Emilio Maurer

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Emilio Maurer Espinosa (born October 20, 1938 in Puebla , Puebla ) is a former Mexican entrepreneur and football official who owned and president of the Mexican first division club Puebla FC and president of the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación (FMF) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. was.

persona non grata

During his tenure as president of the FMF, Maurer set up a commission to regulate the television broadcasting rights for the games of the Primera División and the national team . Until now, the media giant Televisa was the only one entitled to broadcast all games at an extremely low price, but Maurer's plan was to put the games out to tender in the future and obtain a fair market price for the broadcast. He had a supporter of this idea in Francisco Ibarra , who shared the presidency of the FMF with Maurer and was in charge of league rivals CF Atlas . But the Televisa affiliated with Club América did not think of paying a higher price for the broadcasting rights in the future or having to share them with other media and boycotted the negotiations. Instead, it is at least alleged that they started the strings behind the scenes and drove the disempowerment of Maurer and Ibarra. Accordingly, her mighty arm reached as far as Puebla, where the city council of Puebla closed the Estadio Cuauhtémoc, which was used by Puebla FC as its home ground, after the 1991/92 season because of alleged black market sales of tickets in the final home game against Club León and the main sponsor Volkswagen de México withdrew . As a result, Puebla FC was forced in the 1992/93 season to play its first home games in other and frequently changing locations. During this time, the team had to travel long distances (even as far as Hermosillo in northern Mexico) because many clubs were not ready to make their stadium available. Amazingly, the Estadio Cuauhtémoc was opened again immediately after Maurer's retirement on October 20, 1992 (his 54th birthday).

After Maurer resigned from the presidium of the FMF, the television broadcasting rights were granted again to Televisa. In addition, Maurer had to answer in 1993 for alleged embezzlement of funds in court, was sentenced to imprisonment and declared persona non grata .

Nevertheless, Maurer never regretted his actions at the time: “The only time that we freed ourselves from the shackles of Televisa was during my time when Paco Ibarra was President and I was Vice President. I was imprisoned for this, but it was worth it because it was the only time that the FMF's power was exercised in their offices and not in the rooms on Avenida Chapultepec 18. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlene Santos Alejo (La Jornada): México no ha podido dar el salto de calidad, asegura Emilio Maurer (Spanish; article from January 3, 2016)
  2. ↑ Samuel Vera (intolerancia Diario): La familia Maurer gana el primer asalto al gobierno (Spanish; article from April 30, 2014)
  3. ↑ Chris Taylor: Samba, Coca and the round leather (Schmetterling Verlag, Stuttgart 1998), p. 198f
  4. ↑ cf. also the season article 1992/93 at RSSSF (English)
  5. ^ Raúl Ochoa Rincón (Proceso): El polémico Emilio Maurer (Spanish; article of October 13, 2002)
  6. ↑ Alejandro Velázquez Cervantes (Crónica): La FMF, brazo ejecutor de Televisa (Spanish; article of November 9, 2002)
  7. ↑ Emilio Maurer culpa a Televisa de que México salga de Libertadores - El exdirectivo refirió que las televisoras están detrás de las decisiones de las Femexfut (Spanish; article from November 16, 2016)
  8. ↑ Avenida Chapultepec 18 is the address of Televisa, SA
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Emilio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mason Espinosa, Emilio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican football official
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Puebla , Puebla