Independiente Medellín

Deportivo Independiente Medellín

Full name	Corporación Deportiva Independiente Medellín
Nickname(s)	El Poderoso de la Montaña DIM Medallo El equipo del pueblo El Rey de Corazones
Founded	April 15, 1913
Ground	Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín, Colombia (Capacity: 52,872)
Chairman	Jorge Osorio Ciro
Manager	Guillermo Berrío
League	Fútbol Profesional Colombiano
2009 - II	Champion
Home colours Away colours

Corporación Deportiva Independiente Medellín is a professional Colombian football (soccer) team competing in Fútbol Profesional Colombiano, the Colombian first division. The club is based in the city of Medellín and founded in 1913. It has won the league's national tournament known as Copa Mustang five times: in 1955, 1957, 2002-II, 2004-I and 2009-II. Its best performance at international level was in 2003, when the team achieved the third place in the Copa Libertadores de América.

Rivalries

Medellín's greatest rival is with the city's other major club Atlético Nacional, with whom they share the home stadium Atanasio Girardot. The team is dubbed "El Poderoso de la Montaña" or the powerful of the mountain due to Medellín's geographical location high in the Andean mountains. The rivalry is especially strong due to each team's main support club, Rexixtenxia Norte for Medellín and Los Del Sur for Atlético Nacional. The two clubs are named with the location that they occupy in the stadium where Rexixtenxia occupies the section behind the northern goal and Los Del Sur occupy the section behind the southern goal.

In 2004 Medellín and Nacional classified to the final of the Mustang Cup; in Antioquia everybody was very excited because this was the first "Paisa" final of the history of the short tournaments. This system requires 2 games to be the champion, in the first game, Medellín won 2-1 with a goal of Rafael Castillo in the 87 minute after the goals of Jorge Serna (DIM) and Carlos "Chumi" Alvarez in the first half. The final game was in the 27 of June, and it ended 0-0 and Medellín became the champion of the Colombian National League.

Controversies

Medellín won its third league title after 45 years of agony. However, there were two seasons where Medellín had the title within its reach only to lose it amid great controversy. From its foundation until 2002, the Colombian First Division League had adopted a league format commonly used in European leagues. The format was a year long tournament where the team at then end of the year in best standing was declared the winner. This format was changed in 2002 to an Apertura-Clausura format where two separate seasons are played during the year to determine two winners. In 1993 during the last game of the year, Medellín and Atlético Junior were fighting for a tight first place. Junior was playing América de Cali at home in Baranquilla while simultaneously Medellín played hometown rivals Atlético Nacional. The games were to start and end at the same time. A Medellín win with a Junior loss or draw would have given Medellín the title. Medellín beat Nacional 1-0 while awaiting the 2-2 game in Baranquilla to end. Medellín players were celebrating with a victory lap and giving interviews with reporters waiting for the final whistle in Baranquilla. However, the referee allowed an unprecedented amount of injury time which enabled Oswaldo Mackenzie to score an extremely late goal giving Junior the win 3-2 and the title. This was not the first time Medellín had a heartbreaking season, in 1989 a year where Medellín had the best team in the league and was expected to win the title, a tragic event occurred in Colombian soccer. During the final games of the season, Medellín tied América de Cali 0-0 at home. During the game, the linesman Álvaro Ortega made a mistake and annulled a Medellín goal. Afterwards, a Medellín sympathizer hunted down the linesman and assassinated him. In response, the Colombian Soccer Federation decided to cancel the rest of the season leaving the 1989 league without a winner.

Honours

Amateur

• Copa Jimenez Jaramillo (1): 1923^[1]
• Campeonato Nacional (7): 1918,1920,1922,1930,1936,1937,1938^[1]
• Campeonato Departamental (8): 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 y 1945^[1]

National Honours

Official national tournaments

• Categoría Primera A (5): 1955, 1957, 2002-II, 2004-I, 2009-II
• Copa Colombia (1): 1981
• Runner-up Categoría Primera A (6): 1959, 1961, 1966, 1993, 2001, 2008-II.
• Runner-up Copa Colombia (1): 1955-56.

Friendly Tournaments

• Copa Club Unión: 1942^[2]
• Triangular ‘Trofeo Coltejer’: 1955^[3]
• Torneo "Medellín sin tugurios": 1983^[4]
• Copa Montreal (Cánada): 1992
• Copa D. C. United: 1994
• Copa Ciudad de Popayan: 2005
• Copa Gobernación de Antioquia: 2008 y 2010
• Copa del Pacífico: 2009^[5]
• Runner-up Copa Movilco - Gobernación del Meta: 2009
• Runner-up Copa del Pacífico: 2010^[6]

Internationals Participations

Copa Libertadores de America

• Copa Sudamericana: 0

2006: First Round

• Copa Conmebol: 0

1995: First Round

Current roster

As of Jul 18, 2011

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Bréiner Castillo 2 DF Roberto Carlos Cortés 3 DF Hernán Pertúz 4 DF Ricardo Calle 5 DF Davi Rancan 6 MF Pablo Despósito 7 FW Santiago Tréllez 8 MF John Edward Hernández 9 FW Iván Velásquez 10 MF Luis Fernando Mosquera 11 FW César Valoyes 12 GK Juan Camilo Chaverra 13 FW Javier Calle 14 FW Francisco Córdoba 15 MF Juan López

No. Position Player 16 MF Alexis Ossa 17 FW Felipe Pardo 18 FW Luis Carlos Arias 20 MF William Arboleda 21 MF John Javier Restrepo 22 GK Jhon Bayron García 23 MF Jaime Castrillon 25 DF Leiton Jiménez 27 DF Luis Tipton DF Jefferson Mena DF Andrés Felipe Mosquera DF Andrés Felipe Ortiz DF Jorge Enrique Arias MF Mauricio Arroyo

2011 transfers

As of Jul 18, 2011

In:

• Jorge Enrique Arias (transferred from Patriotas F.C.) ^[7]
• Mauricio Arroyo (transferred from Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona) ^[8]
• Francisco Córdoba (transferred from Deportivo Pereira) ^[9]
• Iván Velásquez (transferred from Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana)^[10]

Out:

• Carlos Saucedo ^[11]
• Iván Corredor (transferred to Patriotas F.C.)^[12]
• Alexander Jaramillo ^[8]
• Juan Fernando Leal ^[8]
• Alejandro Vasco (transferred to Trujillanos FC)^[13]

Top scorers

As of Jul 12, 2010.^[1]

No.	Name	Goals	Country
1.	José Vicente Grecco	92
2.	Carlos Castro	90
3.	Diego Álvarez	78
4.	Felipe Marino	77
5.	Jorge Horacio Serna	66
6.	Uriel Cadavid	65
6.	Jackson Martínez	65
8.	Perfecto Rodríguez	64
9.	Bernardo Iván Aristizabal	49
10.	Jhon Jaramillo	45

Most games played

• As of Aug 28, 2010.^[1]

No.	Name	Games	Country
1.	Héctor "Canocho" Echeverri	457
2.	Ponciano Castro	452
3.	Ricardo Calle	324
4.	Álvaro Escobar	315
5.	Roberto Carlos Cortés	311
6.	John Restrepo	300
7.	Carlos Castro	283
8.	Uriel Cadavid	277
9.	Rodolfo Ávila	273
10.	Javier Arango	267

Notable former players

1950s José Vicente Grecco Orlando Larraz Felipe Marino José Manuel Moreno Pedro Roque Retamozo René Seghini Lidoro Soria Carlos Arango Jorge Méndez Leonel Montoya Oscar "Ñembo" Restrepo Efraín "El Caimán" Sánchez Luis Guzman Lorenzo Calonga Segundo Castillo Roberto Drago Lauro Rodríguez Antonio Sacco Juan Carlos Toja 1960s Omar Oreste Corbatta Ricardo José Ramaciotti Perfecto Rodríguez Mario Agudelo Héctor Echeverri 1970s Hugo Horacio Londero José Pekerman Juan Carlos Sarnari Bernardo Aristizábal Ponciano Castro Álvaro Escobar Jorge Gallego Daeio Lopez Nolberto Molina Álvaro Santamaría Javier Tamayo Eladio Vasquez Hugo Sotil José Velásquez

1980s Silvano Espíndola Carlos Horacio Salinas Héctor Ramón Sossa Juan Carlos Letelier Óscar Wirth Leonel Álvarez Carlos Castro Gabriel Jaime Gomez Gildardo Gómez Hernán Darío Gómez Oscar Pareja Luis Carlos Perea John Wilmar Pérez Eduardo Malasquez Franco Navarro Jorge Olaechea Libardo Velez Carlos "Pato" Aguilera Rafael Villazan 1990s Oscar "Pajaro" Juarez Héctor Mario Núñez Carlos Enrique Estrada Giovanni Hernández René Higuita Carlos Valderrama Adolfo "Tren" Valencia Iván Valenciano Henry Zambrano Rolando Fonseca Agustín Delgado Festus Agu Luis Barbat

2000s Omar Sebastián Pérez Rodrigo Riep Jonathan Acevedo Gomez David González Giraldo Luis Carlos Arias Jaime Alberto Castrillón Roberto Carlos "Choto" Cortés David González Alexander Jaramillo Jackson Martinez Mauricio Molina David Montoya Neider Morantes Malher Tressor Moreno Luis Fernando Mosquera Luis Amaranto Perea Juan Pablo Pino John Javier "Choronta" Restrepo Jorge Horacio Serna Esteban "El Beto" Taborda Julian Viafara Felipe Baloy Aldo Bobadilla

Presidents ^[1]

Name	Since	To
José Luis Restrepo Jaramillo	1913	1928
Luis Eduardo Ramírez	1932	1936
Jesus Maria Burgos	1936	1939
Bernardo Munera A.	1940	1947
Federico Kahn	1948	1948
Alejandro Cano	1948	1951
Ignacio Gómez	1953	1954
Javier Arriola del Valle	1954	1958
Alfonso Arriola del Valle	1959	1970
Oscar Serna Mejía	1971	1974
Gustavo Arbeláez	1974	1974
Gabriel Toro Pérez	1975	1977
Oscar Serna Mejía	1978	1978
Hernán Gómez Agudelo	1978	1979
Pablo Correa Ramos	1979	1981
Oscar Serna Mejía	1981	1981
Héctor Mesa Gómez	1981	1983
Oscar Serna Mejía	1984	1985
Pablo Correa Ramos	1985	1985
Mario de J. Valderrama	1986	1987
Gabriel Toro Pérez	1987	1987
Luis Fernando Correa	1987	1987
Humberto Betancur	1987	1988
Hernán Gómez Agudelo	1988	1989
Antonio Mesa Escobar	1989	1991
Alberto Montoya Callejas	1991	1992
jesús Aristizábal Guevara	1992	1992
Julio César Villate	1992	1995
Jorge Castillo	1995	1997
Mario de J. Valderrama	1998	2000
Javier Velásquez	2000	2005
Juan Guillermo Montoya	2005	2006
John Cardona Arteaga	2006	2006
Carlos Alberto Palacio Acosta	2006	2008
Jorge Osorio Ciro	2008	Present

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "DEPORTIVO INDEPENDIENTE MEDELLÍN ,EL PODEROSO", es una publicación de El Colombiano Ltda. en Cia SCA.
2. ^ Medellín ganó la Copa Club Unión (Spanish)
3. ^ Fernando Paternoster primer técnico campeón con Nacional (Spanish)
4. ^ Torneos amistosos en RSSSF (Spanish)
5. ^ DIM se llevó la Copa del Pacífico - CRE Satelital Ecuador (Spanish)
6. ^ http://www.santafecd.net/Prensa/Centro_de_Prensa/Noticias/El_clasico_de_rojos_y_la_Copa_Movilco_fue_para_Santa_Fe_269-52168.html (Spanish)
7. ^ http://www.asobdim.com/asobdim/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=417:%E2%80%9Cfeliz-de-llegar-a-un-equipo-grande%E2%80%9D-jorge-enrique-arias&Itemid=57 (Spanish)
8. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.ligapostobon.com.co/noticia/el-mercado-de-pases-de-la-liga-postobon-ii-08720 (Spanish)
9. ^ http://www.asobdim.com/asobdim/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=427:francisco-c%C3%B3rdoba-es-poderoso&Itemid=57 (Spanish)
10. ^ http://www.ligapostobon.com.co/noticia/estoy-contento-de-volver-medellin-ivan-velasquez-08687 (Spanish)
11. ^ http://www.asobdim.com/asobdim/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=421:carlos-saucedo-ya-se-fue-de-independiente-medell%C3%ADn&Itemid=57 (Spanish)
12. ^ http://www.asobdim.com/asobdim/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=419:iv%C3%A1n-corredor-ya-juega-con-patriotas&Itemid=57 (Spanish)
13. ^ http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/news/story?id=1322004&s=ven&type=story (Spanish)

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