Unión La Calera
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Club Deportivo Unión La Calera | ||
| Seat | La Calera , Chile | ||
| founding | 1954 | ||
| president | Camilo San Martín | ||
| Website | unionlacalera.cl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Néstor Craviotto | ||
| Venue | Estadio Municipal Nicolás Chahuán | ||
| Places | 10,000 | ||
| league | Primera División | ||
| 2018 | 6th place | ||
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Club Deportivo Unión La Calera is a Chilean football club from La Calera . The club, which was founded in 1954 and has never been a Chilean football champion, currently plays in the Primera División and plays its home games at the Estadio Municipal Nicolás Chahuán , which can seat 10,000 spectators.
history
The Club Deportivo Unión La Calera was founded on January 26, 1954 in La Calera , a town with about 50,000 inhabitants in the Región de Valparaíso in central Chile . Initially, the newly founded club played in regional divisions for a few years before being promoted to the Primera División , the top division in Chilean club football, for the first time in 1961 by taking first place in Primera División B. The team stayed there until 1974, before relegating to the second division again. As a result, it took until the early eighties before Unión La Calera made the leap back into the top division. They finished the second division season in 1984 in first place, which resulted in a return to the first class. There the club then failed and had to start again in the Primera División B after only one year.
In the following years Unión La Calera even had problems staying up in the second division and even had to compete in the third highest division at times. From 1996 to 2000 was the longest third division period of the club, which finally ended in 2000. Until today Unión La Calera did not have to relegate to the third division. Instead, the 2010 season returned to the Primera División after 26 years. In the final round of Primera División B they finished second, only behind Deportes Iquique , but before the competitors of Deportes Antofagasta and Curicó Unido , who had to play in the relegation games. After promotion, Unión La Calera managed to establish itself in the Primera División. In the first season back in the top league, the Torneo Apertura 2011, the playoff games for the championship advanced to the semi-finals, where Universidad Católica was only inferior due to the away goals rule. In the years that followed, Unión La Calera managed to establish itself in the upper midfield of the Primera División and over time to become an integral part of this league again.
successes
- Primera Division B : 2 × (1961, 1984)
- Tercera División : 2 × (1990, 2000)
Trainer
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Leonardo Ramos (February 2016 to May 2016)
Known players
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Osvaldo Castro , Chilean World Cup participant from 1974, active at club level most of the time in Mexico, began his career at Unión La Calera -
Elías Figueroa , three-time World Cup participant and long-time captain of the Chilean national team, loaned out by the Santiago Wanderers shortly after La Calera in 1964
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Matías Fernández , currently under contract with Fiorentina in Italy and also a 2010 World Cup participant, comes from the youth of Unión La Calera
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Franklin Lobos Ramírez , who worked for Unión La Calera for some time during his career, was one of the people buried in the San José mine disaster in 2010
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Braian Rodríguez , currently active for Real Betis Sevilla in Spain, wore Unión La Calera from 2011 to 2012
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