Coras de Tepic

Deportivo Tepic, also known by his nickname Cora (after living in the east of the state of Nayarit ethnic group ), was a Mexican football club from Tepic, the capital of the state of Nayarit.

History

The club was founded in 1959 to get a starting place in the Segunda División, which was still the second- highest division in the Mexican football club. As a coach in the first season 1959/60 acted Jesús " Chita " Aldrete, who is originally derived from the offspring of CD Imperio and 1951 with Atlas de Guadalajara won the Mexican championship.

Deportivo Tepic soon proved to be a permanent feature of the second Mexican soccer league in which the team was represented in 13 consecutive seasons up to and including the 1971/72 season. There were probably financial problems that forced the club to temporarily retreat from professional football.

A new situation arose in 1975 when the then colonel and later General Rogello Flores Curiel was elected governor of the state of Nayarit. He modernized not only the capital of Tepic, but also left the Estadio Municipal erect floodlights and won the parastatals Tabamex as a sponsor for Deportivo Tepic, which he ushered in the second era of the club's history.

With the start of the 1976/77 season the team of Deportivo de Coras Tepic returned in the Segunda División and knocked five years later at the gate to the first league, when she reached the finals for the ascent, but lost to the CF Oaxtepec. Until the introduction of La Liga 'A' from the 1994/95 season was the Segunda División also mathematically a second league and until then remained Tepic represented in it, which the Coras were one of the most enduring forces of the then second division.

Because the Coras were calculated at end of season 1993/94 relegated to the Tercera División, but quickly realized the possibilities of the introduction of the Primera División 'A' resulted, the new second division proved soon as a supposed luck of the association. For their patron Ernesto Jiménez Haro acquired the license to participate in this league and invested in new players. Thus, the third phase of the association began. However, the expenditure on the 1994/95 season were much higher than the income, so that the club found itself soon forced to separate from the expensive players. With an appropriately streamlined and compiled only amateur players from the region team but could not keep up in the league and got to the end of the season 1995/96 in the Segunda División third-rate. Thus, the Zweitligaabenteur the association was forever ended.

A last attempt to put the club back on its feet and to lead to higher regions, was launched by the President of Grupo Empresarial Alica 1999. The financial injections seemed to pay off soon, because Cora's Torneo Apertura won the 2002 and finally also managed the supposed return to the Primera División 'A'. But a short-term decided by the Mexican Football Federation rule change forced at the end of the 2002/ 03 to an additional relegation round against Club Tapachula, which would have been as Table real relegated from the second division. After a 3-2 win in the first leg and a temporary 1-0 lead in the second leg, the Coras documents in Tapachula ultimately with 1:4 and remained mediocre. Then transferred the Grupo Empresarial Alica the ownership of the club back to the state. This was the beginning of the end.

At the end of the season 2004/ 05 the club withdrew due to financial problems and lack of support from spectators and Politics in the Tercera División fourth-rate returns. In 2007, a last attempt to bring the club again to success. Once again, the (not really existing ) money has been invested wrong and did not bring the anticipated income. The club went bankrupt and was dissolved after the 2008 /09 season. His last season ended in eleventh place in the existing 17 teams from Group 11 of the Tercera División. Thus ended, after 50 years, the history of the craft of football club of Nayarit.

Sources and links

• Algo de historia " Cora " futbolera (Spanish; article of 23 December 2009)
• Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano, Tomo III, B. Costa - Amic, Mexico City, 1961, pp. 676