Unión de Santa Fe

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Unión Santa Fe

Full name	Club Atlético Unión
Nickname(s)	Tatengues
Founded	15 April 1907
Ground	Estadio 15 de Abril, Santa Fe (Capacity: 22,300)
Chairman	Luis Spahn
Manager	Nery Pumpido
Coach	Fernando Alí
League	Primera B Nacional
2008-09	15th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Atlético Unión (mostly known as Unión de Santa Fe) are a football (soccer) club from Santa Fe, the capital city of the province with the same name in Argentina. They were founded in 1907. Their main rivals are Colón de Santa Fe.

In 1965 the club were promoted to the Primera División Argentina for the first time. They have played there for many years, alternated with periods in the second division. Unión's supporters are called "unionistas" or "tatengues", and another name for the club is "El Tate". The colours of the club consist of red and white vertical stripes.

In 1979 Unión played in the final of the Nacional championship, but lost on aggregate to River Plate.

The most famous players to have played for Unión are Leopoldo Luque, World Cup winner with Argentina in 1978, and Nery Pumpido, the goalkeeper of the national team that won the World Cup in Mexico 1986.

Football is not the only sport in which Unión participates. Among the others, basketball is the foremost, with Union's team currently in the third division. Carlos Delfino is the most famous basketball player to have played for Unión.

Contents 1 Players 1.1 Current squad 1.2 Notable players 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

As of September 24, 2009.

No. Position Player GK Nicolás Caprio GK Joaquín Luján GK Luis Ojeda DF Maximiliano Acosta DF Diego Barisone DF Derlis Cardozo DF Nicolás Correa DF Mauro Maidana DF Daniel Pérez DF Pedro Suárez DF Gonzalo Vera DF Walter Yacob DF Santiago Zurbriggen MF Rodrigo Acosta MF Federico Broin MF Pablo Bruna MF Diego Calgaro MF Gastón de Celis

No. Position Player MF Matías Donnet MF Alexis Fernández MF Fausto Montero MF Fernando Pagés MF Guido Rancez MF Franco Richard MF Paulo Rosales MF Gonzalo Saucedo MF Jorge Torres FW Ricardo Acosta FW Nicolás Amerise FW Matías Arrúa FW Ariel Cólzera FW Claudio Guerra FW Pablo Magnin FW Fernando Márquez FW Cristian Ojeda FW Germán Weiner

[edit] Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have played at least 50 games for the club and/or played officially for their national team.

Alberto Galateo (1927~34) Julio Ávila (1948~49, 1955~56) José Vicente Grecco (1949~53) Victorio Cocco (1964~67) Néstor Scotta (1967~69) Mario Zanabria (1967~69) Roberto Martínez (1970) Leopoldo Luque (1971, 1973~75, 1980~81) Carlos Trullet (1974~77) Hugo Gatti (1974~1975) Víctor Marchetti (1975~76, 1984) Rubén Suñé (1975) Nery Pumpido (1976~81, 1991) Roberto Telch (1976~79) Carlos Trucco (1977~81, 1984~85) Fernando Husef Alí (1978~?) Ramón Centurión (1978-85, 1991-92) Osvaldo Escudero (1982~85) Daniel Morón (1983~88) Daniel Killer (1984~86) Alberto Acosta (1986~88) Ricardo Altamirano (1986~88) Julio César Toresani (1986~89, 1990~91)

Antony de Ávila (1987~88) Franco Navarro (1989~90) Claudio Borghi (1990~91) Darío Cabrol (1990~92, 1994~00) Ricardo Giusti (1991~92) José Luis Marzo (1991~95, 1996~98) Danilo Aceval (1997~99) Nii Lamptey (1997) Pablo Cavallero (1998~99) Juan José Jayo (1998~00) Daniel Noriega (1998~00, 2001~02) Matías Donnet (1999~00, 2009~present) Marcelo Mosset (1999~06, 2007~08) Waldir Sáenz (1999) Andrés Silvera (1999~01) Daniel Tílger (1999~01) Martín Zapata (1999~04, 2006~09) Fernando Ortiz (2000~03) Rubén Capria (2001~03) Leonardo Fernández (2001) Piero Alva (2002) Roberto Battión (2002~07) Ignacio Canuto (2004~07)

[edit] See also

• List of football clubs in Argentina
• Argentine football league system

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) Official website
• (Spanish) Non-official website
• (Spanish) Mundo Rojiblanco (Non-official website)
• (Spanish) LosTates Fan website

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