Atlético de Veracruz

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Atlético de Veracruz is a former Mexican football club from the port city of Veracruz , which is located in the state of the same name .

history

When CD Veracruz , who had won the Mexican soccer championship twice and the cup competition once between 1946 and 1950 , was relegated to the second division in 1952, Gustavo Fricke , a former goalkeeper of the Tiburones Rojos , founded the Club Atlético de Veracruz.

The club received a license to participate in the Segunda División for the 1952/53 season , so that both opponents from Veracruz were represented in the second Mexican football league in that season. The CD Veracruz ended the season ahead of Atlético, but the runner-up was not enough to achieve the desired resurgence, which had to be left to the champions Deportivo Toluca , who at the same time Atlético by signing Carlos Carús , the top scorerlast season, weakened. Because the Tiburones Rojos were sitting on a mountain of debt due to the missed recovery, they were denied their license for the coming season, so that at the beginning of the 1953/54 season only the newly founded Club Atlético held the flag of the port city in the second division.

Although Atlético had some well-known players that season - such as Adolfo Riande, José Pérez and José Ramis - it took until October 4, 1953, before they could get the first point in the 1-1 draw against Atlético Morelia . But from then on it was not only sporty and fast downhill. On October 11, they played an away game at the former first division club San Sebastián de León , which was lost 6-1. But the defeat itself mutated into an unimportant minor matter due to the subsequent events. The first accident occurred on the way home, when the team bus was involved in an accident in which the majority of the players were injured. As if this disaster had not already damaged the club enough, the grandstand of the Parque Deportivo Veracruzano , his home ground, burned down the following week .

Shaken in this way, Atlético was forced to ask the league to temporarily suspend the game for an indefinite period. The request was granted while maintaining the license, so that the club's future return to the league was not obstructed like the CD Veracruz, and its results were not taken into account in the final table of the 1953/54 season.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of the club's founder and president Gustavo Fricke, the structures and license of Atlético later provided the basis for the return of the new Tiburones Rojos to the second division, where they were allowed to compete again in the 1961/62 season.

Association of the same name

In 2013, a new club called Club de Fútbol Atlético Veracruz was founded, which has been participating in the Liga Premier de Ascenso of the third-class Segunda Division since the 2013/14 season as the CD Veracruz farm team .

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  • Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo III (B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961), p. 492ff