Real Club España is a Mexican

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located in

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. The club hosted a large variety of sports and other activities such as

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, paleta frontón,

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. The club was mostly known for its football senior team that played in the

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until it disaffiliated from the league in 1950. During the ''Era romántica'' (Romantic era) of Mexican football, Club España was one of the most popular teams, winning 14 league titles and 4

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in the amateur years (1902–1943) of the sport in that country. After the professionalization of football, España won another 2 major titles, the 1943–44 Copa Mexico where they beat Atlante 6–2 in the final, and the overall league championship in 1944–45 ahead of

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under manager Rodolfo Muñoz.

History

Beginnings

España club was founded 20 March 1912, product of a separation of the previous club

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which had been founded on 1910 by Alfredo B. Cuellar, Jorge Gómez de Parada and Alberto Montaña . In San Pedro of the Pines

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was the main sport, two years later, in order to play football, 6 young Spanish emigrants would undertake the project to create a new club and would form Real Club España. Francisco Aryan, Ramon Lance, Pedro Batgay, Delio Bonet, Enrique Escalada and Francisco Gómez were the founders.

Success

España's success began immediately, the year after the foundation the club won its first league title in 1914 they won their first

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but it would not stop there, the club won a total of 14 amateur league championships and four cups between 1912 and the professionalisation of Mexican football in 1943. When the professional

was created in 1943, Real España Club was one of the favourites but they lost the title to

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The next season 1944–45 saw the club win championship number 15. Nevertheless, this title and the Cup obtained in 1943 against Atlante would be the only trophies obtained by España in the professional era. In 1950 the España football team retired from Mexican first division.

Atlético Español

For the season 1971–72

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was taken over by Spanish directors. With the intention to remember the great team that was the España Club, they decide to change to the name of the team to

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, even copying the colors of the uniform of the defunct team. The name change was never popularly accepted and after 10 years it was changed back to Necaxa.

Present time

At present Real España still exists. Their facilities continue to operate in Mexico City and—aside from football—the club offers members the option to take part in several sporting activities including

and tennis, among others. Its professional football program has been left in the past and only some fields, photographs and trophies survive.

España B

Amid the controversy

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was accepted to play in the league. Germania was composed of German players who had come to Mexico. Rumors were that Amicale Française and

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had quit the league due to Germans being allowed in the league. The true reason was that during this time World War I was occurring in Europe causing French and English in Mexico went back to their country to contribute in their respective armies. Mexico posed as a neutral country so that was the reason why Germania had been allowed to join. During the 1915–16 season of the Primera Fuerza España B began playing and was composed of extra players from Club España.

Primera Fuerza

These are all the statistics from the club's participation in the

Primera Fuerza The Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Amateur Association, known as the Primera Fuerza, was an amateur football league founded in Mexico in 1902 with five clubs: " Orizaba A.C.", " Pachuca A.C.", " Reforma A.C.", "Mexico Cricket Club" and " British Club" ...

from 1912–1943 except for the 1921–22 and the 1930–31 tournament which was not held. After the 1942–43 tournament the league was professionalism and changed its name to the Liga Mayor.

Historic Badges

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Honours

* Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Amateur Association (14): 1913–14, 1914–15, 1915–16, 1916–17, 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1929–30, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1939–40, 1941–42 *

Copa México The Copa MX (formerly called Copa Tower Monterrey, Copa Eliminatoria, Copa México and Copa Corona MX (for sponsorship reasons)) was a Mexican football cup competition that was established in 1907. After a lengthy hiatus that began in 1997, it was ...

(5): 1914–15, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1918–19, 1943–44 * Match "of the Centenario" (1): 1921 * Primera División (1): 1944–45 *

Campeón de Campeones ''Campeón de Campeones'' ( es, Champion of Champions) is an annual Mexican football competition established in 1942. In its current form, the winner of the Apertura season faces the winner of the Clausura season, for both Liga MX and Liga MX Feme ...

(2): 1944,

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References

External links

Official website
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