Albinegros de Orizaba

Albinegros
	Albinegros
Basic data
Surname	Albinegros de Orizaba
Seat	Orizaba , Mexico
founding	1898
Colours	White black
president	Enrique Minguer Castañeda
Website	albinegros.mx
First soccer team
Head coach	Cristóbal Ortega
Venue	Estadio Socum
Places	7500
league	Segunda División , Mexico
Clausura 2018	master
home	Away

The club's mascot

Albinegros de Orizaba is a Mexican football club based in the city of Orizaba in the state of Veracruz . Its roots go back to 1898.

history

Orizaba AC

As early as 1898, mainly Scottish technicians, under the direction of Duncan Macomish, founded an association called the Orizaba Athletic Club . The football department was established in 1901. As a result, the club, which is considered one of the football pioneers in Mexico, was also one of the founding members of the Primera Fuerza , the amateur championship introduced in Mexico in 1902/03 . In addition, the Orizaba AC went down in history in 1903 as the first overall champion in Mexico. The championship team at the time was also known by the nickname “Fibras Duras” ( German hard fibers ) because they had their roots in a jute factory. It consisted of the following players:
Duncan Macomish (goalkeeper and coach) - Joseph Low, Thomas Hanghey - I. Hattirton, David Donajk, Byron Kennell - Aloysious Stinghell, Thomas Packtinson, Leonard Hardavaker, Stephen Lackge, John Hogg . Substitutes: Thomas Hogg, Peter Low.

According to one piece of information, it was internal quarrels that arose, and according to other reports, the work-related exodus of high performers from Orizaba, which weakened the club, which withdrew from the Primera Fuerza after the 1903/04 season and was soon dissolved.

ADO

Logo of the ADO

On April 1, 1916, the Compañia Petrolera "El Aguila", SA founded a new association called U-29 , which was renamed Asociación Deportiva Orizabeña , also known as ADO , on June 27, 1916 . Rosendo Gómez, son of the owners of the hacienda "Omealca", was elected chairman of the association. The treasurer's choice fell on Isidro Palou, an employee of the oil company "El Águila", who had organized the first association meetings on the company premises. This club, which was later inherited by the Albinegros de Orizaba and viewed by them as the legitimate successor to the first champions of Mexico (Orizaba AC), played from then on in the State League of Veracruz .

Like its "legal predecessor" Orizaba AC when the Primera Fuerza was introduced, the ADO was also one of the founding members when the professional league was introduced. The first game in the same ADO played on October 17, 1943 in a home game against Club America (1: 6) with the following line-up:
Guillermo Contreras - Carlos Montes, Justo Couto - Víctor “Pipa” López, Juan Castillo, Napoleón Cañas - Leonardo “Chanclas” Zamudio , Luis Aussín, Antonio Toledo, Sebastián “Choco” Mendez, Enrique “Taburete” Pradere . The coach of this first team was the Englishman John Hogg, who had won the championship with Orizaba AC in 1902/03.

But the adventure of professional football ended after a few years because the club had to withdraw from the Primera División at the end of the 1948/49 season for financial reasons .

ADO played the last competitive game on July 24, 1949 in the last 16 of the Copa México in a city derby against Unión Deportiva Moctezuma (1: 2) with the following line-up:
Juan Alberto Muñoz - Guillermo Andrade, Armando Aguilar - Jesús Segovia , “Lolo” Vásquez, Honorio Arteaga - Raúl de Alba , Tulio Quiñones , Walter Allen Meneses , Francisco Rivas, Lucio Gómez .

Other well-known players in the service of the ADO: José Antonio Cuburu , Martín Cuburu , Grimaldo González , Daniel Muñoz “Carnes” , Julio Pisapia .

The following players emerged from the ADO's offspring: Hesíquio Cerrilla, Luis Cerrilla , Alfredo "Viejo" Sánchez , Ernesto Sota , Isidoro Sota , Jorge Sota , Juan Terrazas , Rosendo Terrazas.

Orizaba FC

Orizaba FC logo

After ADO's withdrawal at the end of the 1948/49 season and city rivals Moctezuma a year later from the first division, and Moctezuma four years later at the end of the 1953/54 season from the second division , Orizaba was left without professional football . This hit the city, which proudly boasts of being the cradle of football in Mexico , in its self-esteem and so a few years later a license was acquired for the newly established Orizaba FC to participate in the then second-rate Segunda División , the Association from 1959 to 1968. In the 1967/68 season, at the end of which the Albinegros were relegated for the first time from the second division, the club was also one of the founding members of the newly initiated Tercera División , in which its second team started. The return to the second division succeeded the first team by winning the third division championship in the 1971/72 season. But at the end of the 1972/73 season, the immediate relegation from the Segunda División, in which the team was later represented again between 1986 and 1989, followed. Immediately before that, Orizaba FC played from 1982 to 1986 and later again between 1990 and 1994 in the then third-rate Segunda División 'B' .

Well-known coaches at Orizaba FC were the native Orizabeño Samuel Cuburu and the former Costa Rican goalkeeper Evaristo Murillo . The club's best-known player was José Luis Aussín Suárez , who was part of his country's Olympic selection in 1964 and who made it to the senior national team in 1965.