14 Facts About Colo-Colo

1.

Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago.

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2.

Colo-Colo is regarded as the most successful club of Chilean football.

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3.

Colo-Colo has won more Primera Division de Chile than any other Chilean club and a record thirteen Copa Chile titles.

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4.

Colo-Colo is the team with most supporters in Chile, and holds a long-standing rivalry with Universidad de Chile.

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5.

Team began to play friendly games, but in 1926, Colo-Colo took part in the Metropolitan League of Honour, where they were proclaimed champions and earned the nickname of "invincible".

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6.

The following year, Colo-Colo became the first Chilean football team to participate in a tour across Europe.

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7.

However, in the first Primera Division official tournament, Colo-Colo finished first alongside Magallanes, which forced the "Cacique" to play a tie-breaker match.

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8.

Two seasons later, in 1939, Colo-Colo won the league title for a second time, now under the guidance of the Hungarian coach Francisco Platko, and with Alfonso Dominguez as goalscorer with 20 goals in 24 matches.

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9.

The following year Colo-Colo organized the South American Club Championship – Copa Libertadores background – in Santiago, which brought together the 1947 continent's champions.

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10.

The 1987 Alianza Lima air disaster claimed the lives of sixteen players and Colo-Colo was the first to help the Peruvian team, loaning them 4 players.

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11.

The last title won by Jozic in Colo-Colo was the 1993 league title, thus closing a successful spell in South America.

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12.

In 1999, Colo-Colo relived something like 1994, finishing fourth in the Chilean league and having three coaches during that single season: Brazilian Nelsinho Baptista, the caretaker manager Carlos Duran and then Fernando Morena of Uruguay, who remained until 2001.

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13.

The following season Colo-Colo won two more consecutive tournaments, winning a Tetracampeonato for winning four back-to-back championships, being the first Chilean team to achieve that.

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14.

Colo-Colo initially played on a field called Estadio El Llano but in January 1928 moved to the Campos de Sports de Nunoa.

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