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Coritiba (PR)
In September of 1909 Frederico Fritz Essenfelder brought a leather football to Clube Ginástico Teuto-Brasileiro and explained the sport and its rules to several other youngsters whom liked the sport and started to play football matches at Quartel da Força Pública field. The following month on October 12 at Teatro Hauer they founded Coritibano Football Club.
On October 23, 1909, Coritibano played its first match and 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 clubs name changed to Coritiba and João Viana Seiler was chosen as the club's first president. In 1916, Coritiba won its first title, the Campeonato Paranaense and in 1985 came its first national championship where they gained 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 and were promoted to the following year's top level.
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