Caracas FC

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Caracas Fútbol Club
FC Caracas logo
Basic data
Surname Caracas Fútbol Club
Seat Caracas , Venezuela
founding 1984
president VenezuelaVenezuela Guillermo Valentiner
Website caracasfutbolclub.com
First soccer team
Head coach VenezuelaVenezuela Eduardo Sarago
Venue Cocodrilos Sports Park;
Estadio Olímpico de la UCV
Places 3,500 (Cocodrilos Sports Park);
24,900 (Estadio Olímpico de la UCV)
league Primera División
2014/15 1st place
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Caracas Fútbol Club, or simply Caracas , is a Venezuelan football club from the capital Caracas . The club is Venezuela's record champion with eleven championship titles. Caracas currently plays in the Primera División , the highest league in Venezuela .

They owe their nickname Los Rojos del Avila ( The Reds of Ávila ) to their red jerseys and the Cerro de Ávila, the highest mountain in Caracas.

history

Until the 1980s, the team, then known as Yamaha , played in various amateur championships. After the club had renamed itself in 1984 in Caracas-Yamaha , he achieved admission to the second division of Venezuela. Surprisingly, the team rose immediately to the first division in 1985, in which they have played since. The club has now been renamed the Caracas Fútbol Club.

In 1986 Yamaha shared its shares in the club with Radio Caracas Televisión (a private television station in Caracas). In 1988, Caracas FC won the Venezuelan Club Cup.

Radio Caracas Televisión separated in 1989 from its shares in FC Caracas. The club then got into a financial crisis. Dr. Guillermo Valentiner , a German-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur ( Vargas SA ) and president of Organización Deportiva Cocodrilos , subsequently bought Caracas FC on October 4, 1989. Cocodrilos de Caracas is one of the most successful basketball clubs in the country. Since then, the soccer team of FC Caracas has also developed into one of the most successful in the country. After Germany's success at the soccer World Cup in 1990, the new club chairman developed the plan in 1991 to lead his club to success with German players and signed players who were active in the GDR Oberliga as well as Bundesliga striker Günter Thiele . In the 1991/92 season, FC Caracas became Venezuelan champions thanks to goals from Andreas Vogler . Thiele and the other Germans Olaf Seier and André Hennig could not prevail.

The club played in the Brígido Iriarte Stadium until 2005. Since then he has had his own stadium, the Cocodrilos Sports Park .

The stadium

Caracas FC plays its home games at Cocodrilos Sports Park , which has a capacity of 15,000. The game is played on artificial turf . The stadium was inaugurated on July 20, 2005.

successes

Primera División

  • Champion: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010

Venezuela's Cup

  • Winner: 1988, 1993, 1994,

República Bolivariana de Venezuela Cup

  • Winner: 2000

Due to the success at national level, FC Caracas took part in the Copa Libertadores, as well as in Copa Conmebol and Copa Merconorte . The best result in the Copa Libertadores is the reaching of the round of 16 in 2007 , in which the team was narrowly defeated by FC Santos (2: 2, 2: 3).

Trainer from 1994

  • VenezuelaVenezuela Pedro Febles
  • ArgentinaArgentina Carlos Horacio Moreno
  • VenezuelaVenezuela Manuel Plasencia
  • VenezuelaVenezuela Noel Sanvicente

Known players since 1992

Fan clubs

Some of the famous Caracas FC fan clubs are: “Barra del Caracas”, “Los Demonios Rojos” (The Red Devils), “Legión Roja” (Red Legion), “Zona Hincha” (Fan Zone).

Other departments

Soccer teams (men)

In addition to the first division team, Caracas FC has a second division team (Caracas FC “B”) and junior teams (U20 team and U17 team).

Women's soccer

Caracas FC has a women's football division that plays in the Venezuelan league. The team has won the Liga Nacional Femenina championship four times in its history.

basketball

Caracas also has a basketball department called “Cocodrilos de Caracas” (Crocodiles from Caracas).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Checkout in Caracas" by Alexander Schreck, Sport-Bild from February 10, 1993, p. 28.
  2. ↑ Historia del Caracas FC (Spanish)
  3. ↑ "Checkout in Caracas" by Alexander Schreck, Sport-Bild from February 10, 1993, p. 28.
  4. ^ Venezuela - List of Women Champions