Club Atlético Unión (usually referred as Unión de Sunchales) is an Argentine

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from

Sunchales Sunchales is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 21,304 inhabitants per the . It lies in the center-west of the province, from the provincial capital Santa Fe, on National Route 34. Sunchales is located in the most fertile pa ...

Santa Fe Province The Province of Santa Fe ( es, Provincia de Santa Fe, ) is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco (divided by the 28th parallel south), Corrientes, Entre R� ...

. Its football team currently plays in the

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, which is the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system. Unión was founded in 1948 as a football club, but it expanded into several different sports, including

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, where the team currently plays at Torneo Nacional de Ascenso (TNA), the second division of Argentine basketball league system. Other sports practised at the club are

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, martial arts,

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and

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."Deporte amateur" – club's website
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History

Basketball was added as sport in 1950. The club won its first official title, the Asociación Rafaelina de Básquetbol championship, in 1987 being coached by Roberto Vico. In 1991 Unión promoted to Liga Nacional B (currently Torneo Nacional de Ascenso, the second division of Argentine basketball). The club spent two seasons in the Nacional B until the team had to leave the tournament due to financial problems. In 2005 Unión won another title promoting to Nacional de Ascenso. In 2009, Unión promoted to

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, the top division of Argentine basketball.

Titles

Basketball

*Liga Rafaelina: 9 ::1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

References

External links

Official website
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