Deportivo Toluca

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Deportivo Toluca
Club logo
Basic data
Surname Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club
Seat Toluca , Mexico
founding February 12, 1917
Colours Red White
president Francisco Suinaga
Website deportivotolucafc.com
First soccer team
Head coach Ricardo Lavolpe
Venue Estadio Nemesio Díez
Places 28,000
league League MX
Clausura 2019 9th place
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The Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club, SA de CV , also Deportivo Toluca , Club Toluca or just Toluca for short , is a Mexican football club . The club is based in the city of Toluca , which is the capital of the state of México and is about 65 kilometers west of Mexico City .

The nickname "Diablos rojos" ( German  Red Devils ) is derived from his red playwear. Another nickname is "Choriceros" (after the pepper sausage " Chorizo ").

The beginnings of football in the state of Mexico

The first pioneer of soccer in the state of Mexico was Manuel Henkel, who came from a wealthy German family. The Henkel family owned a factory in the state capital Toluca and a large estate near the city.

In order to offer the workers of the hacienda "La Huerta" (Spanish term for fruit and vegetable plantations) a leisure activity, Manuel Henkel founded a soccer team in 1915, which was named after the hacienda. According to tradition, La Huerta was the first existing soccer team in the state of Mexico. In the same year, Henkel also set up a company soccer team in the Henkel family's factory, which was named after the Xinantécatl volcano near Toluca . This was the first football team in the state capital, Toluca. The almost simultaneous founding of the two teams ensured that they could compete with each other and aroused an interest in football.

In order to optimally support the players of both teams, Henkel hired the talented Mexican athlete Filiberto Navas , who not only looked after the team, but also played an active role, sometimes in goal and sometimes in attack.

Many students of the sports teacher Navas were employed in the clothing company "La Valenciana", which was run by the brothers Román and Gerardo Ferrat. They too were quickly infected by the soccer virus and, together with Filiberto Navas and soccer pioneer Manuel Henkel, were the driving forces behind the founding of Club Deportivo Toluca . Almost at the same time, other teams, Unión and Anáhuac , were created, which were supported by local industrial companies. The five teams existing at the time (La Huerta, Xinantécatl, Deportivo, Unión and Anáhuac) competed in the first football championship in the state of México in 1918 and Deportivo Toluca proved to be the strongest team from the start.

Club history

The club was founded on February 12, 1917 by various personalities from the city of Toluca and in 1950 was one of the founding members of the Segunda División , the first national second division. At the end of the 1952/53 season, the club made it to the Primera División , from which it has since become indispensable. After Toluca was runner-up in 1957 and 1958, the club won its first championship title in 1967 under the training direction of Ignacio Trelles . In the following year he was not only able to defend this title, but also won the CONCACAF Champions Cup .

Another championship title followed in 1975 under the leadership of coach Ricardo de Leon, whose very defensive team did not know how to inspire.

The most successful epoch in the club's history so far were the late 1990s and early 2000s, which are also known as "época dorada" (golden era). In these years, the team had finished the season four times (1998/99, 1999/00, 2001/02 and 2002/03) as Superlider, that is the best-in-point team in Mexico, and won five championships. There was also another triumph in the CONCACAF Champions Cup.

The cornerstone for this success was laid in 1997 when Enrique "Ojitos" Meza was hired as coach, whose offensive football knew how to inspire. Under his direction, Toluca finally won a championship title again in 1998, after a lean period of more than 20 years - and was also champion twice in the two following years. The team offered a particularly impressive performance on the way to winning the title in the second half of the 1999/00 season. In the play-offs they swept Puebla 2-0 and 7-0, won the semi-finals at Chivas Guadalajara 4-1 and beat Santos Laguna 2-0 and 5-1 in the final .

Further championship titles followed with the three-year Apertura tournaments in 2002, 2005 and 2008. The tenth title was won immediately before the 2010 soccer World Cup .

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Historical logos

  • First logo
    (until 1986)
  • Second logo
    (1974–1981)

Celebrity fans

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deportivo Toluca at weltfussballarchiv.com
  2. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1961), p. 511ff
  3. ↑ http://www.femexfut.org.mx/portalv2/secciones.aspx?s=991&n=21596
  4. ↑ La mexicana más fanática del Toluca (Spanish; article from May 10, 2014)
  5. ↑ https://www.90min.com/es/posts/2864728-revelado-a-que-equipo-le-van-las-modelos-y-actrices-mas-guapas-del-mundo/2-cecilia-galiano -toluca ¿A qué equipo le van las modelos y actrices más guapas del mundo? (January 12, 2016)
  6. ↑ ¿A quién le van los famosos en el futbol? (Spanish; article from June 3, 2015)