Football Colombia Primera Divisio, Deportivo Pereira vs Union Magdalena live match on Tuesday, 26 February 3012 at 01:10 GMT.
The Asociación Deportiva Unión Magdalena is a Colombian soccer team founded in 1950 as "Los Samarios" (April 19) and based in Santa Marta. The original playing squad was largely composed of Hungarians who were touring Colombia when their club disbanded.[1] It has only won one championship, in 1968 against Deportivo Cali in the final. Red and blue stripes compose its shirt. It is also nicknamed "El Ciclón Bananero" in Colombia, arguably after San Lorenzo de Almagro, which uniform design shares.
Deportivo Pereira is a Colombian soccer team based in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. It was founded in 1944. They play in the Colombian Second Division (Categoría Primera B) and their home stadium is Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas.
In 1991, Colombia's Dimayor decided to modify the tournament so the Second Division's champion would be promoted to First Division and the Last Team from The First Division would be demoted to Second Division. In 1995, the team got a decent sixth place that placed it comfortably far from Second Division. However, During 1997's tournament, the team was demoted to Second Division and it had to remain in Second Division during 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Led by coach Walter Aristizabal and stars like Rafael Castillo, Hernan Dario Cardona, Daniel Velez and Jairo Serna, the team won the Second Division tournament in the year 2000, and returned to First Division. Since then, the team has reached three First Division semifinals, and achieved fourth place during 2003's tournament.
In 2007, the team finished second to last and had to play against Academia for the Second Division's Demotion/Promotion game. Deportivo Pereira was able to keep its place in the First Division, beating Academia 4 to 2, thanks to striker Óscar Restrepo.
By the end of 2008, and after a splendid season, the club's democratization process was started. After several months of legal processes, the team was confirmed by the División Mayor del Fútbol Colombiano (Dimayor) and the Federación Colombiana de Fútbol as the Deportivo Pereira S.A..
On November 6, 2011, Deportivo Pereira lost its First Division status by losing in Ibagué 1-0 against Deportes Tolima.
Pereira has recently achieved a record to get into the second half of the season 2012 Categoría Primera B season a total of 43 points, making it the first team to have achieved this number.
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