Uruguay - 2013 - Centenary of Sport Club: "Defensor"
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SERIE --- 1,40 EUR
SERIE [1X2] with LABEL --- 3,20 EUR
SERIE [2X2] with LABEL --- 5,60 EUR
BLOCK --- 10,00 EUR
FDC not Sent --- 2,80 EUR
FDC Sent on First Day --- 9,00 EUR
COVER Sent on First Day --- 6,00 EUR
COVER Sent --- 5,00 EUR
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Issue information:
Country: Uruguay
Date: March 20th, 2013
Printed: 15.000 copies
Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [27 mm. x 39 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated
Block Configuration: 8 stamps [3 x 3] and one Label at position 2,2
[ [STAMP, STAMP, STAMP]
[STAMP, LABEL, STAMP]
[STAMP, STAMP, STAMP] ]
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [148 mm. x 127 mm.]
FDC Type: Normal
FDC Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]
Cover Shape and Size: Rectangular [241 mm. x 159 mm.]
Catalogue information:
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Topics:
Issue:
This stamp commemorates the centenary of the Football/Soccer Sport Club called "Club Atlético Defensor", at this moment a sport club named "Defensor Sporting Club", because, since March 15th of 1989, it has merged with "Sporting Club Uruguay", the first basketball club of Uruguay. This fusion built one of the best known Uruguayan Clubs, in a tight dispute with "Danubio Futbol Club" for being the third best team in football/soccer, after "Club Atlético Peñarol" and "Club Nacional de Football", one of the best in basketball local championships. As an example of it place in Uruguayan sport championships, at this time was the finalist in both, football/soccer and basketball, defeated recently by "Club Atlético Peñarol" in football/soccer, and "Club Atlético Aguada" in Basketball.
An anecdote about this release, is that 3 years ago, on 2010, a similar one was issue, that time commemorating the Centenary of "Sporting Club Uruguay", the other Club of the merge, so now, the merged Club has two stamps celebrating his centenary on different years.
The main topic of the issue is "Club Atlético Defensor", this centennial urugayan football team, and going a bit more general, is the sport football itself, depicted in the football player, wearing a strange desing of "Defensor" violet football kit that shows a red line in both shirt and shorts, apparently a "Kappa" kit from years 2009-2010, and in the action of kicking a ball that is the second zero of 100 number.
Although soccer is the main topic of this release, the inclusion of the coat of arms of "Defensor Sporting Club", that, besides the initials of the club complete name inside the union of two circumferences, it shows a stylized lighthouse, mades that the release fit in a collection of this architecture and navigational aids item. The appearence of the lighthouse in the coat of arms of this club, is caused by the nearby of the headquarters and the stadium of the institution to an old lighthouse that is situated on the "Punta Brava" of the river "Rio de la Plata" coast of Montevideo. Also, for their nearby to this Lighthouse, one of the nicknames of this team fans is "Los de la Farola", that in english means: "The ones from the Lighthouse".
Regarding the Lighthouse being referred by the club coat of arms, the "Punta Brava" Lighthouse, it is interesting to add that it has already been presented in Uruguayan stamps, in a [2x2] se-tenant release issued on March 14th of 2000, being the stamp in position (2,2) the one that shows the mentioned Lighthouse.
The last words about the design of the issue goes to the picture, that works as the background for both the player and the coat of arms. This Picture shows what surely was an ancient team, according to the costumes of the players, of the honoured club, however, it is not known the year of the team photographed, and also not known if it was chosen that for a particular reason.
Defensor Sporting Club is a sports club based in Montevideo, Uruguay. This club plays several sports, being football and basketball the most important and the ones in which the club has achieved significant victories in Uruguay and internationally.
It was founded on March 15 of 1913 with the name "Defensor Football Club", near the Urban Park, at the heart of the neighbourhoood "Punta Carretas". Determined to officially play wearing green colour kit, Alfredo Ghierra given the name "Defensor" and Nicolás Podesta was the first president of the club. The name "Defensor", in english "Defender", come from a team formed in 1906 by workers of the Punta Carretas factory glass, called "Defensores de la huelga", that in english mean: "Defenders of the strike". As in the league the club Belgrano already had green shirt, by compulsion it had to change the colours, so the first colors were really transgressors, black shirt with a blue and a green stripe. The reason why then changed to the their traditional violet one was that in the "Casa de Deportes Frechou", a house of Sports of that the first decades of twenty century, the only color that they had i t-shirts and it was not recorded by any other team in the league was the violet.
He started playing in the Third Division in 1913, rose to the Second Division for 1914, and ascended to the first division for 1915, finishing fourth in his first cup of Uruguay. His team disbanded after the 1917 championship, after falling to Second Division for finishing in last place in a tournament which it was canceled a positive result obtained on the field against National (that was seeking the Triple Crown) being due to repeat the match, that in this time ended up being unfavorable. In 1918, the Assembly decided to leave the competition and most of his players went on to join the ranks of "Universal" club.
Reappeared with the name of "Club Atlético Defensor" in an Uruguayan football divided in two leagues, and joining the Federation in 1922. Then, returning to the Association League in 1926, it played in the "Parque Ricci", located in the streets "Videla" and "Alarcón", and since 1929 in a field in the neighbourhood "Parque Rodo", after Peñarol desist to lift their stadium there.
Finally, the name of the club was changed in 1989 to "Defensor Sporting Club" after a merger with "Sporting Club Uruguay". They are a four-time national football champion in Uruguay (1976, 1987, 1991, 2007–2008).
Defensor has won many qualifying tournaments (Pre-Liguilla) to the Copa Libertadores and has represented Uruguay on numerous occasions internationally. It is also regarded as one of the teams that creates and develops many players in Uruguay and are then transferred worldwide. It is the place of birth of numerous players like Jorge da Silva, Sergio "Manteca" Martínez, Sebastián Abreu, Andrés Fleurquin, Marcelo Tejera, Darío Silva, Gonzalo Vargas, Diego Pérez, Nicolás Olivera, Martín Cáceres, Maximiliano Pereira, Álvaro González, Tabaré Viudez.
Legendary coach Professor Ricardo de León brought Defensor to the national championship in 1976 and originated a football (fútbol) school of thought, consistently criticized as ultra defensive, that is still present nowadays in several teams and coaches.
On September 2007, the club was considered the World's Club Team of the Month by the IFFHS.
Defensor's most famous supporter is singer/composer Jaime Roos.
Defensor plays its home games at its own stadium called Estadio Luis Franzini which has a capacity for 18,000 spectators. The stadium was opened on 31 December 1963, and it is located in the neighbourhood called "Parque Rodó", in the Capital of Uruguay, Montevideo.
Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by using any part of you body besides your arms and hands to get the football into the opposing goal.
The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play and then only in their penalty area. Outfield players mostly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may use their head or torso to strike the ball instead. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition. The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association) which organises a World Cup every four years.
Two of the earliest recorded football type games from Europe include Episkyros from Ancient Greece and the Roman version Harpastum, which similar to pre-codified "Mob Football" involved more handling the ball than kicking. Many earlier competitive games revolving around the kicking of a ball have been played in a few countries throughout history, such as cuju in China. Non-competitive games included kemari in Japan and woggabaliri in Australia. The modern rules of association football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played in the public schools of England. The history of football in England dates back to at least the eighth century.
The Cambridge Rules, first drawn up at Cambridge University in 1848, were particularly influential in the development of subsequent codes, including association football. The Cambridge Rules were written at Trinity College, Cambridge, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury schools. They were not universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs unconnected to schools or universities were formed throughout the English-speaking world, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club, formed by former public school pupils in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867. In 1862, John Charles Thring of Uppingham School also devised an influential set of rules.
These ongoing efforts contributed to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863, which first met on the morning of 26 October 1863 at the Freemasons' Tavern in Great Queen Street, London. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five more meetings between October and December, which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the first FA treasurer, the representative from Blackheath, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting: the first allowed for running with the ball in hand; the second for obstructing such a run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins), tripping and holding. Other English rugby clubs followed this lead and did not join the FA and instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union. The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, went on to ratify the original thirteen laws of the game. These rules included handling of the ball by "marks" and the lack of a crossbar, rules which made it remarkably similar to Victorian rules football being developed at that time in Australia. The Sheffield FA played by its own rules until the 1870s with the FA absorbing some of its rules until there was little difference between the games.
The laws of the game are currently determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The Board was formed in 1886 after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association. The world's oldest football competition is the FA Cup, which was founded by C. W. Alcock and has been contested by English teams since 1872. The first official international football match took place in 1872 between Scotland and England in Glasgow, again at the instigation of C. W. Alcock. England is home to the world's first football league, which was founded in Birmingham in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. The original format contained 12 clubs from the Midlands and Northern England. FIFA, the international football body, was formed in Paris in 1904 and declared that they would adhere to Laws of the Game of the Football Association. The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the International Football Association Board in 1913. The board currently consists of four representatives from FIFA and one representative from each of the four British associations.
Today, football is played at a professional level all over the world. Millions of people regularly go to football stadiums to follow their favourite teams, while billions more watch the game on television or on the internet. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level. According to a survey conducted by FIFA published in 2001, over 240 million people from more than 200 countries regularly play football. Football has the highest global television audience in sport.
In many parts of the world football evokes great passions and plays an important role in the life of individual fans, local communities, and even nations. R. Kapuscinski says that people who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into rage with playing or watching soccer games. The Côte d'Ivoire national football team helped secure a truce to the nation's civil war in 2006 and it helped further reduce tensions between government and rebel forces in 2007 by playing a match in the rebel capital of Bouaké, an occasion that brought both armies together peacefully for the first time. By contrast, football is widely considered to have been the final proximate cause for the Football War in June 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras. The sport also exacerbated tensions at the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, when a match between Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade degenerated into rioting in May 1990.
The rules of association football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863 and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association".
Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called football in the United Kingdom, and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States. Other countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, may use either or both terms.
Association football is played in accordance with a set of rules known as the Laws of the Game. The game is played using a spherical ball (of 71 cm (28 in) circumference in FIFA play), known as the football (or soccer ball). Two teams of eleven players each compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under the bar), thereby scoring a goal. The team that has scored more goals at the end of the game is the winner; if both teams have scored an equal number of goals then the game is a draw. Each team is led by a captain who has only one official responsibility as mandated by the Laws of the Game: to be involved in the coin toss prior to kick-off or penalty kicks.
The primary law is that players other than goalkeepers may not deliberately handle the ball with their hands or arms during play, though they do use their hands during a throw-in restart. Although players usually use their feet to move the ball around, they may use any part of their body (notably, "heading" with the forehead) other than their hands or arms. Within normal play, all players are free to play the ball in any direction and move throughout the pitch, though the ball cannot be received in an offside position.
In typical game play, players attempt to create goal-scoring opportunities through individual control of the ball, such as by dribbling, passing the ball to a team-mate, and by taking shots at the goal, which is guarded by the opposing goalkeeper. Opposing players may try to regain control of the ball by intercepting a pass or through tackling the opponent in possession of the ball; however, physical contact between opponents is restricted. Football is generally a free-flowing game, with play stopping only when the ball has left the field of play or when play is stopped by the referee for an infringement of the rules. After a stoppage, play recommences with a specified restart.
At a professional level, most matches produce only a few goals. For example, the 2005–06 season of the English Premier League produced an average of 2.48 goals per match. The Laws of the Game do not specify any player positions other than goalkeeper, but a number of specialised roles have evolved. Broadly, these include three main categories: strikers, or forwards, whose main task is to score goals; defenders, who specialise in preventing their opponents from scoring; and midfielders, who dispossess the opposition and keep possession of the ball in order to pass it to the forwards on their team. Players in these positions are referred to as outfield players, in order to distinguish them from the goalkeeper. These positions are further subdivided according to the area of the field in which the player spends most time. For example, there are central defenders, and left and right midfielders. The ten outfield players may be arranged in any combination. The number of players in each position determines the style of the team's play; more forwards and fewer defenders creates a more aggressive and offensive-minded game, while the reverse creates a slower, more defensive style of play. While players typically spend most of the game in a specific position, there are few restrictions on player movement, and players can switch positions at any time. The layout of a team's players is known as a formation. Defining the team's formation and tactics is usually the prerogative of the team's manager.
The Lighthouse of Punta Brava is located on the shores of the Rio de la Plata, in the neighborhood of Punta Carretas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
It was built and lit on October 1, 1876. The tower was built of carved stone inside revoked and high on its solid foundation. In 1911 the lighting system is replaced by a lenticular apparatus.
Since 1948 every 10 seconds are inserted a flash of white and red to differentiate it from other lighthouses and buoys.
It remains very important for fishing navigation Bank head to English, or Buceo Port or the entrance of the Santa Lucía River.
In 1962 he was linked to the network eléctrica.
It has a height of 19 meters and has a beam range of 18.5 nautical miles.
Label:
The label design is composed by three logotypes. The main one, that occupies 2/3 of the label surface, is focused on the centenary of the club, and shows a huge number 100, whose second zero builds in a creative way the Punta Brava Lighthouse that identifies the Club, and the logotype is completed with the legend "Club Atlético Defensor, Un siglo de pasión violeta", that in english means: "Club Atlético Defensor, A century of violet passion". Also, in the logotype, the well designed second zero lighthouse shows the period in years, 1913 - 2013, of the centenary that the club has lived, and four stars, representing the Uruguayan football championships that the club had won.
Then, the label shows at right of the described logotype, the coat of arms of the original club "Club Atlético Defensor" above the one of the merged club "Defensor Sporting Club". It is interesting to remark that in both coat of arms, the lighthouse of Punta Brava, is the main symbol in it.
Block:
The block design is although simple, very well designed. It surround the eight stamps and the label with a light violet background including nine times the legend already present in the label "Un siglo de pasión violeta", in english "A century of violet passion", one in dark violet and in a title like position, and the other eight mainly as background and appearing partially as they were behind the stamps.
Another detail of the block, is that the Punta Brava Lighthouse appears again, this time repeated four times, in colours cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, to show the inks used for printing the block.
FDC:
The First Day Cancelation is a circular one, whose circunference names the club "Club Atlético Defensor", the name of the club before merging, and the legend present in all cancelations: "Correos - Uruguay".
Inside this circunference there is the legend "100 años", in english "100 years", the text stating the emmission date, and the desing is completed with the coat of arms of the initial designation of the club, showing the Punta Brava Lighthouse.
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