Independiente Medellín was one of the most winning teams before the appearance of Dimayor to impregnate professionalism in Colombian soccer . Over the years, the reds became the best team in Antioquia for those times, also winning the Jimenez Jaramillo Cup and becoming the departmental base for the Colombian Olympics that would be held at the end of the 20s. That decade and the of the 30 were the most fruitful of the powerful , which was founded thanks to the brothers Alberto, Luis and Rafael Uribe Piedrahíta. Until the year 1938, the team claimed eight national championship titles.

With the arrival of the Dimayor, soccer in Colombia raised its status and the DIM did not want to be left out of it, but in its debut it fell 4-0 against América de Cali and at the end of the tournament it was seventh among the ten teams that played in the first official championship of the FPC. The economic crisis in several countries, caused the arrival of international players to the coffee country, and the powerful formed a mixed list between Colombians and foreigners, thus being born "La Danza del Sol".