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 Cristóbal, Venezuela cultural and sporting heritage of Tachira and its main activity is professional football. It is Venezuela's most popular club. It was founded on January 11, 1974, at the initiative of Gaetano Greco, by the name of San Cristobal Football Club.
Play their matches of the premises in Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, which has a capacity for 42,500 spectators. Since 1975 participates in the Venezuelan Primera División, making it the only Venezuelan team that has never fallen or participated in the lower category. Currently holds the first position of the historical classification of the Venezuelan Primera División with 2229 points.
At the international level, it is the Venezuelan team with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadores of America. His best international participation was to advance to the quarter-finals unbeaten in the Copa Libertadores 2004. It is the only Venezuelan team to go the first phase of the Copa Libertadores of America
Deportivo Tachira has a subsidiary named Deportivo Táchira team "B" participating in the Venezuelan Segunda División. also has a Futsal team called Deportivo Tachira Fútsal Club it is part of the Liga Venezolana de Fútsal and Superior Futsal Tournament. His fiercest rival is the Caracas, with whom dispute the Classic Venezuelan football. Also he 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 (July 1, 2010 – May 30, 2011)- Jesús Vera (July 1, 2011 – Dec 20, 2011)
- Jaime de la Pava (Jan 16, 2012 – April 24, 2012)
- Manuel Contreras (April 26, 2012 – Dec 20, 2012)
- Daniel Farías (Jan 1, 2013 – Dec 20, 2015)
- 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).