The ‘purslane’ team won 3-1 on aggregate against América.
National Athletic was crowned champion of the 2024 BetPlay Cup, the first title for the ‘purslane’ team this year and there could be two if they win the title in the league, where they will face Deportes Tolima this next week.
The team led by Efrain Juarez, who came to the Nacional bench in August 2024, was able to win the title of a cup that he deserves very well, since the ‘purslane’ is by far the biggest winner of this competition.
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Nacional and its hegemony in the Colombia Cup
The competition that is currently contested by all the teams of the first and second categories of Colombian soccer and that had its initial edition in 1951 with title for Boca Juniors de Cali, has the green team of Antioquia as total monarch.
And Nacional has won, with this one against América de Cali, his seventh Colombia Cup trophy throughout its history, achieving 100% effectiveness after reaching the finals, as it never lost in the dispute for the title.
The ‘purslane’ set is undoubtedly the king of the Colombia Cupnow called BetPlay Cup for sponsorship purposes, winning the trophies of the year 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2023 and 2024.
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So things are, Nacional defended the title obtained last yearan edition in which they won via penalties against Millonarios at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium, a series that Nacional was able to equal with an agonizing goal in the final minutes of the match.
Now, Atlético Nacional will seek to make the double of titles this year looking to win the BetPlay League, a championship where they will have to face Deportes Tolima, with the first leg being in Ibagué next Wednesday, December 18, while the second leg is scheduled in Paisa territory on Sunday the 22nd of the same month.
