Coritiba Foot Ball Club
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| Full name | Coritiba Foot Ball Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Coxa Branca (The White Thigh) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | October 12, 1909 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Couto Pereira, Curitiba, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 37,182 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Giovani Gionédes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Guilherme Macuglia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Brazilian Série B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Brazilian Série B, 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba, is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba, Paraná.
Coritiba's greatest rivals are Atlético Paranaense and Paraná.
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[edit] History
In 1909, several youngsters, members of the German community of Curitiba, usually met at Clube Ginástico Teuto-Brasileiro to do gymnastics exhibitions. In September that year, one of these youngsters, called Frederico Fritz Essenfelder, brought a leather football to the club. He explained to his colleagues the rules of football. The youngsters liked the new sport, and started to play football matches at Quartel da Força Pública field. On October 12 that year, they founded Coritibano Football Club. The club was founded at Teatro Hauer.
On October 23, 1909, Coritibano played its first match, in Ponta Grossa city, against Club de Foot-Ball Tiro Pontagrossense, a team formed by the English employees of Ponta Grossa railroad. The match ended 1-0 to the home team. Coritibano players were composed by the club founders: Artur Hauer, Alfredo Labsch, Leopoldo Obladen, Robert Juchsch, Carlos Schlender, Fritz Essenfelder, Carl Maschke, Waldemar Hauer, Rudolf Kastrup, Adolpho Müller, Emílio Dietrich, Erothides Calberg and Arthur Iwersen.
On April 21, 1910, the club's first assembly occurred, which changed the club name to Coritiba. Also João Viana Seiler was chose as the club's first president.
On June 12, 1910, was played the first football match in Curitiba city, at Campo do Prado, in Guabirotuba neighborhood. Coritiba beat Ponta Grossa Foot Ball Club 5-3. Ponta Grossa Foot Ball Club was the new name of Club de Foot-Ball Tiro Pontagrossense.
In 1916, Coritiba won its first title, the Campeonato Paranaense.
In 1985, Coritiba won its first national championship, defeating Bangu, and gaining the right to dispute the following year's Copa Libertadores.
[edit] Club records
- First Match: Coritiba 5-3 Ponta Grossa (16 June 1910)
- First Goal Scorer: Fritz Essenfelter
- Biggest Win (Brazilian Championship): Coritiba 7-1 Ferroviário (Couto Pereira, 16 April 1980) & Coritiba 7-1 Desportiva-ES (Couto Pereira, 04 May 1980)
- Heaviest Defeat (Brazilian Championship): Grêmio 5-0 Coritiba (Olímpico, 29 February 1984) & Palmeiras 5-0 Coritiba (Parque Antártica, 17 August 1996)
- Most Appearances (any competition): Jairo – 440 (1971-77, 1984-87)
- Record Goal Scorer: Duílio Dias – 202 (1954-64)
- Negative record goal: the only soccer team to be national champion with a negative record of goals: scored 25 goals, suferred 27 goals in the 1985 Brazilian Championship.
[edit] Titles
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1985
- Torneio do Povo: 1973
- Festival Brasileiro de Futebol: 1997
- Fita Azul: 1972
- 32 state championships: 1916, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1989, 1999, 2003, 2004
[edit] Couto Pereira
- Name: Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira
- Capacity: 55,000
- Address: Rua Ubaldino do Amaral, 37
- Record attendance : 99,571 (Coritiba - Flamengo 2-0, May 32, 1986)
- Record attendance (general): 70,000 (Pope John Paul II, 1980)[1]
- Field dimensions: 109,00m x 72,00m
- Year opened: 1932
The stadium was founded as Belfort Duarte. Couto Pereira was the president of the club and he was responsible for the stadium being build. When he died in 1977, the stadium name was changed to Couto Pereira.
[edit] Historic players
- Reinaldo Felizbino - Lela
- Rafael Cammarota
- Aroldo Fedato
- Hamilton Guerra - Miltinho
- Jairo
- Manga
- Bequinha
- Hermes
- Dida
- Krüger
- Dirceu
- Alex
- Aladim
- Duílio Dias
- Hidalgo
- Pachequinho
[edit] The logo
The club's logo is a green globe with the initials CFC in white on the center, along with twelve white stylized pine seeds. The logo's colors, green and white, are the same as Paraná state flag's.
Coritiba's first logo was very simple: a white background inside a green circle, with the initials CFC in green.
[edit] The team kit
Coritiba's first kit was used from 1909 to 1916, and was composed of green and white vertical stripes.
Coritiba's second kit, used from 1916 to 1976 was an all-white one.
The current home kit is composed of a white shirt, with two green parallel horizontal stripes and black shorts and white socks. The away kit is composed of a green shirt, white shorts and green socks. These kits were adopted in 1976.
[edit] Anthem
The official club anthem lyrics were composed by Cláudio Ribeiro, and the music by Homero Rébuli. There is also an unofficial anthem, called Coritiba Eterno Campeão (Coritiba Eternal Champion), which was composed (both the lyrics and the music) by Francis Night. A third anthem, which lyrics were composed Vinicius Coelho and the music by Sebastião Lima also call the team the "eternal champion".
[edit] The mascot
The club's mascot is an oldman nicknamed Vovô Coxa (Grandpa Coxa), and represents the club's tradition of being the oldest football club of Curitiba.
[edit] AtleTiba
In Curitiba, located in Paraná State in the far South of Brazil, the 'Campeonato Paranaense' was played since 1915. Internacional was the first champion here. The city of Curitiba hosted other clubs as well, like Britânia, Savóia, América and … Coritiba. Coritiba FC was founded in 1909, by Germans immigrants. In 1916 Coritiba won the second championship. A little rivalry, between Coritiba and Internacional started. América (white/red) and Britânia also had very strong teams. In 1917 América even became state champions and from 1918-1924 Britânia would be crowned champions of the Parana State. Coritiba, Internacional and América weren't too happy with this Britânia spell so they decided to create one big strong team. Coritiba, as a colonial team, refused any agreement and so it happened that in March 1924 Clube Atlético Paranaense was founded as a result of a fusion between Internacional and América. Their club colours would be Black (Internacional) and Red (America). Coritiba never accepted the new formed club and it wouldn't take long before the two teams would meet in a pre-season championship. On 20 April 1924, Atlético won the first unofficial meeting with 2-0. The first official meeting was on June 8th that same year, this time for the Paraná State Championship. Coritiba took revenge and won the game by 6-3. Those two games were the start of a great rivalry.
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