Club Marte

Logo of Marte FC from its last season 2000/01

The club Marte, the times as Club Deportivo Marte as and other times Marte Fútbol Club (see logo right) appeared on the scene, was a Mexican football club in 1928 in Mexico City was founded as a military choices in life. The Campo Marte located on the Paseo de la Reforma , which is located directly next to the Auditorio Nacional, probably served as his home venue . Because this stadium is relatively small, games with a larger audience were usually held in another stadium, such as B. the Parque Asturias , held. Between 1953 and 1957 the club was located in Cuernavaca , Morelos , and played its home games at the Estadio de Buena Vista .

prehistory

Although Club Marte was only founded in 1928, its history begins about ten years earlier.

Sometime between 1918 and 1920, the teacher Maximino Martínez started a soccer team with some students from the Horacio Mann School. Soon afterwards they connected with students from the schools "Alberto Correa" and "San José" and chased after the round leather under the direction of the teacher Martínez. From this bustle a football club was born, which was named Esparta . Among the founding members was a goalkeeper named Óscar Bonfiglio .

Legal predecessor

At the end of 1921, the football enthusiast Colonel Rafael Aguirre, head of the Cuenta y Administración department ("Invoice and Administration") in the War Ministry , initiated a soccer team in the area he headed, which was named after the department and was therefore called Cuenta y Administración . This team initially only competed inter-ministerially against football teams from other departments.

But Colonel Aguirre had ambitious plans and registered his team, which was soon reinforced for this purpose by top footballers from other departments, for participation in the capital league. This team also included players from Club Esparta who worked in the War Ministry. The Óscar Bonfiglio already mentioned was one of them.

Of course, the team in the capital league should not only represent one department, but the entire ministry. Hence she received the name of the Ministry: Guerra y Marina. Under this she worked in the 1922/23 season in the Primera Fuerza . Because it was forbidden from the next season that a team appeared under the name of an official institution, the team had to be renamed for the championship round 1923/24. In view of the origin of most of the founding members and players at the time, the club was named after these states and was called Sonora - Sinaloa or Son-Sin for short . Also under this name, the team only played one season because Rafael Aguirre, who had meanwhile been promoted to general , had been transferred to Guaymas at that time , making the team leaderless and falling apart.

Immediately after his return to the capital, Aguirre immediately set about creating a new team and for this purpose immediately contacted his former goalkeeper Óscar Bonfiglio, who had moved to CF Asturias after the disappearance of Son-Sin . This is how Club Marte came into being, which made its debut in the capital league in the 1928/29 season and immediately won the championship.

Club history

The team named after the god of war Mars (Spanish: Marte), which in its early days mainly consisted of members of the Mexican armed forces , played between 1928/29 and 1932/33 and from 1937/38 to 1942/43 in the Primera Fuerza , the Mexican Championship on an amateur basis. When she first appeared in the 1928/29 season, she immediately won the championship because her sponsor General Aguirre reinforced the club with the best players of the Selección Jalisco before the start of the season . The six new players, more than half of the regular formation of the Jalisco national team, were Ignacio "Calavera" Ávila , Hilario "Moco" López , "El Patarato" Hernández, Lorenzo "La Yegua" Camarena , Luis Jiménez and Tomás "Poeta" Lazano . But in the following years Marte moved only in the lower half of the table and withdrew from the championship in 1933. It was not until five years later that Marte took part in the capital league again without being able to post any major successes. Before the 1942/43 season, the last year of the existence of the Primera Fuerza, Marte was upgraded again and won his second championship at the end of the season. This time, José Luis Borbolla and Luis "Pirata" Fuente were signed up, among others . Immediately after winning the championship in 1943, Marte was one of the ten founding members of the professional league introduced in 1943/44 .

In 1953 Eduardo Díaz Garcilazo, then mayor of Cuernavaca , bought the club and brought it to the capital of the state of Morelos , which is just under an hour's drive south of Mexico City. The move seemed to be good for the club. Because in 1954 he immediately won his third championship and the first in the professional league. But just one year later, the reigning champions finished last in the then twelve- league and relegated to the second division . There he only spent two seasons and in 1957 withdrew from playing for some time due to financial problems.

In the decades that followed, the club, which from then on was never to play first class again, was renamed Marte Morelos and Potros Marte . Under the latter name, the club played in the 2000/01 season in the Primera División 'A' , the second division of Mexico, before it was acquired by Grupo Pegaso , which replaced the traditional name Marte with its company name Pegaso . Thus, the club played in the 2001/02 season as Potros Pegaso and was transplanted to Acapulco a year later , where it took two years as Club Acapulco before it was apparently dissolved.

statistical data

Founding year: 1928
Club color: red
Nickname: Marcianos (the Martians)
National champions: 1929, 1943, 1954

Known players

The master teams of the CD Marte

According to the Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Tomo II, p. 275 ff.), The squad of the master teams of the CD Marte consisted of at least the following players (the list is incomplete and because the information on the respective player position is also incomplete, the list is made of named players in alphabetical order):

Sources and web links

Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de oro del fútbol mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa-Amic, 1961), p. 271 ff.
Photo from Campo Marte

Individual references and web links

↑ Name changes and license sales in the Primera División 'A'

[1] Name changes and license sales in the Primera División 'A'