Deportivo Táchira

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
Ground Capacity 38,755
President Juana Suárez
Head coach Carlos Maldonado
League Primera División
2014–15 2nd (aggregate table)

Deportivo Táchira is a sports institution of the city of San Cristobal, Venezuela, while its main activity is professional football. It is one of the most popular clubs in Venezuela, and was founded on January 11, 1974, at the initiative of Gaetano Greco, with the name of San Cristobal Football Club.

They play their matches at the Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, which has a capacity for 42,500 spectators. 6 Internationally, Venezuela is the team with the most participations in the Copa Libertadores. Their best international participation was advancing to the quarter-finals end unbeaten in the 2004 Copa Libertadores. They are the only Venezuelan team past the first phase of the Copa Libertadores.

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, with which dispute the football Classic Venezolano, also dispute the so-called Classic Andino 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 were no professional football clubs in Táchira, so he decided to found a club based on the amateur Juventus club. He and twelve other people founded the club on January 11 of that year, which they named San Cristóbal Fútbol Club. Most of the club's players came from the Juventus club. Initially, the club's colors were blue and white, similar to the Italian kits.

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 the colors of Peñarol in Uruguay.

Naming history

Year Name
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

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 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.

Titles

1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2000, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2014–15

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
2015: First Round

2002: Preliminary Round
2012: Preliminary Round
1993: First Round
1996: First Round
1997: First Round

Current squad

As of 2016

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

No. Position Player
1 Venezuela GK Jose Contreras
2 Uruguay DF Williams Martínez
3 Venezuela DF Carlos Lujano
4 Venezuela DF Wilker Ángel
5 Venezuela MF Francisco Flores
7 Venezuela FW José Miguel Reyes
8 Venezuela MF Ágnel Flores
9 Colombia MF Sergio Herrera
10 Venezuela FW Jorge Alberto Rojas
11 Venezuela MF César González (Captain)
13 Venezuela DF Pablo Camacho
14 Venezuela DF José Marrufo
15 Venezuela MF Juan Carlos Mora
16 Venezuela FW Ronaldo Chacón
17 Colombia DF Yúber Mosquera
18 Venezuela DF Gerzon Chacón
19 Venezuela MF Jhonny Monsalve
No. Position Player
20 Venezuela MF Romeri Villamizar
21 Venezuela FW Edgar Pérez Greco
22 Venezuela GK Rafael Sánchez
23 Venezuela FW Daniel Febles
24 Venezuela MF Carlos Cermeño
25 Venezuela MF Marcelo Moreno
26 Venezuela FW Juan Carlos Azócar
27 Venezuela MF Héctor Pérez
28 Venezuela DF Eduin Quero
30 Venezuela GK Alan Liebeskind
Venezuela DF Roberto Chacón
Venezuela DF Daniel Sánchez
Venezuela MF Henry Sanabria
Venezuela MF Samuel Sosa
Venezuela MF Wrando Velasco
Venezuela FW Carl Villasmíl

Head coaches

References

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