After home runs in Colombia, Deportes Tolima and Junior de Barranquilla qualified for the finals of the 2025 tournament in Colombia.
In the series that begins in the capital of the Atlantic and ends in the music capital of Colombia, Tiburón and Pijao will define the second place in the group stage of the FCF Copa Libertadores 2026.
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The first game of the final will be played on Friday, December 12, at around 8:00 p.m. at the Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla where those led by Alfredo Arias will try to gain an important advantage on the scoreboard.
For its part, Deportes Tolima, led by Bogotá native Lucas González, will have to reaffirm its status as one of the best visitors to the tournament in one of the most difficult venues of the national championship.
The Colombian football final will not only be experienced on the sporting stage, various personalities from Colombian entertainment have also already spoken out on social networks to encourage their club.
Therefore Infobae Colombia summarizes the famous coffee farmers who are fans of Junior de Barranquilla and Deportes Tolima.
Because of her fanaticism for Junior, which she expressed in her songs and passed on to her children, Shakira is now considered the most famous Tiburón fan.
In addition to the singer, the actress Sofía Vergara has also highlighted that she is a fan of the Atlántico club, which once gave her a T-shirt that showed “Toty” on her social networks.
At the local level Personalities such as “Checo” Acosta, Silvestre Dangond, “Pibe” Valderrama and Peter Manjarrés regularly reveal their fanaticism for the shark.
Late artists such as Joe Arroyo, Diomedes Díaz and Martín Elias also spoke more than once about their love for Junior and accompanied the team several times at the Metropolitano.
In the case of the Pijao club, it has a numerically smaller fan base compared to the juniors, as it has fewer titles and less competition from other teams at the regional level; However, there are Colombian celebrities who don’t care.
At the level of fanaticism The most famous fan of Deportes Tolima is the singer-songwriter Santiago Cruz, who has revealed in various interviews that he even has tattoos that show his love for the club..
Likewise, presenters such as Juan Diego Alvira, Paulo Laserna or Jorge Barón, one of the historical figures of Colombian television, have recognized that they are fans of Deportes Tolima.
Ahead of the final, Santiago Cruz and “Checo” Acosta spoke to ESPN about their passion for football; However, they took the opportunity to demand that the Colombian football final could take place peacefully in both cities.
As an example of how sport should be lived, On the show, the singers accepted a bet that the fan of the losing team would wear the opposing team’s jersey in the final..
“We recorded a video and uploaded it to the networks,” said Santiago Cruz, who said he has high expectations for Deportes Tolima’s fourth star, while Acosta was confident about how his team will win the 11th league title in their history.
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