 In fact, CURCC was one of founding members of Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) in 1900.The continuity between the CURCC's football section and club Peñarol generated a controversy that remains nowadays.By the end of 1899 the British company Central Uruguay Railway of Montevideo, that operated in Uruguay since 1878, acquired the lands located in the neighborhood of Villa Peñarol to establish its train repair shops there, moving them from Bella Vista.