Sarandí, Buenos Aires

Sarandí (Spanish pronunciation: [saɾanˈdi]) is a city in the Avellaneda Partido of the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located to the south of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The city has an area of 54 square kilometres (21 sq mi) and a population of 60,752 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001); the second most populated locality in the partido after Avellaneda, with 18.5% of the partido's population. The main economical activity in the area is the production of leather goods. The leather industry, especially the tanning process, is often criticized for its contamination of the Riachuelo River. The city was named after a native bush called sarandí (Cephalanthus glabratus).

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Sarandí is home to Arsenal de Sarandí, a football club that currently plays in Primera B,the third division.

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Estadio Julio Humberto Grondona

Estadio Julio Humberto Grondona, nicknamed El Viaducto, is a football stadium located in the city of Sarandí in Avellaneda Partido, Argentina. It is owned and operated by Arsenal Fútbol Club. and has a capacity of 18,500 spectators. The stadium is named after Julio Grondona, co-founder, first president (1957−1976), and player of Arsenal F.C. and then president of the Argentine Football Association from 1979 to his death in 2014.

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Villa Domínico

Villa Domínico is a city in the Avellaneda Partido. Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It belongs to the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration.

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Luca Prodan

Luca George Prodan (17 May 1953 – 22 December 1987) was an Italian–Scottish musician and singer, best known as lead vocalist of the influential Argentine alternative rock band Sumo. He is widely considered one of the country's most important artists. Born in Rome to an affluent family in the art industry, Prodan was sent at nine years old to the United Kingdom for school at Gordonstoun. During his studies, Prodan learned to play the guitar and became heavily influenced by the recent progressive and psychedelic rock music that have emerged during the decade. At seventeen years old and one year away from graduating, Prodan abandoned his studies and returned to Italy. Prodan eventually returned to the United Kingdom for work, settling across Brighton, Manchester, and London; he soon became addicted to heroin. Prodan moved to the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1980 to recover from his heroin addiction, where he met Germán Daffunchio (brother-in-law of Prodan's friend from Gordonstoun, Timmy McKern) and Alejandro Sokol. Together they formed Sumo. For much of the decade until Prodan's death, the band would become one of the most influential groups in shaping Argentine rock of its time. Prodan, along with the rest of Sumo, are credited for introducing British post-punk to not just Argentina, but to the continent, by providing songs in the English language, and for providing a visceral counterpoint to the progressive-influenced themes that dominated Spanish-language rock at that time. Prodan was the older brother of Italian film actor and composer, Andrea Prodan.

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Diario Popular

Diario Popular is a local newspaper published in Sarandí, Argentina. It is read widely in the surrounding southern Greater Buenos Aires suburbs of Avellaneda, Lanús, and Quilmes and maintains third place behind the two large Argentine newspapers in terms of circulation. Police, sports, and entertainment news occupy the main spaces and supplements of Diario Popular. Based on its content, style and design, it aims the lower middle class audiences. It has many of the characteristic of the yellow press, in terms of the use of colors, fonts, use of colloquial language, and exclamation marks in titles. Currently, its average circulation on Sundays is 135,704 copies, and 85,929 from Monday to Friday. The newspaper remains a family business, with a majority in the shareholding composition of the Kraiselburd and Fascetto families.

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