Curicó Unido

Curicó Unido
Full name Club de Deportes Provincial Curicó Unido
Nickname(s) Curi
Albirrojos (The red & white)
Torteros (The cake-makers))
La Banda Sangre (The Blood Stripe)
Founded 1973
Ground Estadio La Granja
Ground Capacity 8,000
Chairman Pablo Milad
Coach Luis Marcoleta
League Primera B
2015–16 2nd

Curicó Unido is a football club based in Curicó, Maule Region, Chile. They currently play in the Primera B, the second level of the Chilean football system. They are currently managed by Luis Marcoleta .

History

Curicó Unido was founded on 26 February 1973, with Edmundo Rojas as the first President of the club. They became the fourth football team from the Curicó city to play at the professional level, after Alianza de Curicó, Luis Cruz Martínez and Bádminton de Curicó.

Curicó Unido played since the season 1974 at the Primera B, but after seven poor seasons they gained relegation to the third level to the season 1981, returning to Primera B two years later, in 1983.

1984 and 1985 were the best seasons of Curicó Unido history, disputing the promotion until the last week, but with bad luck at the final matches.

The next campaigns were average, with the exception of the season 1990, when they lose the category after the final match with Deportes Valdivia, when they won 4–1, two goals short what they needed to stay at Primera B.

Since then, they stayed at the Tercera División without real chances to return to the Primera B, until the 2003 season. But at the next year that changed.

In 2004 the albirrojos were really close to returned to the Primera B. At the last week of the season, in Chillán, they arrived as leaders, to face Ñublense who was three points behind at the table; however the Chillanejos won that game 2–1, forcing a tie breaker match in Linares, where Ñublense won 2–0, taking the title and the promotion.

However, the year 2005 Curicó Unido had his revenge. They disputed the title with Trasandino until the last week. While Trasandino tied with Municipal Iquique, Curicó crushed Iberia 4–0, and in this way, after 15 years of suffering, Provincial Curicó Unido returned to the Chilean professional football.

In 2006, in their return to the Primera B, Curicó Unido finished in fifth place.

The next year, Curico avoided relegation only at the end of the season; Deportes Temuco finished last and fell down to the third level of national football for the upcoming season.

Curicó won promotion to the Primera Division after a 1–0 win over Deportes Puerto Montt on the last home game of the 2008 season, which was enough to securing 1st place of the Primera B and automatic promotion. Only to return to Primera B the next season, after losing a promotion play-off against San Luis


Honours

2008
2005

Others

1991

Records

Team colours

Curicó Unido's official kit is a white shirt with a diagonal red stripe that crosses the chest from the right shoulder to the left side of the hip. The shorts are black and socks are white.

Kit evolution

1982

1985

1986

1987

2001

2004

2007

2013

Sponsorship

The club are currently sponsored by Multihogar and their technical sponsors are Dalponte.

Shirt Sponsors

Stadiums

Curicó Unido's traditional home-ground is the Estadio La Granja, located in Curicó city; an 8,000 football stadium with an athletic track around the pitch, located in the "La Granja sports complex", leased from Curicó city hall.

Curicó Unido have also used other grounds during their history.

The Estadio Carabineros de Curicó, was Curicó Unido's home in 1976 and 1977.

They also played their Tercera Division league home games of the season 1992, at the Estadio ANFA Luis H. Alvarez.

And recently, during the 2010 season, the Estadio Municipal Jorge Silva de San Fernando, was their temporary home ground due to the reconstruction of the Estadio La Granja.

Supporters

Curicó Unido fans traditionally come from Curicó itself; and from the rest of the Curicó Province, but in smaller numbers.

The largest supporters' group is the Marginales, created in 1997.

Curicó Unido supporters' current main rivals are Rangers de Talca, and Ñublense.

Current squad

Current squad of Curicó Unido as of 26 July 2015 (edit)
Sources: ANFP Official Web Site

No. Position Player
1  CHI GK Jorge Deschamps
2  PAR DF Rodrigo Riquelme
3  CHI DF Matías Canales
4  CHI DF Eric Godoy
5  URU MF Francisco Silva
6  CHI MF Diego Urzúa
7  CHI FW Fabián Hormazábal
9  ARG FW Javier Elizondo
10  CHI MF Sebastián Rivera
11  CHI FW Leonardo Olivera
13  CHI DF Nelson Rebolledo
14  CHI DF René Bugueño
16  ARG MF Franco Bechtholdt
No. Position Player
17  ARG MF Martín Cortés
18  CHI MF Mikel Arguinarena
19  CHI FW Gary Tello
20  CHI DF Marcelo Rojas
21  CHI MF Juan Cáceres
22  CHI DF Diego Díaz
24  ARG FW Alfredo Ábalos
25  CHI GK Felipe Yáñez
26  CHI MF Ignacio Caroca
27  CHI FW Matías Reyes
30  CHI GK Luis Santelices
--  CHI FW Nicolás Medina
--  CHI MF Braulio Baeza

Manager: Luis Marcoleta

2016–17 winter transfers

In

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

No. Position Player
-- Paraguay DF Rodrigo Riquelme (from Deportes Antofagasta)
-- Chile DF Matías Canales (back from Deportes Colchagua)
-- Chile MF Sebastián Rivera (from San Marcos de Arica)
-- Chile MF Mikel Arguinarena (loan from Huachipato)
-- Chile FW Gary Tello (from Magallanes)
No. Position Player
-- Argentina FW Javier Elizondo (from Audax Italiano)
-- Chile FW Leonardo Olivera (from Sitra Club)
-- Chile FW Fabián Hormazábal (loan from O'Higgins)
-- Chile FW Nicolás Medina (from San Marcos de Arica)

Out

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

No. Position Player
3 Paraguay DF Jorge Aquino (to Deportes La Serena)
7 Chile FW Cristopher Díaz (to Whitecaps FC 2)
8 Chile MF Juan Silva (to Unión La Calera)
9 Argentina FW Pablo Vranjicán (to Pahang F.C.)
10 Chile MF José Luis Silva (to Cobreloa)
11 Chile FW Paulo Cárdenas (to San Antonio Unido)
12 Chile GK Jaime Arriagada (Released)
No. Position Player
15 Chile FW Camilo Ponce (back to Everton)
19 Chile FW Felipe Araya (loan to Independiente de Cauquenes)
20 Argentina MF Marcos Flores (to Persib Bandung)
21 State of Palestine FW Yashir Pinto (to Melaka United)
22 Chile DF Jorge Valenzuela (Released)
25 Chile DF Patricio Gutiérrez (to Deportes Vallenar)

Managers

  • Chile Ricardo Oteíza (1973)
  • Chile Julio Campos (1974)
  • Chile Eugenio Jara (1974–75)
  • Chile Pedro Araya (1975–76)
  • Chile Leonardo Bedoya (1976–77)
  • Chile Sergio Gutiérrez (1977)
  • Chile Pedro Araya (1977–78)
  • Chile José González (1978–79)
  • Chile Luis Álvarez (1979)
  • Chile Sergio Navarro (1979–80)
  • Chile Guillermo Páez (1980)
  • Chile Luis Álvarez (1981)
  • Chile Enrique Arredondo (1982)
  • Chile Francisco Quinteros (1983)
  • Chile Carlos Contreras (1983)
  • Chile Eugenio Horta (1983–84)
  • Chile Sergio Gutiérrez (1985)
  • Chile Luis Orrego (1985)
  • Chile Roque Mercury (1986)
  • Chile Guillermo Páez (1986–87)
  • Chile Luis Orrego (1987–88)
  • Chile Sergio Gutiérrez (1988–90)
  • Chile Manuel Rubilar (1990)
  • Chile Eugenio Horta (1990–91)
  • Chile Julio García (1991)
  • Chile Manuel Espinoza (1991–93)
  • Chile Julio García (1993)
  • Chile Sergio Gutiérrez (1993–94)
  • Chile Julio García (1994–95)
  • Chile Hugo Cicamois (1995–96)
  • Chile Eugenio Horta (1996)
  • Chile Esaú Bravo (1996)
  • Chile Pedro Araya (1997)
  • Chile Roberto Ortiz (1998)
  • Chile Carlos Encina (1998)
  • Chile Manuel Alvarado (1999)
  • Chile Luis Urrutia (1999)
  • Chile Eugenio Jara (2000)
  • Chile John Castro (2000)
  • Chile Hugo Cicamois (2001)
  • Chile Enzo Silva (2001)
  • Uruguay Ramón Castro (2002)
  • Chile Esaú Bravo (2002–03)
  • Chile Alex Barrales (2003)
  • Chile Jaime Nova (2004–05)
  • Chile Eduardo Cortázar (2005–06)
  • Chile Nelson Mores (2006)
  • Chile Germán Cornejo (2007)
  • Chile Juan Ubilla (2007)
  • Chile Luis Marcoleta (2008–10)
  • Chile Raúl Toro (2010–11)
  • Chile Juan Aliaga (2011)
  • Chile Eduardo Cortázar (2011)
  • Chile Jorge Socías (2012)
  • Chile Cristián Castañeda (2012)
  • Chile Eduardo Cortázar (2012)
  • Argentina Pablo Abraham (2012–13)
  • Argentina Mauricio Giganti (2013)
  • Argentina Germán Corengia (2014–15)
  • Argentina Cristián Molins (2015)
  • Chile Luis Marcoleta (2015–)

References

    External links

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