They are the most special matches for any fan. And also for the clubs. Honor is at stake, the possibility of having a week full of joy at home or in the office, or of enduring teasing, of seeing memes that hurt to the soul and of Monday’s coffee being bitter. It is the weekend of the classics in Colombian professional football.
It’s time to meet up with your neighbor, who for 90 minutes becomes the enemy you always want to defeat. It is also time to revive rivalries of many years, which not only have to do with sharing geographical areas, but also with years and years of a rivalry that, in practice, should only stay there, in the green rectangle surrounded by stands and of passions
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Why are the classics so special?
But the classic is not only played on the pitch. You live in anticipation. The fans prepare it with a special ritual, with the banners, with the music, with everything that is put into play to defend the honor. And the coaches and the players also live it the same way, so at times some want to warm up the atmosphere and minimize the rival of a lifetime. The mouthpiece also plays.
“The superclásicos are the Christmas of football. The desire almost always trumps the result. For months, fans imagine goals with the excess of children who ask Santa Claus for a PlayStation in exchange for cookies for the reindeer that will arrive tired, ”wrote the Mexican Juan Villoro in SoHo magazine, referring to the duel between Boca and River, who lived for the first time as a fan in 1974. And the term applies to all traditional duels.
The fans do whatever it takes to experience the duel in the stands (at least, when they let them in, because now it has become customary for visitors not to have access to the field).
To what extreme have they come to be shouting in the stands for their team? “With the help of my wife, we moved the date of the caesarean section that the doctor had assigned us for another that did not cross with the classic. A classic that, by the way, we won,” the writer and journalist Daniel Samper Pizano, a fan and, at the time, director of Santa Fe, told EL TIEMPO.
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Samper was the same one who got a lion, a real one, made of flesh and blood, to be the team’s mascot. He even went out on the pitch with the players. And he still retains the skin of Monaguillo, inherited from the president of the time, Guillermo ‘Chiva’ Cortés.
A trill from a Deportivo Pereira fan who claimed that he faked an illness to ask his boss for permission went viral on social networks. It was just an excuse to go to Armenia to watch the classic against Deportes Quindío. He did not expect that his superior was watching the game and he had the misfortune that the camera focused on him and that is how they discovered him…
The proliferation of teams in Colombian soccer (which went from having 14 clubs in the first division in 1987 to 20 today) has made Dimayor have to accommodate some of them as best it can so that they are not left without competition on this day . But this time, five of the League’s historic duels will be in action (see schedule). The atmosphere this weekend is different. There is classic.
This is how the classic date will be played
The day began with a goalless draw between Once Caldas and Deportivo Pereira, this Friday, at the Palogrande stadium in Manizales. This is how the rest of the date will be played:
Saturday
Junior FC vs Union Magdalena
Time: 4:05 p.m.
Metropolitan Stadium
Television: Win+
Deportivo Cali vs America de Cali
Time: 6:10 p.m.
Stadium: Deportivo Cali
Television: Win+
La Equidad vs Patriotas FC
Time: 8:15 p.m.
Stadium: Metropolitan Roof
Television: WinSports/Win+
Sunday
Oil Alliance vs Atletico Bucaramanga
Time: 4:05 p.m.
Stadium: Daniel Villa Zapata
Television: Win+
Independiente Santa Fe vs Millonarios FC
Time: 6:10 p.m.
Stadium: El Campin
Television: Win+
Atletico Nacional vs Independiente Medellin
Time: 8:15 p.m.
Stadium: Atanasio Girardot
Television: Win+
Monday
Cortulua vs Deportes Tolima
Time: 7:40 PM
Pascual Guerrero stadium
Transmission: Win/Win+
Tuesday
Golden Eagles vs Envigado FC
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Stadium: Alberto Grisales
Television: WinSports/Win+
Jaguares FC vs Deportivo Pasto
Time: 7:35 p.m.
Stadium: Jaraguay
Television: WinSports/Win+
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