Coritiba

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Full name	Coritiba Foot Ball Club
Nickname(s)	Coxa, The White Thigh, Glorious
Founded	October 12, 1909; 102 years ago  (1909-10-12)
Stadium	Couto Pereira, Curitiba, Brazil (Capacity: 37,182)
President	Vilson Ribeiro de Andrade
Head coach	Marcelo Oliveira
League	Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
2011	8th
Home colors Away colors Third colors

Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba, is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba, Paraná. It's the state's oldest football team and the best classified in the CBF and FIFA classifications. Coritiba has been champion in Paraná State 36 times, more times than all Coritiba's rivals combined. Coritiba was champion of the Brazilian Championship once and has the worldwide record of 24 consecutive victories.

History[link]

In 1909, several youngsters, members of the German community of Curitiba, usually met at Clube Ginástico Teuto-Brasileiro to do gymnastics exhibitions. In September that year, one of these youngsters, called Frederico Fritz Essenfelder, brought a leather football to the club. He explained to his colleagues the rules of football. The youngsters liked the new sport, and started to play football matches at Quartel da Força Pública field. On October 12 that year, they founded Coritibano Football Club. The club was founded at Teatro Hauer.

On October 23, 1909, Coritibano played its first match, in Ponta Grossa city, against Club de Foot-Ball Tiro Pontagrossense, a team formed by the English employees of Ponta Grossa railroad. The match ended 1-0 to the home team. Coritibano players were composed by the club founders: Artur Hauer, Alfredo Labsch, Leopoldo Obladen, Robert Juchsch, Carlos Schlender, Fritz Essenfelder, Carl Maschke, Waldemar Hauer, Rudolf Kastrup, Adolpho Müller, Emílio Dietrich, Erothides Calberg and Arthur Iwersen.

On April 21, 1910, the club's first assembly occurred, which changed the club name to Coritiba. Also João Viana Seiler was chose as the club's first president.

On June 12, 1910, was played the first football match in Curitiba city, at Campo do Prado, in Guabirotuba neighborhood. Coritiba beat Ponta Grossa Foot Ball Club 5-3. Ponta Grossa Foot Ball Club was the new name of Club de Foot-Ball Tiro Pontagrossense.

In 1916, Coritiba won its first title, the Campeonato Paranaense.

In 1985, Coritiba won its first national championship, defeating Bangu, and gaining the right to dispute the following year's Copa Libertadores.

In 2011, Coritiba achieved a worldwide record of 24 consecutive victories, winning the Campeonato Paranaense undefeated and reaching the Copa do Brasil final, against Vasco da Gama, losing the first match 1-0, but winning the second 3-2. Under normal regulations, the decision would have gone to penalties, but Copa do Brasil uses the away goal rule, something that no other cup in the world uses in the final.

Club records[link]

• First Match: Coritibano 0x1 Tiro Pontagrossense (October 23, 1909)
• First Official Match: Coritiba 5×3 Ponta Grossa (June 12, 1910)
• First Goal Scorer: Fritz Essenfelter

• Biggest Win (National Competitions): Coritiba 7-1 Ferroviário (Couto Pereira, April 16, 1980), Coritiba 7-1 Desportiva-ES (Couto Pereira, May 4, 1980) & Coritiba 6-0 Palmeiras (Couto Pereira, May 5, 2011)

• Heaviest Defeat (National Competitions): Grêmio 5-0 Coritiba (Olímpico, February 29, 1984) & Palmeiras 5-0 Coritiba (Parque Antártica, August 17, 1996)

• Most Appearances (any competition): Jairo – 440 (1971–77), (1984–87)

• Record Goal Scorer: Duílio Dias – 202 (1954–64)

Achievements[link]

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1

1985

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série B: 2

2007, 2010

• Torneio do Povo: 1

1973

• Campeonato Paranaense: 36

1916, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1989, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012

• Festival Brasileiro de Futebol: 1

1997

• Fita Azul Internacional: 1

1972

• Pierre Colon Trophy (Vichy, France): 1

1969

• Akwaba Trophy (Africa): 1

1983

Couto Pereira[link]

• Name: Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira
• Capacity: 37,182 (biggest in Parana State)
• Address: Rua Ubaldino do Amaral, 37
• Record attendance: (General) - 70,000 (Pope John Paul II, 1980) [1], (Game) - The stadium's attendance record in a football match currently stands at 65,943, set on May 15, 1983 when Atlético-PR(Coritiba's Bitter Rival) beat Flamengo 2-0.
• Field dimensions: 109,00m x 72,00m
• Year opened: 1932

The stadium was founded as Belfort Duarte. Couto Pereira was the president of the club and he was responsible for the stadium being built. When he died in 1977, the stadium name was changed to Couto Pereira.

Higher scores[link]

Coritiba biggest victories

The 24 consecutive wins[link]

Current squad[link]

First-team squad[link]

As of February 2012, according to Coritiba Foot Ball Club official website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Vanderlei 2 DF Lucas Mendes 3 DF Pereira 4 DF Émerson 5 DF Jackson 6 MF Lincoln 7 MF Rafinha 8 MF Tcheco 9 FW Simon Thapa 10 MF Junior Urso 11 MF Renan Oliveira 12 GK Édson Bastos 13 DF Demerson 14 DF Luccas Claro 15 MF Willian 17 FW Marcel 19 DF Cleiton

No. Position Player 20 FW Geraldo 21 FW Éverton Costa 22 DF Eltinho 23 FW Marcel 24 MF Djair 25 MF Éverton Ribeiro 26 DF Bernardo 27 DF Timbó 28 MF Emerson Santos 29 FW Anderson Aquino 30 MF Rafael Silva TBA GK Rafael Martins TBA GK Vaná TBA DF Diego TBA MF Gil TBA MF Lima

Professional players able to play in the junior team

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player TBA DF Luccas Claro TBA MF Djair

No. Position Player TBA MF Geraldo

Junior players with first team experience

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player — GK Rafael Martins

No. Position Player — DF Timbó

Out on loan[link]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player DF Dirceu (at Nova Iguaçu) MF Jefferson Luis (at Ituano) MF Renatinho (at Kawasaki Frontale)

No. Position Player MF Isael (at São Caetano) MF Dudu (at Oeste)

First-team staff[link]

Position	Name	Nationality
Coach	Marcelo Oliveira	Brazilian

Symbols and colors[link]

The logo[link]

The club's logo is a green globe with the initials CFC in white on the center, along with twelve white stylized pine seeds. The logo's colors, green and white, are the same as Paraná state flag's.

Coritiba's first logo was very simple: a white background inside a green circle, with the initials CFC in green.

The team kit[link]

Coritiba's first kit was used from 1909 to 1916, and was composed of green and white vertical stripes.

Coritiba's second kit, used from 1916 to 1976 was an all-white one.

The current home kit is composed of a white shirt, with two green parallel horizontal stripes and black shorts and white socks. The away kit is composed of a green and white vertical stripes shirt, black shorts and green socks. These kits were adopted in 1976.

Anthem[link]

The official club anthem lyrics were composed by Cláudio Ribeiro, and the music by Homero Rébuli. There is also an unofficial anthem, called Coritiba Eterno Campeão (Coritiba Eternal Champion), which was composed (both the lyrics and the music) by Francis Night. A third anthem, which lyrics were composed Vinicius Coelho and the music by Sebastião Lima also call the team the "eternal champion".

The mascot[link]

The club's mascot is an old man nicknamed Vovô Coxa (Grandpa Coxa), and represents the club's tradition of being the oldest football club of Curitiba.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site (in English)
• Blog do Torcedor do Coritiba - Official Supporter's Blog (in Portuguese and English)
• Coxanautas (in Portuguese)
• Império Alviverde (in Portuguese)

For more on Coritiba's history, check out the article Yesterday. Today. Forevermore. at the Official Supporter's Blog (Blog do Torcedor do Coritiba)

Chelsea F.C.'s football squad in 1905 pictured with support staff

A football team is the collective name given to a group of players selected together in the various team sports known as football.

Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an All-star team or even selected as a hypothetical team (such as a Dream Team or Team of the Century) and never play an actual match.

There are several varieties of football, with the most notable being Association football, Gridiron football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league and rugby union. The number of players selected for each team within these varieties and their associated codes can vary substantially. In some, use of the word "team" is sometimes limited to those who play on the field in a match and does not always include other players who may take part as replacements or emergency players. "Football squad" may be used to be inclusive of these support and reserve players.

The term football club is the most commonly used for a sports club which is an organised or incorporated body with a president, committee and a set of rules responsible for ensuring the continued playing existence of one or more teams which are selected for regular competition play (and which may participate in several different divisions or leagues). The oldest football clubs date back to the early 19th century. The word team and club are sometimes used interchangeably by supporters, although typically refers to the team within the club playing in the highest division or competition.

Variation of player numbers among football codes[link]

The 18 senior players of Port Adelaide Football Club's 1914 Champions of Australia team

The number of players that take part in the sport simultaneously, thus forming the team are:

• Association football: 11
  • Indoor soccer: 6
  • Futsal, beach soccer, five-a-side football: 5
• American football: 11
  • Arena football: 8
• Canadian football: 10
• Rugby league: 13
• Rugby union: 15
  • Rugby sevens: 7
• Gaelic football: 15
• Australian rules football: 18

Lists of association football teams[link]

• List of association football clubs
• List of men's national association football teams
• List of women's football clubs
• List of women's national football teams

Lists of Australian rules football teams[link]

• List of Australian rules football clubs

References[link]