Unión de Santa Fe

Unión
Full name	Club Atlético Unión
Nickname(s)	Tatengues
Founded	15 April 1907
Ground	Estadio 15 de Abril,; Santa Fe; (Capacity: 22,852)
Chairman	Luis Spahn
Manager	Frank Kudelka
League	Primera División
2010–11	Primera B Nacional, 2nd (promoted)
Website	Club home page

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Club Atlético Unión (mostly known as Unión de Santa Fe or simply Unión) is a sports club from Santa Fe, the capital city of the province with the same name in Argentina. The club, founded in 1907, has a strong rivalry with Colón de Santa Fe.

In 1965, the football team was promoted to the Primera División Argentina for the first time. The team has played there for many years, alternating with periods in the second division. Unión's supporters are called "unionistas" ,"tatengues", while the squad is usually nicknamed "El Tate". The colours of the club consist of red and white vertical stripes.

In 1979 Unión played the final matches of the Nacional championship, but lost at the hands of River Plate, because the goal scored by River in the first match (with a final score of 1-1) ended up in an average over Union according to the away goals rule applied to that tournament.

The most famous footballers who 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 its most famous basketball player.

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

Current squad of Unión de Santa Fe as of February 27, 2012 (edit)
Sources: Official website and Argentine Soccer

No.		Position	Player
1	ARG	GK	Alejandro Limia
2	ARG	DF	Juan Pablo Cárdenas
3	ARG	MF	Juan Ignacio Cavallaro
4	ARG	FW	Lionel Altamirano
5	ARG	MF	Sebastián Vidal
6	URU	DF	Nicolás Correa
7	ARG	MF	Fausto Montero
8	ARG	FW	Juan Pablo Pereyra
9	ARG	GK	Ignacio Arce
10	ARG	MF	Paulo Rosales
11	ARG	MF	Jorge Velázquez
12	ARG	FW	Pablo Magnín
13	URU	MF	Pablo Míguez
14	ARG	DF	Juan Pablo Avendaño
15	ARG	MF	Pablo Bruna
16	ARG	DF	Rodrigo Erramuspe
17	ARG	MF	Marcelo Sarmiento

No.		Position	Player
18	ARG	MF	Matías Donnet
19	ARG	DF	Mauro Maidana
20	ARG	DF	Santiago Zurbriggen
21	ARG	MF	Matías Soto Torres
22	ARG	DF	Renzo Vera
23	ARG	FW	Diego Jara
24	ARG	MF	Alexis Fernández
25	ARG	GK	Enrique Bologna
26	ARG	DF	Diego Barisone
27	ARG	DF	Walter Yacob
28	ARG	DF	Joaquín Cabrera
29	ARG	DF	Alejandro Pérez
30	URU	FW	Fabricio Núñez
31	ARG	MF	Emanuel Moreno
32	ARG	FW	Jerónimo Barrales
33	ARG	DF	Martín Antoniazzi