of two points. In 1941 Ferro registered with Asociación Argentina de Básquetbol (formed shortly before by the most important football clubs of Argentina). Ferro's best position was a 2nd place in the 1956 Torneo Metropolitano, played at the Luna Park.
In 1968 Ferro promoted to the first division of the Buenos Aires Association. In 1971 the Héctor Etchart court is opened and Ferro developed a strong rivalry with Obras Sanitarias. In 1976 León Najnudel arrived to the club and under his coaching (and the collaboration of talented players such as Miguel Cortijo) Ferro won its first championships, obtaining the Torneo Oficial, Apertura and Metropolitano. Ferro was also the first Argentine team to win the Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes in 1981.
When the Liga Nacional began in 1985, Ferro's main rival became Atenas de Córdoba. Ferro won the 1985 and 1986 championships and finished 2nd in 1987, apart from a new Sudamericano title in 1987. León Najnudel returned to the club in 1989, winning a third title with the team although he left the following year. Miguel Cortijo left the club as well.
At the finishing of the 2003-04 season Ferro was relegated to TNA (Torneo Nacional de Ascenso, the second division of Argentine basketball. Some financial problems continued relegating Ferro from the top level and the team currently plays in the Capital Federal tournament.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
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