Puebla Athletic Club
The Puebla Athletic Club was a Mexican sports club based in Puebla , which was founded by the British in 1895 and initially played mainly tennis .
Foundation of the football department
With the onset of the football boom among the British community (the football championship of Mexico was launched on July 19, 1902), a football department at Puebla AC, whose team in the three seasons between 1904/05 and 1906/07 in the Football Championship of Mexico participated. She played her home games in the Campo Velódromo , where baseball was also practiced at the time .
Athletic performance of the footballers
In the first season of 1904/05 , the team set a negative record that was never reached again; because she lost all her games and didn't score a single goal! The goal difference was 0:11 after 5 games played (the 3 matches that were not played were each counted in favor of the opponent). The second season was similarly catastrophic, but this time the team was able to achieve at least one draw and ended the season with 7 defeats and 1:20 goals. It was not until the third (and final) season 1906/07 that Puebla AC was able to achieve a positive balance and ended the season with 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats and a goal difference of 8: 6 in third place.
The end of the soccer team
After the 1906/07 season, the team disintegrated because it consisted of various professionals who were only temporarily active in Puebla, some of whom left the city at that time. Football disappeared from the city for about a decade before new clubs were founded. One of the first was an association called Reforma , which was founded in 1917 and consisted mostly of Mexicans, some French and two Germans. The next two clubs emerged a short time later within the Spanish community. But the city's most successful figurehead, Puebla FC , only emerged in 1944 with the introduction of professional football .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festschrift for the tennis tournament of 1994 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Reforma Athletic Club
- Jump up ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1960), p. 11
- ^ A b Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1960), p. 40