# Club Ciudad de Bolívar

Club Ciudad de Bolívar is an Argentine sports club based in San Carlos de Bolívar, Buenos Aires Province. The club, founded in 2002 as a volleyball institution at the initiative of local TV host Marcelo Tinelli, won the championship the same season it debuted, beating Rojas Scholem at the finals. Bolívar it is one of the most winning clubs in the Liga Argentina de Voleibol with eight titles, winning the last one in 2019.
The football team participates in regional league Torneo Federal A, while volleyball squads play in the "Liga Olavarriense", based in Olavarría Partido, where Bolívar won its last title in 2022.
Other sports practised in the club are field hockey, rugby union, basketball, and paddle tennis.

## History

The club was founded on October 23, 2002, subsequent to that year's FIVB Men's World Championship held in Argentina. The club's foundation was initiative of TV host and entrepreneur Marcelo Tinelli (who was born in San Carlos de Bolívar). Tinelli called former national team captain Daniel Castellani to the project, which conceived the club as a youth player recruiter and former. The colors chosen were the light blue and white, as a tribute to the city of Bolívar's football team that wore those colors.
Bolívar won the championship in the first league it played, the 2002–03 season, defeating Rojas Scholem in the finals. The squad would win its second consecutive title in the 2003–04 season. In 2006 Javier Weber became the team's manager. Under his coaching, the team won its first international title in Brazil.
The team has used different names for sponsorship reasons, such as Bolívar Signia, Orígenes Bolívar, DirecTV Bolívar, and Drean Bolívar among others.
Bolívar it is one of the most winning clubs in the Liga Argentina de Voleibol with eight titles, winning the last one in 2019 after beating Obras Sanitarias in the final. The club also won the South American Men's Club Volleyball Championship in 2010, earning the right to represent the continent in the FIVB Men's Club World Championship.
The club inaugurated a field hockey pitch with artificial turf and dimensions of 91 x 55 m, in 2016.
Bolívar opened a football section in 2019 and affiliated to Bolívar League to play in the regional competition. In 2020 the team was invited to play in Torneo Regional Federal Amateur by Consejo Federal, the division of AFA that maanages provincial competitions. Bolívar gained promotion to Torneo Federal A, the regionalised 3rd. division of the Argentine football league system, after defeating Independiente de Neuquén 3–0 in Carmen de Patagones. The first national competition contested by Bolívar was the 2023 Copa Argentina, where the squad lost to Independiente 3–0. That same year the club reached the semifinal playoffs for promotion to Primera B Nacional, where it was eliminated at the hands of Douglas Haig 2-1. In the club's second participation in the 2024 Copa Argentina, the team lost to Banfield 6-0.
For the 2024 season, the club hired Héctor Storti as the club's manager.

## Football
### Current squad

As of 2024, source:
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | ARG | Maximiliano Cavallotti |
| — | GK | ARG | Ramiro Biscardi |
| — | GK | ARG | Enzo Álvarez |
| — | DF | ARG | Martín Pucheta |
| — | DF | ARG | Edgardo Díaz |
| — | DF | ARG | Ignacio Lucero |
| — | DF | ARG | Joel Ledesma |
| — | DF | ARG | Dante Zona |
| — | DF | ARG | Leonardo Felissia |
| — | DF | ARG | Santiago Bustos |
| — | DF | ARG | Ramiro Formigo |
| — | DF | ARG | Diego Dotti |
| — | DF | ARG | Lucas Vesco (captain) |
| — | MF | ARG | Nahuel Yeri |
| — | MF | ARG | Israel Roldán |
| — | MF | ARG | Tomás Alegre |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | ARG | Iván Paz |
| — | MF | ARG | Javier Sequeyra |
| — | MF | ARG | Franco Suárez |
| — | MF | ARG | Maximiliano Brambillo |
| — | MF | ARG | Mariano Rivadeneira |
| — | MF | ARG | Marcos Gamarra |
| — | MF | ARG | Fabio Giménez |
| — | FW | ARG | Gonzalo Urquijo |
| — | FW | ARG | Alfredo Troncoso |
| — | FW | ARG | Matías Cazon Mones |
| — | FW | ARG | Gonzalo Schonfeld |
| — | FW | ARG | Román Bravo |
| — | FW | ARG | Facundo Beretta |
| — | FW | ARG | Brian Calabrese |
| — | FW | ARG | Gustavo Villarruel |

### Staff

* Coach : Cristian Piarrou
* Second coach: José Maxwell

## Volleyball
### Players

The following names are important, outstanding, historical players who passed through the club.
* Sebastián Firpo
* Guillermo Quaini
* Sebastián Jabif
* Eduardo Rodríguez
* Mariano Baracetti
* Alejandro Spajic
* Leonardo Patti
* Guillermo García
* Marcelo Román
* Santiago Darraidou
* Pablo Peralta
* Gabriel Arroyo
* Luciano de Cecco
* Diego Stepanenko
* Juan Pablo Alanís
* Pablo Meana
* Javier Filardi
* Agustín Loser
* Nicolás Uriarte
* Alexis González
* Facundo Imhoff
* Sebastián Solé
* Pablo Crer
* Agustín Ramonda
* Lucas Ocampo
* Federico Pereyra
* Matí Sánchez
* Ignacio Bernasconi
* Bruno Lima
* Joaquín Gallego
* Nicolás Bruno
* Martín Hernández
* Maximiliano Gauna
* Demián González
* Jan Martínez
* Maximiliano Chirivino
* Pablo Kukartsev
* Brian Melgarejo
* Franco Medina
* Badá
* Pezao
* William
* Wallace
* "Junior" Souza
* Giba
* Raphael Thiago Oliveira
* Théo Lopes
* Lucas Madalóz
* Tuba
* Ronald Méndez
* Iván Márquez
* Osniel Melgarejo
* Yadrian Escobar
* Raydel Hierrezuelo
* Yadier Sánchez
* Jesús Herrera
* Yohan León
* Gabriel Gardner
* Donald Suxho
* Dalibor Polak
* Axel Jacobsen
* Thomas Edgar
* Rozalin Penchev
* Todor Aleksiev
* Frank Depestele
* Vladimir Jekić

### Managers

* Daniel Castellani (2002–2006)
* Javier Weber (2006–2013) - (2014-2020)
* Rodrigo Martínez Granados (2021–present)

## Titles
### Volleyball

* Liga Argentina A1 (8): 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2016–17, 2018–19
* Copa Argentina (5): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014
* Copa Máster (2): 2012, 2015
* Torneo Súper 8 (1): 2008–09
* South American Volleyball Club Championship (1): 2010
* Copa Libertadores (1): 2018-19

#### Friendly

* Copa Internacional Ciudad Bolívar (3): (2006, 2008, 2009)
* Campeón Copa World Challenge Club Volleyball (3) : (2008, 2009, 2012)
* Campeón Copa Grand prix San Ludgero 2006
* Campeón Copa 75´ Aniversario Federación Metropolitana 2007
* Campeón Supercopa MERCOSUR 2007
* Campeón Copa Internacional Courmayeur 2007
* Campeón Copa Ciudad de Manacor 2007
* Campeón Top Four (Brasil) 2012