The Venezuela national football team, nicknamed La Vinotinto, represents Venezuela in men's international football and is controlled by the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF), the governing body for football in Venezuela. Their nickname is a reference to the unique “red wine” team color that is used on their home jerseys. When playing at home in official games, they usually rotate between three stadiums: The Polideportivo Cachamay in Puerto Ordaz, the Estadio José Antonio Anzoátegui in Puerto La Cruz and the Estadio Pueblo Nuevo in San Cristóbal. In friendly matches, they tend to rotate between the rest of the stadiums in the country.
Club Deportivo Popular Junior F.C. S.A., commonly known as Junior de Barranquilla, by its old name Atlético Junior, commonly as Junior FC, or simply as Junior, is a Colombian professional football team based in Barranquilla, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. Junior is the main Caribbean team in the top flight of Colombian football. As of 2022, they sit in the 25th place of the best South American teams.
The 2007 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, known simply as the 2007 Copa América or 2007 Copa América Venezuela, was the 42nd edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body, and was held between 26 June and 15 July in Venezuela, which hosted the tournament for the first time.
Club Tacuary is a Paraguayan First Division football team, based in the neighborhood of Jara in Asunción. The club was founded in 1923.
The Deportivo Táchira Futbol Club is a professional football club of the city of San Cristóbal, Venezuela. Founded on January 11, 1974, by Gaetano Greco, the club was originally known as "San Cristobal Football Club".
Caracas Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan professional football team based in Caracas. The club has won twelve First Division titles making it the most successful in Venezuelan football history.
Estudiantes de Mérida Fútbol Club is a professional football club of the Venezuelan league, based in Mérida, Venezuela. It has performed well in both national and international competitions, like Copa Libertadores, and has won titles in several regional and national competitions.
Estadio Olímpico de la UCV is a multipurpose stadium used mainly for association football in Caracas, Venezuela, which serves the home ground of Caracas F.C., Deportivo La Guaira, Metropolitanos F.C., and Universidad Central. It has a capacity of 24,264.
Deportivo Miranda Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan football club based in Caracas. Formed in 1948 as "Deportivo Italia F.C.", the club after fifty years merged with "Deportivo Chacao F.C." in 1998, and was called Deportivo Italchacao for eight years. The club has won the Primera División Venezolana five times and the Copa de Venezuela three times.
Asociación Civil Deportivo Lara was a professional football club based in Barquisimeto, Lara State, that was promoted to the Venezuelan league in 2009, in their first year of existence.
Daniel de Oliveira Sechi is a retired Venezuelan football midfielder who coached the Venezuelan U-15 and U-17 national soccer teams. He is the Elite FIFA coaching instructor for Colegio de Entrenadores and Federacion Venezolana de Futbol.
The 2011 Copa Libertadores de América was the 52nd edition of the Copa Libertadores de América, South America's premier international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. It was held from January 25 to June 22 of the same year. Brazilian club Internacional were the defending champion, but they were eliminated by Uruguayan team Peñarol in the round of 16. Internacional was succeeded by Brazilian club Santos, who won their third title after defeating Peñarol in the two-legged finals. Santos qualified to the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2012 Recopa Sudamericana.
Matt Weston is an English football coach/manager. He was the former head coach of FC New York and VSI Tampa Bay FC in the USL Professional League and technical director of Premier Development League team Ocala Stampede. He is now head coach of the Dayton Dutch Lions of the USL Pro.
New Jersey Copa FC are an American pro-am soccer club fielded by the soccer academy FC Copa Academy from Metuchen, New Jersey. It was founded in 2004 and fields men's, women's, and youth teams in a number of different amateur and semi-professional leagues, in addition to yearly academy teams which compete in various state, regional, and national competitions sanctioned by United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA).
Luis Hernán Pérez Ramírez is a former Chilean footballer and current manager.
The 2017 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the 8th edition of the South American Under-15 Football Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-15 national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Argentina between 5 and 19 November 2017.
The 2016 Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer was the first edition of the Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer, an annual continental beach soccer club tournament contested between the champions of the domestic leagues of South American nations who are members of CONMEBOL.
The 2016 Copa América of Beach Soccer was the first edition of the Copa América de Beach Soccer, the premier international beach soccer competition in South America, contested between the men's national teams of the members of CONMEBOL.
El Paso Locomotive FC is an American professional soccer team based in El Paso, Texas. Founded in 2018, the team made its debut in the USL Championship in 2019.
Jonathan Alexánder Pérez Lara is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Nashville SC on loan from Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy. Born in the United States, he plays for the Mexico national under-23 team.
