  the argentine football association (, ) is the governing body of football in argentina. it organises the primera divisiÃ³n and lower divisions (from primera b nacional to torneo argentino c), the argentine cup, supercopa argentina and the argentina national football team. the association is based in the city of buenos aires. secondly, it also organizes the amateur leagues for women, children, youth, futsal, and other local leagues, as well as the national women's team. ==history== the argentine association football league (in english) was founded on 21 february 1893 by alexander watson hutton, considered "the father" of argentine football. the argentine association is the oldest in south america and one of the oldest to be formed outside europe. in 1906 florencio martÃ­nez de hoz became the first argentine-born president of the association."campeones del bicentenario", la naciÃ³n, 2010-5-18 in 1912 the president of gimnasia y esgrima de buenos aires, ricardo aldao, broke up with the association establishing an own league, the federaciÃ³n argentina de football which organized a parallel tournament. some teams moved to the faf were gimnasia y esgrima, independiente, estudiantes de la plata and atlanta. the league lasted until 1914 when rejoining asociaciÃ³n argentina de football forming a unique league for the 1915 season. the second dissident league was formed in 1919 and named asociacion amateurs de football, organizing its own championships (as faf had done) unt
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