Alfonso Senior Quevedo

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alfonso Senior Quevedo (born November 2, 1912 in Barranquilla , Colombia , † January 25, 2004 in Bogotá , Colombia) was a Colombian football official. The founder of the top club CD Los Millonarios played a significant role in the professionalization of Colombian football, and as association president he was also significantly involved in the allocation of the 1986 World Cup to Colombia. From 1970 to 1986 he was a member, later an honorary member, of the Executive Committee of FIFA .

Act

In 1946 he founded the CD Los Millonarios football club in Bogotá , which he chaired until 1957 and from 1967 to 1969. In early 1949 he sent the Argentine player-coach of the club Carlos Aldabe to Buenos Aires to sign a star player. On his initiative, El Maestro Adolfo Pedernera from River Plate came to the club in June and two months later his teammates Néstor Rossi and Alfredo Di Stéfano joined the club. This was facilitated by the players' strikes, which between 1948 and 1949 in Argentina and other South American countries significantly impaired gaming operations. Under his leadership, the Millonarios became the most successful club in Colombia and won the championship four times and the cup once .

In 1948 he was the main organizer of the association of the professional league División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano (Dimayor) - an organization that is comparable to today's DFL and the English Premier League, together with the President of América de Cali and founding chairman Humberto Salcedo .

After Dimayor was kicked out of the national association Adefútbol , it allowed foreign players to participate in matches without approval by their original clubs, which in turn saved any transfer fees - a circumstance that led to the exclusion of Colombia from the world association FIFA in October 1951 . This exclusion was later reversed with the so-called Lima Pact , which provided for any player contracts that had existed until then to be canceled by the end of 1954 and all players to be returned to the quasi-property of their previous clubs. The heyday of Colombian club football known as El Dorado - from which the Millonarios in particular benefited and in which they won four national championships - came to an end.

Under his leadership, the Colombian Football Association Adefútbol, ​​with its full name Asociación Colombiana de Fútbol , was replaced in 1964 by the Federación de Fútbol de Colombia , which was practically the elimination of the Adefútbol and a takeover by the Dimayor. Alfonso Senior was the founding president until 1971, when it was renamed and renamed Federación Colombiana de Fútbol . From 1975 to 1982 he headed the new association.

In this role he played a key role in the 1986 World Cup being allocated to Colombia. However, Colombia decided not to host it because the infrastructure was not considered sufficient after the field of participants had been increased from 16 to 24 national teams. The then President of Colombia, Belisario Betancur, refused to expand funding for the event and the tournament eventually took place in Mexico.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Senior Quevedo, Alfonso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senior, Alfonso (short version)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian football official
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Barranquilla
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2004
Place of death Bogotá