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By Javier Martin Santiago, Jan 27 (EFE).- Winning three titles in a year is a feat for any soccer club, doing that and returning to the top-flight after an absence of 36 years while rewriting the operating manual for football in Chile is a colossal achievement. That is the story of the last four years … ....
Colo-Colo survive nervy playoff to avoid relegation to Chilean 2nd tier Colo-Colo survived what would have been a famous relegation | ANDRES PINA/Getty Images Colo-Colo, the most successful club in the history of Chilean football, continued their 96-year long stay in the top flight after emerging victorious in a nervy relegation battle on Wednesday. Founded in 1925, Colo-Colo have won no fewer than 32 Primera Division titles, the last of which came in 2017, and they even won the Chilean Super Cup in both 2017 and 2018. Colo-Colo needed a playoff to avoid relegation | DRAGOMIR YANKOVIC/Getty Images They finished second in the league in 2019, but things fell off a cliff in the 2020 season. After the first 20 games, they had managed just 17 points, and only two sides in history had ever managed to avoid relegation from the same situation. ....