Cúcuta Deportivo
Cucuta Deportivo ( Corporación Nuevo Cúcuta Deportivo completely ) is a Colombian football club based in the city of Cucuta in the northeast of the country the Department of Norte de Santander.
The club was founded in 1949 and the team was in the same year the professional status. The club plays after relegation in 2013 in the second Colombian league. He was already in the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores.
History
The club was founded in 1924 as Cúcuta Sports Club and already went in the late 1920s on tour to neighboring Venezuela. The jersey colors of black and red are from the period when the team the trunk of the selection of Norte de Santander was formed, which took in national " Olympics ".
On May 15, 1949, the Colombian League President invited the directors of the clubs Club Colpet, Chinaquillo, Guasimales and Unión Frontera to strengthen Cúcuta Deportivo for the Colombian professional league. The entrepreneur Hernando Lara Hernández acquired in September on 1700 shares of the association, and allowed the economic capacity to act as a professional club and the necessary organizational reforms. By November 1949, the team played regional qualifying matches and qualified for the league at the club in 1950 for the first time took part with a team. In the first Erstligakader stood twelve players from Uruguay. The team finished the season ranked fifth among 16 teams. For the second season more Uruguayans were committed, including the heroes of Maracanaço -called victory in the World Cup final against Brazil at the 1950 World Cup, Schubert Gambetta and Eugenio Ramón Tejera. The team finished the season in fourth place.
1952 and 1953 came to the club in a financial crisis, which could be first overcome. 1953, the Hungarian Gyula Zsengellér was committed. 1954 and 1955 the crisis was so severe that the club did not participate in the league operating until 1956 and returned again and finished fourth. 1958 took the club to third place. 1964 reached the second place team with the best placement for a long time in its history, just one point behind Millonarios. Most important figure of the team was Rolando Serrano, who also participated for Colombia at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile.
The team held thereupon more than 30 years in the league, mostly in the midfield. 1995 from the team rose as 16. The following year they won the championship of the Primera B second Colombian League said. In the following year it rose as Table from again and missed the direct resurgence scarce. By 2005, the club then played in the second division; with the championship that year reached the summit.
In the first year after the rise of the team celebrated the first championship in club history: In the league final of the Clausura against Cucuta Deportes Tolima won the first leg 1-0 on 17 December 2006 and reached on December 20 in the return match in Ibagué a 1: 1 draw.
Cucuta Deportivo Thus, classified for the first time for the Copa Libertadores. Supports the champion team were the Panamanian striker Blas Perez, the Uruguayan Roberto Bobadilla and Charles Castro and the Colombian Macnelly Torres, Nelson Florez, Lincarlo Henry and Robinson Zapata ( goalkeeper ).
2013 Cúcuta was second to last and so had the relegation against the runner-up of the second division play. This lost the club against FC Fortaleza and thus plays from 2014 in the Categoría Primera B.
Overall, the club spent 48 seasons in the first and nine in the second Colombian league. Most of the games for the club denied José Omar Verdún with 323, who is also leading scorer with 169 goals. He belonged to the runner-up team in 1964.
Copa Libertadores
In the preliminary round of the Copa Libertadores in 2007 Cúcuta Deportivo took second place behind group Gremio (Brazil ) and before Deportes Tolima (Colombia) and Cerro Porteño (Paraguay ).
In the second round Cúcuta Deportivo Toluca defeated Mexico 5-1 in the first leg and lost the return leg 0-2, but still reached the quarterfinals. Here they sat down against Nacional Montevideo ( Uruguay) 2-0 and 2-2 by. In the semi-final against Boca Juniors in the first leg was won 3-1, the return match at the Bombonera in Buenos Aires but lost 0-3, so Cúcuta retired.
In the Copa Libertadores 2008 Cucuta survived again the preliminary round as group winners ahead of FC Santos and Deportivo Guadalajara. In the second round, where the team again met Santos on the set list, but they lost with 0:2 and 0:2.
Stadium
The club plays its home games at the after General Francisco de Paula Santander, a hero of the Colombian War of Independence in the early 19th century, named Estadio General Santander from.
The stadium was built in 1948 to provide an appropriate framework Cucuta in participation in the national championship competition introduced at that time. The multi-purpose stadium holds after a specially for the Libertadores participation were made and completed in 2007, renovated around 45,000 spectators.
Achievements
- Master of Colombia: 2006- II