Deportivo Táchira
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| Full name | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Aurinegro (Gold-and-black) | |||
| Founded | January 11, 1974 | |||
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Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, San Cristóbal, Venezuela | |||
| Capacity | 38,755 | |||
| President | Juana Suárez | |||
| Head coach | Carlos Maldonado | |||
| League | Primera División | |||
| 2014–15 | 2nd (aggregate table) | |||
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The Deportivo Táchira is a sport institution of the city of San Cristobal, Venezuela and its main activity is professional football. It is one of the most popular clubs Venezuela. was founded on January 11, 1974, at the initiative of Gaetano Greco, with the name of San Cristobal Football Club.
Local play their matches at the Sports Pueblo Nuevo, which has a capacity for 42,500 espectadores.6 Internationally, Venezuela is the team with the most participations in the Libertadores Cup América. Best international participation was advancing to quarterfinals end unbeaten in the Libertadores Cup 2004. is the only Venezuelan team past the first phase of the Copa Libertadores de America
Deportivo Tachira has a reserve team named Deportivo Táchira "B" participating in the Second Division of Venezuela. Also it has a football team that is part of the Superior Tournament Futsal. His fiercest rival is the Caracas Football Club, with which dispute the football Classic venezolano. also dispute the so-called Andean Classic against Estudiantes de Mérida.
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.
Naming history
| Year | Name |
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| 1974 | San Cristóbal Fútbol Club |
| 1975 | Deportivo San Cristóbal Fútbol Club |
| 1978 | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club |
| 1986 | Unión Atlético Táchira |
| 1999 | Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club |
Current squad
As March 7, 2013
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Stadium
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.[1]
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–)
Titles
- Copa Libertadores: 18 appearances
- Copa Sudamericana: 2 appearances
- Copa CONMEBOL: 3 appearances
- 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.
References
- ↑ 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).