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Montevideo Wanderers Fútbol Club
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- Montevideo Wanderers Fútbol Club, usually known simply as Wanderers is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club are currently members of the Primera División and play at the Estadio Viera. As well as football, the club also has teams playing basketball, volleyball, athletics, futsal, pool and pelota. The club originally wore brown shirts with a sky blue horizontal band, the former kit of Uruguay Athletic, where Sardeson brothers started playing football. These shirts were send as a gift by the board of that club. Between 1900 and 1902 the club played in blue and white stripes, white shorts and black socks. In 1902 Wanderers changed to their current black and white stripes as a homage to the Argentine club Estudiantes de Buenos Aires in recognition of their friendship. For some time, in the 1960s, Wanderers used white socks and shorts. The first away shirts were white with a black horizontal stripe. After 1940 Wanderers used red or green shirts until 1980, when a black jersey with a white horizontal stripe appeared. In 1994, Wanderers used a white shirt with small black squares. In 1995, Wanderers changed their away kit, adopting a red and blue halves shirt in homage the Albion Football Club uniform. In 2000 they switched to black shirts with white sleeves, returning to red shirts in 2001.
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- Sunday, 09 February 2014
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