Founded 15th January, 1915
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Cruz Alta, Córdoba, Argentina
The journey from Cañada de Gómes to Cruz Alta is less than an hour in duration, via pretty decent roads. It links Asociación Deportiva Everton y Olimpia (ADEO) and Newberry y Everton Social y Deportivo but the clubs might well be in different countries. On crossing the frontier between the provinces of Santa Fe and Córdoba, despite the landscape of the Pampa remaining pretty much the same, one could be moving from Lancashire to Yorkshire.
The furthest west I’ve been in the USA is to the Statue of Liberty, but as you enter Cruz Alta, home of Newbery y Everton, I imagine you could be passing through any mid-western town in Kansas or Oklahoma. The buildings, on the whole, are single storey, and the town is laid out on a grid system with a couple of hotels, a fire station, a large church and two football Clubs.
The first settlement was established in 1690 and increased in importance as Cruz Alta became a staging post on the Camino Real, the route which carried the silver from Bolivia to Buenos Aires for shipment on to Spain.
As with neighbouring Cañada de Gómez, the town really took off when the railway arrived. And as with its neighbour, the rail workers, many of them British, set up a football club on 15th Jan 1915: Club Atlético Everton. A year later, Club Newbery was founded, again by rail workers – the name is in honour of the Argentine aviator, Jorge Newbery. The two clubs were separated by a mere 450 yards of track and eventually, in 1947, merged to form Newberton Bibliotecta y Mutual Social y Deportivo. The final name change came in 2000 after the Club had been in recession for 5 years; the name almost reverting back to the original: Newbery y Everton Social y Deportivo. At the time of the original merger, Everton’s colours were red/white whereas Newbery’s were green/red. Fortunately, the merged clubs decided to omit the red going forward to adopt the white of Everton and the green of Newbery.
