Millonarios Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian
football
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team based in
Bogotá
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, that currently plays in the
Categoría Primera A
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. They play their home games at the
El Campín stadium.
Millonarios was initially created in 1937 by students from the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé. After the team initially was unsure about which name it would want to use: Unión and Juventud were originally favoured, it got under the influence of the city administration of Bogotá and operated as ''Club Municipal de Deportes''. Millonarios was formally founded on June 18, 1946, thanks to the efforts of Alfonso Senior Quevedo, who became the first chairman.
Considered to be one of the strongest clubs from Colombia, it is one of the most consistent clubs in the country. Millonarios has won 15
league titles, 3
Copa Colombia
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and a
Superliga Colombiana
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, making it the second most successful team in Colombia. They have also been crowned continental champions by winning the
Copa Simón Bolívar
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in
1972
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and the
Copa Merconorte in
2001
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. In addition, Millonarios managed to obtain the
Small Club World Cup
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in
1953¹, a title of great importance and relevance for the time.
Millonarios is also one of only three teams that have played every first division tournament in the country, along with their traditional rivals
Santa Fe and
Atlético Nacional
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.
In the early
1950s
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, Millonarios formed a team called the
Ballet Azul The Ballet Azul (''Blue Ballet'') is a term coined in Colombia in the 1950s to describe the Millonarios football team, during its successful period from 1949–1964, because the blue color of their uniform, the large number of titles who had won the ...
, which was considered by several South American and European specialists as the best team in the world.
It has been included in lists about the best football clubs of the world of all time elaborated by important international sports media, being the only Colombian team present in them. It is also ranked as the fourth best Colombian club of the 20th century and as the ninth best Colombian club so far in the 21st century. Millonarios is also credited as the third best Colombian team in the
CONMEBOL
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club tournaments and ranks 51st in the official club ranking of the
Copa Libertadores
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.
History
The ''Ballet Azul''
Millonarios greatly benefited from a major players' strike in the Argentinian league in 1948, which caused a great diaspora of players towards Colombia. The most successful period for the club was during the early 1950s due to the notable Argentinean presence. During this period with the squad that was known as ''The Blue Ballet'', that featured great players such as
Alfredo di Stefano
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,
Adolfo Pedernera
Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 – 12 May 1995) was an Argentine football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro" ("The Teacher"), he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s and one of the g ...
,
Néstor Rossi
Néstor Raúl "Pipo" Rossi (Buenos Aires, 10 May 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder.
Playing career
Nicknamed "Pipo", he started his career at River Plate, playing from 1945 to 1949, and then agai ...
,
Julio Cozzi
Julio Adolfo Cozzi (14 July 1922 – 25 September 2011) was an Argentine football goalkeeper who won the Copa América 1947 with the Argentina national team.
Cozzi started his career in 1941 with Club Atlético Platense, he played for the c ...
,
Antonio "Maestrico" Báez, Hugo Reyes,
Reinaldo Mourin and other figures in
Argentina
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, mainly from
River Plate. Thanks to the great football that showed these players on the field, Millonarios was named by several media outlets in South America and Europe, as the best team in the world in the early 1950s.
In 1951, Colombia was suspended by FIFA due to the recruitment of international players without a pass; the teams were forced to return all expatriate players that had participated in the tournament through irregular means. This edict marked the departure of di Stefano in February 1953, receiving bids from
Barcelona
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and
Real Madrid
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, who came to win the bid for the player. The Colombia national team was also banned from the
1954 FIFA World Cup
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for the same reason.
Small Club World Cup
In 1952, a group of
Venezuela
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n sports entrepreneurs created the Small Club World Cup, a friendly competition that brought together leading European and South American teams. Millonarios was invited to participate in the 1952 and 1953 editions. In its first appearance, the team finished with seven points, behind
Real Madrid
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(double tie 1–1) and Brazilian
Botafogo
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(4–4 tie and defeat 0–2); the tournament was played in a two-round scheme, and involved host
La Salle of Venezuela (double win 4–1 and 5–1).
In its participation in 1953, the team was crowned undefeated champion with 11 points, above
River Plate of Argentina (5–1 win and 1–1 tie),
Rapid Wien
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of Austria (double win 2–1 and 4–0) and Spanish
Espanyol
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of Barcelona (double win 6–0 and 4–0). This friendly tournament is considered by some to be a predecessor of the Intercontinental Cup, now known as
FIFA Club World Cup
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, though not its equivalent.
2000s
Millonarios had further improvement when former
Manchester City
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assistant manager
Juan Carlos Osorio
Juan Carlos Osorio Arbeláez (; born 8 June 1961) is a Colombian professional football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Osorio began his playing career with Deportivo Pereira in 1982, and went on to play for Brazilian ...
was appointed as the new Millonarios' Manager, which led the club to 3rd position in the League Stage of the Mustang Cup, and 5th in the addition of all the year's performance, taking the club once again into the
Copa Sudamericana
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, while the financial situation of the team also had a notable recovery. In July 2007, Osorio left Millonarios to manage
Major League Soccer
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side
Chicago Fire, and he was replaced with Martín Lasarte; after a brief, but very unsuccessful period with Lasarte, Millonarios then hired Argentinian
Mario Vanemerak as their new manager. Under Vanemerak, Millonarios began to shine again, most notably in the
Copa Sudamericana
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2007, where they eliminated several powerful teams, most notably Brazilian champions
São Paulo
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in the quarter-finals, thanks to two goals from
Ricardo Ciciliano
Ricardo Manuel Ciciliano Bustillo (September 23, 1976 – September 17, 2020) was a Colombian football midfielder.
Career
Ciciliano was born in Barranquilla. From 2006, Ciciliano played at Millonarios where he achieved several remarkable fea ...
; although they had a less impressive performance in the local tournament.
2010s
![Equipo Millonarios 2017](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Equipo_Millonarios_2017.jpg)
Plagued by financial problems, and with no major titles in the last decade, the club finally initiated a bankruptcy process that led to its being bought by a society composed of about 4,000 fans, Azul & Blanco, SA This movement also meant a change in playing style which started with the hiring of Venezuelan coach
Richard Páez
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Playing career
Club
Born in Méri ...
. The change has proved successful, both financially and as related to championships. With Páez as coach, the team was able to win the
Copa Colombia
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2011 tournament, after winning both games against
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, thus classifying to
2012 Copa Sudamericana
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. On June 24, 2012, it was confirmed that
Hernán Torres would be the new coach.
In Copa Sudamericana, the team was highly successful, reaching semi-finals after eliminating
Inti Gas,
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* ...
, and the Brazilians
Palmeiras
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, and
Gremio, being eliminated by runner-up,
Tigre. This came as a relief after an embarrassing defeat to
Real Madrid
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in a friendly match to honor
Alfredo Di Stéfano
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.
Despite the defeat, the team played a great first phase in the Colombian tournament, classifying to the play-offs as the best team of the semester. After a very difficult series of matches, the team reached the Finals which were to be played against
Independiente Medellín
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. The first match was played in Medellín, and ended in a 0–0 tie. The final game was played December 16, 2012 in Bogotá, and ended up 1–1, thus the result had to be determined by a penalty shootout. Goalkeeper Delgado managed to stop a final shoot, and Millonarios won its 14th championship, the first
Fútbol Profesional Colombiano
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title in about 24 years.
As the 2012 Finalización champion, Millonarios qualified to
2013 Copa Libertadores
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, where it played the second stage against Bolivian
San José, Mexican
Tijuana
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(US) and [< ...]
, and Brazilian
Corinthians
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.
Under coach
Ricardo Lunari
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Playing career
Lunari started his career in 1991 with Newell's Old Boys in Argentina, he was a young member of two championship winn ...
, Millonarios started 2015 with three home victories against
Patriotas,
Cúcuta Deportivo
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The club was officially founded on 10 September 1924, and its first appearance in a professional league wa ...
and
Cortuluá
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. Meanwhile, their debut in the
Copa Colombia
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came with defeat against
La Equidad
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History ...
.
In the 2017 Finalización League, Millonarios achieved their 15th division title after defeating
Santa Fe in a final that saw 2 goals at the ending of the second half. Said final ended with a tie, that concluded an aggregate 3–2 win over their home rival.
Rivalries
Millonarios has forged many rivalries with several teams from the league, most notably with local rivals
Santa Fe. This derby is popularly called ''El Clásico Capitalino'' (The Capital Classic). It is the only local derby that has been played every season since the beginning of Colombian professional football in 1948. On September 16, 2007, Millonarios completed 100 victories in their clashes in the Bogotá derby against Santa Fe in the 248th derby match with a 1-0 score. The goal was scored by
Gerardo Bedoya
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Nicknamed "the beast," he currently holds the record for most ...
. Currently, the number of wins for Millonarios is 120 against 88 for
Independiente Santa Fe
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, so the difference in victories of the blue ones, it is still more than 30. A trend that has been maintained in recent years.
As of 2015, Millonarios maintained a streak without losing to their crosstown rival Santa Fe with three draws and six victories. The most outstanding in the Torneo Apertura, when Millonarios eliminated Santa Fe from the top eight qualifiers in the last day of the regular phase with a score of 1-3. The goals were converted by
Román Torres,
Fernando Uribe
Fernando Uribe Hincapié (born 1 January 1988) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a striker.
Club career Early career
Born in Pereira, Uribe was an Atlético Huila youth graduate. On 24 April 2003, he scored his first professional goal b ...
and
Rafael Robayo
Rafael Robayo (born April 24, 1984) is a former Colombian footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
Atletico Nacional
Robayo began his youth career at Escuela de Fútbol Vida. In 2003, he joined top Colombian club Atlético Nacional and ...
.
On March 19, 2017 Millonarios cut an undefeated of 22 matches from the ''Cardenal'' team. Millonarios won with a 3–0 score with goals by
Andrés Cadavid
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Honours
;Millonarios
* Categoría Primera A (1): 2017-II
* Superliga Colombiana (1): 2018
;Inde ...
,
Ayron del Valle and
Deiver Machado
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Club career
In 2020, Deiver Machado joined Ligue 2 club ...
. On December 13 of the same year, the ''Embajador'' team and the ''Cardenal'' met in the final of the 2017 Finalización. In the first leg, where Millonarios were the home team, they won after a header from
Matías de los Santos. In the second leg, played on December 17, Millonarios came back from an adverse result twice, first with a goal by
Andrés Cadavid
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Honours
;Millonarios
* Categoría Primera A (1): 2017-II
* Superliga Colombiana (1): 2018
;Inde ...
, and finally with one by
Henry Rojas, for a 3-2 aggregate score, with which they won their 15th league championship. There are also strong rivalries with other teams such as
Atlético Nacional
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,
América de Cali
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, and
Deportivo Cali
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Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful footbal ...
.
Honours
*
* shared record
Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
*
Copa Libertadores
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: 17 appearances
::Best: Semi-finals in 1960, 1973, 1974 - Quarter-finals in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1989, 1995
::1960: Semi-finals
::1962: Quarter-finals
::1963: Quarter-finals
::1964: Quarter-finals
::1968: First Round
::1973: Semi-finals
::1974: Semi-finals
::1976: First Round
::1979: First Round
::1985: First Round
::1988: First Round
::1989: Quarter-finals
::1995: Quarter-finals
::1997: Round of 16
::
2013
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: First Round
::
2017
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: Second stage
::
2018
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: Group stage
*
Copa Sudamericana
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: 4 appearances
::2004: Preliminary Round
::2007: Semi-finals
::2012: Semi-finals
::2014: First Round
::2018: Round of 16
*
Copa Merconorte: 4 appearances
::1998: Semi-finals
::1999: Group Stage
::2000: ''Finalist''
::2001: Champion
Players
First-team squad
On loan
Former players
*
Tommy Mosquera
Records
Most capped players
Source
BDFA
Last updated on: 3 October 2018
Top scorers
Source
Last updated on: 3 October 2018
Managers
*
Fernando Constancio (1946–47)
*
Héctor Scarone
José Juan Héctor Scarone Berreta (26 November 1898 – 4 April 1967) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as inside forward. Scarone was considered one of the best players in the world during his time,. being nicknamed ''El Mago'' ("the Magic ...
(1947–48)
*
Manuel Olivera
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People
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* Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies
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* Manuel ...
(1948)
*
Carlos Aldabe (1949–50)
*
Adolfo Pedernera
Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 – 12 May 1995) was an Argentine football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro" ("The Teacher"), he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s and one of the g ...
(1950–52)
*
Néstor Rossi
Néstor Raúl "Pipo" Rossi (Buenos Aires, 10 May 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder.
Playing career
Nicknamed "Pipo", he started his career at River Plate, playing from 1945 to 1949, and then agai ...
(1952)
*
Adolfo Pedernera
Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 – 12 May 1995) was an Argentine football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro" ("The Teacher"), he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s and one of the g ...
(1953)
* (1954–55)
*
Simón Herrería
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People
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
(1956)
*
Delfín Benítez Cáceres
Delfín Benítez Cáceres (24 September 1910 – 8 January 2004) was a Paraguayan football striker.
Benítez started his career in Libertad of his native country. As one of the key players of the Paraguay national football team in the early ...
(1956–57)
*
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (November 20, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the mo ...
(1957–60)
*
Julio Cozzi
Julio Adolfo Cozzi (14 July 1922 – 25 September 2011) was an Argentine football goalkeeper who won the Copa América 1947 with the Argentina national team.
Cozzi started his career in 1941 with Club Atlético Platense, he played for the c ...
(1960–61)
*
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (November 20, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the mo ...
(1961–64)
* (1964)
*
Efraín Sánchez
Efraín Elías "El Caimán" Sánchez Casimiro (26 February 1926 – 16 January 2020) was a Colombian footballer who played as goalkeeper. He competed for the Colombia national football team at the 1962 FIFA World Cup which was held in Chile. Amo ...
(1964)
* (1965)
*
José Carlos Bauer
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Early life
Born in São Paulo, he was the son of a Swiss man and an African-Brazilian woman. He was normally a ...
(1965)
*
Roberto Saba
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(1966)
* (1966)
*
Néstor Rossi
Néstor Raúl "Pipo" Rossi (Buenos Aires, 10 May 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder.
Playing career
Nicknamed "Pipo", he started his career at River Plate, playing from 1945 to 1949, and then agai ...
(1967)
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Francisco Zuluaga
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(1968)
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Otto Vieira
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(1969–70)
* (1970)
* (1970)
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Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (November 20, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the mo ...
(1970–75)
* (1976)
*
Rubén Sole (1976)
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Juan Eulogio Urriolaveitia
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(1976)
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Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (November 20, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the mo ...
(1977)
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Jorge Solari
Jorge Raúl Solari, (born 11 November 1941) is a former Argentine football player and manager.
Playing career
Solari, nicknamed ''"El Indio"'' ("The Indian"), played as a midfielder for several clubs in Argentina, he started his career with Ne ...
(1977)
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Rubén Sole (1977)
* (1978)
*
Osvaldo Panzutto
Osvaldo Panzutto (25 May 1929 – 8 February 1995), also spelled Oswaldo Panzutto or Panzuto, was an Argentina, Argentine professional Association football, football player. He was the topscorer of the 1961 Copa Libertadores with 4 goals.
Club c ...
(1978)
* (1978)
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Pedro Dellacha
Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha (9 July 1926, Lanús – 31 July 2010) was an Argentine football defender and coach. He was the captain of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 Copa América and earned the nickname "Don Pedro del Area". As a man ...
(1978)
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Juan Hohberg
Juan Eduardo Hohberg (8 October 1926 – 30 April 1996) was an Argentine-born Uruguayan football player and coach. He is best remembered as a player for Peñarol (1949-59) where he won 6 Uruguayan Primera División title wins (1949, 1951, 1953, 1 ...
(1979)
* (1979)
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José Varacka
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Club career
Varacka played for three of the big five teams in Argentina. He started his career in 1952 with Independiente. In 1954 he played and score ...
(1979)
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José Texeira (1980–81)
* (1981)
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Todor Veselinović
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(1982)
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José Pastoriza
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(1982)
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Juan Mujica
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Career
Mujica played club football for Rampla Juniors, Nacional, Lille ...
(1983)
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Jorge Luis Pinto
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Managing career
Pinto managed several teams in Colombia, including Santa Fe and Unión ...
(1984–85)
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Eduardo Luján Manera (1985)
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Eduardo Retat
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(1986)
* (1987–90)
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Eduardo Retat
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(1991)
* (1992)
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Miguel "El Nano" Prince (Oct 10, 1992–Dec 31, 1993)
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Vladimir Popović (1994–95)
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Miguel "El Nano" Prince (1995–96)
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Eduardo Oliveros (1996–97)
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Otoniel Quintana
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The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the ...
(1997)
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Diego Umaña
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(1997)
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Francisco Maturana
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(1998–June 30, 1998)
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Jorge Luis Pinto
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Managing career
Pinto managed several teams in Colombia, including Santa Fe and Unión ...
(1998–99)
* (1999)
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Jaime Rodríguez
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He represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.
Playing career
Club career
From a very early age on ...
(2000)
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Diego Umaña
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(2000–01)
* (2001–02)
*
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(2002)
* (2002)
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Cheche Hernández
José Eugenio "Cheche" Hernández Sarmiento (born 18 May 1956) is a Colombian Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
Hernández played for local sides Millonarios F.C ...
(2002)
* (2002)
*
Norberto Peluffo
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Personal life
His father, the Colombian-Argentine Norberto Juan Peluffo, was also a professional soccer playe ...
(2003–04)
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Óscar Fernando Cortes (2004)
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Dragan Miranović
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Playing career Club
Miranović was born in Feketić, Soci ...
(2004–05)
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Fernando Castro (2005)
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Miguel "El Nano" Prince (Nov 30, 2005–June 30, 2006)
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Juan Carlos Osorio
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(Jan 1, 2006–June 30, 2007)
*
Martín Lasarte (July 1, 2007–Sept 1, 2007)
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Mario Vanemerak (Sept 4, 2007–April 11, 2008)
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Bonner Mosquera
Bonner Ahmed Mosquera (born 2 December 1970) is a Colombian former football player, who used to play in the defender or midfielder position.
Club career
He is the player with the most appearances ever in Millonarios
Millonarios Fútbol Club ...
(2008)
*
Óscar Héctor Quintabani (2008–09)
* (May 7, 2009 – March 25, 2010)
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Richard Páez
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Playing career
Club
Born in Méri ...
(June 1, 2010 – June 30, 2012)
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Hernán Torres (July 1, 2012–Dec 3, 2013)
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Juan Manuel Lillo
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(Dec 4, 2013–Aug 31, 2014)
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Ricardo Lunari
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Playing career
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(Sept 8, 2014–Aug 25, 2015)
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Rubén Israel
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Coaching career
Libertad
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(Aug 27, 2015–Aug 11, 2016)
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Diego Cocca
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Playing career
Club
Cocca sta ...
(Aug 17, 2016–Dec 21, 2016)
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Miguel Angel Russo
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(Dec 22, 2016–Nov 11, 2018)
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Jorge Luis Pinto
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Managing career
Pinto managed several teams in Colombia, including Santa Fe and Unión ...
(Nov 13, 2018 - Oct 30, 2019)
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Alberto Gamero
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Honours Player
;Millonarios
* Categoría Primera A (1): 198 ...
(Dec 10, 2019 - )
Affiliated teams
Co-ownership
Notes:
* The clubs are owned by
Joseph Marie Oughourlian, through its investment groups, as are '' 'Millionarios' ''.
Influence in other clubs
*
Millonario del Rímac: The club was founded in December 1957 after a tour of Millionarios in Inca lands. Currently competes in the third district division of Rímac, (fourth division of Peru) at the hierarchical level. The last official rapprochement between the two institutions occurred in 1976.
Brotherhoods
*
River Plate: In the amateur age of Colombian soccer, the then known as Club Deportivo Municipal, began to bring Argentine players, so they were nicknamed ("Los Millonarios") as a mockery. Soon after, the directives decided to take that romoquete as part of their official name, which agreed with the beginning of the professional league and the now-called Millonarios continued to contract to a large extent players from River Plate, so the relationship between the clubs became recurrent. Some of the notable player transfers are:
Néstor Rossi
Néstor Raúl "Pipo" Rossi (Buenos Aires, 10 May 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder.
Playing career
Nicknamed "Pipo", he started his career at River Plate, playing from 1945 to 1949, and then agai ...
(from River to Millonarios) and
Juan Gilberto Funes
Juan Gilberto Funes Baldovino (8 March 1963 – 11 January 1992), nicknamed "''El Búfalo''" (The Buffalo), was an Argentine footballer who played as a striker, known for his physical style of play. He was born in San Luis, Argentina.
Biograph ...
(from Millonarios to River).
*
Real Madrid
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:
The history between the two clubs is reflected in the 7 friendly matches in which they have faced each other since Millonarios has won 3, 3 draws have been presented and only one merengue victory has been seen. Millonarios became recognized as the only foreign club to beat the first golden generation of Real Madrid. In addition, between these two institutions, the transfer of
Alfredo Di Stéfano
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, one of the best players in the history of world football, was presented.
References
Notes
External links
official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Millonarios Futbol Club
Football clubs in Colombia
Football clubs in Bogotá
Association football clubs established in 1946
1946 establishments in Colombia
Categoría Primera A clubs
Unrelegated association football clubs
Copa Merconorte winning clubs