William H. Frasser

William H. Frasser (* in England ; † 1942 in Mexico ) was an English engineer and entrepreneur . He was the owner of the Compañia de Luz y Fuerza , an electricity company in Mexico City . He also founded the Mexican football club Necaxa , whose team he financed during the amateur football era in Mexico. Since the payment of football players was still officially forbidden at that time, he employed the players at the Compañia Luz y Fuerza, where they did not work in the company's offices, but on the company's own training grounds.

biography

In his homeland of England, the young Frasser developed into a passionate fan of football at an early age , which he did not want to do without even after he emigrated to Mexico. His enthusiasm for this sport soon found a number of imitators among the employees of the company Luz y Fuerza, which he directed, so that there were soon several company football teams. The best players competed under the company name Luz y Fuerza at the 1921 Torneo del Centenario , an anniversary tournament to mark the country's centenary , and represented the company in the capital league for the 1922/23 season. In the same season, the Tranvias club , which was also founded on the initiative of Frasser, played there. At the end of the season, both teams were at the bottom of the list.

In order to form a strong team that could keep up in the capital league, Frasser merged these two teams on August 21, 1923 to form Club Necaxa. The colors of the association were taken from the English flag based on Frasser's origin and are therefore red and white. The club logo is inspired by the Frassers family crest .

The association was supported and systematically built up by Frasser both with his private assets and with the corporate assets of the company Luz y Fuerza. Frasser also financed the most modern football stadium of the era for the association: the Parque Necaxa, built on the property of the Frasser family and inaugurated on September 14, 1930 .

The fate of Club Necaxa in those days was closely linked to the fate of Frasser and his company, Luz y Fuerza. This financial dependency explains to some viewers why Necaxa opposed professional football, introduced in 1943, and retained its amateur status. Because the club could apparently not afford to belong to the Primera División , as the football historian Carlos Calderón suspects: the sources of money dried up after Frasser was murdered in 1936 and the Luz y Fuerza company was nationalized in 1940 as part of a nationalization program via the energy supply.

While it is a popular “view” that Frasser was murdered, there is another version that Frasser was killed in a car accident. But the real circumstances of his death are in the dark and no one knows the truth, as stated on the Club Necaxa website.

Individual references and web links

1. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo II, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, p. 291
2. ↑ La fundación de Necaxa  ( 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. (Spanish)  
3. ↑ El Parque Necaxa  ( 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. (Spanish)  
4. ^ Carlos Calderón Cardoso: Por amor a la camiseta (1933-1950), Editorial Clío, México 1998, p. 14 ISBN 970-663-023-6
5. ↑ http://www.clubnecaxa.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1563  ( 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.  
6. ↑ Comienza la debacle  ( 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. (Spanish)