News in Colombian football. One of the clubs that currently participates in the first division would be very close to being sold to an investment group from abroadas confirmed by Diego Rueda, Caracol Radio journalist and director of The VBAR Snail.
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It is worth remembering that in recent years, there have been several interested parties interested in acquiring nationally rented teams with the aim of starting a long-term sports project, achieving success at the national and international level, and promoting footballers from their minor divisions.
An example of the above is the Atlético Huilaa team that is currently competing in the Promotion Tournament. In mid-2023, the Ecuadorian businessman Michel Dellerowner of the Independiente del Valle club, managed the acquisition of “97.203% of the shares of the Company Club Deportivo Atlético Huila SA (Club)”.
Well, this year it would be the turn of Equitya Bogota team that promoted to first division in 2007 and since then he has had important participations in Liga (three subtitles) and Copa (champion in 2008). In addition to play in the Copa Sudamericana seven times (quarterfinals in 2019).
“La Equidad is in a very advanced sale process to an American investment group. If it closes it will be for a very important figure”, Rueda reported on his X account, previously called Twitter. Likewise, it was clarified that the sum in question would be around 15 million dollars.
If the sale is completed, the capital team would abandon the company.Equity Insurance’which has had the reins of the institution since 1982, to join the North American investment group. This news would fall in a great way, not only for their aspirations in the first division, but also to strengthen a quarry that is strong at the regional level and that has produced great figures such as Santiago Arias or Diego Novoa.
