Nacional de Guadalajara
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| Surname | Club Deportivo Nacional | ||
| Seat | Guadalajara , Mexico | ||
| founding | May 31, 1917 | ||
| Colours | White-green | ||
| president | Jose Alberto Cortés García | ||
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| Venue | Jalisco | ||
| Places | 56,713 | ||
| league | Tercera División , Mexico | ||
| 2009-2010 (Group 11) | 14th place | ||
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The Club Nacional de Guadalajara , often also referred to as Nacional de Guadalajara , is a Mexican sports club in Guadalajara , the capital of the state of Jalisco . His soccer team was represented in the top Mexican league between 1961 and 1965 .
history
The roots of the club go back to 1915, when a few street boys in a less affluent area of the city of Guadalajara set up a soccer team, which they named Victoria . In the neighboring Barrio Del Fuerte, some other guys also walked the paths of English sport and so it happened that the two teams competed against each other for a test of strength. They soon decided to merge and gave their merged project the name Unión .
From this lively hustle and bustle, a real football club emerged, which was renamed Nacional with effect from May 31, 1917 . This was chosen based on the national railway company Ferrocarriles Nacionales , where most of the players were employed in their main occupation as workers.
The actual founder of the Club Deportivo Nacional is Teófilo Zúñiga, who was also the driving force behind the club in the early years. He also worked first as a player and later as a coach of the soccer team.
Nacional quickly caught up with the city's leading clubs and was one of the most successful teams in the Jalisco State League , whose title was won a total of seven times: 1926, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937 and 1939. Only the Club Deportivo Guadalajara could win this title win more often.
But when the national professional league was founded in 1943/44, in which Nacional was not accepted, the club fell back. In 1961, Nacional finally achieved promotion to the first division and in 1963 with sixth place even a respectable success. But in 1965 Nacional fell back into the second division . Since the withdrawal from the Segunda División at the end of the 1978/79 season, the club has only played in the (now fourth-class) Tercera División .
literature
- Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano - Tomo III (B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961), p. 655ff