Caracas FC

Caracas Fútbol Club, usually abbreviated as Caracas FC or just Caracas, is a Venezuelan football club from the capital Caracas.

The association is with eleven league titles record champion of Venezuela. Moreover, it was 2000, the cup be won.

Nicknamed Los Rojos del Avila ( The Reds from Ávila) they owe their red jerseys and the Cerro de Ávila, the highest mountain in Caracas.

History

Until the 1980s, the team played, then under the Yamaha name, in various amateur championships. After the club had renamed Caracas - Yamaha in 1984, he reached the recording to the second division of Venezuela. Surprisingly, the team immediately went in 1985 to the first division, in which she plays since then. The club has now been renamed Caracas Fútbol Club.

1986 Yamaha announced its interest in the club with Radio Caracas Televisión ( a private TV channel from Caracas ). 1988 won the FC Caracas Venezuelan Association Cup.

Radio Caracas Televisión broke up in 1989 by its shares on the Caracas FC. The club then fell into a financial crisis. Dr. Guillermo Valentiner, a German-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur ( Vargas SA) and President of the Organización Deportiva Cocodrilos, subsequently bought on 4 October 1989 FC Caracas. Cocodrilos de Caracas is one of the most successful basketball clubs in the country. Since then, the football team FC Caracas became one of the most successful in the country. After Germany's success in the football World Cup in 1990, the new club chairman in 1991 developed a plan to lead his club with German players to succeed and committed formerly, among others in the GDR Oberliga active player and the Bundesliga striker Günter Thiele. Already in the 1991/92 season FC Caracas was then, among other things thanks to the gates Andreas Vogler Venezuelan champion. However, Thiele and the other German Olaf Seier and André Hennig could not prevail.

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

The stadium

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

Achievements

Venezuelan Championship

  • 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 the national level of Caracas FC took part in several times the Copa Libertadores and Copa Conmebol in and Copa Merconorte. The best result in the Copa Libertadores reaching the fourth round in 2007 is listed, as the team FC Santos narrowly lost ( 2:2, 2:3 ).

Coach from 1994

  • Venezuela Pedro Febles
  • Argentina Carlos Horacio Moreno
  • Venezuela Manuel Plasencia
  • Venezuela Noel Sanvicente

Well-known players from 1992

  • Venezuela Juan Arango
  • Venezuela César Baena
  • Ceferino Bencomo Venezuela
  • Venezuela Héctor Pablo Bidoglio
  • Venezuela Gerson Díaz
  • Germany André Hennig, a former goalkeeper for Stahl Brandenburg
  • Venezuela Saúl Maldonado
  • Venezuela Luis Mendoza
  • Venezuela Gabriel Miranda
  • Venezuela Paúl Ramírez
  • Venezuela José Manuel Rey
  • Venezuela Héctor Rivas
  • Venezuela Stalin Rivas
  • Venezuela Jorge Rojas
  • Venezuela Andrés Rouga
  • Venezuela Ibrahim Salizu
  • Venezuela Noel Sanvicente
  • Germany Olaf Seier
  • Venezuela Gabriel Urdaneta
  • Venezuela Rafael Mea Vitalli
  • Venezuela Ronald Vargas
  • Germany Andreas Vogler
  • Luis Manuel Seijas Venezuela

Fan clubs

Some of the well-known fan of Caracas FC are: " Barra del Caracas ", " Los Demonios Rojos " ( The Red Devils ), " Legión Roja " ( Red Legion ), " Zona Hincha " ( Fans Zone).

Other departments in the club

Football teams ( men)

Besides the Erstligamannschaft Caracas FC has a second division team (Caracas FC " B") and junior teams ( U17 - U20 team squad and ).

Women's Soccer

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

Basketball

In addition, Caracas has a basketball department under the name " Cocodrilos de Caracas " ( crocodiles from Caracas ).

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