Centro Deportivo Español

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Centro Deportivo Español was a soccer club in Mexico City , whose team played in the Mexican capital league between 1915 and 1920 .

history

Established by spin-off

Due to disputes in the board of the Club España , founded in 1912 , the then president Julio Alarcón left the club and started a new club with the Centro Deportivo Español (CDE). Two of the most important co-founders were his brother Joaquín Alarcón and Enrique Huerta, in whose house the founding meeting took place. The first club president was Julio Alarcón, who had already gained experience in this area at Club España. Later, Alarcón and Huerta fell out. The latter emerged victorious from this dispute and became the new president, while Alarcón withdrew again in frustration, as he had already done at España.

Deportivo Español moved into its own sports field on the Condesa plain , at the time the cradle and stronghold of capital city football. The first team of Español consisted mostly of renegade members of Club España and therefore a fierce rivalry was born between the two "Spanish" clubs. In terms of sport, however, she was never really able to develop because she always remained at an unequal level. While España practically won the championship from now on - four times in the period between 1915 and 1920, when the CDE was involved in the top division - the new club ended up in the back with unsightly regularity.

The end of the club

Financial bottlenecks and some mistakes at board level led to an early end of the club, which never achieved the goal it had set itself to meet España on an equal footing. Another reason for the imminent decline was the fact that the team consisted to a large extent of players whose families came from the Spanish state of Asturias . The Asturian faction broke away from Español in 1918 and founded its own association, CF Asturias .

Asturias first took part in the championship in the 1919/20 season and ended the season with a respectable third place, while Español only ended up in seventh place. Three Spanish teams were definitely one too many. In addition, Asturias proved to be a serious rival of España from the start, which pushed Deportivo Español even further back into insignificance. Therefore, the team was withdrawn in 1920.

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  • Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1960), p. 110ff