Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool de Montevideo

Full name	Liverpool Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Negriazules, Los negros de la cuchilla
Founded	February 12, 1915
Ground	Estadio Belvedere, Montevideo, Uruguay (Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman	José Luis Palma
Coach	Julio Antúnez
League	Primera División
2010–11	11th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Liverpool Fútbol Club is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club joined the Uruguayan top flight in 1919.

History

The club has its roots in the student team from the Catholic Capuchin school in Nuevo París, which began playing in 1908. The club took on the name Liverpool as there were many cultural links between the two areas; the majority of coal ships arriving in Montevideo came from the busy English port.^[1] A number of clubs took on Anglicised names, such as league rivals Montevideo Wanderers F.C.; in this case, the team paid homage to Liverpool F.C.

For the 2005–06 season, the away kit changed to a new all red one, thus looking exactly like the English Liverpool Football Club. Liverpool plays home matches in Estadio Belvedere (Belvedere Stadium), formerly owned by the Montevideo Wanderers.

Current squad

As of 8 January 2012.^[2]

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 Matías Castro 2 DF Marcelo Mansilla 3 DF Christian Almeida 4 MF Agustin Morello 5 MF Nicolas Arbiza 6 DF Antonio Fernández 7 MF Edison Torres 8 FW Emiliano Alfaro 9 FW Diego Vera (captain) 10 FW Elias Figueroa 11 FW Carlos Núñez 12 GK Darwin Nieves 13 MF Mauricio Díaz 14 MF Carlos Macchi

No. Position Player 15 DF Gonzalo Sena 16 FW Walter Toureilles 17 FW Rodrigo Aguirre 18 FW Nicolas Royon 19 FW Enzo Herrera 20 MF Jonathan Barboza 21 MF Lucas Tamareo 22 GK Guillermo De Amores 23 DF Andrés Rodales 26 FW Max Rauhofer 32 MF Pablo Pereira -- FW Flavio Scarone -- GK Nicolás Biglianti 01 GK Juan Castillo

Honours

A view of the club's ground, Estadio Belvedere

Liverpool have failed to win any top flight domestic titles. They reached the final of the Torneo Apertura and Liguilla, both in 1995 only to be beaten by Club Atlético Peñarol and Defensor Sporting respectively. They are famously dubbed as the greatest team in the league never to win the title of champions.^{[citation needed]}

• Segunda División Uruguay: 3

1966, 1987, 2002

• Tercera División Uruguay: 2

1919, 1937

CONMEBOL appearances

• Copa Libertadores: 1 appearance

2011: First Stage

• Copa Sudamericana: 1 appearance

2009: First Stage

Other sports

Liverpool F.C. had a basketball team until the 1990s, playing in the stadium that still exists behind the north tribune of Estadio Belvedere. The team never reached first division.

Famous players

Managers

• Eugenio Galvalisi (19??−66)
• Gerardo Pelusso (1991)
• Julio Antúnez (Jan 1997−Jan 99)
• Julio César Ribas (2002−03)
• Juan Tejera (2006−07)
• Carlos Manta (July 2007−Nov 07)
• Eduardo Favaro (Jan 2008−June 11)
• Diego Demarco (June 2011−Oct 11)
• Julio Antúnez (Oct 2011−)

Kit evolution

1917

1919-present

1970, 1996

1995 away

2006 away

Source: Liverpool (Montevideo) Page - BDFA.com.ar

References

External links

• Official Liverpool Fútbol Club web site (Spanish)
• Unofficial Liverpool Fútbol Club web site (Spanish)
• Website charting Liverpool fc in England and Uruguay (English)