Unión Deportiva Río Blanco

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Unión Deportiva Río Blanco , usually just called Río Blanco , was a football club from the city ​​of Río Blanco in the Mexican state of Veracruz .

history

After Orizaba AC , which was founded in 1898 and whose football team , mainly made up of Scottish players, became the first champions of Mexico in the 1902/03 season , fell apart around 1904, Orizaba stood for a full decade without a football club. The revival of the local football scene in 1914 was initiated by the appearance of the Frenchman Raoul Bouffier in the suburb of Río Blanco, west of Orizaba . Monsieur Bouffier, who had come here to take on a management position at the local textile mill , which was the largest in Latin America when it opened in 1892 , was a passionate football player who managed to revive the starving Orizaba football scene. This was the hour of birth of the UD Río Blanco, whose team consisted almost exclusively of employees from the factory in question.

Just a few months later, two more football clubs were founded in neighboring Orizaba. Because the three clubs that existed in a very small space also differed from one another in other ways, the local football scene was characterized by interesting rivalries from an early age. While the Club Cervantes was dominated by Spaniards and the team of the ADO (this club was later recognized as the legitimate "legal successor" of the Orizaba AC) consisted mostly of Mexicans, the UD Río Blanco was characterized by a mixture of nationalities; because here both Mexicans and Spaniards, French and Alsatians played .

Over long distances, Río Blanco was the strongest team and won the Veracruz state championship in the 1934/35 season . But soon the club was abandoned by the ADO and the Union Deportiva Moctezuma de Orizaba, founded in 1932 , because after Bouffier's departure it no longer received the necessary support and the team finally fell apart. But the influence of Raoul Bouffier and the UD Río Blanco on the development of football in Orizaba are of importance that should not be underestimated.

See also

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  • Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano, Tomo I , B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1960, pp. 183f