Club Universidad Nacional

UNAM Pumas, Universidad Nacional AC officially Club, is a Mexican football club.

The Pumas play in the Primera División de México and carry home games at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario, the venue for the Olympic Summer Games in 1968 The stadium has a capacity of 72 449 seats and is located on the campus of the University ( Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. - UNAM).

The club also briefly UNAM, or Pumas mentioned previously won seven times the Mexican Championship three times and the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The biggest rivals of the Pumas are América, Cruz Azul and Chivas.

History

The professional team at UNAM was founded on 28 August 1954, playing since the rise of 1962 permanently in La Liga, the top division in the Mexican football club. In its early years, the University team had little encouragement and little acceptance outside of the university campus, especially as the athletic performance initially open left much to be desired. Enthalpies of Pumas up to and including 1974/75 only places in the middle or at the bottom of the table. The only two positive exceptions date from the seasons 1967/68, as UNAM was runner-up, finishing in 4th place in the following season.

With the entering in the late 1970s successes, the interest for the club, which long since become the second most popular soccer team in Mexico City and the drittpopulärsten club from Mexico rose had developed ( behind Mexico 's most popular club Chivas Guadalajara and the traditional arch rivals América ).

With América Cougars had already delivered in three consecutive seasons between 1975 /76 and 1977/78 an exciting head-to -head race in the championship, the twice América and one of the Pumas as point- best team in the regular championship round (Super Lider ) was terminated. The term " Super Lider " is only a title of honor, because the actual championship fight until the play-offs ( known in Mexico Liguilla ) begins, where the two teams in those years but no longer met. Nevertheless wore these years where cougars and Águilas probably put the two strongest teams in Mexico in much the development of their spiteful rivalry.

In the seasons 1978/79 and 1980/81, their rivalry erupted with the other major city rivals Cruz Azul respectively in the championship final. After Cruz Azul was able to prevail in the first comparison ( with 0:0 and 2:0 ), the Cougars kept two years later ( with 0:1 and 4:1 ) the upper hand. Both teams should be the way to meet four times in the ten seasons between 1994/95 and 2003/ 04 in the play- offs, where the Cougars were able to sit down three times, won their home games each 3-2.

To irrevocable enmity with America it came later than 1984/85. The Pumas had those season ended once again as a super eyelids and had advanced to the finals, which was to deny this time against América.

After a 1-1 draw at Estadio Azteca was the rush to the return match at the Estadio Ciudad Universitaria, the University and the Olympic Stadium, enormous. Many people wanted to also gain access to the stadium without a ticket. In the uncoordinated crush nine people were crushed to death and injured several dozen. The main culprit wore the " porros ", a kind of pseudo - urban students who spent a lot of time outside of classrooms and neither learned nor earned money. This incident was only two weeks after the Heysel tragedy.

The final second leg in 1985 ended goalless; mainly because América - actually rather unusual for them - in this game relied on a strong defense to reach a third game. This took place in Querétaro and was won by América 3-1. However, just because of some glaring mistakes. For the Pumas three distinct penalty were denied equal while America was given a penalty. The referee was officially acquitted of bribery by América, but should then never again run a game.

In the finale of season 1987 /88 were again against Pumas and Águilas. Once again, America retained ( with 0:1 and 4:1 ) the upper hand.

True to the motto " Every three years back ," it also came in 1990/91 to a final match between these two teams. The Pumas had brought an excellent season behind them, they had finished as Super eyelids with the proud record of 55-21 points and a lead of eight points over second-placed Monterrey. From 38 games were won 25, an excellent balance. The dominance continued in the play-offs, where you can confidently with 1:0 and 5:1 over Morelia 1-0 and 2-0 and prevailed against Puebla and reached the final. Although they lost the return leg on home turf 0-1 against América, but was due to the limitations in this season on away goals still master because it had been decided the first leg at the Estadio Azteca 3-2 in his favor.

But after this championship ran the 1990s without much success. For the first time in the Apertura 1998/99, the Cougars were able to get back on a semi-final, which should happen after all, often from then on.

The since its 1977-1991 ending heyday (in which the Cougars three times champion and CONCACAF Champions Cup winners were ) most successful year was 2004, when the Cougars under coach Hugo Sanchez same both championships ( the Clausura 2003/ 04 and the Apertura 2004 / could 05) win. 2005 outdid the Pumas in the Copa Sudamericana great on. On the way to the finals was after all Corinthians São Paulo, the winner of the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup in 2000 ( with 1:2 and 3:0) and the Argentine giants Velez Sarsfield ( 0-0 and 4-0) relatively clear out of the way. In the finals they lost even then somewhat unhappy with 3:4 in a penalty shoot-out against the most successful team in South America in the new millennium, the Boca Juniors after return match had ended 1-1 each.

In the recent club history two more championships have been won. In the final of the Clausura 2009, the Cougars were able to prevail against Pachuca, after they had won the third place in the regular season. Since that time the club strategically placed mainly on young players from their own ranks and it was as good as not buying more players. With this realignment, and the use of Pumas veteran players like Leandro Augusto Darío Verón or the Pumas were able to win the title of the Clausura 2011 by in front of their home crowd they prevailed 2-1 in the final against Monarcas Morelia.

Historical logos

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Achievements

• Mexican Championship: 7 titles (1977, 1981, 1991, Clausura 2004, Apertura 2004, Clausura 2009, Clausura 2011)
• Mexican Cup competition: 1 title (1975 )
• Mexican Super Cup: 2 titles (1975, 2004)
• CONCACAF Champions Cup: 3 wins (1980, 1982, 1989)
• Copa Sudamericana: 1 finals (2005)
• Trofeo Santiago Bernabeu: 1 ( 2004)
• Copa Interamericana: 1 ( 1981)

The champion teams

• 1976/ 77: Enrique Vázquez del Mercado, Horacio Sánchez ( Tor) - Jesús Iturralde, Arturo Vazquez, Genaro Bermúdez, Ernesto Cervantes, Jorge Vergara, Domingo de la Mora, José Javier Trujillo, Ricardo Guzmán, Rubén Medina (Defence) - Leonardo Cuéllar, Spencer Coelho, Héctor Sanabria, José Luis López " Pareja ", Gerardo José Candido, Washington Olivera, Ladislao Domínguez, José de Jesús Ramírez " Chucho " Navarro hiking (Midfield) - Hugo Sánchez, Evanivaldo Castro " Cabinho ", Juan José Muñante " La Cobra", Mario Trejo ( storm ). Coach: Jorge Marik
• Season 1980/81: Olaf Heredia, Jorge Humberto Espinoza, Federico Valerio Escobedo - Rafael Amador, Gustavo Vargas, Jorge Paolino, Pablo Luna, Eduardo Salcedo, Dimitri Haik, José Javier Trujillo, Ricardo Guzmán, Raúl Servín - Ricardo Ferretti, Manuel Manzo, José Luis " Pareja " López, Manuel Negrete, Enrique López Zarza, Fernando Lara, Maurico Peña Almada, Alfonso Rubio, Gerardo Coria - Hugo Sánchez, Luis Enrique Flores, Jorge Isaias, Germán Tello. Coach: Bora Milutinovic
• Season 1990/91: Jorge Campos, Sergio Bernal Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales, Abraham Nava, Claudio Suárez, Antonio Torres Servín, Roberto Medina, Constantino Lopez Jasso, Israel Castillo - Ricardo Ferretti, Alberto García Aspe, Miguel España, Marcos Misdrahi, José Antonio Noriega, Moises Garduño, Rodolfo Sánchez - Luis García, David Patiño, Juan Carlos Vera, Jorge Santillana. Coach: Miguel Mejía Barón
• Clausura 2004: Sergio Bernal - Darío Verón, Joaquín Beltrán, Gonzalo Pineda, Israel López, Marco Antonio Palacios - Gerardo Galindo, Leandro Augusto José Luis López, José Aílton da Silva, Israel Castro, Jaime Lozano, Joaquín del Olmo, David Toledo, Luis Ignacio González, Efraín Velarde, Ricardo Balderas - Francisco Fonseca, Bruno Marioni, Ismael Iñiguez, Joaquín Botero, Moctezuma Serrato, Hugo Sánchez Portugal. Coach: Hugo Sánchez
• Apertura 2004: Sergio Bernal, Alejandro Palacios - Joaquín Beltrán, Darío Verón, Gonzalo Pineda, Marco Antonio Palacios, Israel López - Gerardo Galindo, Israel Castro, Jaime Lozano, Leandro Augusto, Joaquín del Olmo, José Luis López, David Toledo, José Aílton da Silva, Fernando Espinosa, Fernando Morales - Joaquín Botero, Francisco Fonseca, Ismael Iñiguez, Diego Alonso, Agustín Javier Delgado, Hugo Sánchez Portugal. Coach: Hugo Sánchez.
• Clausura 2009: Sergio Bernal, Odín Patiño - Israel Castro, Efrain Velarde, Marco Antonio Palacios, Darío Verón, Jehu Chiapas, Carlos Humberto González, Luis Fernando Fuentes - Efraín Juárez, David Toledo, Leandro Augusto, David Cabrera, Fernando Espinosa, Alex Diego - Dante López, Ismael Iñiguez, Martín Bravo, Pablo Barrera, Francisco Palencia, Fernando Morales, Juan Carlos Cacho. Coach: Ricardo Ferretti
• Clausura 2011: Alejandro Palacios - Darío Verón, Marco Antonio Palacios, Efraín Velarde, Luis Fernando Fuentes, Erick Vera - Israel Castro ( captain ), David Cabrera, Jehu Chiapas, Leandro Augusto, Carlos Emilio Orrantia, Fernando Espinosa, Oscar Ricardo Rojas - Javier Cortés Martín Bravo, Dante López, Francisco Palencia, Juan Carlos Cacho, David Izazola. Coach: Guillermo Vázquez.

Pumas coach

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Well-known former players

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• Mexico Sergio Bernal (since 1988 for the Pumas active in over 450 league games )
• Mexico Jorge Campos (1988-1995, 1998-2000, 2001-2002, and former national player of Mexico)
• Brazil Ricardo Ferretti (1978-1985, 1987-1988, 1990-1991, 1991-1996 and since 2006 coach of the Pumas )
• Mexico Francisco Fonseca (2002-2004; former player for ao Benfica Lisbon and Mexico)
• Mexico Luis García (1985-1991; former player for Atletico Madrid and Mexico, among others )
• Mexico Alberto García Aspe (1984-1991, former national player of Mexico)
• Argentina Bruno Marioni (2004-2006; former player for ao Sporting Lisbon and Villarreal CF)
• Bora Milutinovic of Serbia ( 1970; former player for eg AS Monaco and former coach of Mexico, among others )
• Mexico Manuel Negrete Arias (1979-1986, 1987-1990, and former national player of Mexico)
• Mexico Hugo Sánchez (1975-1979, 1979-1980, 1980-1981, and former player for Real Madrid and Mexico, among others )
• Germany Bernd Schuster (1996-1997; former player for Real Madrid, among others, FC Barcelona and Germany )
• Ignacio Scocco Argentina (2006-2008; currently active for AEK Athens and current national team of Argentina )
• United States Mike Sorber (1994-1995, former National Player of the USA)
• Mexico Claudio Suárez (1988-1996; most capped player for Mexico)

Miscellaneous

• The most important Fangruppe cougars called La Rebel.
• The most important branch of the Pumas team is Pumas Morelos.