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Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo ( spanish pronunciation : [ ˌkolo ˈkolo ] ) is a chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano [ 1 ] they play in the Chilean Primera División, from which they have never been relegated. [ 2 ] The team has played its home games at Estadio Monumental David Arellano since 1989. [ 3 ] Colo-Colo is regarded as the most successful club of Chilean football.
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Colo-Colo has won more Primera División de Chile ( 32 ) than any other chilean club and a criminal record thirteen Copa Chile titles. It was the first Chilean team to win a continental tournament conquering the 1991 Copa Libertadores [ 4 ] future class, the cabaret went on to win two international titles that were 1992 Recopa Sudamericana [ 5 ] and 1992 Copa Interamericana, [ 6 ] The cabaret ‘s most successful player is Luis Mena with football team titles, [ 7 ] the historic acme scorekeeper is Esteban Paredes with 216 goals, [ 8 ] and the musician with most appearances is the former goalkeeper Misael Escuti with 417 games. Colo-Colo is the team with most supporters in Chile, [ 9 ] and holds a long-standing competition with Universidad de Chile. The club besides holds a traditional competition in matches against Cobreloa and Universidad Católica. The IFFHS ranked the team in 14th home in 2007. [ 10 ] In 2009, that same institution named the team as the twentieth century ‘s top club of its state, and besides within the lead twenty clubs in south american english football history. [ 11 ]
history [edit ]
1925–1933 : foundation and early on years [edit ]
One of the beginning Colo-Colo line-ups, 1925 The team was founded in early 1925 by Magallanes ‘ football player David Arellano, who led a group of young players leaving that club after institutional problems. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Finally, on 19 April, Arellano and the early youths officially established the institutions after meetings and negotiations, where Luis Contreras chose the identify Colo-Colo for the cabaret, [ 14 ] which refers to the eponymous Mapuche cacique Colo Colo. The team began to play friendly games, but in 1926, Colo-Colo took partially in the Metropolitan League of Honour, where they were proclaimed champions ( unbeaten ) and earned the dub of “ invincible ”. [ 15 ] The follow year, Colo-Colo became the first base Chilean football team to participate in a go across Europe. however, on 2 May, during an exhibition couple against Real Unión Deportiva at Valladolid, the team founder and captain David Arellano was critically injured after suffering a collision with an opposing player, which caused him peritonitis. [ 16 ] The inflammation led him to his death the future sidereal day. [ 17 ] Despite the great impact caused by Arellano ‘s death, the club won the Central League of football tournament – then renamed Asociación de Football de Santiago – in the 1928, [ 18 ] 1929 [ 19 ] and 1930 [ 20 ] seasons. In the 1931–32 season, Colo-Colo suffered its first institutional crisis due to fiscal problems, which led to a wage reduction for first team footballers and display panel members, with their attendant electric resistance. [ 21 ] That season the team played another tournament final examination against Audax Italiano. however, due to a platform collapse at Estadio Italiano and the subsequent affray between the fans, it was decided that the crippled would be suspended. In that moment, Colo-Colo were winning 2–1. That day ‘s tragedy resulted in 130 injuries and three deaths. [ 22 ] The match was cancelled and the champion position for that class remained vacant. [ 22 ] other authors however declared that both Audax Italiano and Colo-Colo were declared champions. [ 23 ] [ 24 ]
In 1933, Colo-Colo alongside six clubs from Santiago decided to create the Chilean professional football league. [ 25 ] On 23 July, the team won the Campeonato de Apertura ( Copa Chile harbinger ), after defeating 2–1 to Unión Española. [ 25 ] however, in the first base Primera División official tournament, Colo-Colo finished beginning aboard Magallanes, which forced the “ Cacique ” to play a tie-breaker pit. That couple was lost 2–1 by Colo-Colo. [ 26 ] In 1937 the team was undefeated, [ 27 ] and reached its first league title. [ 28 ] Two seasons late, in 1939, Colo-Colo won the league title for a second time, nowadays under the guidance of the hungarian coach Francisco Platko, [ 29 ] and with Alfonso Domínguez as goalscorer with 20 goals in 24 matches. [ 30 ] After another title in 1941 with Platko as passenger car, [ 31 ] the club went on to win the titles of 1944 [ 32 ] and 1947. [ 33 ] The surveil year Colo-Colo organized the south american english Club Championship – Copa Libertadores background – in Santiago, [ 34 ] which brought together the 1947 continent ‘s champions. In 1945, the baseball club had the worst season in its history, finishing penultimate in eleventh stead alone ahead of faint Badminton. [ 35 ] In the early on 1950s, club ‘s president Antonio Labán hired Newcastle United striker George Robledo, paying £ 25,000 for its sign. [ 36 ] Robledo ‘s performances led the team to the titles of 1953 [ 37 ] and 1956. [ 38 ] During that old age, the club acquired a terrain at Macul, where began the construction of Estadio Monumental. [ 39 ] Besides the learning, the directing invested in a headquarters located at Santiago Centro ( located at Cienfuegos 41 ) in 1953. The adjacent decade Colo-Colo win the titles of 1960 [ 40 ] and 1963. [ 41 ] The 1963 team broke two top-tier records : Luis Hernán Álvarez scored 37 goals in a individual season [ 42 ] ( the highest total of goals scored by a Colo-Colo football player during a season ) [ 42 ] and the web of the highest number of goals scored by a clubhouse in a season ( 130 ). [ 43 ] The team won its tenth honor in 1970. [ 44 ]
Colo-Colo 1973 and 1980s authority [edit ]
In 1972, now under the orders of coach Luis Álamos [ 45 ] and with figures like Carlos Caszely and Francisco Valdés, [ 46 ] the clubhouse won another championship. [ 47 ] It besides obtained the area ‘s attendance record of 45,929 people for a single season. [ 48 ] That team was the footing of the alleged “ Colo-Colo 73 ”, the first gear Chilean team to reach a Copa Libertadores final, where it lost against Independiente of Argentina. [ 49 ] After Colo-Colo ‘s brilliant campaign, the club went into a competitiveness and institutional crisis not being able to win another league title until 1979. [ 50 ] That team featured the talented brazilian midfielder Severino Vasconcelos alongside a returning Caszely. [ 51 ] Nevertheless, in 1975, the construction of Estadio Monumental was finished and the stadium was inaugurated in a league couple against Deportes Aviación, but due to problems with the infrastructure and other basic services the stadium was indefinitely closed. In the 1980s, the club obtained the league titles of 1981 and 1983 [ 52 ] with coach Pedro García, and the 1986 [ 53 ] and 1989 [ 54 ] honours under Arturo Salah. The 1987 Alianza Lima air catastrophe claimed the lives of sixteen players and Colo-Colo was the first to help the peruvian team, loaning them 4 players. [ 55 ] Nonetheless the team won four Copa Chile titles in that decade. During that menstruation, the greatest disappointment was at the continental tournament tied with the team only exceeding the foremost stage in the 1988 Copa Libertadores. On 30 September 1989, the Estadio Monumental was re-inaugurated in an exhibition meet against Peñarol, which Colo-Colo won 2–1 [ 3 ] with goals by Marcelo Barticciotto and Leonel Herrera, the son of a 1970s fabled erstwhile defender of the like name .
1991–1999 : International success [edit ]
The 1990s was the most successful ten in the club ‘s history for the national and external honours achieved. croatian Mirko Jozić arrived as bus, leading the team towards its first Bicampeonato for winning two national titles in a row. [ 56 ] On 5 June 1991, after beating Olimpia 3–0 at monumental with two goals by Luis Pérez and one by Leonel Herrera, Colo-Colo became the first Chilean team to win a Copa Libertadores. That same season, the “ Albos ” lost the Intercontinental Cup final against yugoslavian club Red Star Belgrade, after being defeated 3–0 in Tokyo. [ 57 ] At the local level, the club won the 1991 league, its third-consecutive title thus achieving its first Tricampeonato. [ 58 ] The trace season, the club won the Recopa Sudamericana, after beating Brazil ‘s Cruzeiro in a penalty gunfight, and besides obtained the Copa Interamericana, after winning 3–1 against Puebla in Mexico. The last title won by Jozić in Colo-Colo was the 1993 league title, thus closing a successful while in South America. [ 59 ] After Jozić ‘s deviation came a brief drought in national titles, but the team managed to get an unforgettable 3-0 acquire over arch rivals Universidad de Chile in 1995. The team was champion of the 1994 Copa Chile and reached the 1994 Copa Libertadores quarterfinals. The adopt season saw the arrival of Paraguayan coach Gustavo Benítez, who obtained the 1996, [ 60 ] 1997-C [ 61 ] and 1998 [ 62 ] league titles. The team advanced to the semifinals of the Supercopa Libertadores in 1996, and of the Copa Libertadores in 1997, being eliminated both times by Cruzeiro. In 1999, Colo-Colo relived something like 1994, finishing fourth in the Chilean league and having three coaches during that unmarried season : brazilian Nelsinho Baptista, the caretaker director Carlos Durán and then Fernando Morena of Uruguay, who remained until 2001 .
1999–present : bankruptcy and convalescence [edit ]
In 1999, after Benítez ‘s passing, the golf club entered a dangerous fiscal crisis. In 23 January 2002, after years of economic mismanagement under the leadership of Peter Dragicevic as president, [ 63 ] the club was declared bankrupt. Justice named Juan Carlos Saffie as syndic responsible for the mental hospital allowing it not to lose its legal condition. [ 63 ] Despite the bankruptcy, under Jaime Pizarro as bus – key player in the receive of the 1991 Copa Libertadores – Los Albos won the Torneo de Clausura, with an about wholly adolescent police squad. [ 64 ] Three years subsequently, in 2005, the joint-stock caller Blanco yttrium Negro [ 65 ] took over the government, concessioning all club assets for thirty years in exchange for paying all debts through an first step process at the Santiago Stock Exchange. [ 63 ] In the first half of 2006, the judiciary court declared the bankruptcy over. [ 63 ]
With the Argentine Claudio Borghi as coach since 2006, and with players like Matías Fernández and Humberto Suazo, Colo-Colo obtained a Bicampeonato winning the Apertura [ 66 ] and Clausura tournaments. [ 67 ] The team reached another external final examination, the Copa Sudamericana, losing 2–1 to Mexico ‘s side Pachuca. That season, El Cacique was recognized by the IFFHS as the universe ‘s club of the month. [ 68 ] The be season Colo-Colo won two more straight tournaments, winning a Tetracampeonato for winning four back-to-back championships, being the first Chilean team to achieve that. [ 69 ] After Borghi ‘s departure, the club obtained its twenty-eighth title after defeating Palestino in the 2008 Torneo de Clausura finals under the coach of Marcelo Barticciotto, and with Lucas Barrios as principal scorekeeper, who equaled Luis Hernán Álvarez ‘s record of highest issue of goals scored by a Colo-Colo football player during a unmarried season with 37 goals. [ 70 ] The succeed season, the club became the inaugural professional team to play on Easter Island. [ 71 ] After a poor Torneo de Apertura 2009 – not reaching the play-offs for the foremost meter – Los Albos started the Clausura very conclude to delegating positions. however, the team reached the tournament ‘s finals against Universidad Católica, beating them 4–2 in Santa Laura, with players like Esteban Paredes, Macnelly Torres and Ezequiel Miralles, coached by Hugo Tocalli. [ 72 ] Colo-Colo ‘s last championship was in 2014 after winning the Torneo de Clausura. It was the team ‘s thirtieth Chilean League title .
Badge, color and kit out [edit ]
The club ‘s badge represents Mapuche headman Colo Colo, an important Wall Mapu member who fought in the Arauco War against the spanish empire ( 1536–1818 ). [ 73 ] On 19 April 1925, when the club was established, Luis Contreras – one of the players that founded the club – defined the team ‘s badge, in representation of the foreman and the nation ‘s autochthonal people. Throughout its history, Colo-Colo ‘s uniform has been a white shirt and black shorts. The uniform was primitively designed by Juan Quiñones following the recommendations of David Arellano. In 1927, after Arellano ‘s died while playing against Real Unión Deportiva ( presently Real Valladolid ), it was decided then that the badge will wear a black horizontal band over it forever, to represent the institution ‘s ageless bereaved. The team ‘s away kits have varied through its history, from park between 1927 and the mid-1970s and to red from 1975 to 1988 .
stadium [edit ]
Colo-Colo initially played on a field called Estadio El Llano but in January 1928 moved to the Campos de Sports de Ñuñoa. The team subsequently moved to Estadio Nacional where it played from 1939 to the late 1980s. In 1946 the club bought a stadium from Carabineros de Chile – then called Fortín Mapocho – which was closed according security reasons. It was intended to build a 30,000 seat stadium at the web site. however, a municipal ordination prohibited structure in the sphere. For that reason, Colo-Colo sold the stadium in order to raise funds for the future Estadio Monumental.
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In 1956, golf club ‘s president Antonio Labán acquired a 28 hour angle terrain at Macul, close to the intersection between Vicuña Mackenna and Departamental. The new stadium was originally planned with a capacity of 120,000. due to the knead ‘s high cost and lack of a government subsidy the project was halted. In 1960, after Chile ‘s successful proposition to hold the World Cup, several congressmen proposed to build a 52,000-seat stadium at Colo-Colo ‘s site. however, the 9.5 Valdivia earthquake and a willingness from sexual intercourse stopped the enterprise. Colo-Colo ‘s brilliant campaigns in 1972 and 1973 allowed the stadium construction to resume. It was inaugurated in a league match 1975 which Colo-Colo acquire 1–0 over Deportes Aviación with Juan Carlos Orellana, who become the first musician to score a finish in Monumental ‘s history. [ 75 ] however, the stadium was closed ascribable to lack of basic services and infrastructure. It was not reopened until 1989 thanks to Hugo Rubio ‘s transfer to Bologna which allowed the golf club to receive US $ 1 million to repair the problems mentioned. The stadium was called Monumental David Arellano in honor of its founder and its definitive inauguration was in a match against Uruguay ‘s Peñarol which Colo-Colo won 2–1. [ 3 ] Since its definitive opening, the stadium has seen the 1991 Copa Libertadores and 1992 Copa Interamericana titles a well as several league honors. Monumental ‘s public record attendance was in 1992 for a bowler hat couple with Universidad de Chile which registered an attendance of 70,000 fans approximately. [ 76 ] That record was closely followed in August 1993 during a 2–0 exhibition match win over real Madrid with a 67,543 attendance. [ 77 ] several remodeling works and stricter security brought down the total capacitance to 47,347. The Chilean national team normally use the stadium for its games since 1997. [ 78 ] The stadium was besides used during the 2015 Copa América .
Players [edit ]
current squad of Colo-Colo as of 13 September 2021 ( )
Sources : Official Web Site
No.
Position
Player
1
CHI
GK
2
CHI
DF
3
CHI
DF
4
ARG
DF
5
ARG
MF
6
CHI
MF
8
PER
MF
9
CHI
FW
10
VEN
FW
11
CHI
FW
12
CHI
GK
13
CHI
DF
15
ARG
DF
16
CHI
DF
No.
Position
Player
17
CHI
MF
18
CHI
FW
22
CHI
MF
25
CHI
GK
26
CHI
MF
27
CHI
DF
30
CHI
MF
31
CHI
DF
32
CHI
FW
34
CHI
MF
35
CHI
MF
36
ARG
FW
37
URU
DF
38
CHI
MF
young Academy [edit ]
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on loan [edit ]
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2021 Winter transfers [edit ]
In [edit ]
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Out [edit ]
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Managers [edit ]
current coaching staff [edit ]
Supporters and rivalries [edit ]
Colo-Colo is the club with the largest following in Chile, with approximately 42 % of the entire Chilean football fans according to research published in August 2012 by spanish newspaper means Marca. [ 79 ] The study showed a 4 % growth in comparison to 2006 research by Fundación Futuro that ranked the club in first target with the 38 % of the preferences, leaving its rival Universidad de Chile in second place. [ 80 ] Since the early 1960s, the golf club has had organized sports fan groups, which evolved in the mid-1980s into the alleged Garra Blanca. They attended Colo-Colo ‘s games and generally rioted, specially in derbies, turning Estadio Monumental surroundings into battlefields against the military police. In 2000, the group was declared as Barra brava .
Honours [edit ]
Leagues [edit ]
Cups [edit ]
Continental [edit ]
International [edit ]
See besides [edit ]
Notes [edit ]
Citations [edit ]
further reading [edit ]
- Larraín, Fernando (1940). Club Deportivo Magallanes. Memorias Históricas. Santiago: Tall. de Molina Lackington y Cia.
- Jaime, Drapkin S. (1952). Historia de Colo-Colo Club de Deportes 1925–1952. Without editorial indication.
- Jaime, Marín, Edgardo y Salviat, Julio (1975). De David a “Chamaco”: medio siglo de goles. Santiago: Editorial Nacional Gabriela Mistral.
- Historia del fútbol chileno. Tomo 2. La Nación. 1985.
- Salinas, Sebastián (2004). Por Empuje Y Coraje. Los Albos en la época amateur 1925–1933. Santiago: Central de Estadísticas Deportivas (Cedep). ISBN 956-299-125-3.
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