Deportivo vs. Cal: Final Match Preview

The eight editions of the Women’s League that have been played have only had four champions teams: America, Santa Fe, Atlético Huila and Deportivo Cali. The Vallecaucano team, which has several Colombian National Team soccer players – of all categories – is the current champion.

In the 2024 final he beat Independiente Santa Fe, a painting that won the first edition of the tournament, which was held in 2017 and, as in the male football, ended with a victory of the Bogota, maximum winners of the Women’s Tournament of our country with three titles.

The capital cast raised its titles in 2017, 2020 and 2023. Las Caleñas, for their art, won in 2021 and 2024. In the final of the 2025 edition, the final of last year will be repeated. On Saturday night, at the Atanasio Girardot stadium in Medellín, the sugar cadre beat Atlético Nacional 0-2, which sought to reach the first final in its history.

There was a special environment. It was felt that it was a different game, in which one step to the final was played. Therefore, from four in the afternoon, many fans of the green painting, mothers and children, parents with their girls, arrived at the stands of the Atanasio Girardot stadium, which was preparing for a sports show.

From the King of Cups it was arranged that all the people who enter would be located in the western tribune of the stadium. Therefore, when half an hour was missing for the start of the game, which was initially scheduled for 5:30 in the afternoon, but started at 5:35 by disposition of the Dimayor, whole families were seen by the halls of the lower part of the stadium.

Among those who walked was goalkeeper Luis Marquínez, third of the male professional team. The young goalkeeper, one of those who has the greatest projection in national football for the coming years, went up to one of the stadium boxes to see the game. However, before arriving, photos were taken with the children who asked them. The same happened with René Higuita, who was line up for a photo, an autograph.

The game began. It was sunny in Medellín. Fans began to chant “let’s go my green, which this afternoon we have to win.” The context was partying. The cry at first was shy. Then it consolidated. The fans got into the game. They started screaming every time the Verdolagas approached, hoping that they score goal.

They also whistled when Cali approached. However, the Vallecaucano painting went ahead first on the scoreboard. Melanin Aponzá scored the first goal when 57 minutes went from the game. The fans, who were screaming, were silent after they went down on the scoreboard. Those who follow the National Team of Nacional, said that one of the worst matches of the tournament played.

The Antioqueñas, although they tried to move forward in a party that, over time he got hot and led to the Tolimense judge, who gave justice, to take out more yellow cards than expected on the end of the meeting, they failed to tie. On the contrary, when a quarter of an hour was missing to finish the duel, Zharick Yuliana Montoya scored the 2-0. This footballer, one of the most prominent of the cast cast, received a red card at the end of the game, which had nine minutes of replacement.

Everything pointed to the game would end that score. However, during the replacement time, the footballer Sara Martínez, from Nacional, scored the discount that moved, again, fans to encourage from the gallery with the shout of “Yes you can.” In the end it could not. Cali went to the final. In this way, the cast “Sugar” will play its third final. In addition to the ones he won in 2021 and 2024, they also played the final match in 2022, when America was champion.