Duncan Macomish

Duncan Macomish was a Scottish football player , probably in the position of goalkeeper , under whose leadership the Mexican football club Orizaba AC was founded in 1898 (according to another version, Macomish founded the football division within the already existing sports club in 1901). The team he founded and actively managed as a player -coach entered the football history of Mexico in 1903 as the first champions.

biography

Duncan Macomish was a successful athlete who had won several competitions in his native Scotland. Sometime between 1896 and 1898, the trained paint technician came to the up-and-coming Mexican industrial city of Orizaba to work in the Santa Gertrudis Fabrica de Yute Orizaba factory. At the same time, several other technicians, mostly Scottish, had come to Orizaba, many of whom were working in the same factory.

From this group of people a soccer team was formed under the direction of Duncan Macomish, which took part in the first soccer championship of Mexico at the invitation of the “English” Reforma AC based in the capital . Under the direction of the player-coach Duncan Macomish, the Orizaba AC team, which has since been supplemented by a few English players, won the championship, which was held for the first time in the 1902/03 season.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Orizaba AC championship team at IFFHS
2. ↑ www.albinegros.mx: Orizaba, la auténtica cuna del fútbol ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; with photo of the "El Yute" factory) 

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Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de oro del fútbol mexicano , Mexico City: B. Costa-Amic (1960), p. 36