Independiente Medellin
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| Full name | Deportivo Independiente Medellín |
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| Nickname(s) |
El Rojo Paisa (Red Paisa), El Poderoso de la Montaña (The Mighty of the Mountain), El Equipo del Pueblo (The Team of the Village), El Rey de Corazones (The King of Hearts), El Decano del Fútbol Colombiano (The Dean of Colombian Football) Medallo DIM (Deportivo Independiente Medellin) |
| Founded | 14 November 1913 |
| Ground |
Estadio Atanasio Girardot Medellín, Colombia |
| Capacity | 44,500 |
| Chairman | Eduardo Silva Meluk |
| Manager | Luis Zubeldía |
| League | Categoría Primera A |
| 2016 | 3rd, Apertura champions |
| Website | Club home page |
Deportivo Independiente Medellín, also known as DIM, is a Colombian professional football team, based in Medellín, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Atanasio Girardot stadium, which is part of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex.
Independiente Medellín has won the Categoría Primera A six times: in 1955, 1957, 2002-II, 2004-I, 2009-II and 2016-I. Its best performance at international level was in 2003, when the team achieved third place in Copa Libertadores.
Independiente Medellín was founded on 14 November 1913 under the name of Medellín Foot Ball Club by siblings Alberto, Luis and Rafael Uribe Piedrahíta. The team played its first match with the amateur team Sporting of Medellin, who defeated them 11–0. After several years, Medellín joined professional football and played the first edition of the league. Medellín placed 7 out of 10, winning seven matches. Their first match was a 4–0 defeat against América de Cali.
The next decade, Medellín signed Peruvian Segundo Castillo Varela, whom won the 1939 South American Championship, the first title of his country, in a movement of what was known as El Dorado, when teams of the league signed a lot of foreign footballers. Medellín won its first title in the 1955 Campeonato Profesional. The team was first with 31 points and just one defeat. Argentine Felipe Marino was the top goalscorer of the team and the tournament, with 22 goals. In 2009, with the departure of Santiago Escobar as the coach of the team, his assistant, Leonel Álvarez, replaced him to play 2009 Torneo Finalización, where the team got its fifth title against Atlético Huila. In that season, the forward, Jackson Martinez, broke a record of the player with the most goal in the league (a record that was broken again later by forward of Cortuluá, Miguel Borja, in 2016).
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