Club Tijuana

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Club Tijuana

Full name

Club Tijuana Gallos de Caliente

Nickname(s)

Gallos (Roosters)

Founded

2006

Ground

CREA
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Capacity

5,500 (6,000+ with standing room)

Chairman

Francisco García D.

Manager

Víctor Rangel

League

Primera División A

Apertura 2006

Semifinals





Home colours





Away colours

Club Tijuana Gallos de Caliente, also known simply as Gallos Caliente is a professional football team that currently plays in the Primera División A in Mexico. As is the case with several Primera División A clubs, the Tijuana club is affiliated with a major league club - Querétaro FC of the Mexican First Division. Their home ground is CREA field, located a few miles away from downtown Tijuana.^[1]

1 History
2 Ownership
3 Squad
4 External Links/Sources

[edit] History

The newest franchise in a long line of minor league teams that have played in the city of Tijuana, Gallos Caliente was instituted in the summer of 2006, not long after the last franchise, Dorados de Tijuana, was relegated to the Mexican Second Division. Prior to that, several teams paraded through the region - Club Tijuana, Trotamundos Tijuana, Nacional Tijuana^[2] and Chivas Tijuana^[3]. Both Chivas and Nacional played their home games at what is now called Estadio Calimax - also home to Potros de Tijuana, a baseball team in the Mexican League - and were affiliates of Chivas de Guadalajara in the Primera División.

[edit] Ownership

The franchise was leased out by the owners of Querétaro FC to a gaming company called Caliente which operates out of Tijuana and is controlled by the city's mayor, Jorge Hank Rhon. Controversy surrounded the lease, due to the fact that the team would have ties to a company whose major business is that of betting on sports events, including soccer. The case was presented to high authorities in the Mexican Football Federation, where it was ruled that no action would be taken against Gallos Caliente or its parent company.^[4]

[edit] Squad

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Jorge Iván Flores
		GK	Saúl Sánchez
		GK	José Rafael Alamo
		DF	Angel García
		DF	Héctor Blanco
		DF	Norberto Angeles
		DF	Elías García
		DF	Ramiro Briseño
		DF	Alberto Ascencio
		DF	Alfonso Guerrero
		DF	Alberto Rizo
		DF	Jesús Otero
		DF	José Flores
		MF	Bosco Frontán

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Ricardo Sánchez
		MF	Samuel Hernández
		MF	Héctor Valenzuela
		MF	Osvaldo Martinez
		MF	Omar Aguayo
		MF	Luis Mendez
		MF	Cesar Michel
		MF	Omar Salas
		MF	Alfredo Conchas
		MF	Luis Rodriguez
		FW	Juan Guerra
		FW	Jose Tomas Ojeda
		FW	Omar Avilan
		FW	Kristian Palomino