Coquimbo Unido
| Coquimbo Unido | |||
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| Surname | Club de Deportes Coquimbo Unido | ||
| Seat | Coquimbo | ||
| founding | 1957 | ||
| president |
 Fernando Sánchez
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| Website | coquimbounido.cl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Patricio Graff
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| Venue | Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso | ||
| Places | 17,750 | ||
| league | Primera Division B | ||
| Transición 2013 | 1st place, group north | ||
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Club de Deportes Coquimbo Unido is a Chilean football club from Coquimbo . The club, which was founded in 1957 and has never been a Chilean football champion, currently plays in Primera División B and plays its home games at the Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso , which can seat 17,800 spectators.
history
The Club de Deportes Coquimbo Unido was founded on August 15, 1957 in the city of Coquimbo , which now has around 160,000 inhabitants in the region of the same name in the Little North of Chile . Only six years after the club was founded, the club was found for the first time in the Primera División , the top division of Chilean football. With thirteenth place the relegation was relatively easy, while O'Higgins Rancagua had to go into the second division. Also in the following year they managed to stay in the league with place fourteen, which was not to succeed in 1965. Here Coquimbo Unido was in last place after the end of all match days with just ten points and a full thirteen points behind the penultimate Unión La Calera and relegated to Primera División B again after three years.
It was not until the late 1970s that Coquimbo Unido could be found again on the top floor of Chilean football. Between 1978 and 1980 the club experienced its second phase of first class, which lasted three years before relegation had to be accepted. In 1984 they were once again active in the Primera División for a year, but rose again as a climber with the last place in the table.
After seven years in the second division, the most successful period in the history of Coquimbo Unido began in 1991. After promotion to the Primera División, they played a sensational 1992 season and were runner-up in the end, only five points separated the team of coach José Sulantay from the new Chilean football champion Colo-Colo . By taking second place in the Primera División 1991, Coquimbo Unido was also qualified for the Copa Libertadores 1992 , which is the club's first and to this day only appearance in continental football. At the tournament, however, the end came early after they only finished last in a group with the league rivals Colo-Colo and Universidad Católica as well as the two Argentine representatives Newell's Old Boys and San Lorenzo de Almagro , just one win in eight games and reached a draw and was eliminated in the group stage. In the same year they were tenth in the league. In these regions, Coquimbo Unido established itself in the course of the 1990s, although several times the relegation was only achieved through relegation. Thirteen years later, Coquimbo Unido set a similar exclamation mark as in 1992. In the Torneo Apertura of the Primera División 2005 they reached the championship final after victories over CD Cobreloa and CD Huachipato , but were defeated there by the favored Unión Española with 2: 4 on the return leg.
In 2007, two years after this success, Coquimbo Unido had to leave the Primera División after sixteen years. Since then, the Pirates , as the club is popularly known, have not been able to return to the first division. Since the 2008 season Coquimbo Unido is instead in the Primera División B, Chile's second-highest division to be found.
successes
- Chilean runner-up : 2 × (1991, Apertura 2005)
- Primera Division B : 2 × (1962, 1977)
- Participation in the Copa Libertadores : 1 × 1992 : group stage
Trainer
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Luis Álamos (1978) -
Francisco Valdés (1991)
player
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Sergio Ahumada , born in Coquimbo and raised at Coquimbo Unido, later a player at Colo-Colo and Unión Española and participant in the 1974 World Cup, last career at Coquimbo Unido in 1981
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Carlos Carmona , spent his career as a youth player with Coquimbo Unido, from 2005 to 2007 also in the first team, 2010 World Cup participant, currently active with Atalanta Bergamo
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Luis Fuentes , long-time CD Cobreloa player and very successful with the club, also made 27 international matches for Chile between 1998 and 2005, one year in Coquimbo in 2009, currently under contract with Deportes Iquique
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José Daniel Ponce , made a total of 24 international matches for the national team of his home country, at club level for Estudiantes de La Plata or the Boca Juniors, 1995 retired in Coquimbo -
Alex Varas , multiple Chilean international, has been the goalkeeper for Universidad Católica, Santiago Wanderers and Colo-Colo, among others, briefly in Coquimbo in 1996
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Jorge Vargas , 38 times Chilean international, mainly active at club level at Universidad Católica, Reggina Calcio and Red Bull Salzburg, in 1997 in the jersey of Coquimbo Unido for one year
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Pedro González Vera , in two periods with Coquimbo Unido under contract, from 1991 to 1992 and 2005, also long-time actor of CD Cobreloa and Universidad de Chile and 29-time national player of Chile
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