Among the soccer players from the Carrillo neighborhood who moved from amateur soccer to the professional scene was Mario “El Mudo” Juárez, who joined Atlético Morelia for the 1982-83 season.
In this sports column “Yesterday and Today” we remember the footballers who played this captivating sport in their youth with various teams from the popular “Barrio de Carrillo”, participating in championships organized by different league leaders in our city from Morelia.
We begin by recalling the famous “Super Farmacia” team of 1958, sponsored by Mr. Daniel Rodríguez, which competed in the legendary Municipal Amateur Football Liga of Morelia, playing matches on fields behind the Municipal Cemetery, now replaced by the Ciudad Universitaria. The team was coached by Alfredo González, a player who left a significant mark on the sport. Among the team members were Juan Vieyra Zepeda, Ramón Calzada, Luis Vargas, Ángel Reyes, José Luis García, Baldemiro Vargas Pérez, and many others.
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The Austria team was founded in 1957 by Don Rogelio González Venegas, participating in the Liga Municipal Amateur de Morelia. Later, in the sixties, Dr. Abdiel López Rivera, Víctor Manuel Rivas Linares and Daniel Rodríguez became interested in the Austria team and renamed it Guadalajara, thus becoming another traditional team in the Municipal League of Morelia.
In the Tepeyac League, Father Guillermo Ibarrola started Lupe Flores, who played with the Sútic team in the children’s category under the direction of Pablito Gaona. He then defended the colors of the Libertad team, led by Mr. José García, and the Toluca team. In the Morelia Municipal League, he was a member of Sutic, and the Luz y Fuerza team coached by Mario Cadena, among other teams. During his professional career, he distinguished himself as a striker with first division teams Morelia, Cruz Azul and León. The pinnacle of his footballing career was being selected by CONCACAF to play in the Mini-Cup in Brazil.
Another footballer from the “Barrio de Carrillo” who made the transition from amateur to professional football is Mario “El Mudo” Juárez, who joined Atlético Morelia in the 1982-83 season, coached by Edelmiro “Picao” Arnauda, José Luis Aceves, Antonio “La Tota” Carbajal and Lupillo Díaz.
Other teams from the “Barrio de Carrillo” included Dynamo managed by Raúl Martínez Rodríguez “El Roul”, Mr. Francisco Castillo’s Deportivo Carrillo team, where Mario “El Mudo” Juárez played as a striker in the fourth division, scoring four to five goals per game, the Grabadora Michoacana team founded in 1957 by Mr. Alfredo González with players like Blademiro Vargas, Juan Vieyra Zepeda, Adolfo “El Cura” Navarro, Miguel “El Chato” Ochoa, Antonio Izquierdo Jacobo, and Esteban “El Chanchula”, among others. The Ferretera Luna team, founded in 1958, counted among its players José Luna Marrón, brothers Gregorio and José Ayala, Francisco Pérez, Jesús Tapia, Isidro Chávez, Miguel Pérez, and more.
The Ciudad Madero team, sponsored by Manuel Hernández Manolete, was another popular team from the “Barrio de Carrillo”. In the seventies, Canon José Zavala Paz organized every year the traditional football championship “Salvador del Mundo”, which was held in the colonia Juárez of the “Barrio de Carrillo”, where teams from the streets of Artéaga, Andrés Quintana Roo, La Piedad, Zamora, among others.
