Club Tijuana

The Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, usually referred to simply as Club Tijuana or as Xolo de Tijuana because of its long name, is a Mexican football club from the U.S. border city of Tijuana. The club was established in January 2007 by acquiring the second division license of the Guerreros de Tabasco FC, ​​played in the second division of Mexico, who until the 2008/09 season the name Primera División 'A' was and since the 2009/10 season as Liga de Ascenso operates. The club had, as quickly as possible to ascend from the beginning the ambitious goal in the first league, in which he succeeded at the end of the 2010/11 season. Just 18 months later the club won the Mexican Apertura league title in 2012 with a convincing 4-1 final victory ( 2-1 and 2-0 ) over Deportivo Toluca.

History

Prehistory

The Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, which is named after the breed of dog that was created after a series of attempts to establish a professional football club in Tijuana. After Inter, Chivas and Internacional have existed only a few years, and then a team called Trotamundos existed only half a season, the town was the beginning of 2004 because without a second-division club. This unsatisfactory for the football- hungry urban population situation lasted for one and a half years before again attempts have been made here to establish a football club, but all of them failed.

First, a Club Tijuana worked in the Apertura with 2005, which had been acquired but before the second round of Dorados de Sinaloa and converted as its branch team Dorados de Tijuana. The negative results of both teams led to the descent at the end of the season 2005/06. At the same time, the Gallos Blancos de Querétaro FC created in collaboration with US-based Grupo Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico's largest sports betting company, a branch team that built and as Gallos Caliente entered the names of his two sponsors in the club name in appearance. Under this name the newly formed team worked in the Apertura with 2006, before his second league license was sold after the first round of the 2006/07 season at the former first division club Celaya. The license sales seemed to be the appropriate solution for a rapid separation of the no longer desired cooperation between the Querétaro FC and the Grupo Caliente to be. For the sports betting company sought to have a football club for which he alone was responsible.

Close links with a sports betting company

At the same time, Grupo Caliente acquired the second division Guerreros de Tabasco FC and transported over him to Tijuana, to form the present-day Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente of it.

The connection of a football club with a specialized sports betting companies already caused in founding the Club Gallos Caliente controversial discussions. The Mexican Football Federation gave the club the player eligibility only after he had convinced himself that the Grupo Caliente organized any bets for second division games.

Family Hank

Born on January 28, 1956 Jorge Hank Rhon is not only the owner of the sports betting provider and the Caliente Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, but also the under construction Estadio Caliente, the home ground of the Xolo. Between 2004 and 2007 he also held the office of the mayor of Tijuana. His eldest son, Jorge Alberto Hank Inzunsa acts officially as club president.

Player's record

His first tournament fee for the Torneo Clausura in 2007 joined the newly formed Club Tijuana with eight victories and defeats from balanced. In the following Apertura 2007 he reached the final, where he, however, in the quarter- finals with 0:1 and 0:3 clearly failed against Club León for the first time. In the Apertura 2008, equipped with ambitious club reached the semi-finals for the first time and failed nearly 1-0 and 1-3 against " his former partner " Querétaro FC of the Apertura eventually won and was able to return to the Primera División at the end of the season. After you've failed in the season 2009/10 ( in the final matches of the Clausura with 0:1 and 0:0 against Mérida FC in the semifinals of the Torneo Bicentenraio 2010 with 0:0 and 2:5 against Necaxa 2009) have all the Xolo the long-awaited rise División in the 2010/11 season in the Primera.

Throughout the Apertura 2012, their third half- season in the top Mexican league, lost the Xolo in 23 games (including the Liguillas ) only twice, in each case against newly promoted Leon: first, on the second matchday of the league game round with 0:4 and later in the semi-final first leg 0-2, but could qualify with a 3-0 home win in the return match for the final, in which they prevailed with the total score of 4-1 against the ten -time champions Toluca and five years after its foundation, the champion gained with the following squad: Cirilo Saucedo, Adrián Zermeño (Tor ) - Javier Marcelo Gandolfi, Juan Carlos Núñez, Pablo César Aguilar, Edgar Eduardo Castillo, Joshua Ábrego, Gregory Garza, Alfredo González Tahuilán, Carlos Rubio, Juan Pablo Santiago, Miguel Almazan ( Defence) - Fernando Arce, Cristian Pellerano, Leandro Augusto, Joe Corona, Richard Ruiz, Fidel Martínez, Jorge Hernández, José Madueña, Luis Ángel García ( Midfield) - Alfredo Moreno, Duvier Riascos, Raul Nava, Diego Alberto Olsina, Raúl Enríquez, Bruno Piceno ( striker ). Coach: Antonio Mohamed.

Sources and links

• Overview of the license change in La Liga ' A' ( Spanish)

References and links

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