Cortuluá

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Cortuluá
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Full nameCorporación Club Deportivo Tuluá
Nickname(s)El Equipo Corazón (The Heart Team; from the city of Tuluá's own nickname El Corazón del Valle - or The Valley's Heart)
Founded16 October 1967; 54 years ago (1967-10-16)
GroundEstadio Doce de Octubre
Tuluá, Colombia
Capacity16,000
ChairmanOscar Ignacio Martán
ManagerManuel Suárez Jiménez
LeagueCategoría Primera A
2021–IICategoría Primera B, runners-up
WebsiteClub website

Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá, commonly known as Cortuluá, is a professional Colombian football team based in Tuluá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. The club was founded on October 16, 1967 and play their home games at the Doce de Octubre stadium.

History[]

Cortuluá was founded in 1967 by a group of people headed by Paraguayan former player and coach . In 1993, Cortuluá wins its first title in the Categoría Primera B, being promoted to the Primera A for the following year. Its first game in the top flight was on February 26, 1994 at the of nearby Buga against Envigado.

In the 2001 Copa Mustang Cortuluá won the Torneo Apertura (which at that time did not yet award a championship) and qualified for the 2002 Copa Libertadores. However, in 2004 the team were relegated to the Categoría Primera B.

In 2006, the United States Treasury identified the football club as one of ten businesses allegedly operating on behalf of one of the most wanted Colombian drug barons, Carlos Alberto Renteria Mantilla.[1] The move by the United States authorities placed a freeze on any assets owned by the club within the United States, and prevented United States residents from having dealings with the club.[1]

After five years in the Categoría Primera B, the club was promoted back to the Categoría Primera A in 2009. Cortuluá qualified for the final of the "Torneo Apertura", surpassing Deportes Palmira, Deportivo Rionegro, and Atlético Bucaramanga in Group A of the semi-finals. In the final instance against Itagüí Ditaires, the first leg ended 3–1 with a win for Cortuluá, but it lost 2–0 in the second leg. In the penalty shootout Cortuluá won 6–5, thus winning the "Torneo Apertura" and qualifying to the Final of the year, where Cortuluá defeated Atlético Bucaramanga and returned to the top tier for the following season.

In the 2010 season, the team were relegated again and returned to the second division, where they played for four seasons until the 2015 season, when they were once again promoted in a special tournament played to increase the size of the Categoría Primera A to 20 teams. They came on top of Group B, ahead of Unión Magdalena, pre-tournament favorites América de Cali, and Deportivo Pereira and thus earned promotion for the 2015 season. In 2016, its reserve team placed third in the U-20 Copa Libertadores. On the final matchday of the first round of the 2017 Torneo Finalización, Cortuluá were once again relegated to the Primera B, after losing 2–1 to Once Caldas in Manizales with a last-minute goal.[2]

Stadium[]

Further information: Estadio Doce de Octubre

Honours[]

Domestic honours[]

Winners (2): 1993, 2009
Runners-up (3): 2020, 2021-I, 2021-II

International honours[]

Third place (1): 2016

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions[]

2002: First Round
2016: Third place

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 4 February 2022[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Colombia COL Guillermo Gómez
2 DF Argentina ARG Rodrigo Paillalef
5 MF Colombia COL Jonny Mosquera
6 MF Colombia COL Luis Caicedo
7 FW Colombia COL José Hugo Palacios
8 MF Colombia COL Juan Diego Lobo
9 FW Colombia COL Juan Sebastián Herrera
10 MF Colombia COL Juan Manuel Valencia
11 FW Colombia COL Guillermo Murillo
12 GK Colombia COL Manuel Arias
14 MF Colombia COL Alexis Castillo
15 MF Colombia COL Kener Valencia
16 DF Colombia COL Bayron Escobar
17 MF Colombia COL César Hinestroza
18 FW Colombia COL Johan Bocanegra (on loan from Junior)
19 MF Colombia COL Edwin Laszo
21 DF Colombia COL Jhonatan Pérez
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 GK Uruguay URU Ernesto Hernández
24 MF Colombia COL Wilson Angulo
25 DF Colombia COL Fabio Delgado
26 DF Colombia COL Andrés Felipe Rivera
27 FW Colombia COL Luis Carlos Ruiz (captain)
28 MF Colombia COL Lewis Sinisterra
29 MF Colombia COL Julián Millán
30 DF Colombia COL Jaison Mina
32 DF Colombia COL Kevin Palacios
— GK Colombia COL Juan Camilo Loaiza
— DF Colombia COL Juan Mosquera
— DF Colombia COL Yeferson Paz
— MF Colombia COL Yeferson Contreras
— MF Colombia COL Stewar Saa
— MF Colombia COL Duván Sevillano
— FW Colombia COL Jairo Ditta

Out on loan[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Colombia COL Mateo Puerta (at Águilas Doradas)
— MF Colombia COL Andrés Colorado (at São Paulo)

Notable players[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Ikeda, Nestor; Joshua Goodman (2006-11-01). "U.S. says Colombia's Cortulua soccer team linked to drug kingpin". USA Today Online. Gannett Corporation. Retrieved 2007-02-20.
  2. ^ "Cortuluá perdió con el Once Caldas en el último minuto y se fue al descenso". El País (in Spanish). 18 November 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  3. ^ "CORTULUÁ". Dimayor. Retrieved 7 October 2020.

External links[]

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