Universidad de Chile (football club)

Corporación de Fútbol Profesional de la Universidad de Chile is one of Chile's most popular football clubs, and is better known as "La U". It was born May 24 1927 as Club Deportivo Universitario from the merging of "Club Náutico", "Federación Universitaria". The club was initially conformed by the students of the Universidad de Chile and was the sports arm of the biggest university of Chile, the relationship with the university took a sideral change in 1980, as the president at the time of the club (one of the instaurated by the Augusto Pinochet's regime) decided to separate judicial, administrative and economically the club from the university, however the club is still related with the university, and the relationship between the two has never ended until today. The club's symbol, as the university`s, is the owl, known as the symbol of wisdom, but in the game jersey appears a big red U. The entire uniform is blue (jersey, pants and socks) in reference at the university color.

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Chile - Football - May 24 - 1927 - Universidad de Chile - Augusto Pinochet - Owl

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The club made a name for himself more than by his titles (is the second team in Chile with 12 national cups), by the enthusiasm of his fans, an enthusiasm that born from the first game in the professionalism, when the daily news posted "the fans of Universidad de Chile were all the game chanting and popping up his team, from the bus that move them to the stadium until the end of the game". That enthusiasm has never failed and when the team fall into the second division the fans were also there for every game. The fans usually refers at that love for the team with the phrase "More than a passion, a feeling".

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However, the team has big achievements, the first title was on 1940, just 3 years after the team's professionalism debut. After that 6 of the 12 national cups were acquired between 1959 and 1969 (59, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69) by the team that was called "the blue ballet" in reference to the beautiful style of game that they made, 9 members of that team were on the national team that get the 3rd position in the 1962 world cup, the best participation ever made by Chile in that cup. After the golden age of the Blue Ballet, the club have a cupless time for 25 years, including the 1988 divison fall (The team was 1 year in second division, in 1989 won the cup and return to the frst division). And the long-waited title finally comes into 1994 leaded by an espectacular end on the final match, when 15.000 fans of "La U" arrived at El Salvador, a miner town populated by 5.000 people. In that team was a 20 year old Marcelo Salas. The following year "La U" won the cup again in the last match, this time in front of 90.000 people in the National Stadium. After that the team won back to back titles again in 1999 and 2000, and then won the Apertura 2004. In the international cups "La U" has a pair of good runs on Copa Libertadores, most notably the 1996 when they fall in semifinals with River Plate in a match that the referee was criticized by everybody for his bad performance that favored River Plate.

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Marcelo Salas - River Plate

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El jueves 8 de septiembre rompió culos indios (at september 8th, whooped indians's asses).

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The club's headquarters are located at the surroundings of the Estadio Nacional in Santiago.

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Estadio Nacional - Santiago

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