Pachuca – From under the surface to top of them all

08.05.08 - 19:37 ... source : Concacaf

... 8.5.08 - When the winning Eurogiant – be it Manchester Utd or Chelsea – travel to the FIFA World Cup Championship in Tokyo in December – they will come across a club risen mightily from the day when Bert and Bill Pengelly and others from their tiny homeland put down their picks and shovels and decided to play football. That club is now Pachuca, champions of CONCACAF for the second time and now carrying the banner of their nation and the region to do battle against the best the world can put against them. But before that championship, before the Mexican Football Federation, even before FIFA itself, a team of workers from the mines around Pachuca decided it was time football was played in Mexico and so that’s what they did; formed the first club, ignited the drive to form others and….well, the rest is history. It is not, however, just a history of how Mexicans adopted the game as their own and went on to produce teams and pla ...» Next (HTML)