Club Tijuana

Fundación

2007

Ciudad

Tijuana, Baja California

Estadio

Estadio Caliente

Apodos

Xolos, La Jauría, Perros Aztecas

Títulos de liga

1 (Apertura 2012)

El alma

Xolos is the most border team in all of soccer, sin fronteras, a club whose fans cross from San Diego and back for every home game, sons of migrants and even anglos who got adopted into la Jauria. Named after the xoloitzcuintle, the ancient hairless Mexican dog that guided souls in Aztec myth, a pre hispanic symbol on a jersey worn on both sides of the line. Founded in 2007, champions by 2012 in only their fifth year in the top flight, the Cinderella of the north. Estadio Caliente is loud, tight, and unforgiving. This is the team built for exactly the person El Tio Sabe talks to.

El Tío opina

Now pay attention, because THIS is a team that gets what we are about, nephew. Los Xolos. Tijuana. The most border club in all of soccer, sin fronteras de verdad, not as a slogan. Every home game, San Diego empties out and crosses the line just to sit in Caliente and scream, hijos de migrantes, primos from both sides, y hasta uno que otro gringo que la jauría adoptó sin preguntar. Named after the xoloitzcuintle, el perro sagrado, the ancient dog the Aztecs believed walked your soul to the other side. Órale, qué profundo para una camiseta. And they backed it up: founded in 2007, champion by 2012, the Cinderella that showed up to the baile and left with the crown in only five years. If you grew up bilingual, con un pie de cada lado de la línea, switching languages mid-sentence sin pensarlo, this was always your team. You just needed el Tío to tell you. No filter, no fronteras, nephew.