Coritiba Foot Ball Club
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| Full name | Coritiba Foot Ball Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Coxa, The White Thigh, Glorious | |||
| Founded | October 12, 1909 (99 years old) | |||
| Ground | Couto Pereira, Curitiba, Brazil (Capacity: 37,182) |
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| Chairman |  Jair Cirino dos Santos |
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| Manager | René Simões |
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| League | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | |||
| 2008 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 9th | |||
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Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba, is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba, Paraná. It's the state's oldest football team, the biggest and also the most traditional.
Coritiba's greatest rivals are Atlético Paranaense and Paraná.
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[edit] History
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 2007, the club won the Brazilian Championship Second Level for the first time, after being relegated in 2005, thus being promoted to the following year's top level.
[edit] Club records
- First Match: Coritiba 5-3 Ponta Grossa (June 16, 1910)
- First Goal Scorer: Fritz Essenfelter
- Biggest Win (Brazilian Championship): Coritiba 7-1 Ferroviário (Couto Pereira, April 16, 1980) & Coritiba 7-1 Desportiva-ES (Couto Pereira, May 4, 1980)
- Heaviest Defeat (Brazilian Championship): 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)
[edit] Achievements
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A:
- Winners (1): 1985
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série B:
- Winners (1): 2007
- Torneio do Povo:
- Winners (1): 1973
- Campeonato Paranaense:
- Winners (33): 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
- Festival Brasileiro de Futebol:
- Winners (1): 1997
- Fita Azul Internacional:
- Winners (1): 1972
- Pierre Colon Trophy (Vichy, France):
- Winners (1): 1969
- Akwaba Trophy (Africa):
- Winners (1): 1983
[edit] Couto Pereira
- Name: Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira
- Capacity: 37,182
- Address: Rua Ubaldino do Amaral, 37
- Record attendance (general): 70,000 (Pope John Paul II, 1980)[1]
- 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 build. When he died in 1977, the stadium name was changed to Couto Pereira.
[edit] Current squad
[edit] First-team squad
As of January 29, 2009 according to combined sources on the official website.
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[edit] The logo
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.
[edit] The team kit
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.
[edit] Anthem
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".
[edit] The mascot
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.
[edit] AtleTiba
In Curitiba, located in Paraná State in the far South of Brazil, the 'Campeonato Paranaense' was played since 1915. Internacional was the first champion here. The city of Curitiba hosted other clubs as well, like Britânia, Savóia, América and … Coritiba. Coritiba FC was founded in 1909, by German immigrants. In 1916 Coritiba won the second championship. A small rivalry between Coritiba and Internacional began. América and Britânia also had very strong teams. In 1917 América even became state champions and from 1918-1924 Britânia would be crowned champions of the Paraná State. Coritiba, Internacional and América weren't too happy with this Britânia spell. Coritiba refused any agreement for merger with other teams, so it happened that in March 1924 Clube Atlético Paranaense was founded as a result of a fusion between Internacional and América. Their club colours would be black (the main color of Internacional) and red (América). It wouldn't take long before Coritiba, the club of German immigrants, and Atlético, the club of the elite, met in a pre-season championship. On April 20, 1924, Atlético won the first unofficial meeting 2-0. The first official meeting was on June 8 that same year, this time for the Paraná State Championship. Coritiba took revenge and won the game by 6-3. Those two games were the start of a great rivalry.
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