Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá, is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club based in the city of Tuluá

Tuluá

Tuluá is a city located in the heart of the Cauca Valley, Colombia Valle del Cauca, Colombia. A major industrial and commercial center, it is the region's fourth largest city after Cali, the department capital, Buenaventura and Palmira. Founded around 1741 by Juan de Lemos y Aguirre, it has a...

. The club was founded October 16, 1967 and plays its home games at the Doce de Octubre

Estadio Doce de Octubre

Estadio Doce de Octubre is a multi-use stadium in Tuluá, Colombia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 16,000 people and was built in 1967. Cortuluá plays its home matches at this stadium....

 stadium, which has a capacity of approximately 16,000 seats.

History

In 2006, the United States Treasury identified the football club as one of ten businesses allegedly operating on behalf of one of the most wanted Colombian drug barons, Carlos Alberto Renteria Mantilla

Carlos Alberto Rentería Mantilla

Carlos Alberto "Beto" Rentería Mantilla is a former Colombian narcotrafficker and crime boss, presumed leader of the Norte del Valle Cartel...

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The move by the United States authorities placed a freeze on any assets owned by the club within the United States, and prevented United States residents from having dealings with the club. After five years in the Categoría Primera B

Categoría Primera B

Categoría Primera B, also known as Torneo Postobón for sponsorship reasons, is the second division football league in Colombia. The league is divided into two six-month seasons and into two regional divisions of nine teams where each team plays the region's other eight teams both home and away...

 turned back to the Fútbol Profesional Colombiano

Fútbol Profesional Colombiano

The Categoría Primera A is the professional football league of Colombia. It is the country's premier football tournament and sits at the top of the Colombian football league system. Eighteen clubs play in the league. The División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano, better known as Dimayor,...

 on 30 June 2009.

Current Roster

• Actual as of Jan 28, 2010.