Juventud de Las Piedras
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| Full name | Club Atlético Juventud |
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| Nickname(s) | Canarios, Juve |
| Founded | December 24, 1935 |
| Ground |
Parque Artigas, Las Piedras |
| Capacity | 12,000 |
| Chairman | Dr. Pedro Tuana |
| Manager | Jorge Giordano |
| League | Uruguayan Primera División |
| 2014–15 | 6th |
Club Atlético Juventud de Las Piedras is a sports club from Las Piedras, Canelones in Uruguay. They won promotion to the Primera División Uruguaya to start in August 2007.
The club was born from a group of youths from Las Piedras, Uruguay who played soccer at San Isidro Catholic school. On December 24, 1935 the boys arrived at school expecting to play (as always having arranged the match the day before), but when they got there the priests had forbidden it as they were preparing a big nativity crèche set on the field. Angry, the students, among them Carlos Maria Cabrera (who would later become the first president of the club) met in the town square and decided to found the club on Christmas Eve 1935, in rebellion against the priests.
Having created the club, Cabrera prompted them with the T-shirts to promote his father's business, who had a store on the corner of the square. This is how he got the club's first uniforms that were donated by the textile company ILDU as an arrangement. Therefore, in the first stages of its existence the club was called Club Ildu.
In 1946, at a meeting headed by very young entrepreneurs, some of them with great prominence in the local and national political arena, as Vivian Trias and Carlos Abete, dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, among others, resolved to change the club's name, to ensure its reputation from a group of youths from a neighbourhood to a serious institution and representative of the city of Las Piedras. They decided to honor they youths who created it by naming it as the current Club Atletico Juventud de Las Piedras (Athletic Club of Youths from Las Piedras) and it officially acquired its present name with effect on 13 December 1947.
In later years they signed in the Liga Regional del Sur (Youth League of the Southern Region of Uruguay) in Football and Basketball tournaments, besides competing nationally in athletics and bowling. Although some years where tougher than others they progressively improved until they won the Southern Region's football youth league in 1980.
On that same year Juventud left the Youth League of the Southern Region and entered the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol, participating in the Metropolitan Amateur Football League (then Divisional C, now Uruguay's Segunda División Amateur) 1981 championship where they achieved a vice championship.
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