This Wednesday, May 24, Club Deportivo Centenario de la Unión completes 113 years of life as an institution, today it continues to compete with its adult series in various regional competitions, along with sports training for children and youth. dedicated to.
The club’s current president, Sebastian Gómez, states that the institution is currently made up of Club Deportivo Centenario and the Centenario Social and Cultural Football School, which work together for the same purpose.
Along these lines, the leader details that “Soccer School develops work with children from the time of the youth series reaching the age of 4 to the age of 15. All its categories are created, so that overall our Around 150 children are actively participating.”
And he emphasized: “It was the first sports training school that had a club affiliated with ANFA in the commune of La Union, and therefore the training of practically all players in the commune has been kept. If one checks other ANFA teams in La Union almost all of their players have gone through the Centennial Soccer School.
For sports clubs, Gómez specified that “we have an honours, senior and super senior series, in addition to a women’s series created this year, which are all categories required by the ANFA, so we have about 350 registered adult players”. .
Currently, “the club has close to 300 active members, and we also have teachers in all categories. In total there are five professionals who work in training the boys and also in the sports club,” said the leader.
tasks and challenges
When asked about the relevance of the institution to the community of La Union, the club’s president said that “mainly, it is the social responsibility that we have with the territory of the commune, because in addition to a sporting event, we also fulfill a social function”.
“We have a soccer school that houses vulnerable children from the commune, where they are given sports, values and institutional training, and which allows them to generate this pathway connected to the world of sport and physical activity. It Definitely helps in their personal and academic development,” he said.
With regard to the current challenges of Centenario, Sebastián Gómez said that “we want a headquarters in the short term. Our dependency is the Centenario Stadium, which we handed over on loan to the Municipality of La Unión, remodeling what it looks like today. and which will remain for the club once the loan is exhausted. Thanks to this collaborative work with the municipality, we have a stadium in very good condition that complies with official regulations.”
Anniversary dinner: 20 years after ANFA regional title
This Saturday, May 27, Club Deportivo Centenario will hold a cordial dinner at Union No. 1 in Colón, which will celebrate not only the anniversary of the institution, but also the 20th anniversary of the most important sporting milestone in its history. : Regional title of ANFA Region de los Lagos, obtained in 2003.
“We want to remember the regional championship that we won in 2003, when we were the Los Lagos Region and its competition was from Valdivia to Chiloé. We have this great sporting milestone as a club, and hope That in the next few years we will meet again in the Los Rios area, ”revealed the club’s president.
When describing the history of Club Deportivo Centenario, the manager commented that “It is work that has been going on for a long time, and we have taken a position that has many qualities. There are efforts of whole families here and that have been passed down from generation to generation.” -generations have been transferred, as is the case with the Bontes family who were at the foundation of the institution, and who remain part of the board of directors today. There are many people who have contributed to the generation of the century it is today, And what we want is to preserve the good that has been done, and to improve the aspects that we owe.
