Club Santos Laguna - History

History

Club Santos Laguna was founded in 1982 under the auspices of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) of the State of Durango. IMSS Santos Laguna was the first official name of this team, which was founded and hosted in his first season with the Mexican Social Security Institute and that is where its origins.

Since the late seventies, the IMSS organized a national football tournament, with teams representing different parts of the country attended these competitions for five consecutive years, the hometown of Gomez Palacio, a team that won several championships and always left a good impression, this group of players who mostly played on the team, "Asturias" Gomezpalatinian League were represented at the IMSS base for their city.

Jose Diaz Couder, as head of social services in the IMSS Gomez Palacio, was invited to participate in those tournaments without having its own team, drew on the expertise to shape a team, building on the Asturias. Regularly results were good, so on the insistence of Diaz Couder with senior management of the Institute to send a franchise of the second division to La Laguna.

In 1982, Tuberos de Veracruz, forming part of the Second Division "B" of Mexican soccer disappeared, giving the franchise to IMSS, one to his collection, as they had several, the most important and Oaxtepec Atlante. That franchise was offered in the last minute to Gomez Palacio, but with time running out and little infrastructure declined to accept and went to Santa Cruz, Tlaxcala, a small town, where Social Security is the resort located in La Trinidad, with a good stage there arose the first Santos Laguna, a name taken by the town, Santa Cruz, its people thus were Santos Laguna.

With poor results, the team only spent a year in Tlaxcala and by the end of 1983 it was resolved that at the end of the season, the team would migrate to Comarca Lagunera.

Jose Diaz Couder, Sports Coordinator of the IMSS in Gomez Palacio, received the news from Professor Lorenzo García González, Director of Soccer Schools and Social Security of Mr. Juan Antonio Carranza, Assistant Director of Corporate Services of the IMSS, so spread Diaz Couder news and chained to the Comarca Santos Laguna.

Due to a lack of facilities in Gomez Palacios, efforts were made to acquire Moctezuma Stadium in Torreón, then owned by John Abusaid. An agreement was struck and Santos began hosting home games at what later became Estadio Corona (now replaced by Corona II or Territorio Santos Laguna).

As the team was formed, training began under the direction of Juan Manuel Ramirez Meza "Janiel". However, because coach Ramirez Meza did not have license to train professionally in Mexico, the club had to resort to Don Grimaldo Gonzalez. Because Don Grimaldo Gonzales was not naturalized and could not participate as a foreigner in lower divisions of Mexican Football, the coach post had to be replaced yet again, this time by Fernando Zamora, only filling in a few days before the start of the tournament.

The only reinforcement that came with professional experience was Carlos Gonzalez, who had debuted years ago with the Green Wave, old equipment neighboring towns, the rest of the players were those who represented IMSS Gómez Palacio for years. With the aim of spreading the sport and health, the Santos team began recruiting players from the region and enrolled in professional football to establish a new circuit between the second and third divisions that the Mexican Football Federation called "II B" . Short has won 3 championships.