Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo)

Liverpool de Montevideo

Full name	Liverpool Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Negriazules, Los negros de la cuchilla
Founded	February 12, 1915
Ground	Estadio Belvedere, Montevideo, Uruguay
Ground Capacity	10,000
Chairman	José Luis Palma
Coach	Eduardo Favaro
League	Primera División
2011–12	5th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Liverpool Fútbol Club is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club joined the Uruguayan top flight in 1919.

History

The club has its roots in the student team from the Catholic Capuchin school in Nuevo París, which began playing in 1908. The club took on the name Liverpool as there were many cultural links between the two areas; the majority of coal ships arriving in Montevideo came from the busy English port.^[1] A number of clubs took on Anglicised names, such as league rivals Montevideo Wanderers F.C.; in this case, the team paid homage to Liverpool F.C.

For the 2005–06 season, the away kit changed to a new all red one, thus looking exactly like the English Liverpool Football Club. Liverpool plays home matches in Estadio Belvedere (Belvedere Stadium), formerly owned by the Montevideo Wanderers.

Current squad

As of 29 April 2013.^[2]

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 Matías Castro 2 MF Marcelo Mansilla 3 DF Nelson Semperena 5 DF Martín Bonjour 6 DF Mauricio Felipe 7 FW Flavio Scarone 8 MF Jonathan Barboza 9 FW Nicolás Royón 10 MF Paulo Pezzolano 11 FW Rodrigo Aguirre 12 GK Guillermo de Amores 13 MF Christian Almeida 14 MF Carlos Macchi

No. Position Player 15 DF Gonzalo Sena 16 FW Max Rauhofer 17 FW Facundo Barcelo 18 DF Gonzalo Godoy 19 MF Nicolás Schenone 20 MF Gastón Machado 21 DF Andrés Rodales 22 MF Lucas Tamareo 23 FW Enzo Herrera 24 DF Matías González 25 GK Rodrigo Rodríguez -- MF Nicolas Arbiza -- FW Jhonatan Candia

Honours

A view of the club's ground, Estadio Belvedere

Liverpool have failed to win any top flight domestic titles. They reached the final of the Torneo Apertura and Liguilla, both in 1995 only to be beaten by Club Atlético Peñarol and Defensor Sporting respectively. They are famously dubbed as the greatest team in the league never to win the title of champions.^{[citation needed]}

• Segunda División Uruguay: 3

1966, 1987, 2002

• Tercera División Uruguay: 2

1919, 1937

CONMEBOL appearances

• Copa Libertadores: 1 appearance

2011: First Stage

• Copa Sudamericana: 2 appearances (2009 and 2012)

2009: First stage

2012: Round of 16

Other sports

Liverpool F.C. had a basketball team until the 1990s, playing in the stadium that still exists behind the north tribune of Estadio Belvedere. The team never reached first division.

Famous players

Managers

• Danilo Hodgisi
• Eugenio Galvalisi (19??−66)
• Gerardo Pelusso (1991)
• Julio Antúnez (Jan 1, 1997−Jan 1, 1999)
• Julio César Ribas (Jan 1, 2002−March 22, 2004)
• Carlos Barcos (March 22, 2004−Aug 31, 2005)
• Juan Tejera (July 1, 2006−May 21, 2007)
• Carlos Manta (July 1, 2007−Nov 26, 2007)
• Eduardo Favaro (Jan 1, 2008−June 9, 2011)
• Diego Demarco (June 16, 2011−Oct 3, 2011)
• Julio Antúnez (Oct 4, 2011−Nov 5, 2012)
• José Puente (Nov 6, 2012−Dec 14, 2012)
• Raúl Möller (Jan 1, 2013−June 2, 2013)
• Eduardo Favaro (June 26, 2013−)

Kit evolution

1917

1919-present

1970, 1996

1995 away

2006 away

Source: Liverpool (Montevideo) Page - BDFA.com.ar

See also

• List of football clubs in non-Anglophone countries with English names

References

External links

• Official Liverpool Fútbol Club web site (Spanish)
• Unofficial Liverpool Fútbol Club web site (Spanish)
• Website charting Liverpool F.C. in England and Uruguay (English)