Albinegros de Orizaba
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| Full name | Club Deportivo Albinegros de Orizaba |
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| Nickname(s) | Los Albinegros (The White-and-Blacks) |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Ground | Estadio Socum |
| Capacity | 7,000 |
| Owner | Fidel Kuri Grajales |
| Chairman | Fidel Kuri Mustieles |
| Manager | Mario Trejo |
| League | Segunda División |
| Clausura 2017 | preseason |
Club Deportivo Albinegros de Orizaba is a football club of the city of Orizaba, in the state of Veracruz. Founded in 1868 as "Orizaba Athletic Club", it was founded by Scottish migrant Duncan Mac Comish Mac Donald who owned a local steel company. In the beginning, the club hosted cricket among other sports.
The club had the honour of being Mexico's first ever football champion in 1903 when the club played in the old Primera Fuerza. The club was among the first other to play in the Primera División de México in 1943 which was the first ever professional league in the nation history. The club has been playing in the Liga de Ascenso since 2009 after spending a few years playing in the Segunda División. After playing in their home stadium Estadio Socum for the first six months after their returning to the Liga de Ascenso in the first half of 2009, the team had to play most of their home matches in the seasons 2009-10 and 2010-11 in the Estadio Luis de la Fuente in the city of Veracruz, sharing it with Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz because Estadio Socum was not accepted anymore to be host of second-division games. Since the 2011–12 season they are playing in the Segunda División Profesional and again in their own stadium.
In the 1880s numerous immigrants from all over Europe were coming in the port of Veracruz and spreading around the states city's. Many companies were founded in those years, mostly steel and fabric companies. Immigrants brought along a new sport from Europe which they started teaching the locals and would go on to sponsor clubs made up by its workers to represent the company in friendly matches that started off in the early 1890s. Some important factories were Santa Gertrudis Fábrica de Yute, which was founded and owned by Scottish Duncan Mac Comish Mac Donald and Thomas Hanghey, who had a long football background and so they decided along with other local factory owners to establish a local football league in 1886, having the first game played in the old "Campo El Yute".
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