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Patricio Cucchi’s goal in the epilogue of the match between Santa Fe and Equidad, for the second leg of the 2020 League semifinal, was not only shouted in Bogotá and wherever a cardinal supporter was. The Argentine’s annotation was loudly shouted in Guarne and by the purslane, who by reclassification would be accessing the Copa Libertadores 2021 in its second qualifying phase. As a curious fact, Cucchi is a Nacional player on loan to Santa Fe and must return to the team as soon as the final with the Cardinals ends.
Atlético Nacional will have its twenty-second participation in the most important club tournament on the continent, it returns after 2019 where the penalty shootout against Libertad de Paraguay, deprived it of being in the group stage. The team led by Alexandre Guimarães will have the challenge of advancing two previous phases to fight alongside 31 of the best teams on the continent.
Although you will still have to wait if you enter as Colombia 3 or Colombia 4, your participation would already be assured. It remains to know the draw, but due to the extension of the 2020 edition, phase II of the Libertadores would be played between March 2 to 4, the first leg, while the return between March 9 to 11 of the same month.
Atlético Nacional in the Copa Libertadores has played 175 games, of which they won 74, drew 43 and lost 58. He scored 235 goals and received 192. He managed to be champion of the 1989 and 2016 editions, as well as being a finalist in 1995. So far, He has played in 50 stadiums throughout South America and the United States.
In addition, this would be the first time that he has qualified for the Copa Libertadores by reclassification. In the editions of the years 1974, 1977, 1982, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 he entered as local champion of the previous year. In the editions of 1972, 1975, 1989, 1991 and 1993 as local runner-up from the previous year. In 2019 as champion of the Colombia Cup and 1990 and 2017 as current champion of the tournament.
* Data thanks to Javier Danilo Correa, on twitter: @jdanilocorrea
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
And twitter: @ juanchoserran8
