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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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 |
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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 |
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
- 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 quarter-finals of the competition without losing a match, playing against strong teams like River Plate (Argentina), Libertad (Paraguay), Deportes Tolima (Colombia) and Nacional (Uruguay), before facing São Paulo (Brazil) in the quarter-finals.
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.
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Head coaches
Luis Miloc (1977–78)
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, 2013–15)
- Carlos Maldonado (2015–)
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).