V.V. Cicerone
{{Short description|Defunct surinamese football club}}
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| clubname = Cicerone
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| fullname = Voetbal Vereniging Cicerone
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| founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1929|1|22}}{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/surifound.html |title=Surinam – List of Foundation Dates |first=Karel |last=Stokkermans |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) |date=28 May 2014 |access-date=11 January 2016}}
| dissolved = 1958
| ground = Suriname Stadion,
Paramaribo, Suriname
| capacity = 3,000
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| league = –
| season = 1957–58
| position = Tweede Klasse, 8th
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Voetbal Vereniging Cicerone, known as Cicerone, was a Surinamese football club based in Paramaribo that last played in the Tweede Klasse, in the 1957–58 season.{{cite web |url=http://www.qn-sports.com/schema-9e-integra-port-services-dp-world-lidbonden-toernooi/ |title=Schema 9e Integra Port Services DP World Lidbonden Toernooi |website=QN-Sports|publisher=QN Sports|access-date=13 January 2016}}
History
Cicerone was founded as an artistic dance club on 26 October 1910. Over the years the club evolved into a multisports club, including a Korfball, Football and Basketball team. The football branch was founded on 22 January 1929 in Paramaribo, Suriname, Cicerone are an older football club, and one of the first clubs to compete in the Hoofdklasse, the highest level of football in the country, winning the National title four seasons in a row from 1931 to 1935. They have also won the Dragten Cup twice, the Emancipation Cup twice, and the Bueno Cup once. In 1933, Cicerone played the first match against a Venezuelan club in Suriname, when they played Deportivo Español on 2 September 1933 in a 1–1 draw. It was Cicerone's 25th consecutive match unbeaten (21 wins, 4 draws) losing the following match 1–0 to Voorwaarts.{{cite web |url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/stut004eers01_01/stut004eers01_01_0254.php |title=Voetbal; De eerste Surinaamse sportencyclopedie (1893–1988) |website=dbnl.org|publisher=Alberga, Paramaribo|access-date=13 January 2016}}
Notable former players of Cicerone from the clubs' period at the top flight in Suriname include Charles Naloop, R. Pinas, Leo Rijzenburg, C. Cairo, Charles Wijdenbosch, Richard Wijdenbosch, J. Eendragt, Anton Balrak, Bil Bromet, Cornelis Naloop, and Eugene René Enz. The first chairman of the club was O. Stenhuys, while the teams' talent scout was Jurion Henny Stenhuys who recruited players from around the Gonggrijpstraat and the Prinssessestraat in the Capital city.{{cite web |url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/stut004eers01_01/stut004eers01_01_0049.php |title=Cicerone; De eerste Surinaamse sportencyclopedie (1893–1988) |website=dbnl.org|publisher=Alberga, Paramaribo|access-date=2 February 2016}}
Achievements
References
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{{Football in Suriname}}
{{Hoofdklasse (suriname)}}
{{SVB Hoofdklasse champions}}
Category:1929 establishments in Suriname
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