Cúcuta Deportivo

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Cúcuta Deportivo
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Basic data
Surname Corporación Nuevo Cúcuta Deportivo
Seat Cúcuta
founding 1949
president José Augusto Cadena
Website cucutadeportivo.com
First soccer team
Head coach Pablo Garabello
Venue Estadio General Santander
Places 42,000
league Category Primera A
2019 Apertura 11th place (league phase)
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Cúcuta Deportivo (completely Corporación Nuevo Cúcuta Deportivo ) is a Colombian football club from the city of Cúcuta in the Norte de Santander department in the northeast of the country.

The club was founded in 1949 and the team received professional status in the same year. The club currently plays in the Colombian first division . He was already in the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores .

history

The club was founded in 1924 as Cúcuta Sports Club and already went on tour to neighboring Venezuela in the late 1920s. The shirt colors black and red come from the time when the team formed the trunk of the selection of Norte de Santander, which competed in national "Olympiads".

In total, the club spent 48 seasons in the first and 9 in the second Colombian division. Most of the games for the club played José Omar Verdún with 323, who is also the record scorer with 169 goals. He was part of the runner-up team from 1964.

Old club logo

On May 15, 1949, the Colombian league president invited the boards of directors of Club Colpet, Chinaquillo, Guasimales and Unión Frontera to strengthen Cúcuta Deportivo for the Colombian professional league. The entrepreneur Hernando Lara Hernández acquired 1,700 shares in the club in September, thus enabling the economic ability to act as a professional club and the necessary organizational reforms. By November 1949, the team played regional playoffs and qualified for the league, in which the club first participated with a team in 1950. There were twelve players from Uruguay in the first division . The team finished fifth out of 16 teams at the end of the season. For the second season, more Uruguayans were committed, including the heroes of the Maracanaço victory in the World Cup final against Brazil at the 1950 World Cup , Schubert Gambetta and Ramón Eugenio Tejera . The team finished fourth at the end of the season.

In 1952 and 1953 the club got into a financial crisis that it was initially able to overcome. In 1953 the Hungarian Gyula Zsengellér was committed. In 1954 and 1955 the crisis was so severe that the club did not participate in the league and did not return until 1956 and again took fourth place. In 1958 the club took third place. In 1964, the team finished second, the longest time in their history, just one point behind Millonarios . The most important figure of the team was Rolando Serrano , who also participated for Colombia in the 1962 World Cup in Chile.

The team then stayed in the league for more than 30 years, mostly in midfield. In 1995 the team was relegated as 16th. The following year you won the championship of the Primera B called second Colombian league. In the following year they rose again as bottom of the table and just missed the direct rise. Until 2005, the club then played in the second division; with the championship in that year the promotion succeeded.

In the first year after promotion, the team was able to celebrate the first championship in the club's history: In the League finals of the Clausura against Deportes Tolima , Cúcuta won the first leg on December 17, 2006 with 1-0 and on December 20, in the second leg in Ibagué, a 1: 1-tie.

This was the first time that Cúcuta Deportivo was classified for the Copa Libertadores . The supporters of the championship team were the Panamanian striker Blas Pérez , the Uruguayans Roberto Bobadilla and Charles Castro, and the Colombians Macnelly Torres , Nelson Florez , Lincarlo Henry and Róbinson Zapata (goalkeepers).

Participation in the Copa Libertadores

In the preliminary round of the 2007 Copa Libertadores , Cúcuta Deportivo finished second in the group behind Gremio Porto Alegre (Brazil) and ahead of Deportes Tolima (Colombia) and Cerro Porteño (Paraguay).

In the second round, Cúcuta defeated Deportivo Toluca from Mexico 5-1 in the first leg and lost 2-0 in the second leg, but still reached the quarter-finals. Here they prevailed against Nacional Montevideo (Uruguay) with 2-0 and 2-2. In the semifinals against Boca Juniors , the first leg was won 3-1, but the second leg in the Bombonera of Buenos Aires lost 3-0, so that Cúcuta was eliminated.

In the Copa Libertadores 2008 Cucuta again survived the preliminary round as group winners in front of FC Santos and Deportivo Guadalajara . In the round of 16, in which the team met FC Santos again via the seeding list, they lost 2-0 and 2-0.

Ascents and descents

2013 Cúcuta was penultimate and thus had to play the relegation against the runner-up in the second division. The club lost this to Fortaleza FC and played in the Categoría Primera B in 2014 . In the Hinserie 2014, Cúcuta reached the quarter-finals, but lost it to Llaneros FC . Also in the back series, the club missed direct recovery.

As a traditional club, however, Cúcuta was given the opportunity in January 2015 to take part in a separate promotion round. There the club was able to prevail in its group and thus played in the first division again in 2015. After only one year, however, the relegation followed, which was already five game days before the end of the back series. In the 2016 season , the club could not reach the final round to play for promotion. Cúcuta took 10th place.

For the 2017 season it was announced that the club would play the home games at the Estadio Municipal Héctor El Zipa González in Zipaquirá , as the club could not come to an agreement with the government of the Departamento de Norte de Santander on the use of the stadium.

In March 2017, the coach Fernando Velasco was replaced by the Argentinian Flavio Robatto . In the league phase of Apertura 2017, Cúcuta reached the final round with a seventh place. In the quarter-finals, the club then prevailed against the favorite Deportivo Pereira . In the semifinals, however, Cúcuta failed against Boyacá Chicó FC , although they still managed a 4-2 win in the second leg after a 2-5 first leg defeat.

During the return series, the conflicts over the use of the stadium were settled, so that the club played in Cúcuta again from the middle of the return series. There the club was able to reach the final round and the semifinals again, in which, however, he was eliminated against Leones FC and thus just missed promotion.

In January 2018, Lucas Pusineri was introduced as the new trainer. In the 2018 season , Cúcuta Deportivo became champions of the second division for the third time and rose again to the first division after three years. The coach Pusineri moved to Deportivo Cali after this success . As a successor, the club signed the Argentine Sebastián Méndez . The aperture finished Cúcuta in eleventh place. In May, Méndez was replaced by Pablo Garabello .

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Estadio General Santander , named after General Francisco de Paula Santander , a hero of the Colombian War of Independence at the beginning of the 19th century .

The stadium was built in 1948 to provide Cúcuta with a suitable setting for participating in the national championship competition that was introduced at the time. After a renovation that was carried out especially for the Libertadores and completed in 2007, the multi-purpose stadium can accommodate around 45,000 spectators.

In the 2017 season, Cúcuta Deportivo played its home games at the Estadio Municipal Héctor El Zipa González in Zipaquirá , which has a capacity of 7,000 spectators. In the course of the return series, however, the club returned to Cúcuta.

  • The Estadio General Santander

  • The stadium from above

Athletic course

successes

2007 : semi-finals
2008 : Round of 16

Season dates since 2010

Playtime league League level space Final round
2010-I Liga Postobón I. 13. -
2010-II Liga Postobón I. 7th 2. Group B
2011-I Liga Postobón I. 8th. Quarter finals
2011-II Liga Postobón I. 18th -
2012-I Liga Postobón I. 18th -
2012-II Liga Postobón I. 9. -
2013-I Liga Postobón I. 9. -
2013-II Liga Postobón I. 16. -
2014-I Torneo Postobón II 6th Quarter finals
2014-II Torneo Postobón II 6th 2. Group A
2015 Promotion round for traditional clubs II 1. Group A -
2015-I League Águila I. 18th -
2015-II League Águila I. 19th -
2016 Torneo Águila II 10. -
2017-I Torneo Águila II 7th Semifinals
2017-II Torneo Águila II 5. Semifinals
2018 Torneo Águila II 1. 1. Group A
Masters
2019-I League Águila I. 11. -
highlighted in green: promotion to the Categoría Primera A
highlighted in red: relegation to the Primera B category

Trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cúcuta Deportivo vuelve al Torneo Postobón ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Cucuta deportivo desciende a La B por cuarta ocasión. Vanguardia, October 19, 2015, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Zipaquirá será la sede del Cúcuta Deportivo en 2017. El Espectador, November 23, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Flavio Robatto, de ex asistente en Millonarios, a nuevo DT de Cúcuta. Futbolred.com, March 22, 2017, accessed April 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Cúcuta fue contundente: venció 1-2 a Pereira y está en 'semis' en la B. futbolred.com, May 29, 2017, accessed on June 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Cúcuta puso a sufrir a Chicó: ganó 4-2 pero clasificó el 'ajedrezado'. futbolred.com, June 4, 2017, accessed June 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ El Cucuta deportivo regresará al estadio General Santander. www.kienyke.com, August 13, 2017, accessed August 19, 2017 .
  8. ↑ El argentino Lucas Pusineri es el nuevo técnico de Cúcuta Deportivo. gol.caracoltv.com, January 5, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Cúcuta Deportivo venció al Unión Magdalena y se coronó campeón de la 'B'. elpais.com, November 26, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Pablo Garabello, exayudante de Pekerman, DT del Cucuta Deportivo. eltiempo.com, May 10, 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Sebastián Méndez - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed January 2, 2019
  12. ↑ Lucas Pusineri - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed January 2, 2019
  13. ↑ Flavio Robatto - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed June 13, 2018
  14. ↑ Carlos Alberto Quintero - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed January 9, 2017
  15. ↑ Fernando Velasco - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed April 3, 2017
  16. ↑ Flabio Torres - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 16, 2016
  17. ^ Alberto Suárez - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed January 9, 2017
  18. ↑ Julio González - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 22, 2016
  19. ↑ Guillermo Sanguinetti - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed December 11, 2016
  20. ↑ Jaime de la Pava - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 22, 2016