Under the command of the technician Joan Reynoso, Blue Cross improved his best mark of consecutive victories after an agonizing 0-1 win over FC Juárez, the squad went down in club history.
In the face of this, ESPN failures to the historical equipment of the ‘Machine’ throughout its existence, to which the present one with triumph before the border picture is added:
The golden age
One of the unforgettable teams was the one under the command of the then strategist Raúl Cárdenas, who had under his command one of the highest standards in the existence of the club, the goalkeeper Miguel Marín.
The goalkeeper came to La Máquina in 1971 and stayed with the team for a decade, helping the planter to win titles in Mexican football, some precisely within the golden age.
Blue Cross obtained in this stage with Cardinal red a total of five championships that were in seasons 1968-1969, 1970, 1971-1972, 1972-1973 and 1973-1974, reason why is one of the historical equipment, in which also it goes highlight the presence of elements such as Octavio Muciño, Fernando Bustos, Javier Guzmán, among others.
During this time, the team also won CONCACAF Cup, Champion of Champions and Champions League trophies, making it one of the most remembered teams.
The Trella Machine
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The coach Ignacio Trelles was responsible for continuing the harvest of Blue Cross trophies and became a historian within the club precisely for his work.
Trelles took the reins of the equipment in 1976, took to the equipment to the bichampionship in seasons 1978-1979 and 1979-1980 and it became an emblem of the set to which it directed until 1983.
He also won the Almeria tournament in Spain in 1979, the Burgos tournament in 1980 and the President’s Cup in 1981, which helped ensure that the team will be recorded in history.
Elements such as Guillermo Mendizábal, Gerado Lugo, Ignacio Flores, Eladio Vera, Rodolfo Montoya, José Luis Ceballos, Horacio López Salgado, Rafael Toribio, among others, were part of the team that for their performance on the field stay in the memory.
The 1997 champion
Under the command of the strategist Luis Fernando Tena, the equipment of 1997 was placed between most remembered in the existence of the equipment by the quality of its players and for being the last one that gave him a League title at the institution.
Led by striker Carlos Hermosillo, the Celeste team stood out at the time for its performance on the pitch, which also included elements such as Oscar “Conill”, Pérez, Francisco Palencia, Benjamí Galindo and Joan Reynoso, the current helmsman of the team, among others.
The Machine had different successes under the command of Luis Fernando Tena, by virtue of which they won the CONCACAF tournament twice and on a couple of occasions took the crown of the contest called Pachuca Cradle of Mexican Football .
Without a doubt the most remembered success is the championship of the Match Winter 1997, in which Blue Cross defeated in the end to the Emeralds of Leon by global marker of 2-1 to secure the eighth title in its history, by which thing is another historians.
Blue Cross in the Copa Libertadores
After the departure of Luis Fernando Tena in 2000, José Luis Trejo arrived as a relief who helped the team to obtain another title of the Pachuca Cradle of Mexican Soccer, but the best one arrived for the 2001 .
The latter because it was in that year when the Blue Cross played the Copa Libertadores and made history by becoming the first Mexican team to reach the final in this South American event.
The Machine, which had as a reinforcement for this fair José Saturnino Cardozo, was measured in the last instance at Boca Juniors, which in the first leg played at the Azteca Stadium won 1-0, but in the return, played in the Bombonera, Blue Cross took the victory 1-0 with goal of Francisco Palencia. The encounter reached the penalties in which the Argentine team took the victory by 3-1.
Under the command of Trejo, the team from the capital played the Teresa Herrera tournament in Spain in 2002 and again won the competition in Pachuca, so it is also part of the unforgettable sets.