Union Deportiva Moctezuma de Orizaba

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The Union Deportiva Moctezuma de Orizaba - or simply Moctezuma - is a former Mexican football club that was founded in 1932 by employees of the Moctezuma brewery in Orizaba in the Mexican state of Veracruz because they wanted to hunt down the round leather in their free time.

The project was supported by the management of the brewery, who provided the team with a suitable area for playing and also gave the permission to use the name of the brewery in the club's name.

According to some information, the home ground known at the time as Estadio Moctezuma was also used by two local rivals ADO and Atlético Orizaba . When the brewery needed space for more storage rooms and loading ramps, it was demolished and the Estadio Socum was built elsewhere .

Moctezuma de Orizaba was first approved for the 1940/41 season to participate in the Primera Fuerza , the national championship on an amateur basis, and three years later was one of the ten founding members of the Mexican Primera División . Due to discrepancies with the Mexican Football Association , the club withdrew its football team from paid football in 1950. Club España and CF Asturias had gone the same way . But at least Moctezuma returned to professional football for three years in 1951 and played in the second division until 1954 .

successes

The titles were won by the following teams (names in alphabetical order):

Other famous players: Ricardo Álvarez (Changa) , Rafael "Ángel" Meza , Julio Pisapia .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Team line- ups according to RSSSF: the Mexican Supercup finals and Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City, 1960), p. 195f