Junior Club

The Junior Club is or was a Mexican sports club based in Mexico City, which was founded in 1906 by Father Crivelli. 1915 called Pablo Alexanderson within this association a football team into life, who participated in the three seasons between 1917/18 and 1919/20, in the capital city league. Between 1918 and 1920, however, she appeared to already under the name Tigres before disappearing completely.

History

History and foundation of the football department

Between 1913 and 1915 lived in the village of San Pablo Alexanderson Pedro de los Pinos on the outskirts of the Mexican capital. Due to his acquaintance with the Board of the local football club México sport enthusiasts Alexanderson a post in the club was offered. After a while he himself went on to the board and exercised the office even for some time after his move to the Mexican capital from. Finally, he found a new field in the Junior Club. The club had its own sports park, the Parque Junior, which was mainly used for tennis and baseball games. In this Alexanderson found a perfect precondition for the formation of a football team that he registered for the 1917/18 season to participate in the Primera Fuerza. To form a team that could compete in the league, he brought several players from other clubs.

Sports development of the football team

The football team of the Junior Club ended its first season 1917/18 with a nearly balanced balance (4 wins and 5 losses out of 10 games with a goal difference of 11:11 ) in fourth place out of six teams and named before the next season in Tigres to. Incomprehensible is the reason for this name change and whether this was a separation from the main club is based, as is to be assumed. It is also unclear whether the junior club itself has survived? Today there are in Mexico City, a club of the same name, whose focus Tennis belongs and which is probably identical with the one here club. Therefore, below the Web link of today's junior club was deposited, although can not be excluded that this may yet these are two different clubs that have no relation to each other.

Under their new name Tigres footballers occupied 1918/19 ( with 5 wins and only two defeats from 12 games ) in third place out of seven teams and were in the following season with 10 wins and 4 defeats from 16 games even the runner-up behind the celebrate former " Master series " España. Despite this success, it was the last season of the Tigres, who disappeared after the season 1919/20.

Swell

• Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1961), pages 84 and 123 et seq