UNAM Primer

[Piedraias]

This Thread should cover the history, basic facts, and pictures of the club. Think of this thread as the textbook on Los Pumas. Goya...Goyaaaaaa. Universidad!



http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9664/unammexcolors3lr.jpg


You can read the wikipedia entry here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNAM_Pumas). The team began as an amateur team composed of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexican National Autonomous University) students in the 1940s. It became a proffessional team in 1954 and ascended to our first division in 1962.


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Throughout the 1970s amazing players like Cabinho, Cuellar, Sanchez, Negrete made the club a perennial contender. In the 1976-1977 season our efforts payed off with the league championship.

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/1563/pumas1970s1980s3ks.jpg


In 1980-1981 we won the championship for the second time. The season after that Hugo Sanchez left for Spain to write his name in eternal international futbol glory.

[Piedraias]

Estadio Olimpico Universitario.

http://www.fussballtempel.net/concacaf/MEX/Olimpico_Mexico3.jpg


I love the club because it is so committed to its Cantera (YouthAcademy). No other Mexican club has produced more nt players than UNAM. Of the preliminary list of 26 players called by La Volpe for the World Cup Claudio Suarez, Francisco Fonseca, Israel Lopez, Gonzalo Pineda, Jaime Lozano, Gerardo Torrado, and Rafael Garcia all were born in Pumas' Cantera. This has always been the case. Just check out the 1990-1991 championship team García Aspe, Campos, España, Luis García, Ramírez Perales, Patiño, Claudio Suárez... all these guys would go on to represent mexico in the 1994/1998 world cups.

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/7158/pumas1990s7xb.jpg

[Piedraias]

Hugo came back to El Pedregal to once again shower us with glory when with his leadership, now as coach, we won two back to back titles in Clausura 2004 and Apertura 2004.

http://mirror3.mediotiempo.com/images/partidos/5638_1g.jpg

That's what 72,000 Mexicans look like.


http://mirror3.mediotiempo.com/images/partidos/5638_3g.jpg

http://mirror3.mediotiempo.com/images/partidos/5639_30g.jpg

[Piedraias]

More championship Pictures.


http://mirror3.mediotiempo.com/images/partidos/5639_37g.jpg

http://mirror3.mediotiempo.com/images/partidos/5639_19g.jpg


And a more recent pic.

http://mirror3.mediotiempo.com/images/partidos/6782_16g.jpg

[El Kapitan]

How does it feel to be a Puma?

Well, I think this explains a little how it is....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4635069755214919182&q=pumas&pl=true

[El Kapitan]

And of course the guys that gives that extra flavor in the games, our Barras (mainly guys of la ReBeL), visiting el gallinero.

http://www.youtube.com/player.swf?video_id=3Ye_IP_a1wo

[Rafael Hernandez]

Of the preliminary list of 26 players called by La Volpe for the World Cup Claudio Suarez, Francisco Fonseca, Israel Lopez, Gonzalo Pineda, Jaime Lozano, Gerardo Torrado, and Rafael Garcia all were born in Pumas' Cantera.

Not that it matters but Kikin actually came from Yucatan and to the MFL with La Piedad.

[Piedraias]

Not that it matters but Kikin actually came from Yucatan and to the MFL with La Piedad.
i kinda knew that. :rolleyes:

the way you put it. so much less romantic.

[Rafael Hernandez]

i kinda knew that. :rolleyes:

the way you put it. so much less romantic.

Kikin was made in Pumas. I'm proud of that. He was a nobody before arriving in Pumas. But that is credit to Hugo, Egea and the 1st team. The cantera had nothing to do with it.

[El Kapitan]

This video of La ReBeL is a good 1, pro editing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTHFZLGsC6Y

[OG Junglist]

............No other Mexican club has produced more nt players than UNAM. Of the preliminary list of 26 players called by La Volpe for the World Cup Claudio Suarez, Francisco Fonseca, Israel Lopez, Gonzalo Pineda, Jaime Lozano, Gerardo Torrado, and Rafael Garcia all were born in Pumas' Cantera. This has always been the case. Just check out the 1990-1991 championship team García Aspe, Campos, España, Luis García, Ramírez Perales, Patiño, Claudio Suárez... all these guys would go on to represent mexico in the 1994/1998 world cups....................

Learn something new everyday!!:)

Pumas did have the greatest player in Mexican history, so I'll give you guys credit for that one:cool:

Hugol!!:cool:

[Disco Dale]

I have just been informed that the nice chap Miguel, that I worked with for the first six months I was in Mexico is ex-Puma, Miguel Angel Rivera, and further that in that 1977/78 picture in the first post he is second from left, front row.

Anyone confirm this?

I did not work that closely with him, but he was a really nice and friendly chap, put up with my bad Spanish (de españa), and was generally welcoming just what you need in the first few months in a new country, then one day just left the company... anyway, I am very pleased to find I knew one member of that squad, there's a few big names there, many still in football....

[cucarachon]

I had a friend at shcool that was negrete's son :D, he was really cool gave autographs and stuff, btw his son sucks at futbol lol :D

[EL BOFO]

does pumas have playes from mex nacional team sub 20 ?

and who are they ?

[Disco Dale]

Just been going through some old photos, and here's a couple of CU

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7360/dscf0705nj4.jpg

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3259/dscf0707mi6.jpg
Players Tunnel

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3134/dscf0708xi3.jpg

[Blue_Demon]

Not sure if this belongs here, or under a separate thread, but here's an interesting piece on Pumas' fans... it's a commentary on an article by Roger Magazine, which actually comes from his book titled Football Fandom and Identity in Mexico: The Case of Pumas Football and Youth Football Club (http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Blue-Like-Heart-Masculinity/dp/0816526931).

Read commentary here (http://gramsciskingdom.blogspot.com/2007/12/football-romantics.html).

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cvY8MSEdL._SS500_.jpg

[vipnerd]

Could someone tell me the exact date of the Temporada 80-81 Final 2nd Leg: Pumas 4 vs Cruz Azul 1 in 1981?

I've tried searching in dozens of sites, yet they all talk about Pumas winning the title and result, but no exact date.

Thanx a lot peeps.

Respect.

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[Nocturnal]

Could someone tell me the exact date of the Temporada 80-81 Final 2nd Leg: Pumas 4 vs Cruz Azul 1 in 1981?

I've tried searching in dozens of sites, yet they all talk about Pumas winning the title and result, but no exact date.

Thanx a lot peeps.

Respect.

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Took me a min. to find it;):D


First leg Estadio Azteca 06-Ago-1981 CRUZ AZUL 1 - 0 PUMAS


Second leg Ciudad Universitaria 09-Ago-1981 PUMAS 4-1 Cruz Azul

[vipnerd]

Took me a min. to find it;):D


First leg Estadio Azteca 06-Ago-1981 CRUZ AZUL 1 - 0 PUMAS


Second leg Ciudad Universitaria 09-Ago-1981 PUMAS 4-1 Cruz Azul

Lol. Thanx a lot m8. Do you have a link please? Or you got it from a book?


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[Nocturnal]

Lol. Thanx a lot m8. Do you have a link please? Or you got it from a book?


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Mediotiempo has a good database.............. (http://www.mediotiempo.com/equipo.php?id_equipo=40)