Currently, Tigres is considered a team that has one of the best hobbies in the country; Even the most recent query Mitofsky revealed to cats is the fifth most popular, with the top four being America, Chivas, The Blue Cross and Puma. Being in the top 5 was not easy. The Golden Ones started as a very humble team and in the same way they managed to conquer their first fans: with a handshake.
It was 1957, when the team was called up Boats in Nuevo Leon, but was transferred to the board of directors of UANL due to the economic problems of March 7, 1960, thus giving way to what it is today Tigers.
That’s how the fans won
In that beginning the cats knew it would be difficult to gain their own followers, since in The new Leo already exists Striped as a professional team since 1945; However, the players came up with a great idea, which was revealed by the former president. Jorge Urdiales, who was also a footballer at the time.
“In her teak they went out and left and They greeted the people of the sun and then the people of the shadows, to conquer the less rich people “, said Urdiales.
Taking the time to get closer and even shake hands with those closest to them, it helped them to win mostly fans of a low socio-economic level, so it also led them to get the label “team of people” while Striped He was the rich man in town, because he played in teak from Monterrey and the aurias were from UANL.
The most popular attraction
The story didn’t stop here. Although for many years this was the strategy with which they got many people in their favor, but what led to the increase in the number of followers of the Tiger was seeing players and fans mourn the demotion on March 24, 1996.
From here was born the incomparable feeling, where people approached Volcano to support the team, even within First divisions A, but for this to happen, another strategy had to be applied and which was carried out by the club, on that occasion responsible for Cemex and Femsa, who came in to borrow the institution to return it to the Maximum Circuit in a year.
“There was a 180-degree shift in the approach to the hobby Tigers. If we remember, it was a hostile stadium, with joints, with fans that if we remember that they had no families, fewer children; then Cemex, as the owner of the team, made that strategy change “, he revealed to Mediotiempo Jorge Domene Zambrano, vice president of Tigres from 1996 to 1998.
“We did promotions like “bring your girl”, the child who passes under the arm of a dome (poster) I had Siboldi enter free. Little by little, we changed the perception that people had, that it was a difficult stadium and that, together with the good results, it undoubtedly generated an unconditional fan, because, as we all remember, from Saturday to Saturday, sometimes on Fridays when we played, the stadium was full and with a very cool atmosphere. There it was shown that in good and bad times the fans always remained faithful, always firm; coming back to First divisions he fought, there was a risk of coming down again, “he added.
Tigers automatically grew in one year to become champion in the two short tournaments of First divisions A and the fans grew up with this phenomenon of being incomparable, right there academic earned the nickname “volcano‘, since don Roberto Hernandez Jr. He said that with the crowd shouting for feline gaps, the stadium erupted like a volcano.
Since then, fans have packed the stadium, have not stopped walking, property tickets always ensure full, even the houses of rivals have invaded with thousands of people making massive trips, the only thing that could stop that passion was the covid-19 pandemic, which caused the stadiums to close.