Liga Interclubes de Fútbol Soccer Amateur
The Liga Interclubes de Fútbol Soccer Amateur, AC (LIFSA for short) is an amateur soccer league in the metropolitan area of Mexico City and the most important alongside the Liga Española de Fútbol de México, founded in 1954 .
structure
Although it is an organized league with official status, it is not a conventional substructure of professional or semi-profile players, as is common, for example, in European football league structures. The LIFSA, which is to be regarded as fifth class, which is therefore to be equated in rank with the German football league , is a leisure league , the winner of which does not enjoy promotion to the fourth division . At the same time, the participants, who see themselves as pure amateurs, do not strive for this.
history
LIFA was launched on March 28, 1948. The Reforma Athletic Club (RAC) in cooperation with the Centro Deportivo Chapultepec played a key role in its founding . The two clubs were once spatial neighbors on a site on the edge of the Bosque de Chapultepec , only a few hundred meters from the Paseo de la Reforma . The first President of LIFSA was Raleigh Gibson of the RAC.
The eight founding members of LIFSA were the RAC, in whose premises the first meetings were held, and the Centro Deportivo Chapultepec, the teams from Canarios, Lusitania, Osos, Tecavá, Tiburones and Titingó. Of these teams, only the RAC still takes part in LIFSA games today.
The opening tournament was held as part of a blitz tournament on May 30, 1948 on the Campo Reforma. The first winner was the Osos team, which was able to defend their title the following year.
Over the years LIFSA has developed into one of the most important amateur football leagues in the Zona Metropolitana. The most traditional participant besides the RAC was the Real Club España team . Both clubs also took part in the Liga Española de Fútbol de México, another major amateur soccer league in the Mexico City area.
A number of important public figures in Mexico have also served on LIFSA. These include not only numerous future or previous football professionals (including Ignacio Basaguren , Joaquín Beltrán , Tomás Boy , Horacio Casarín , Félix Fernández , Alberto García Aspe , Luis García , Rafael García , Carlos Hermosillo , Miguel Herrera , Ricardo Peláez , Rafael Puente , José Antonio Roca , Luis Miguel Salvador and Víctor Vucetich ), but also top entrepreneurs such as the América owner Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and the Jaguares initiator Alejandro Burillo , through to the President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1988) and Vicente Fox (2000-2006).
A special mention also deserves the fact that in the affiliated senior league, Enrique Alcocer "El Zacate", who is over 80 years old from the RAC, is the oldest football player in the world who is still active in a league, making himself an entry in the Guinness Book of Records has secured.
The winning teams
In the absence of other sources, only the Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano published in 1961 can be used, the record of which, however, ends in 1960:
| Game year | Champions team |
|---|---|
| 1948 | Osos |
| 1949 | Osos |
| 1950 | Tecavá |
| 1951 | Reforma AC |
| 1952 | Reforma AC |
| 1953 | Reforma AC |
| 1954 | Reforma AC |
| 1955 | Parma |
| 1956 | Parma |
| 1957 | Parma |
| 1958 | Canarios |
| 1959 | Canarios |
| 1960 | Canarios |
Literature / individual references
- ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo III, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, pp. 693f
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)
- RAC: A Philosophy of Life (Spanish; article of March 17, 2003)