Club España
The Real Club España is one of Spaniards dominated sports and social club in Mexico City , the football department by far the best team in between the two world wars of Mexico presented, but in the meantime is active only in the amateur field.
history
The club was founded in 1912 by football-loving Spanish immigrants under the leadership of Francisco Arias in order to be allowed to participate in the Primera Fuerza - Mexico's amateur championship, which has been played exclusively by English teams since the 1902/03 season . In the early years, the new club moved twice before it found permanent domicile on Paseo de la Reforma in 1915 - the main shopping street in Mexico City, where the Reforma Athletic Club was also located. The area in the immediate vicinity of the independence monument soon became the Sunday meeting place for many members of the Spanish community. Already in 1920 the club received the royal title "Real" and on May 2, 1925, the now financially well-funded club was able to inaugurate its new stadium, Campo de la Veronica , which was the most modern and largest football temple in Mexico at the time.
Real Club España was the most successful soccer team in Mexico between the two world wars and is still the record champion of the country with 15 titles (14 in the amateur league and one in the professional league). In the club history, “the good camaraderie and the community spirit of all players” are named as guarantees of success. However, the team was also equipped with first-class players. Although the team was excellently occupied in almost all positions, central defense with the brothers Antonio and Jaime Arechederra formed the core of the team. With them, the club had become champions nine times in the eleven seasons between 1913/14 and 1923/24. Only in 1918 and 1923 had España left the championship to CF Pachuca and CF Asturias , respectively . The outstanding defender Antonio Arechederra is described in the club's history as "the soul of his team and the Buddha for his followers".
In 1943 still one of the ten founding members of the professional league , España withdrew from professional football in 1950 due to association quarrels - as did two other founding members, Asturias and Moctezuma , by the way. Since then, the club's footballers have worked exclusively on an amateur basis. They play in the highest amateur soccer leagues in the capital district: the Liga Interclubes de Fútbol Soccer Amateur, founded in 1948, and the Liga Española de Fútbol de México , which was created in 1954 , both of which are arithmetically a fifth division.
Today the association resides on Avenida Insurgentes Sur , the longest street in Mexico and the main traffic axis in the north and south through the metropolis. The official mission of Club España has always been to maintain and promote the Spanish-Mexican bond through sporting and cultural activities. Its members are exclusively descendants of former Spanish immigrant families who maintain the Spanish tradition to this day.
President
The following overview contains all club presidents up to 1982:
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Explanations
1 Julio Alarcón left Club España in 1914 after a dispute and founded a new club with the Centro Deportivo Español .
statistics
Date of establishment: March 4, 1912
Nickname: Españistas (the Spaniards)
Club colors: white and black
National champions: 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920 and 1921 (Liga Nacional), 1922, 1924, 1930, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1942, 1945
Cup winners: 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1944
Historical logos
First logo
Second logo
Third logo
See also
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)