CD Veracruz

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CD Veracruz
Club logo
Basic data
Surname Club Deportivo Veracruz
Seat Veracruz , Mexico
founding 1943
president Fidel Kuri Grajales
Website tiburones-rojos.com
First soccer team
Head coach Enrique López Zarza
Venue Estadio Luis de la Fuente ,
Veracruz
Places 43,154
league League MX
Clausura 2019 18th place
home
Away
The ball-eating shark - the Tiburones Rojos car at the Carnival in Veracruz 2009

The Club Deportivo Veracruz , better known by their nickname Tiburones Rojos , in German the red sharks, are a Mexican soccer team from Veracruz . With the acquisition of the license from the newcomer CF La Piedad , the club will play first class again in the 2013/14 season .

The predecessor clubs of the CD Veracruz

In 1908, two sons of Spanish entrepreneurs who lived in the Mexican port city of Veracruz founded the Veracruz Sporting Club and Sporting Club de Veracruz, respectively . Some dissatisfied club members, all of them Spaniards, left the club in 1915 and started a new club: the Club Iberia . One of the fiercest rivalries in the history of Mexican club football soon developed between the two clubs. The former top dog had born his own curse . The reason for their fierce rivalry was, in addition to the generally little appreciated split, probably primarily due to the different social milieu that surrounded the two clubs from the start.

Both Mexicans and Spaniards played at Sporting, who had been at home in Veracruz for a long time and all of them came from good backgrounds. At Iberia, on the other hand, only Spaniards played, the majority of whom came from very simple families. The older Sporting Club had local affection at the time, especially that of city politicians and the local media. When the offspring of Club Iberia won the youth championship of the Liga del Sur in the 1917/18 season , it earned them an open hostility on the part of the long-established citizens of Veracruz. Since then, each of their derbies has been like a battle between the local aristocracy (Sporting) and the common people (Iberia).

In August 1918 Iberia changed its name to Club España de Veracruz and from then on also played in the Primera Fuerza , which was probably the best league in the country at the time, the winner of which was also considered the champion of Mexico. After España had taken last place twice in a row (in a total of 28 games it was only enough to five wins), there had been association disputes in the two following years and from 1922/23 only clubs from the capital were allowed to play the Primera Fuerza were, the club played again exclusively in the Liga del Sur , which was largely dominated by arch-rivals Sporting in the 1920s.

After the championship had been suspended in the 1930/31 season due to renewed association disputes and two competing associations soon existed, the Federación Mexicana del Centro de Fútbol Asociación, newly founded in July 1931, was quickly recognized by most of the clubs as the legal organizer of it for 1931/32 organized capital league recognized. Because the two capital city clubs Real Club España and CF México did not want to accept the newly created league under the conditions now in place, two other teams were invited to play in the Primera Fuerza for the 1931/32 season. One of these two teams was the Sporting Club, the other the Club Leonés from Mexico City .

However, because the two boycotters wanted to participate in the game again in the 1932/33 season, but the association did not want to compromise the two visiting teams, the league was now played in two groups with promotion and relegation due to the increased number of participants. The Sporting Club, which had slipped into second group due to its placement in the previous year, disappointed across the board and ended Group B with only one win and one draw in last place. After the season, the club withdrew from the Primera Fuerza and from then on only played in the local Liga Veracruzana .

The introduction of the Mexican professional league from the 1943/44 season made the previously unthinkable possible: in order to be accepted into the Primera División and to be able to keep up there, the previously warring clubs Sporting and España merged to form Club de Fútbol Veracruz , the got the colors of the previous clubs, red (Sporting) and blue (España). The club, which later became the Club Deportivo Veracruz, which is still in existence today, not only kept up in the new professional league, but even won two championship titles in the port city within a few years.

The history of the CD Veracruz

Team bus of the Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz

The CD Veracruz was founded in the first half of 1943 and a few months later it was one of the founding members of the professional league that was introduced in the same year and began playing with ten teams in the 1943/44 season.

The next few years should prove to be the most successful in the club's history. With their outstanding player star, Luis "Pirata" Fuente, to whom the stadium in Veracruz is named in honor today, the Tiburones Rojos (the red sharks) were twice champions (1946 and 1950) and once cup winners (1948). It should remain the only title in the club's history, even if Veracruz should reach the final in the domestic cup competition three times (1950, 1968 and 1995) .

Immediately after winning the second championship and missing the double (the cup final was lost 3-1 after extra time against CF Atlas ) in 1950, the decline began. Already plagued by serious financial problems in the following season, relegation to the second division followed in the summer of 1952 , which ended in second place the following year, one point behind the CD Toluca and thus had to bury his hopes of an immediate promotion . Connected with this disappointment was a real exodus of players, which did not allow the club to get a team together for the subsequent cup tournament, which is why the FMF , the Mexican football association, withdrew the club's license without further ado. That was the end of the first epoch of the Tiburones Rojos .

Simultaneously with their relegation in 1952, their extor keeper Gustavo Fricke had founded a new club with Atlético de Veracruz , which would later form the basis for the revival of the starving CD Veracruz, who started again in the Segunda División from the 1961/62 season. Just three years later they benefited from the expansion of the Primera División from 14 to 16 teams and played again first class between 1964/65 and 1978/79.

After relegation gradually waned the interest of the audience and so the club withdrew again in the summer of 1984 and sold its second division license to Atlético Yucatán . When there was no football, a hunger for this sport began that had never been seen in Veracruz before. With political support from the government of the state of Veracruz, a group of local entrepreneurs acquired the club in 1989 and bought the license from Potros Neza, who had just been promoted to the Primera División , so that Veracruz took their place in the top division. The unexpectedly quick return of the club to the top division had triggered an unprecedented wave of enthusiasm in the city. In the first season of 1989/90, all 19 home games were completely sold out and the team was accompanied by thousands of fans to the away games.

In the summer of 1998, the third relegation to the second division followed, where the club remained until the eventful 2001/02 season: The first half of the season was completed by the club , which was part of the Pegaso Group at the time, as the Apertura champion, which enabled him to qualify for an early stage the big promotion finale at the end of the season succeeded. The first division club CD Irapuato , which was taken out of the first division in winter 2001 and replaced by CD Veracruz , also belonged to the same economic group . So Veracruz came back unexpectedly early in the Primera División. At the end of the season, the owner sold the club's license to the newly founded Jaguares de Chiapas , so that Veracruz found himself again in the second division. But since you had won the Apertura, you could play against the winner of the Clausura , the Club San Luis , for promotion. Veracruz lost, but got a second chance because of the expansion of the league from 19 to 20 teams and was now allowed to play against the bottom of the table in the first division, Club León . Here Veracruz prevailed, shot León into the second division and himself back into the Primera División, which they belonged to until their relegation at the end of the 2007/08 season. For the 2013/14 season, the Tiburones Rojos bought the return to the first division by acquiring the license from the promoted CF La Piedad .

Historical logos

  • Second logo

successes

  • Championship: 1946, 1950
  • Cup: 1948, Clausura 2016

The successful teams

The most successful era in the club's history was the second half of the 1940s, when Veracruz was twice champion and once cup winner . Thus, between 1946 and 1950, the Mexican Supercup was played three times. Below are the team line-ups for all matches for the Campeón de Campeones title :

  • 1946 as champions against the CF Atlas (2: 3):
Joaquín Urquiaga , Boarco, Felipe Velásquez, Jesús García, Rufino Lecca , Antonio “Negro” León, Lazcano, Julián Durán , Raymundo “Pelón” González , Luis de la Fuente , Jorge Enrico; Coach: Enrique Palomini . Also in the squad of the championship team from 1946: Gustavo Fricke , José Luis García .
Miguel Ángel Velásquez, Manuel González, Rufino Lecca , Gonzalo Buenhabad, Jesús García, Juan Paratore, Raymundo "Pelón" González , Grimaldo González , "Rana" Quiroga, Luis de la Fuente , Jorge Enrico; Coach: Joaquín Urquiaga . Also in the squad of the 1948 cup winners: José Luis García , Carlos "Tico" Jiménez.
  • 1950 as champions against the CF Atlas (1: 3):
Felipe Castañeda , Guillermo "Indio" Andrade, Héctor "Chueco" Arteaga, Juan Paratore, Rufino Lecca , Gonzalo Buenhabad, Reyes, Grimaldo González , Julio Ayllón Aparicio , Luis de la Fuente , Guadalupe Velázquez ; Coach: Juan Luque de Serrallonga . Also in the squad of the championship team from 1950: Julián "Pachuco" Durán , Ángel "Ranchero" Torres, Jesús "Pelón" Silva, Leopoldo Quiñonez.

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  1. ↑ Javier Bañuelos Renteria: Balón a tierra (Editorial Clio, Mexico 1998), p. 28f ISBN 970-663-022-8
  2. ↑ Cuando el tiburón ganó su primera copa (Spanish; article from April 20, 2016)