Centro Asturiano de México (formerly Club Asturias) is a Mexican
sports club
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Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
located in
CDMX Their
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club played in the
Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association, the first and main league prior to the professionalization and development of the
Primera División de México
Liga MX, also known as Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Mexico and the highest level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Liga Mayor (1943–1949) and also as Primera Divi ...
in 1943.
Although it was established as a football institution, Centro Asturiano hosts a large variety of activities, with
badminton
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,
basketball
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,
bolo palma,
golf
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,
scuba diving
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,
paddle tennis,
squash,
swimming
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,
taekwondo
Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...
,
tennis
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and
volleyball
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among them.
History
The club was established as "Club Asturias" on 7 February 1918 when a group of
Asturian immigrants—including, among others, José Menéndez Aleu, Ángel H. Díaz, Antonio Martínez and Higinio Gutiérrez Peláez—got together and decided to establish a football club that would represent their Asturian heritage.
[Historia]
on Club's website
The main goal was to unite all the
Spaniards
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who had emigrated from
Asturias
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It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...
to
Mexico
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, and so imitatively the club enrolled into the
Primera Fuerza
Campeonato de Primera Fuerza (), later known as Liga Mayor (), was an amateur association football league in Mexico. It was founded and organized by the Federación Mexicana de Football Asociación (), which was the first governing body of Mexic ...
. Asturias would play in the league from 1919 to 1943, winning two titles in
1922–23 and
1938–39.
When a professional league,
Mexican Primera División
Liga MX, also known as Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Mexico and the highest level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Liga Mayor (1943–1949) and also as Primera Divi ...
was created, Asturias was also part of the new league, winning its third title in
1943–44 (and the first professional ever) but the club decided to disaffiliate in
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...
, being the last senior championship played by Asturias up to present days.
References
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1918 establishments in Mexico
Asturian diaspora
Multi-sport clubs in Mexico
Diaspora sports clubs
Spanish-Mexican culture
Association football clubs established in 1918