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After a year and 16 days, the ball began to roll in the 2020 Women’s League and it was precisely in Bogotá, where the grand final will be played, that the first match was played. Victory and a win by Millonarios over Llaneros.
After completing the group phase, where there were 13 teams divided into three groups, playing the quarterfinal and semifinal phase, we are two games away from defining the champion of the fourth edition of the Women’s Professional League in Colombia.
It is an unprecedented final, a duel between the reds and the champions, in which they play for more than a second star to embroider on the shield. Santa Fe and America met the forecast after arriving as favorites.
Santa Fe, the first champion
The first is the Las Leonas project, which began in April with the appointment of Diego Perdomo as sports manager. The Huilense leader built a three-year process at Atlético Huila achieving a subtitle and a national title and the greatest continental achievement at the club level for women’s football in the country: the 2018 Copa Libertadores.
Perdomo moved with all his artillery: coaching staff and players to the Colombian capital, all after the announcement of the club opita not to play the league this year. This is how Independiente Santa Fe model 2020 emerged.
The lionesses began to add chips, some “old acquaintances” such as Liana Salazar (champion captain in 2017), Daniela Solera and Ysaura Viso (champions with Huila), among other talents that gradually became one of the best-armed clubs in the world. championship.
In the group stage they finished as the undisputed leaders with a perfect campaign. Eight victories in eight games played, 28 goals for and 4 against. In the quarterfinals they beat Junior with a 5-4 aggregate and come from leaving behind one of the historic teams of Colombian football, Formas Íntimas, which has participated as Independiente Medellín since the previous tournament. Global score 3-1.
Santa Fe, the first champion of the Women’s League in 2017, will play its second final in four editions and curiously it does so by closing at home. The big difference is that there will not be 33 thousand spectators cheering on the housewives.
América de Cali, defending champion
On the other hand there is the América de Cali project, nothing more and nothing less than the current champion. It is another of the serious jobs in women’s football in Colombia, with Andrés Usme as coach, Catalina Usme and Carolina Pineda, as references and soul of the team.
America also had an outstanding group stage where they won five victories in six games. He scored nine goals and received four. In the quarterfinal phase, it was measured against Atlético Nacional, winning 2-1 on aggregate and in the semifinals it just left Millonarios without a final chance, with the same result.
The red devils that defeated the DIM in the 2019 final have the same roster as the champion. It was only reinforced with Lizeth Ocampo in defense, Jessica Caro in midfield and Joemar Guarecuco for attack.
This Thursday the exciting red final will begin, starting at the Pascual Guerrero stadium in Cali.
Women’s League Tour
Santa Fe
2017 – Champion vs Atlético Huila
2018 – Semifinals vs Atlético Nacional
2019 – Quarterfinals vs Millionaires
Cali America
2017 – Quarterfinals vs Santa Fe
2018 ¬ – Semifinalist vs Atlético Huila
2019 – Champion vs Ind. Medellín
