Unión Magdalena
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| Full name | Club Unión Magdalena S.A. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | El Ciclón Bananero (The Bananaquit Cyclone) | |||
| Founded |
10 March 1951 (as Deportivo Samarios) 19 April 1953 (officially) | |||
| Ground |
Estadio Sierra Nevada Santa Marta, Colombia | |||
| Capacity | 16,000 | |||
| Chairman | Luis Eduardo Méndez | |||
| Manager | Harold Rivera | |||
| League | Categoría Primera B | |||
| 2017 | 11th | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Unión Magdalena (Spanish pronunciation: [uˈnjon maɣðaˈlena]) commonly known as El Unión, familiarly and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Bananaquit Cyclone), is a professional Colombian football club based in Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia. that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. They play their home games at the Sierra Nevada Stadium, where they moved because their previous stadium, the Eduardo Santos stadium, will be demolished.
Founded in 10 March 1951 as Deportivo Samarios, the club was re-founded as Unión Magdalena in 19 April 1953. The original playing squad was largely composed of Hungarians who were touring Colombia when their club, the Hungária FC, was disbanded.[1]
Unión has only won one championship, in 1968 playing against Deportivo Cali in the final. The first football club of the Caribbean region of Colombia to win a football championship in history. Also being first in the Caribbean Region represented the country in the 1968 Copa Libertadores. Carlos Valderrama, one of the most famous Colombian footballers, started his career here.
Red and blue stripes compose the traditional shirt of the team, and its design is inspired by Argentine club San Lorenzo de Almagro.
Uniform
The club uniform is directly inspired by the colors of the flag of the Magdalena Department since the founding of the team in 1953, although for many years it played with a white uniform. For the 2012 season, his uniform continued with the traditional Barça vertical stripes, and he again used the clothes of the Bogota company FSS with whom he had signed in past seasons. With the change of the shield, the gray color was added to the vertical and horizontal lines, therefore, the averages of the banana set are of such color.
For the secondary uniform, the one that suffers most seasonally to the season is a white shirt with vertical thin blue lines, blue shorts, and red socks.
Kit manufacturers
| Periodo | Proveedor |
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| 1987–1988 |  |
| 1989–1997 |  |
| 1998–2000 | |
| 2001–2008 | |
| 2009–2010 | |
| 2010–2011 | |
| 2012–2013 | |
| 2014–2015 | |
| 2015–2016 | |
| 2017 – presente | |
Players
Current squad
- As of 10 February 2018
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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First Team (Deportivo Samarios – 1951)
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
Domestic
- Winners (1): 1968
- Runners-up (1): 1989
Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
| Season | Competition | Round | Opponent | Home | Away | Pen. |
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| 1969 | Copa Libertadores | GS | |
2–2 | 1–3 | — |
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3–0 | 0–2 | — | |||
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0–1 | 1–0 | — | |||
Notable players
Personnel
Current technical staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Head coach | |
| Assistant manager | |
| Physical Trainer | |
| Goalkeeping coach | |
| Psychologist | |
| Doctor | |
| Kinesiologist | |
Last updated: 30 April 2018
Source: Unión Magdalena
References
- ↑ Ascencio, Jose Orlando (5 November 1999). "A la tierra del olvido" [Land of oblivion] (in Spanish). El Tiempo.
External links
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