Unión Magdalena

Unión Magdalena (Spanish pronunciation: [uˈnjon maɣðaˈlena]) commonly known as El Unión, and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone), is a professional Colombian football club based in Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia. The club will play in the 2020 Categoría Primera B. The club's home ground is the Sierra Nevada Stadium, which it moved in 2018.

Unión Magdalena
Full nameClub Unión Magdalena S.A.
Nickname(s)El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone)
Founded10 March 1951 (as Deportivo Samarios)
19 April 1953 (1953-04-19) (officially)
GroundEstadio Sierra Nevada
Santa Marta, Colombia
Capacity16,000
ChairmanEduardo Dávila
ManagerCarlos Silva
LeagueCategoría Primera B
2019Categoría Primera A, 16th, aggregate table
(Relegated by average)
WebsiteClub website

Founded on 10 March 1951 as Deportivo Samarios, the club was re-founded as Unión Magdalena on 19 April 1953. The original playing squad was largely composed of Hungarians who were touring Colombia when their club, the Hungaria FbC Roma, was disbanded.[1]

History

Unión Magdalena was founded as Deportivo Samarios on 10 March 1951. The team was founded with the help of José Eduardo Gnecco Correa and Eduardo Dávila Riascos and was formed by the squad of the Hungaria FbC Roma when it was disbanded after a tour in South America.[1] The first team consisted in 10 Colombians, 8 Hungarians, 2 Yugoslavs, 1 Austrian, 1 Argentine, 1 Italian and 1 Romanian. Deportivo Samarios debuted on league that same year and placed 14th. That season, the team achieved the record of the biggest win in the Colombian league against Universidad, with a score of 12–1.

The club was re-founded as Unión Magdalena on 19 April 1953. 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. Carlos Valderrama, one of the most famous Colombian footballers, started his career here.

Relegated in 2005 after lost 3–0 against Deportivo Pereira, Unión earned automatic promotion to the 2019 Categoría Primera A season, after playing 13 years in the second division football league.[2] Unfotunately the club was relegated on 29 October 2019 after losing 3–1 to Once Caldas.[3]

Red and blue stripes compose the traditional shirt of the team, and its design is inspired by Argentine club San Lorenzo de Almagro.

Uniform
flag of the Magdalena department.

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.

Kit manufacturers
Years Provider
1987–1988 Dida
1989–1997 Torino
1998–2000 Penalty
2001–2008 Zodium
2009–2010 FSS
2010–2011 Zodium
2012–2013 FSS
2014–2015 Kimo
2015–2016 VeraLima
2017–present FSS
Years Provider
1979 Aerocondor Colombia
1981 Lotería del Libertador
1985 Hotel SantaMar
1986–1988 Kola Postobon
1989–1990 Colombiana
1991 Lotería La Cartagenera
1992–1994 Colombiana
1995–1996 Cerveza Leona
1997–2001 Cerveza Águila
2002 Cerveza Águila – Aposmar – Coolechera - Proleca
2003 Cerveza Águila – Aposmar – Coolechera
2004 Cerveza Águila – Aposmar
2005 Cerveza Águila
2006 Freska Leche
2013 Gobernación de la Guajira
2015 Coolechera
2017 Tierra Santa – Gobernación de Bolívar
2018 Tierra Santa – Alcaldía de Santa Marta
2019–present Supermercados Olímpica – Mercure Hotels – Tierra Santa – Ron Viejo De Caldas – Wplay.co – Su Red

Players

Current squad
As of 9 June 2020[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Aldair Arnedo
2 MF Ronaldo Lora
3 DF Stiwar Mena
4 DF Fabián Cantillo
5 MF Roberto Vanegas
6 DF Jermein Peña
7 MF Diego Chica
8 MF Roberto Hinojosa
9 FW Daiver Vega
10 MF Jhonier Viveros
11 MF Hernán Luna
12 GK Ramiro Sánchez
13 DF Diego Ruíz
14 DF James Castro
15 MF Luis Narváez
No. Position Player
16 DF Brayan Correa
17 DF Brayner García
18 MF Armando Vargas
19 DF Oidel Pérez
20 MF Iván Iseda
21 FW Ricardo Márquez
22 GK Homero Guerrero
23 FW Victor Arboleda
26 MF Jossymar Gómez
27 FW Ruyery Blanco
28 DF Andrés Escobar
29 MF Jhon Labastidas
31 MF Lucas Sotero
— FW Andrés Cortabarria

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.

No. Position Player
GK Ernest Sabeditch
GK Rubén Rocha
GK Jaime de la Spriella
GK Zvonko Monsider
DF Víctor Lanao
DF Alejandro Negrescu
DF Sándor Török
MF Gerro Hinduliak
MF József Samu
MF Enrique Ortiz
MF Nelson Pérez
MF Rómulo Barrios
No. Position Player
MF Felipe Fernández
MF Rafael Botto
FW György Marik
FW Joseph Kajml
FW Gyula Zsengellér (also Manager)
FW Orlando Granados
FW László Füzesi
FW Milos Dragolovich
FW Rudolf Strittich
FW Antonio Carrasquilla
FW Alessandro Adam
FW Apolinar Pérez

Honours

Domestic
Winners (1): 1968
Runners-up (2): 2000, 2018
Third place (1): 2001
Runners-up (1): 1989

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Pen.
1969 Copa Libertadores GS Deportivo Cali 2–2 1–3 —
Deportivo Italia 3–0 0–2 —
Deportivo Canarias 0–1 1–0 —

Notable players
  • Gyula Zsengellér (1951–53)
  • Georg Hanke (1951)
  • György Marik (1951–1952)
  • Gabriel Rakosky (1952)
  • Kalman Lami (1952)
  • Ladislao Magyar (1952)
  • Nicolás Hrotko (1952)
  • Bruno Gerzelli (1952)
  • Corrado Contin (1952)
  • Manuel Rossi (1965)
  • Nivaldo (1967)
  • Arístides Del Puerto (1973)
  • Luis Giribet (1976)
  • Víctor Solar (1977)
  • Carlos Valderrama (1981–84)
  • Alfredo Arango (1965–1972) (1973–1974) (1978–1980)
  • Carlos Arango (1950) (1960–1961)
  • Aurelio Palacios
  • Erwin Carrillo (2004–2005) (2007–2009) (2012–2014)

Personnel

Current technical staff
Position Staff
Head coach Harold Rivera
Assistant manager Gonzalo Martinez
Physical Trainer Daily Orozco
Goalkeeping coach Diego Rojas
Psychologist Joaquín Valdés
Doctor Edgar Sanchez Comas
Kinesiologist Rafael Lamus

Last updated: 30 April 2018
Source: Unión Magdalena

References
  1. Ascencio, Jose Orlando (5 November 1999). "A la tierra del olvido" [Land of oblivion] (in Spanish). El Tiempo.
  2. "Unión Magdalena pone fin a su larga odisea en la B". El Tiempo. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  3. "Balance de Unión Magdalena: el 'ciclón' perdió su fuerza en la Liga". futbolred. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  4. "Unión Magdalena". Dimayor. Retrieved 21 July 2019.

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