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Unión Magdalena (Spanish pronunciation: [uˈnjon maɣðaˈlena]) commonly known as El Unión, and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone) and also Los Samarios (The Samarios), is a Colombian football club from the city of Santa Marta, capital of the department of Magdalena, founded on April 19 1953. They currently play in the Primera A, first division of the Dimayor.[1]

Unión Magdalena

Full name	Unión Magdalena
Nickname(s)	El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone) Los Samarios (The Samarios)
Founded	10 March 1951; 71 years ago (1951-03-10) (as Deportivo Samarios) 19 April 1953; 69 years ago (1953-04-19) (officially)
Ground	Estadio Sierra Nevada Santa Marta, Colombia
Capacity	16,000
Chairman	Eduardo Dávila
Manager	Claudio Rodríguez
League	Categoría Primera A
2022	Primera A, 17th of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Founded on 10 March 1951 as Deportivo Samarios, the club was re-founded as Unión Magdalena on 19 April 1953. The original playing squad was largely composed of Hungarians who were touring Colombia when their club, the Hungaria FbC Roma, was disbanded.[2]

History

Unión Magdalena was founded as Deportivo Samarios on 10 March 1951. The team was founded with the help of José Eduardo Gnecco Correa and Eduardo Dávila Riascos and was formed by the squad of the Hungaria FbC Roma when it was disbanded after a tour in South America.[2] The first team consisted in 10 Colombians, 8 Hungarians, 2 Yugoslavs, 1 Austrian, 1 Argentine, 1 Italian and 1 Romanian. Deportivo Samarios debuted on league that same year and placed 14th. That season, the team achieved the record of the biggest win in the Colombian league against Universidad, with a score of 12–1.

The club was re-founded as Unión Magdalena on 19 April 1953. Unión has only won one championship, in 1968 playing against Deportivo Cali in the final, thus becoming the first football club of the Caribbean region of Colombia to win a football championship in history. Carlos Valderrama, born in Santa Marta and one of the most famous Colombian footballer, started his career in this club.

Relegated in 2005 after losing 3–0 to Deportivo Pereira, Unión earned automatic promotion to the 2019 Categoría Primera A season, after playing 13 years in the second division football league.[3] Despite qualifying for the semifinals of the 2019 Apertura, Unión's performance in the Finalización tournament was poor and the club ended up being relegated on 29 October after losing 3–1 to Once Caldas.[4]

Red and blue stripes compose the traditional shirt of the team, and its design is inspired by the Argentine club San Lorenzo de Almagro.

2021 controversy and promotion

On 4 December 2021, the last matchday of the semi-final Group B of the second tournament of the 2021 Primera B season, Unión Magdalena sealed their promotion to Categoría Primera A after coming back from a 1–0 deficit against Llaneros in Villavicencio with a couple of goals in quick succession in stoppage time to win the game by a 2–1 score and get promoted at the expense of Fortaleza, who were clinching promotion with the score in Villavicencio despite losing their final match to Bogotá at the same time. However, video footage of Unión Magdalena's winning goal appeared to show the Llaneros players backing off and failing to make an effort to prevent their rivals from scoring.[5] The events sparked outrage both within the country and abroad, with Colombian internationals Juan Cuadrado and Mateus Uribe expressing their displeasure, calling them "a lack of respect" and "an embarrassment for Colombian football", whilst President of Colombia Iván Duque Márquez stated it was a "national disgrace".[6][7][8]

In response to the growing backlash, as well as calls from Fortaleza to get the match annulled and Unión Magdalena's promotion reversed,[9] Dimayor chairman Fernando Jaramillo ordered the opening of an inquiry on the match events while also requesting the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia to investigate whether any criminal offenses had been committed,[10][11] but on 7 December 2021, Jaramillo stated that the tournament would not be paused and Unión Magdalena's promotion would not be overturned while due process was completed.[12] However, amid the ongoing inquiries, the Torneo II's final match between Cortuluá and Unión Magdalena, which was originally scheduled to be played on 11 December 2021 in Tuluá was postponed until further notice.[13]

On 30 December 2021 Dimayor's disciplinary commission closed the investigation on Unión Magdalena as it found no evidence implying that members of the aforementioned club had been responsible for the events that occurred in the match against Llaneros, thus confirming their promotion to Primera A for the 2022 season.[14]

Uniform

The club uniform is directly inspired by the colors of the flag of the Magdalena Department since the founding of the team in 1953, although for many years it played with a white uniform. For the 2012 season, his uniform continued with the traditional San Lorenzo de Almagro vertical stripes, and he again used the clothes of the Bogota company FSS with whom he had signed in past seasons. With the change of the shield, the gray color was added to the vertical and horizontal lines, therefore, the averages of the banana set are of such color.

Kit manufacturers

Years	Provider
1987–1988	Dida
1989–1997	Torino
1998–2000	Penalty
2001–2008	Zodium
2009–2010	FSS
2010–2011	Zodium
2012–2013	FSS
2014–2015	Kimo
2015–2016	VeraLima
2017–Present	FSS

Sponsor Kit

Years	Provider
1979	Aerocondor Colombia
1981	Lotería del Libertador
1985	Hotel SantaMar
1986–1988	Kola Postobon
1989–1990	Colombiana
1991	Lotería La Cartagenera
1992–1994	Colombiana
1995–1996	Cerveza Leona
1997–2001	Cerveza Águila
2002	Cerveza Águila – Aposmar – Coolechera - Proleca
2003	Cerveza Águila – Aposmar – Coolechera
2004	Cerveza Águila – Aposmar
2005	Cerveza Águila
2006	Freska Leche
2013	Gobernación de la Guajira
2015	Coolechera
2017	Tierra Santa – Gobernación de Bolívar
2018	Tierra Santa – Alcaldía de Santa Marta
2019	Supermercados Olímpica – Mercure Hotels – Tierra Santa – Ron Viejo De Caldas – Wplay.co – Su Red
2020	Yajuego (Betjuego) - Yoga Land - Gatorade
2021 – present	Wplay - Yoga Land

Stadiums

The Eduardo Santos Stadium, inaugurated in 1951, was the highest sports venue for Magdalenes, located in the Olympic Village of Santa Marta. It served for the Unión Magdalena local games but since its inauguration, it has not only been the headquarters of the Unión Magdalena soccer club, it also witnessed the birth of prominent Colombian soccer figures such as the former Colombian team captain, Carlos "El Pibe" Valderrama. It currently has a capacity of 23,000 spectators.^{[citation needed]}

On 3 March 2013, Unión Magdalena played its last game at the stadium against Llaneros F.C., in compliance with the final closure order of the Eduardo Santos Stadium.^{[citation needed]}

The team had a tour of venues around Riohacha (La Guajira) at the Federico Serrano Soto Stadium and then in the Magdalena municipality of Ciénaga, at the "Luis Tete Samper" Municipal Stadium, with a capacity of 5,000 spectators.^{[citation needed]}

After the inauguration of the Sierra Nevada Stadium for the 2017 Bolivarian Games, the Union Magdalena made the agreement with the mayor of Santa Marta official to return to the city from the 2018 season.^{[citation needed]}

Periode	Stadium
1951 - 1991	Estadio Eduardo Santos
1991	Estadio Jaime Morón León
1992 - 2013	Estadio Eduardo Santos
2013	Estadio Federico Serrano Soto
2014	Estadio Cortes Campomanes (Julia Turbay Samur)
2014 - 2015	Estadio Municipal "Luis Tete Samper"
2016	Estadio Federico Serrano Soto
2017	Estadio Diego de Carvajal
2018–present	Estadio Sierra Nevada

Players

Current squad

As of 21 August 2022[15]

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  EQG Carlos Bejarano 2 DF  COL Juan Vacca 3 MF  COL Jairo Palomino 4 DF  COL Jonathan Segura 5 MF  COL Roberto Vanegas 6 DF  COL Jermein Peña 7 FW  COL Daiver Vega 8 MF  COL James Sánchez 10 MF  COL Roberto Hinojosa 11 MF  ARG Facundo Stable 12 GK  COL Ramiro Sánchez 13 DF  COL Jahir Scott 14 MF  COL James Castro 16 DF  COL Brayan Correa 17 DF  COL Nicolás Gil 18 MF  COL Ronaldo Lora

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  COL José Mercado 20 FW  COL José Lloreda 21 FW  COL Ricardo Márquez 22 GK  COL Efraín Ustariz 24 MF  COL Fabián Cantillo 25 MF  ARG Agostino Spina 26 DF  COL Jonathan Lopera 27 FW  COL Ethan González 28 DF  COL Andrés Escobar 29 FW  COL Joel Contreras 30 DF  COL Stiwar Mena 31 MF  ARG Diego Chávez 32 FW  COL Isaac Camargo 33 DF  COL Alain Guerrero — DF  COL Andrés Canchano — DF  COL José Gómez

Players with dual citizenship

• Carlos Bejarano

First Team (Deportivo Samarios – 1951)

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  HUN Ernest Sabeditch — GK  COL Rubén Rocha — GK  COL Jaime de la Spriella — GK  YUG Zvonko Monsider — DF  COL Víctor Lanao — DF  ROU Alexandru Negrescu — DF  HUN Sándor Török — MF  HUN Gerro Hinduliak — MF  HUN József Samu — MF  COL Enrique Ortiz — MF  COL Nelson Pérez — MF  COL Rómulo Barrios

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  COL Felipe Fernández — MF  ARG Rafael Botto — FW  HUN György Marik — FW  HUN Joseph Kajml — FW  HUN Gyula Zsengellér (also Manager) — FW  COL Orlando Granados — FW  HUN László Füzesi — FW  YUG Milos Dragolovich — FW  AUT Rudolf Strittich — FW  COL Antonio Carrasquilla — FW  ITA Alessandro Adam — FW  COL Apolinar Pérez

Honours

Domestic

• Campeonato Profesional/Categoría Primera A:

Winners (1): 1968

• Categoría Primera B:

Winners (1): 2021–II

Runners-up (2): 2000, 2018

• Copa Colombia:

Runners-up (1): 1989

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Pen.
1969	Copa Libertadores	GS	Deportivo Cali	2–2	1–3	—
			Deportivo Italia	3–0	0–2	—
			Deportivo Canarias	0–1	1–0	—

Notable players

• Gyula Zsengellér (1951–53)
• Georg Hanke (1951)
• György Marik (1951–1952)
• Gabriel Rakosky (1952)
• Kalman Lami (1952)
• Ladislao Magyar (1952)
• Nicolás Hrotko (1952)
• Bruno Gerzelli (1952)
• Corrado Contin (1952)
• Manuel Rossi (1965)
• Arístides Del Puerto (1973)
• Luis Giribet (1976)
• Víctor Solar (1977)
• Carlos Valderrama (1981–84)
• Alfredo Arango (1965–1972) (1973–1974) (1978–1980)
• Carlos Arango (1950) (1960–1961)
• Aurelio Palacios
• Nixon Perea (1993)
• Erwin Carrillo (2004–2005) (2007–2009) (2012–2014) (2018)
• Abel Aguilar (2018–2020)
• David Ferreira (2018–2019)

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Claudio Rodríguez
Assistant manager	David Ferreira
Physical Trainer	Waldir Manga
Goalkeeping coach	Diego Rojas
Psychologist	Joaquín Valdés
Doctor	Pedro Larios Luis Mendoza
Kinesiologist	Norman Royero

References

External links

Media related to Unión Magdalena S. A. at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Unión Magdalena

Die Asociación Deportiva Unión Magdalena ist ein 1953 gegründeter kolumbianischer Fußballverein aus Santa Marta, der momentan in der ersten kolumbianischen Liga spielt.

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- [en] Unión Magdalena

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[es] Unión Magdalena

El Unión Magdalena es un club de fútbol colombiano de la ciudad de Santa Marta, capital del departamento de Magdalena, fundado el 19 de abril de 1953. Actualmente juega en la Categoría Primera A, la primera División del fútbol profesional colombiano.[1]

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[it] Asociación Deportiva Unión Magdalena

L'Asociación Deportiva Unión Magdalena è una squadra di calcio colombiana con sede nella città di Santa Marta, capitale del dipartimento di Magdalena, dove fu fondata il 19 aprile 1953. Milita nella Categoría Primera A, la massima serie del campionato colombiano di calcio.

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[ru] Унион Магдалена

«Унио́н Магдале́на» — колумбийский футбольный клуб из города Санта-Марта.

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