SER Caxias do Sul
| SER Caxias do Sul | |||
|
|||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul |
||
| Seat | Caxias do Sul | ||
| founding | April 10, 1935 | ||
| president | Alceu Fassbinder | ||
| Website | www.sercaxias.com.br/ | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Estádio Francisco Stédile (Centenário) |
||
| Places | 30,822 | ||
| league | Série C | ||
| 2015 | Group B: 10th place. Play-offs: not qualified |
||
|
|||
The Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul, usually just called Caxias (pronounced kaˈʃias ) for short , is a football club from the city of Caxias do Sul in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, with around 400,000 inhabitants .
The club colors are garnet (a dark wine red), white and blue. The mascot common in Brazil officially has two to offer Caxias, which gives the club an exceptional position. On the one hand, Bepe , the fun-loving Italian immigrant, typical of the city and serving the association since the 1990s. On the other hand, a falcon joined him in 2005, for the 70th anniversary of the club. Both were created by the cartoonist Iotti.
The biggest success of the current third division team was the victory in the state championship of Rio Grande do Sul in 2000.
history
On April 10, 1935, the club was created as Grêmio Esportivo Flamengo from a merger of the clubs Rio Branco and Rui Barbosa . The main idea here was to become more competitive and possibly also to be able to oppress the dominant club in the city, EC Juventude, in its supremacy. In the founding year, the first derby, the first Clássico Fla-Ju , took place on August 4, 1935 . Flamengo already startled the top dogs and won 3-1 in a city championship game on their own facility, the Campo do Rui Barbosa .
As early as 1937, Caxias won the first city championship ( Citadino de Caxias do Sul ). By the end of the competition, four more of these titles were added. The own arena, the Baixada Rubra , was inaugurated in 1951 and expanded rapidly over the next few years. It replaced the Campo do Maguary used since 1937 .
In 1961 Flamengo qualified for the first time for the finals of the state championship in Rio Grande do Sul . At the beginning of the decade, the club also made a trip to Argentina, which attracted a lot of attention at the time. It was impressive enough that the small-town club from the hinterland took a plane, a Douglas DC-3 , to Buenos Aires , but the results also pleased contemporaries, even if the opponents were not the big clubs from La Plata .
Towards the end of the decade, Brazil slid into a financial crisis and in Caxias do Sul the situation for football clubs turned into an existential crisis. Arch-rivals Flamengo and Juventude decided to marry of convenience and united in December 1971 to form the Associação Caxias de Futebol (ACF). This twice achieved a respectable fourth place at the state championship. But it was not a love marriage and the marriage was dissolved after the state championship in 1975, primarily at the instigation of Juventude. Nevertheless, the club's black-and-white-clad football team made history in their short existence when their game against Grêmio Porto Alegre in 1972 became the first football game in Brazilian television history to be broadcast live in color. The game ended 0-0 and contemporary witnesses unanimously report that the quality of the presented football did not do justice to the event.
Flamengo soon called itself Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul , but is usually only called Caxias for short. On December 11th, 1975 the old Fla-Ju-Derby was first reissued. Juventude won the Governors' Cup 1-0 against their old rivals who were still playing as ACF. The first Clássico Ca-Ju took place in March 1976 when the two teams parted 0-0 in a state championship game at Juventudes Estádio Alfredo Jaconi .
That year, SER Caxias was the first club in town to take part in the national championship . Caxias was given the place as a representative of the hinterland, as after the construction of the Estádio Centenário on the grounds of the old Baixada Rubra, after only six months of construction, it was able to present a usable stadium in time.
The club did quite well and was rated 15th in a field of 54 participants. The provincial club remained top notch until 1979 and made a good impression in many games. The future Brazilian world champion coach Luiz Felipe Scolari was a player at Caxias in those years.
New successes did not appear again until the end of the 1980s. In 1987 the club took part in the first division game again, but in the “yellow module” of the association, ie the weaker group (→ Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol → Scandal Year 1987). In 1990 Caxias was second in the state championship of Rio Grande do Sul for the first time , behind Gremio Porto Alegre . The following year, Caxias was the first club from the province of Rio Grande do Sul to take part in the national cup competition created in 1989, the Copa do Brasil , but was eliminated in the second round against the Goiás EC .
In January 1998, Caxias made people sit up and take notice when the club defeated the Jamaica national team, qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France, 1-0 in a friendly . In 2000, Caxias achieved the greatest triumph in the club's history and won the final of the state championship. In the first leg on June 14, the team defeated Grêmio's team 3-0 at their home country Estádio Centenário. Four days later, a 0-0 win was enough for the second leg at the Estádio Olimpico in Porto Alegre . In the same year Caxias took part in the national championship for the last time.
The decade that began so successfully, however, ultimately had very few outstanding moments. In 2001, participation in the Série A , the national championship, was only just missed. In the 70th club anniversary in 2005 even the descent into the third national league, which took place Série C . Reason for joy was the qualification for the reformed and now reduced from 64 to 20 clubs Série C in 2008.
2015 took place a renewed descent into fourth-rate Série D .
In the ranking of the CBF , the Brazilian Football Association, the club took 51st place in December 2015, making it the fourth best team in the state.
Stadion
The club's own Estádio Francisco Stédil is usually referred to as Estádio Centenário after its original name , which it received because it was opened in 1976 as part of the celebrations on the subject of "100 years of Italian immigration to Rio Grande do Sul". It was named in 1999 after the president who was responsible for its construction and stands on the site of the former Estádio Baixada Rubra, which was built in 1951 . The opening game took place on September 12, 1976 between Caxias and SC Internacional from Porto Alegre . Caxias won 2-1 and the player Osmar gave the home side the lead with the first goal.
The initiative to build the stadium goes back to a proposal by the president of the national football association, at the time the CBD, Heleno Nunes, who assured the president of Caxias, Francisco Stédil, that if the club timed a stadium with a capacity of 25,000 spectators could show that this would get a starting place in the Brazilian championship in 1976 as a representative of the football-neglected hinterland . After only six months of construction, the President, who died in 2006, was able to present the Centenário, and Caxias got his place in the championship, which it was able to maintain for four years.
The stadium holds 30,822 people. The unofficial attendance record dates from September 15, 1976, when more than 25,000 viewers watched a 0-0 draw between Caxias and Palmeiras São Paulo . The exact number of spectators is unknown here because the rush was so great that countless spectators entered the stadium through a broken fence. The game was only the second home game in the national championship in the club's history and the first game in the stadium under floodlights.
The official attendance record dates from December 12, 1981, when 20,994 viewers watched the brilliant 5-1 win against Grêmio.
In the 14 years between 1977 and 1991, Caxias only lost once in the Centenário, in a Clássico Ca-Ju.
successes
Statistics: Derby's Caxias versus Juventude
Since 1935, the EC Juventude and the SER Caxias do Sul, known as Grêmio Esportivo Flamengo until 1971, became the city's traditional rivals. Until January 28, 2009, when both clubs separated 0-0 in a national championship match at the Centenário Stadium, the last clash included in these statistics, both clubs faced each other a total of 259 times.
|
|
- |
|
| Caxias wins | draw | Wins Juventude |
| 82 | 83 | 94 |
| (338 | Gates | 374) |
| 1935-1971: 149 games | ||
| 48 | 32 | 69 |
| 1975 -…: 110 games | ||
| 34 | 51 | 25th |
| National Championship (since 1961): 80 games | ||
| 25th | 34 | 21st |
Known players
- Luiz Felipe Scolari (1973-79)
- Washington (1991-97, 99)
- Tite
Individual evidence
- ↑ rsssfbrasil.com: II COPA BRASIL - 1976 Brazilian Championship ( Memento from January 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ RNC - RANKING NACIONAL DOS CLUBES 2015. ( Portable Document Format ) cdn.cbf.com.br, December 8, 2014, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Bola na Rede, January 28, 2009: Números do Ca-Ju
Web links
- Official website of the association (Portuguese)
- Arquivo Grená (Portuguese)
Stadion: