Leones Negros de la UdeG
| Leones Negros U. de G. | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Club Deportivo Leones Negros de la Universidad de Guadalajara |
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| Seat | Guadalajara | ||
| founding | 1970 (professional department) | ||
| president | Jorge Enrique Zambrano Villa | ||
| Website | leones-negros.com.mx | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Luis Alfonso Sosa | ||
| Venue | Estadio Jalisco | ||
| Places | 63.163 | ||
| league | League MX | ||
| 2014/15 | Relegated | ||
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The Club Deportivo Leones Negros de la Universidad de Guadalajara , UdeG for short , refers to the football department of the Universidad de Guadalajara , the state university of Guadalajara , the second largest city in Mexico . Under this name, the club played until the financially-related withdrawal from the Primera División at the end of the 1993/94 season. Then the club appeared between 1997 and 2002 in the second-rate Primera División 'A' under the new name Bachilleres de la UdeG , while their team playing in the third-rate Segunda División took up the name Cachorros de la UdeG . In 2009 the club was reactivated under its original name and will play in the 2009/10 season again in the second division, which has recently been referred to as the Liga de Ascenso .
The first epoch
The soccer team was founded in 1970 and took part in the third division in the 1970/71 and 1971/72 seasons. After the rise in 1972, the team played for two years in the second division, until 1974 the first division license of the financially troubled CF Torreón was taken over. From then on, the UdeG footballers played in the top division of Mexico for 20 years (from 1974/75 to 1993/94) and had quite a few successes in this era: three times runner-up (1976, 1977 and 1990) and three times cup finalist (1975 , 1989 and 1991), in the latter case even cup winners, as well as 1978 winners of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup of the North Zone (no overall winner was awarded this year).
However, because the university footballers always had only a sparse following in the shadow of the two top dogs, Chivas and Atlas , and to top it off, there had been a number of opaque financial machinations in the administration, the club withdrew from the first division in 1994 back. However, it was not an ordinary withdrawal, but a strange-looking deal: The UdeG did not sell its license to another club - a common occurrence in Mexico - but to a consortium of various club owners supported or even created by the FMF (the Mexican Football Association). The successful goal of this measure was on the one hand the reduction of the first division clubs in two steps from 20 to 18 teams, which the UdeG (voluntarily) also fell victim to the UAT Correcaminos (involuntarily) a year later and on the other hand the creation desired by 15 club bosses a new national league below the top division, which from then on was to bear the name Primera División 'A'. The Segunda División, which was previously second-rate, was thus de facto third-rate.
The UdeG team worked in this league between 1997/98 and 2001/02 under the name Bachilleres (high school graduates), before they were again forced to withdraw from this league due to the insufficient audience approval. Since then, the university has only been represented in football by the previous reserve team, Cachorros (boys), who already played in the third division Segunda División during the Bachilleres' second division. Due to the league reform made before the 2008/09 season, the university team finally even lost its place in this league.
The reactivation
Before the start of the 2009/10 season, the club was reactivated with the support of Jorge Vergara , the owner of the first division club Chivas Guadalajara.
Vergara had offered the general director of the Universidad de Guadalajara, Marco Antonio Cortés Guardado, the acquisition of Chivas' farm team CD Tapatío in the second division in order to form the missing team of the Leones Negros de la UdeG (Black Lions of the University of Guadalajara) and to take their starting place in the Primera División 'A'.
The aversion that so often exists between two clubs from the same city and, from the point of view of Chivas fans, mainly focuses on the CF Atlas, cannot be seen between these two clubs. On the contrary. Chivas owner Vergara wishes the future team at the State University of Guadalajara all the best: “We hope that the Leones will soon achieve the results they want to be able to advance. In Guadalajara there is enough space for another first division club. The former UdeG team gained a lot of sympathy back then and there is great interest in their return. "
Rivalries
The biggest rivalry between the UdeG was in the first division with the team from the private university in the greater Guadalajara area, UAG Tecos . It was a duel between two universities, which are worlds apart: here the UdeG, open to everyone, whose majority of students could traditionally be classified as left-wing. There the UAG, the private university of the social elite with a traditionally Catholic- oriented right-wing conservative orientation , which is based in the posh suburb of Zapopan to the west of Guadalajara . Both teams faced each other in the Ascenso MX 2013/14 promotion final, with the Leones Negros prevailing.
The most successful teams
Runner-up 1975/76
Ignacio Calderón , Rubén Chávez , Juan García (goal) - Héctor Santoyo , Manuel Nájera , Roberto da Silva , Daniel Montes de Oca , Juan Rodríguez, Jaime Reyes (defense) - Aurelio Martínez , José Francisco Ríos, Marcos Rivas , Mario García (midfield ) - Jair de Jesús Pereira, Carlos de Jesús Euzebio, Belardino de Almeida, Rubén Anguiano , Joel Andrade , Raúl Ángel Mañon, Ricardo Chavarín , Belisario López , José Luis García (storm). Coach: José Gomes Nogueiro.
Vice champion 1976/77
Juan García, Ignacio Calderón , Rubén Chávez - Daniel Montes de Oca , Manuel Guillen, Roberto da Silva , Manuel Nájera , Jaime Reyes , Héctor Santoyo , Alberto Rodríguez, José Román, Raymundo Gómez - José Francisco Ríos, Rafael Chávez , Aurelio Martínez , Marcos Rivas , Mario García - Belisario López , Ricardo Chavarín , Carlos de Jesús Euzebio, Rubén Anguiano , Raúl Ángel Mañon, Belardino de Almeida, Joel Andrade , Jair de Jesús Pereira, Luis Gilberto Plascencia . Coach: Ignacio Jáuregui .
Vice champion 1989/90
Víctor Manuel Aguado , Estefano Rodríguez - Sergio Carlos Díaz, Martín Arturo Vázquez, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez , Juan Carlos Ortega, Fernando Quirarte , José María Higareda, Marco Antonio Hernández, Sergio Pérez Palomera, Ahuizótl Sánchez - Humberto Romero , Alfonso Sosa , Edson Vieira, Salvador Luis Reyes , Rodolfo Michel Rodríguez, Carlos Castillo, Leopoldo Castañeda - Daniel Guzmán , Jorge Dávalos , Octavio Mora , Francisco García, Ricardo Milton Da Silva, Jorge Navarro, Carlos Orozco. Coach: Alberto Guerra .
Cup winner 1990/91
Hugo Pineda - Rafael Gutiérrez , Víctor Manuel Rodríguez , José Sergio Díaz, José María Higareda, Sergio Pérez Palomera, Juan Carlos Ortega, Luis Felipe Peña - Humberto Romero , David Cortéz, Jorge Dávalos , Alfonso Sosa , Salvador Luis Reyes , Roberto Masciarelli , Leopoldo Castañeda , Luis Gilberto Plascencia , Juan Alberto Luna Montoya - Hugo Aparecido Matos , Daniel Guzmán , Octavio Mora , Ricardo Milton Da Silva, Luis Alberto Flores , Carlos Orozco. Coach: Alberto Guerra .
Known players
- Ignacio Calderón ; the national goalkeeper at the soccer world championships in 1966 and 1970 came in 1974 from the neighbor Deportivo Guadalajara .
- Jorge Dávalos ; played exclusively for the UdeG throughout his professional career and was team captain for twelve years.
- Daniel Guzmán ; the later master coach (2008 with Santos Laguna) played from 1986 to 1991 with the UdeG.
- Manuel Nájera ; only World Cup participant (1978) in the club's history.
- Fernando Quirarte ; the World Cup participant (1986) , who otherwise worked exclusively for city rivals Chivas, ended his active career with the UdeG in the 1989/90 season.
- Marcos Rivas ; El hombre 11 (the eleventh man) played in all eleven positions over the course of his career and for three years for UdeG.
- Miguel Zepeda ; Winner of the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup and two goals match winner in a 4-3 final victory over Brazil.
Leonas Negras
The women's soccer team of the Universidad de Guadalajara is called Leonas Negras (German Black Lionesses ) and reached the finals of the Mexican women's soccer championship for the first time in the Apertura 2007 . In this she was defeated by the Dragonas del Instituto Oriente with an overall result of 2: 6 (first leg 1: 2, second leg 1: 4 in an almost empty Estadio Azul in Mexico City ).
Two and a half years later, the club again reached the finals of the Mexican women's soccer championship in the 2010 Clausura . This time they did better and beat local rivals Brujas de Tlaquepaque with an aggregate result of 3-2. After a 1: 1 of the Estadio Revolución Mexicana from Tonala discharged first leg, the University team secured by a 2: 1 victory in the return game for the one used also by the men's team Estadio Jalisco had taken the title.
Even if there have been no successes at national level since then, the Leonas Negras are still among the leading teams. In 2015 they won the Jalisco State Championship and also prevailed in this final against their neighbor Brujas de Tlaquepaque .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goal.commentary: Guadalajara's Revival
- ↑ All team squads according to mediotiempo ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Las Dragonas conquistaron el primer torneo femenil de la FMF (Spanish; article of December 29, 2007)
- ↑ Disputan Leonas Negras final de la Liga Mexicana de Futbol (Spanish; article from June 28, 2010)
- ↑ Las Leonas Negras son campeonas (Spanish; article of July 8, 2010)
- ↑ Escuela de Fútbol Femenil Leonas Negras on Facebook (accessed on November 21, 2016)
