Liverpool FC (Montevideo)

Infobox Football club
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fullname = Liverpool Fútbol Club
nickname = Negriazules
founded = 12 February, 1915
ground = Estadio Belvedere,
Montevideo, Uruguay
capacity = 9,500
chairman = José L. Palma
manager = Eduardo Favaro
mgrtitle = Coach
league = Primera División Uruguaya
season = Clausura 2008
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Liverpool Fútbol Club, usually known simply as Liverpool, is an Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club joined the first division for the first time in 1919. The name was taken after a geography class where the founding members of the club were studying the ports of Great Britain,and they liked the name of Liverpool,one of the most important cities in northern England.However another strong argument for the name is one telling of a random procedure,one member was told to twist an earth globe and stop it with a finger,with the selected point resulted in the referred city of England. For the 2005-06 season, the away kit changed to a new all red one, thus looking exactly like the English Liverpool football team. Liverpool plays home matches in Estadio Belvedere (Belvedere Stadium), formerly owned by the Montevideo Wanderers.

Honours

Liverpool have failed to win any domestic title. They are famously dubbed as the greatest team in the league never to win the title of champions.

They have also never won either of the major cups, they have reached the final of the Torneo Apertura and liguilla, both in 1995 only to be beaten by Club Atlético Peñarol and Defensor Sporting respectively.

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.

Current squad

Famous players

* Paulo Pezzolano
* Osvaldo Canobbio
* Juan Manuel Díaz
* Jorge Fucile
* Roque Máspoli
* Diego Aguirre
* Francisco Bertocchi
* Elías Ricardo Figueroa
* Luis Barbat
* Edgar Borges
* Jorge Delgado
* Fernando Fadeuille
* Gonzalo Germán Vicente

* Cristian González Aidinovich
* Alexander Medina
* José Naya
* Julio Montero Castillo
* Edgardo Simovic
* Humberto Tomasina
* Sebastián Vázquez
*flagicon|Libya Luis de Agustini
*flagicon|Qatar Sebastián Soria
* Jorge Alcalde
* Gustavo Fuentes
* Armando Dely Valdés

Kit evolution

:"Source: [http://www.bdfa.com.ar/plantel2.asp?codigo=628&actual=yes Liverpool (Montevideo) Page - BDFA.com.ar] "

External links

* [http://webs.montevideo.com.uy/lfc1915/ Unofficial Liverpool Fútbol Club web site] (Spanish)
* [http://liverpool.deuruguay.com.uy/ An excellent unofficial Liverpool Fútbol Club web site] (Spanish)
* [http://www.liverweb.org.uk Website charting Liverpool fc in England and Uruguay] (English)