Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club
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| Full name | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Aurinegro (Gold-and-black) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, San Cristóbal, Venezuela (Capacity 42,500) |
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| Chairman | Juana Suárez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Carlos Maldonado | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Primera División Venezolana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clausura 2008 | 1º | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club, usually known as Deportivo Táchira, is a traditional and a popular Venezuelan football club. It was founded on 11 January 1974 by the initiative of Gaetano Greco. In its first national championship, the club finished in first place, originating the nickname El equipo que nació Grande (meaning the club which was born Big).
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[edit] History
In 1970, Italian-born Gaetano Greco founded in San Cristóbal an amateur club called Juventus, named after the famous Italian club.
In 1974, Greco noticed that there was no professional football club in Táchira, so he decided to start a club based on the amateur Juventus club. On 11 January of that year, he and twelve other people founded the club, which was named Deportivo San Cristóbal. Most of the club's players came from the Juventus club. Initially, the club's colors were blue and white, like the Italy ones.
In January 1975, the club changed its colors to yellow and black, because those colors better represented the Táchira state and were the preferred colors of the Uruguayan manager José "Pocho" Gil, due to their likeness to Peñarol ones in Uruguay.
[edit] Titles
- Primera División Venezolana (6 times): 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2000 2008
- Primera División Venezolana runner-up (7 times): 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1999, 2004
- Copa Libertadores de América participations (11 times): 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2001, 2004, 2005
- Copa Sudamericana participations (1 time): 2002
- Copa CONMEBOL participations (3 times): 1993, 1996, 1997
- Copa de Venezuela: 1986
- Deportivo Táchira is the Venezuelan club with the most appearances in Copa Libertadores, and is also the club which has finished as Venezuela's league runner-up the most times. It has won five national championships.
- The club's best Copa Libertadores participation was in 2004, when the club became the first team to qualify for the quarter-final of the competition without losing a match, playing against strong teams like River Plate (Argentina), Libertad (Paraguay), Deportes Tolima (Colombia), Nacional de Montevideo (Uruguay) and São Paulo (Brazil).
[edit] Current first team squad
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[edit] Stadium
The club's home stadium is Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, located in San Cristóbal. It has a maximum capacity of 42,500 people.
[edit] Supporters
The supporters are known as aurinegros ("gold-and-blacks")
There are three main organized groups of supporters, La Torcida Aurinegra , "La 12" now known as "La Avalacha Sur."
The aurinegros had already committed acts of violence at the stadium. One of the most tragic events took place on December, 17, 2000, when the club and Caracas drew 2-2, which gave the Copa República Bolivariana de Venezuela's title to the other side, and a mob of angry supporters burned a bus inside the soccer field.
[edit] Derby
The match between Deportivo Táchira and Estudiantes de Mérida is known as the Clásico de Los Andes (meaning Andes' Derby), but in recent years the match between Deportivo Táchira and Caracas FC has been known as the modern derby, because of the successful performance of both teams. Other classic rival was Marítimo de Venezuela (Caracas'club) in the 80's and earlier 90's.
[edit] Colors
Deportivo Táchira's shirt has black and yellow vertical stripes, with black shorts and socks.
[edit] Famous players
The list is sorted by last name
- Gilberto Angelucci
- Rafael Dudamel
- Daniel Francovig
- Juan García
- Miguel Oswaldo González, nicknamed "El Negro"
- Laureano Jaimes
- Carlos Maldonado
- William Méndez
- Emerson Panigutti
- Pedro Delgado
- Julio Silvera
- "El Pollo" Hernandez
- Jose Luis Dolguetta
[edit] References
- ^ Llegué con la idea y el sueño de ser campeón - Deportivo Táchira's official website (December 28, 2006)
- ^ Táchira traspasa la frontera - El Universal (July 26, 2004)
- ^ Los Gochigans - El Universal (November 1, 2003)
- Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Spanish-language wikipedia article (retrieved January 15, 2004).
[edit] External links
- Deportivo Táchira's official website
- Deportivo Táchira's unofficial website
- Deportivo Táchira's blog
- Deportivo Táchira's fan site
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