Junior Club
The Junior Club is or was a Mexican sports club based in Mexico City , which was founded in 1906 by Father Crivelli. In 1915, Pablo Alexanderson called a football team within this club , which played in the capital league for the three seasons between 1917/18 and 1919/20 . Between 1918 and 1920, however, it already appeared under the name Tigres before it disappeared completely.
history
History and foundation of the football department
Between 1913 and 1915, Pablo Alexanderson lived in the village of San Pedro de los Pinos at the gates of the Mexican capital. Due to his acquaintance with the board of directors of the local soccer club México , the sports enthusiast Alexanderson was offered a position in the club. After a while he rose to the board himself and held the office for some time after moving to the Mexican capital. Finally he found a new field of activity in Club Junior. The club had its own sports park, Parque Junior , which was mainly used for tennis and baseball games. In this Alexanderson found an ideal prerequisite for founding a football team, which he registered for the 1917/18 season to participate in the Primera Fuerza . In order to form a team that could keep up in the league, he brought various players from other clubs.
Sporting development of the soccer team
The soccer team ended their first season 1917/18 with an almost even balance (4 wins and 5 defeats from 10 games with a goal difference of 11:11) in fourth place out of a total of six teams and renamed itself Tigres on April 9, 1918 . The reason for this renaming and whether it was based on a separation from the main club, as can be assumed, is not understandable. It is also unclear whether the Junior Club itself survived? Today there is a club of the same name in Mexico City whose main focus is tennis and which is probably identical to the club discussed here. Therefore, the web link of today's Junior Club has been deposited below, although it cannot be ruled out that it may be two different clubs that have no relation to each other.
Under their new name, the Tigres footballers reached the cup final of the 1917/18 season and took third place out of seven teams in the 1918/19 season (with 5 wins and only 2 defeats from 12 games). In the following season, with a record of 10 wins and 4 defeats from 16 games, they even managed to become runner-up behind the then "serial champion" España . Despite this success, it was the last season of the Tigres, which were no longer represented in the league after the 1919/20 season and possibly no longer existed.
Known players
literature
- Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1961), pages 84 and 123ff
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)