Alfio Basile
The city's principal football (soccer) teams are Olimpo and Villa Mitre. Olimpo played in the Argentine first division until relegation in 2006, and was reinstated in 2010. Ex-Argentina national football team coach Alfio Basile and the football players Rodrigo Palacio, and current Argentina and Internazionale Milan forward Lautaro Martínez were born in Bahía Blanca.