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by Zachary Harden, 20 December 2004

The Flag - Attributes and Semiology: Consists in a field with approximated ratio 2:3; this is, square and half of length with red wine background and the Coat of Arms of the Federation on the center. Until the time of the redaction of this report is not available data about the semiology of this flag. However, the color red color is associate to the idea of courage, anger, intrepidity and sacrifice,
Historical Synthesis: Although seems to exist several opinions about the matter, the official version indicates that the use of red wine as emblematic color of the Federation and the National Selection of Football (Soccer) goes back to 1938 when a Venezuelan Sport Delegation attended for first time and international multidisciplinary event; in this case, the "Bolivarian Games" in Bogota, Colombia and consequently, the International Olympic Committee asked for the authorities of National Institute of Sports to determine its uniform, which was established as red wine t-shirt and gray trousers. Also is commented that the election of colors obeyed to the point of view of  then President of the Institute: a high officer of the National Guard, organism whose emblematic color is dark red or Bordeaux red. From there, the red wine has come fortifying as Venezuelan international sport color, with remarkable presence in the uniforms of national selections in another sport disciplines and consolidating more and more like a specie of o