At present, Tigres is considered like a equipment that counts on one of the best likings of country; even the most recent Mitofsky consultation revealed felines are the fifth most popular, being the top four America, Chivas, Blue Cross i Pumas. Being in that top 5 was not easy. The auriazules started as a very humble team and in the same way they managed to beat their first fans: with handshakes.
It was in 1957, when at that time the team was called New Lion Jabatos, But which was ceded to the board of trustees of the UANL due to economic problems on March 7, 1960, thus giving way to what it is today tigers.
That’s how they beat the fans
In this beginning the felines knew it would be tricky to beat their own followers, Since in new Lion already existed scratched as a professional team since 1945; however, the players came up with a great idea, which the former president revealed Jorge Urdiales, Who was also a footballer at the time.
“At the Tec they went out and went and they greeted the people in the sun and then in the shade“To win over less affluent people,” Urdiales explained.
Taking the time to approach and even shake hands with those closest to you, it was helping them win over mostly fans of a not-so-high socioeconomic level, So this too led them to get the ‘village team’ label while scratched he was the richest man in the city, as he also played in the Tec of Monterrey and the auriazules were of the UANL.
The attraction of more fans
The story didn’t stop there. While for many years this was the strategy with which they got a lot of people in their favor, but what caused the number of Tigers fans to skyrocket was seeing players and fans mourn the decline on March 24, 1996.
From here was born the incomparable feeling, where people were approaching the ‘ volcano to support the team, despite being on the First Division ABut for this to happen, another strategy had to be applied and this was in charge of the club, this time in charge of Cemex i Femsa, Those who came to take the institution on loan to return in a year to the Maximum Circuit.
“There was a 180 – degree shift in the focus of the fans tigers. If we remember, it was a hostile stadium, with leeks, with a hobby that if we remember they did not bring families, less children; then Cemex, as the owner of the team, made this strategy to change, “he revealed to Mediotiempo Jorge Domene Zambrano, Vice President of Tigers from 1996 to 1998.
“We did promotions like ‘bring to your xava’, The child who passes under the arm of a domi (poster) that we had of Siboldi enter for free. Gradually we changed this perception that people had, which was a difficult stage and this combined with good results was certainly generating an unconditional love, because as we all remember, Saturday to Saturday, sometimes today we played, s ‘filled the stadium and with an atmosphere padrísimo. Here it was shown that in the good and the bad the fans remained always faithful, always firm; returning to first Division it was fought, there was a risk of going down again, “he added.
tigers ascended to a year of automatic form to the being champion in the two short matches of the World Cup First Division A and the liking grew with this phenomenon of being incomparable, it was even reason the University earned nickname of ‘the Volcano‘, Since the lord Roberto Hernández Jr. he said that with the crowd screaming for feline goals, the stadium erupted like a volcano.
Since then, the fans have packed the stadium, they have not stopped going, the season tickets of the property always ensure the full, houses of rivals have invaded with thousands of people who make massive trips, the only thing that could stop this passion was the covid-19 pandemic, Which caused the closure of stadiums.