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Racing 24

The Radio Station That Never Stops Talking About La Academia

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Racing 24 exists for one purpose: to talk about Racing Club de Avellaneda every hour of every day. There is no music block that interrupts club news, no unrelated programming filling the gaps. It is a station built entirely around a single Buenos Aires football club, streaming match commentary, club news and fan talk around the clock for supporters who cannot get enough.

An Argentine football radio booth at dusk with a neon sign reading Racing 24, inspired by Racing 24 radio

A Club Old Enough to Have Taught the Game

Racing Club was founded on March 25, 1903, at the Café de Los Portones in Avellaneda, and by the 1910s it had become the dominant force in Argentine football. Between 1913 and 1919 the club won seven consecutive Primera División titles, a run so commanding that, as Billiken recounts, after a 3-0 win over River Plate on August 1, 1915, roughly 10,000 fans followed the players out of the stadium chanting the word "academia" over and over. The nickname stuck, and more than a century later the club is still known simply as La Academia, the team that taught its rivals how the sport was meant to be played.

El Cilindro and the Guardia Imperial

Racing plays its home matches at Estadio Presidente Perón, better known to fans as El Cilindro, which opened on September 3, 1950. The stadium is where La Guardia Imperial, the club's organized supporters group, generates the noise and colour that Racing 24 tries to translate into audio for anyone not lucky enough to have a ticket. In 1967, under manager Juan José Pizzuti, Racing became the first Argentine club to win the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup, a peak that fans and commentators on stations like this one still reference constantly when discussing what the club is capable of.

A Radio Built by a Streaming Specialist

Racing 24 streams through LocucionAR, a Buenos Aires audio production company that builds and hosts dedicated club radio stations, and the station also runs a free companion app that has been available on iOS since 2018. The App Store listing describes it plainly as "la Radio de Racing, donde podes disfrutar de contenido exclusivo, las 24 horas," Racing's radio offering exclusive content around the clock. That focus is the entire pitch: instead of competing with Buenos Aires' crowded general sports radio dial, Racing 24 narrows down to one club and stays there permanently.

Filling the Hours Between Matchdays

A single football club cannot fill 24 hours a day with live matches, so stations like this one live or die on what happens between games: transfer rumours, youth academy news, interviews, phone-in debates from fans dissecting the last result or the next lineup. For a club with Racing's trophy history and fan intensity, there is rarely a shortage of material, whether the conversation is about a Copa Libertadores memory from 1967 or a squad decision for this weekend's fixture.

One Club, One Frequency, No Distractions

Racing 24 is not trying to be a general Argentine sports station that occasionally covers Racing Club. It is built the other way around, a station that exists because a club with this much history and this passionate a fan base deserves a channel of its own, running nonstop, with nothing else competing for airtime.

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