Club Tijuana
| Club Tijuana | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente | ||
| Seat | Tijuana , Mexico | ||
| founding | 2007 | ||
| Colours | Black red | ||
| president | Jorge Alberto Hank Inzunsa | ||
| Website | xolos.com.mx | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Óscar Pareja | ||
| Venue |
Estadio Caliente , Tijuana , Baja California |
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| Places | 21,000 | ||
| league | League MX | ||
| Clausura 2019 | Quarter finals | ||
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The Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente , mostly just called Club Tijuana or also as Xolos de Tijuana because of its long name , is a Mexican football club from the border town of the United States Tijuana . The club was created in January 2007 by acquiring the second division license from Guerreros de Tabasco FC and initially played in the second division of Mexico , which was called Primera División 'A' until the 2008/09 season . The club had from the beginning the ambitious objective as possible in the short term in the first division to rise, giving him at the end of the 2010/11 season succeeded. Just 18 months later, the club won the Mexican championship title of Apertura 2012 with a convincing 4-1 final victory (2-1 and 2-0) over Deportivo Toluca .
history
prehistory
The Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, which is named after the dog breed of the same name , was created after a series of attempts to establish a professional football club in Tijuana. After Inter , Chivas and Nacional each only existed for a few years and then a team called Trotamundos only existed for half a season, the city was without a second division club in early 2004. This unsatisfactory situation for the football-hungry urban population lasted for a year and a half before attempts were made to establish a football club here, but all of them failed.
Initially, a Club Tijuana took part in Apertura 2005, but it was acquired by Dorados de Sinaloa before the second half of the season and was converted into Dorados de Tijuana as its branch team. The negative results of both teams led to relegation at the end of the 2005/06 season. At the same time, the Gallos Blancos de Querétaro FC, in cooperation with the Tijuana-based Grupo Caliente, Mexico's largest sports betting provider, created a branch team that integrated the name of its two sponsors into the club name and appeared as Tijuana Gallos Caliente . Under this name, the newly formed team worked in the Apertura 2006 before its second division license was sold to the former first division club Club Celaya after the first half of the 2006/07 season . The license sale seemed to be the appropriate solution for a quick separation of the now no longer desired cooperation between Querétaro FC and Grupo Caliente. Because the sports betting provider aspired to have a football club for which he was solely responsible.
Close ties with a sports betting provider
At the same time, the Grupo Caliente acquired the second division Guerreros de Tabasco FC and shipped him to Tijuana to form today's Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente.
The connection of a football club with a company specializing in sports betting caused controversial discussions even when Club Gallos Caliente was founded. The Mexican Football Association only gave the club the right to play after it was convinced that Grupo Caliente did not organize bets for second division games.
Hank family
Jorge Hank Rhon, born on January 28, 1956, is not only the owner of the sports betting provider Caliente and the Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, but also the Estadio Caliente, which is currently under construction, the home of the Xolos. Between 2004 and 2007 he also held the office of mayor of Tijuana. His eldest son Jorge Alberto Hank Inzunsa is officially the club's president.
Sporting record
The newly formed Club Tijuana closed its first tournament participation in the Torneo Clausura in 2007 with eight wins and eight losses. In the following Apertura 2007 he reached the finals for the first time, but where he failed in the quarterfinals with 0: 1 and 0: 3 against Club León . In the Apertura 2008, the club, equipped with ambitious goals, reached the semi-finals for the first time and narrowly failed 1-0 and 1: 3 against "its former cooperation partner" Querétaro FC, who finally won the Apertura and was able to return to the Primera División at the end of the season. After failing in the 2009/10 season (in the finals of the Clausura 2009 with 0: 1 and 0: 0 against Mérida FC and in the semifinals of the Torneo Bicentenario 2010 with 0: 0 and 2: 5 against Necaxa ) they managed Xolos achieved the long-awaited promotion to the Primera División in the 2010/11 season .
In the entire Apertura 2012 , their third half-season in the top Mexican division, the Xolos lost only twice in 23 games (including the Liguillas ), each time against newly promoted León : first on the second match day of the league round with 0: 4 and later again in the semi-final first leg with 0-2, but were able to qualify for the final with a 3-0 home win in the second leg, in which they prevailed with an overall result of 4-1 against ten-time champions Toluca and the championship title just five years after their founding won with the following squad: Cirilo Saucedo , Adrián Zermeño (goal) - Javier Marcelo Gandolfi, Juan Carlos Núñez, Pablo César Aguilar, Edgar Eduardo Castillo, Joshua Ábrego, Gregory Garza, Alfredo González Tahuilán , Carlos Rubio, Juan Pablo, Miguel Almazán (Santiago Defense) - Fernando Arce , Cristian Pellerano, Leandro Augusto , Joe Corona , Richard Ruiz, Fidel Martínez , Jorge Hernández, José Madueña, Luis Ángel García (Mitt elfeld) - Alfredo Moreno , Duvier Riascos , Raúl Nava, Diego Olsina , Raúl Enríquez, Bruno Piceno (strikers). Coach: Antonio Mohamed .
Trainer
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Carlos Alberto (1992) -
Antonio Mohamed (2011-2013)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Club Tijuana at weltfussballarchiv.com
- ^ Club Tijuana ( Memento from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Club Tijuana ( Memento from February 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Club Tijuana ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )