Deportivo Táchira

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Deportivo Táchira

Full name

Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club

Nickname(s)

Aurinegro (Gold-and-black)

Founded

January 11, 1974

Stadium

Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo,
San Cristóbal, Venezuela

Capacity

42,500

President

Juana Suárez

Head coach

Daniel Farías

League

Primera División

2012-13

9th

Home colors

Away colors

Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club is a traditional^[1] and a popular^[2] Venezuelan football club. It was founded in 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).

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. He and twelve other people founded the club on January 11 of that year, 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.

Titles

Primera División Venezolana: 7

1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2000, 2008, 2011

Copa Libertadores: 18 appearances

1980: First Round

1982: First Round

1983: First Round

1985: First Round

1987: First Round

1988: First Round

1989: Round of 16

1991: Round of 16

2000: Preliminary Round

2001: First Round

2004: Quarter-Finals

2005: Second Round

2006: First Round

2007: First Round

2009: Second Round

2010: First Round

2011: Second Round

2012: Second Round

Copa Sudamericana: 2 appearances

2002: Preliminary Round

2012: Preliminary Round

Copa CONMEBOL: 3 appearances

1993: First Round

1996: First Round

1997: First Round

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 seven national championships.

The club's best Copa Libertadores participation was in 2004, when the club became the second team to qualify for the quarterfinal of the competition without losing a match, playing against strong teams like River Plate (Argentina), Libertad (Paraguay), Deportes Tolima (Colombia) and Nacional de Montevideo (Uruguay), before facing São Paulo (Brazil) in the quarterfinals.

Current squad

As March 7, 2013

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Jose Contreras
4	DF	Wilker Ángel
5	MF	Francisco Flores
6	MF	Ágnel Flores
7	FW	José Miguel Reyes
8	FW	Ángel Osorio
9	FW	Gelmin Rivas
10	FW	Yohandry Orozco
11	MF	César González (captain)
15	FW	Aníbal Rosales
19	FW	Andrés Ponce
29	DF	Carlos Salazar
	DF	Yuber Mosquera
	GK	Yerikson Murillo

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Carlos Rivero
		DF	Richard Badillo
		DF	Willi Guevara
		DF	Diego Ostos
		DF	Alexander Osorio
		DF	Mikel Villanueva
		MF	Giacomo Di Giorgi
		MF	Romeri Villamizar
		MF	Ebby Pérez
		MF	Andrey González
		MF	Albert Zambrano
		FW	José Alí Meza
		FW	Cristian Díaz

Stadium

Main article: Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo

The club's home stadium is Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, located in San Cristóbal. It has a maximum capacity of 42,500 people.

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 Avalancha 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.^[3]

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 1980s and earlier 1990s.

Colors

Deportivo Táchira's shirt has black and yellow vertical stripes, with black shorts and socks.

Head coaches

Marcos Calderón (1983)
Carlos Horacio Moreno (1987–89)
Richard Páez (1991)
Walter Roque (1999–01)
César Farías (2003–05)
Manuel Plasencia (2005–07)
Carlos Maldonado (July 1, 2007–June 30, 2010)
Jorge Luis Pinto (Jan 1, 2010–May 30, 2011)
Jesús Vera (2011)
Jaime de la Pava (Jan 16, 2012–April 24, 2012)
Manuel Contreras (April 26, 2012–12)
Daniel Farías (Jan 1, 2013–)

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).

External links

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