Águilas Doradas
Full nameÁguilas Doradas S.A.
Nickname(s)Las Águilas Doradas (The Golden Eagles)
El Equipo Dorado (The Golden Team)
El Equipo Joven de Colombia (Colombia's Young Team)
Founded16 July 2008 (2008-07-16) (as Itagüí Ditaires)
GroundEstadio Alberto Grisales
Capacity14,000
OwnerTalento Dorado S.A.
ChairmanPaola Salazar
ManagerHernán Darío Gómez
LeagueCategoría Primera A
2023Primera A, 1st of 20
WebsiteClub website

Águilas Doradas is a professional Colombian football team based in Rionegro that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at Alberto Grisales stadium. The club also has a futsal team.

History

On 16 July 2008, the club was founded as Itagüí Ditaires after a group of investors led by former football player José Fernando Salazar bought the team Bajo Cauca and relocated it to Itagüí.[1]

Itagüí began playing in the Primera B's 2008 Finalización championship, where they finished sixth out of nine teams in their group. In the 2009 Apertura, Itagüí had a great performance; they finished second in their group during the regular season, then won their group in the playoffs, before losing the final to Cortuluá on penalties. In the 2009 Finalización, the club had the most points out of all 18 in the regular season, with 33, and were serious candidates to win the title. However, they faltered in the playoffs and finished last with only three points. For the 2010 season DIMAYOR changed the Primera B format to a year-long tournament. Itagüí topped the regular season table, advancing to the playoffs. In the playoffs, they won their group, winning five and only losing one, which qualified them for the final against Deportivo Pasto. In the finals, the club won 3–2 on aggregate, becoming champions and being promoted to the Primera A, mainly with the help of Luis Páez, who scored in both legs. In that same year, the club also reached the Copa Colombia finals, knocking Deportes Tolima, Atlético Nacional, and Millonarios out of the competition successively before losing to Deportivo Cali.

They made their Primera A debut in 2011, being the first time in the top-flight that four teams from the same department (Antioquia) competed for the grand prize.

The club was expelled from Itagüí in May 2014, following a dispute between the club's chairman and the city's mayor regarding the financial support received by the club from Itagüí's local government. The decision to expel the club from the city was made by the mayor after being publicly criticized by the club's chairman for the scarce support provided to the club. This incident meant the team would change its name to Águilas Pereira, moving to the city of Pereira and playing its home matches at Hernán Ramírez Villegas stadium, a change approved by DIMAYOR's Assembly in an extraordinary meeting on 14 July 2014.[2][3]

In March 2015, the club moved to Rionegro, changing its name to Águilas Doradas, citing economic losses as the main reason.[4] On 5 January 2016 the club announced it would be changing its name to Rionegro Águilas and its kit colour would be switched from its traditional golden to red.[5][6][7] The club returned to its usual primary kit colours of golden and black for the 2020 season.

In April 2021, the club made world headlines when they were forced to play a league match with Boyacá Chicó using only seven players due to a rule imposed by DIMAYOR in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which stated that a team had to play if they had at least seven players available. Águilas Doradas were unable to field an entire team due to fifteen players testing positive for COVID-19 and seven players out injured. As a result, the club sent a request to DIMAYOR to have the match postponed, which was declined. Eventually the game was called off after a player got injured with ten minutes remaining, leaving the team with only six players and below the minimum needed.[8][9][10]

Since the 2022 Finalización tournament, in which they were managed by Leonel Álvarez, Águilas Doradas started making consistent campaigns in which they made it to the semifinal stage of the competition. In that tournament, they ended the first stage in second place behind Santa Fe, but failed to advance to the finals despite having won the first three matches in their semifinal group. For the following season, the club signed the debutant coach Lucas González, with whom they topped the first stage of the 2023 Apertura with 39 points in 20 matches, but the team failed to keep their momentum in the semifinals and they were eliminated after only collecting 2 points in their following 6 games. González was replaced by Venezuelan manager César Farías for the 2023 Finalización, in which Águilas ended the first stage in first place once again but also became the first team to achieve an unbeaten run in the first stage of the tournament.[11] The team's unbeaten streak extended for 21 matches before being broken with a 4–0 home thrashing at the hands of Deportes Tolima,[12] and Águilas failed to reach the finals of the competition, placing third in their group. However, the team's performance in both tournaments allowed them to qualify for the 2024 Copa Libertadores, after ending in first place in the season's aggregate table.

Honours

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

2013: Quarter-finals
2014: First stage
2015: Second stage
2017: First stage
2019: Second stage
2023: First stage

Players

First-team squad

As of 11 January 2024[13][14]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Venezuela VEN José Contreras
3 DF Colombia COL Sebastián Rodríguez
4 DF Colombia COL Mateo Puerta
6 DF Colombia COL José Cuenú
7 MF Colombia COL Adrián Estacio
8 MF Bolivia BOL Moisés Villarroel
9 FW Colombia COL Anthony Vásquez
11 MF Colombia COL Tomás Salazar
12 GK Colombia COL Juan David Valencia
14 FW Colombia COL Jeferson Rivas
15 FW Colombia COL Fabián Charales
16 MF Colombia COL Jean Pineda
17 DF Colombia COL Jeison Quiñónes (captain)
20 FW Colombia COL John Fredy Salazar
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF Colombia COL Yoni Mosquera
22 MF Colombia COL Jesús Rivas
23 MF Colombia COL Johan Caballero
25 FW Colombia COL Jorge Rengifo
26 DF Colombia COL Dylan Lozano
28 MF Colombia COL Guillermo Celis
30 DF Colombia COL Nicolás Lara
32 DF Colombia COL Duván Mosquera
33 MF Colombia COL Auli Oliveros
44 DF Colombia COL Carlos Arboleda
90 FW Colombia COL Royner Benítez
— GK Colombia COL Héctor Arango
— MF Colombia COL Juan Esteban Ávalo

World Cup players

The following players were chosen to represent their country at the FIFA World Cup while contracted to Águilas Doradas.

Notable players

Managers

Country Name Dates
 ColombiaCarlos Hoyos16 July 2008 – 11 November 2009
 ColombiaÁlvaro de Jesús Gómez1 January 2010 – 30 November 2010
 ColombiaCarlos Hoyos30 December 2010 – 30 April 2011
 ColombiaÁlvaro de Jesús Gómez1 May 2011 – 31 December 2011
 ColombiaHernán Torres1 January 2012 – 30 June 2012
 ColombiaLeonel Álvarez7 July 2012 – 13 December 2012
 ColombiaJorge Luis Bernal8 January 2013 – 7 December 2013
 ColombiaAlberto Gamero16 December 2013 – 9 May 2014
 ColombiaJorge Luis Bernal3 June 2014 – 23 September 2014
 ArgentinaÓscar Héctor Quintabani24 September 2014 – 31 December 2014
 ColombiaÁlvaro de Jesús Gómez1 January 2015 – 6 April 2015
 ArgentinaÓscar Héctor Quintabani7 April 2015 – 28 September 2015
 ColombiaNéstor Otero29 September 2015 – 13 June 2016
 ColombiaPedro Sarmiento13 June 2016 – 22 August 2016
 ColombiaNestor Otero23 August 2016 – 17 April 2017
 ColombiaOscar Perez4 May 2017 – 6 August 2017
 ColombiaDiego Umaña11 August 2017 – 10 December 2017
 ColombiaHernan Torres13 December 2017 – 17 May 2018
 ColombiaJorge Luis Bernal31 May 2018 – 1 March 2019
 ParaguayEver Almeida11 March 2019 – 4 April 2019
 ColombiaEduardo Cruz5 April 2019 – 12 June 2019
 ColombiaFlabio Torres13 June 2019 – 5 November 2019
 VenezuelaFrancesco Stifano12 December 2019 – 31 December 2020
 ColombiaHubert Bodhert4 January 2021 – 2 March 2021
 VenezuelaFrancesco Stifano4 March 2021 – 16 November 2021
 PeruJohan Fano (caretaker)16 November 2021 – 31 December 2021
 ColombiaLeonel Alvarez1 January 2022 – 8 December 2022
 ColombiaLucas González30 December 2022 – 26 June 2023
 VenezuelaCésar Farías30 June 2023 – 2 January 2024

Source: Worldfootball.net

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Aguilas Doradas Oficial". Archived from the original on 21 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ↑ ""Las Águilas Doradas fueron expulsadas de Itagüí", Fernando Salazar" ["The "Golden Eagles" were expelled from Itagüí", Fernando Salazar]. Win Sports. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "De manera unánime, la DIMAYOR autorizó a Águilas Doradas jugar en Pereira" [Unanimously, DIMAYOR authorized Águilas Doradas to play at Pereira]. Win Sports. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Águilas ya tiene 'nido': jugará en Rionegro". Futbolred.com (in Spanish). 18 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Águilas Doradas cambia su nombre a Rionegro F.C." Golcaracol.com (in Spanish). 5 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Águilas Doradas cambia su nombre: ahora será Rionegro". futbolred.com (in Spanish). 5 January 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Cambio de nombre a Rionegro Águilas". DIMAYOR.com.co (in Spanish). 22 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "COVID: Team starts with 7, finishes with 6". ESPN.com. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  9. ↑ Pozzebon, Stefano (12 April 2021). "Colombian football team Águilas Doradas fields only seven players due to Covid outbreak". CNN. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "Colombian top-flight side Rionegro Aguilas forced to play with seven due to injuries and Covid-19 cases". Goal.com. 11 April 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "Águilas Doradas pasó a la historia: logró un invicto inédito en el Fútbol Profesional Colombiano" [Águilas Doradas went down in history: they achieved an unprecedented undefeated record in Colombian Professional Football] (in Spanish). Noticias RCN. 8 November 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "Tolima cortó el invicto de Águilas Doradas con una contundente goleada en Rionegro" [Tolima ended Águilas Doradas's undefeated record with a resounding thrashing in Rionegro] (in Spanish). Caracol Radio. 18 November 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  13. ↑ "Equipo profesional | Águilas Doradas". Águilas Doradas. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  14. ↑ "Águilas Doradas". Dimayor. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
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