page_title: Club Atlético Piraña
section_title: The golden years
hierarchical_section_title: Club Atlético Piraña / History / The golden years
caption_attribution_description: Español: Más del club
context_page_description: Club Atlético Piraña is a sports club from Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The institution was founded on September 4, 1942 and is mostly known for its football team, which played in the Primera D Metropolitana.
  Although Piraña has not participated in any AFA tournament since, the club still has its headquarters in Parque de los Patricios, where social and sports activities are hosted. Sports currently hosted by Piraña are youth football, female football and taekwondo.
context_section_description: Héctor Yazalde had been rejected from Los Andes and Racing Club, due to his scrawny body which did not convince football clubs to hire him. In 1965, when he was only 18, Yazalde went to a practise of Piraña and he was offered to play for a while. His outstanding performance convinced club's managers to hire him immediately. The other notable player for Piraña was Delfín Benítez, who was nephew of great 1930s scorer Delfín Benítez Cáceres. Both Yazalde and Benítez were the most influential players of Piraña during that season.
  In the first stage, Piraña lost only one match (at the hands of Tristán Suárez) having scored 64 goals within 20 games. "Both Yazalde and I made about 70 goals, I scored 45 and he did 25", said Benítez, who did not play the last few matches because of his job. At the end of the season, Piraña, General Mitre and Centro Español shared the first place so a mini-tournament had to be played in order to proclaim a champion. Mitre defeated Piraña 3-2 in Atlanta's stadium.
  After that match, Independiente hired Yazalde for $ 1,800,000. Yazalde debuted for the Rojo in 1967 scoring 72 goals in 113 matches, before being traded to Sporting Lisboa where he had a successful career.
  Piraña continued playing in Primera D, where the squad won the championship in 1978 beating J.J. de Urquiza 4-1 and promoting to Primera C.
caption: Club headquarters in Buenos Aires
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