Edgar Everaert

Edgar Everaert (* 1888 in Bruges, Belgium, † November 8, 1957 in Mexico City, Mexico) was the founder of the Mexican soccer team Club Deportivo Guadalajara.

Biography

Everaert left his home at the age of just 16 years and emigrated to Mexico from. On September 15, 1904, he arrived in Guadalajara, where he long for the Casa Comercial y Cia L. gas. worked and was friends with the owner Calixto gas. Calixto gas had French roots and in turn was friends with some French people who worked in the Fábricas de Francia. This group was instrumental in the formation of a football club, which saw the light of day on May 8, 1906 the name of Club Unión. As a club colors of red, white and blue were selected, both the French national colors and the colors of the city of Bruges, origin Everaerts. The Belgian was an active member of the football team and was a member of the first Board of Directors.

On the initiative of Everaert, who proposed to incorporate the name of the town on the European model in the club name, the previously named after the Avenida Unión Unión Club was renamed in 1908 in Guadalajara Football Club.

Everaert spent most of his life in Guadalajara and left the city in 1954 to spend his life in Coyoacán, a preferred municipality in the south of Mexico City. There he devoted himself to painting and died in 1957 due to a cancerous condition.

Notes and References

• Football players (Mexico)
• Football functionary (Mexico)
• Person (Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Born in 1888
• Died in 1957
• Belgian
• Man