The Juventude Esporte Clube, usually just called Juventude, is a football club from the 400,000 population city of Caxias do Sul ( Ausspr.
Kaschias ) in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The brazil usual mascot of the club is Periquito, a green parrot.
The biggest success of the current second division is the victory in the Brazilian Cup in 1999.
History
The club was founded on 29 June 1913 by Italian immigrants.
He was one of the first football clubs in Rio Grande do Sul and is considered the first of Brazil, which goes back to an initiative of Italian immigrants.
Less than a month after the founding, on July 20, 1913 Juventude played his first match against FC Serrano and won 4-0.
The following 23 games until March 8, 1915 Juventude won as well.
In 1919 Juventude the Football Federation of Rio Grande do Sul in.
A year later, the club undertook some players from Uruguay and established a sort of semi-professional game operation.
1920, the city of Caxias do Sul championship was launched.
The competition, held until 1953 Juventude won 24 times.
Main opponent was there Grêmio Esportivo Flamengo.
The 1935 -founded club should be 5 times can save the city championship.
The duel " Fla - Ju" is since that time the spice of football events of the city.
Already in the first match on August 4, 1935 startled Flamengo to the top dogs, winning in a city championship game 3-1.
This rivalry lasted until 1971.
During that time Brazil was sliding into a financial crisis, and in Caxias do Sul led the situation for the football clubs in an existential crisis.
The arch-rivals Flamengo and Juventude decided to marriage and united in December 1971 on the Associação de Caxias Futebol.
The ACF twice reached a respectable fourth place finish at the state championship.So also in 1975.
Yet it was not a love marriage and the marriage was dissolved primarily at the instigation of Juventude, after the competition.
However, did the black - white-clad football game of the community in its short duration of history than in 1972 their game against Gremio live in the first transmitted color match of the Brazilian television history was.
The game ended 0-0 and witnesses consistently report that the quality of football was presented to the event certainly does not do justice.
Flamengo soon called itself Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul, but is usually referred to only briefly Caxias.
Still on December 11, 1975 there was the first new edition of the old Fla -Ju - derbies.
Juventude won the Governor's Cup 1-0 against the still antretenden as ACF old rival.
The first Clássico Ca -Ju took place in March 1976, when the two teams split during a state championship game at the Estádio Alfredo Jaconi with 0:0.
In the years 1977-1979 to Juventude qualified for the first time to participate in the national championship, but not impressed there.
When participants fields ranging 64-94 clubs lands of the club in the final in each anonymous midfield.
Also in 1986 and 1987 is Juventude top notch.
But the fact is that in those years the local rivals Caxias is often more successful.
Caxias was in 1976 the first club from the city who was allowed to play for the Brazilian championship.
A real windfall gave in 1993 the partnership with the insolvent become ten years later, the Italian company Parmalat, which supported among other clubs in Europe and a Formula 1 racing team.
As early as 1994 was the first time Juventude second at the state championship and only 18 months after the beginning of the relationship Juventude was again nationally top notch.
1996 referred Juventude in the final of State Cup with 0:3 and 0:4 against Gremio of Porto Alegre clear defeats.
Only two years later Juventude came again before the final of the Campeonato Gaúcho, but this time Juventude won after a 3-1 at home and drawing 0-0 in the return match against SC Internacional in Porto Alegre with the state championship of Rio Grande do Sul, the first significant title.
The following year was even brought to Caxias do Sul, the Brazilian Cup.
In the final, defeated Juventude Carioca doing the traditional club Botafogo.
This success is entitled to only previous start in the Copa Libertadores, but where did that from as early as the first round.
1999 rose Juventude formally from the Series A from, but a scandal led to the increase of the upper house on 115 clubs and as the club held the class.
2007 ended the soaring meantime.
After 13 years of continuous membership of the club was relegated from Série A.
2009 followed the descent in the Série C and 2010 even the fall in the Série D.
Stadium and Training Center
Juventude plays its home matches at the modern, simplistic own Estádio Alfredo Jaconi.
The March 23, opened in 1975 with a scoreless outgoing game against Flamengo from Rio stadium has 23,726 seats these days.
Im looking for a player, coach and president of the 1930s and 1940s named stadium there was a record attendance on November 27, 2002, when 27 740 spectators followed these the 0-1 defeat in the quarter-finals for the national championship against Grêmio.
In addition to the stadium Juventude also owns a 30 -acre training center five minutes away from the city center.
There is, among other things seven football fields in standard size.
AchievementsCup of Brazil: 1999
State championship of Rio Grande do Sul: 1998
Well-known players and coachesPlayers:Brazil Doni
Spain Brazil Marcos SennaBrazil Spain Tiago
Brazil Fernando Menegazzo
Poland Brazil Roger GuerreiroBrazil NaldoBrazil PaulinhoBrazil DanteCoach:
Luiz Felipe Scolari, 1982-1983, 1986-1987Geninho, 1996, 1999Beto Almeida, 2010
Statistics: Derbies against Juventude Caxias
Since 1935, the EC Juventude and the SER Caxias do Sul developed, until 1971 known as Flamengo Grêmio Esportivo to the traditional rivals of the city.
Until January 28, 2009, when the two clubs in the Centenario Stadium parted in a state championship match with 0-0, the last considered in this statistic encounter, both teams were a total of 259 times over.
