Toluca

Fundación

1917

Ciudad

Toluca, Estado de México

Estadio

Estadio Nemesio Díez (La Bombonera)

Apodos

Los Diablos Rojos, Escarlatas

El alma

Toluca are the Diablos Rojos, the Red Devils, and they play at altitude in a tight little cauldron called La Bombonera where the thin mountain air chews up visitors. The highest city in Mexico, cold and industrial, and a club with one of the great winning traditions in the country plus a recent run of titles that put them right back on top. Red and a devil on the crest, no need to be liked, only feared. Old money, deep history, and a stadium that is genuinely scary to visit.

El Tío opina

Órale, los Diablos Rojos, nephew. Toluca. They play up in the thin mountain air, la ciudad más alta de México, in a tight little cauldron they call la Bombonera where visiting teams show up, gasp for oxygen, and go home beaten before halftime. Red on the chest and a devil on the crest, y no les interesa caerte bien, primo, only that you fear them coming to town. This is old money, deep tradition, one of the great winning cultures in the whole país, and lately they have been lifting trophies again like it is nineteen sixty-something. Un diablo en la altura es lo último que quieres enfrentar, nephew. Encomiéndate, porque en la Bombonera no hay milagros para el visitante.