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Football match

1954 Copa México final

Event

1953–54 Copa México

América	Guadalajara

1	1

After extra time
América won 3–2 on penalties

Date

12 May 1954

Venue

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico City

Referee

Geoffrey Sunderland

Attendance

30,000

← 1953 1955 →

The 1954 Copa México final was the final match of the 1953–54 Copa México. It was played at Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 12 1954. América beat Guadalajara 3–2 on penalties after the match finished 1–1 after extra time.

This was the first cup title for América in the professional era of Mexican football. The match is considered as a very important moment in the history of the América-Guadalajara rivalry, since it was the first cup final contested by both sides.

Route to the final

Background

The 1953–54 Copa México was played in two stages: the group stage with three groups of four teams each, each group winner would qualify to the final stage, where the three group winners would play one match against each other to define the champion.

Atlante, América and Guadalajara won their groups and advanced to the final stage, played at the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes in Mexico City. América and Guadalajara defeated Atlante in their respective matches. The game between América and Guadalajara was a tie, therefore, both teams ended with three points each (one win and one draw), and since the two squads had the same goal difference, it was decided that a playoff match would take place to define the champion.

Match

Summary

The game ended in a tie after 90 minutes of regular time with no goals for any side. The most relevant incident was a brawl between América's goalkeeper Manuel Camacho and Guadalajara's midfielder Javier de la Torre that resulted in Camacho being sent off. Since rules did not observe substitutions at the time, America's striker Eduardo González Palmer replaced Camacho.

At the end of regulation, two periods of overtime, each one of 15 minutes, where played. Just two minutes in overtime, Guadalajara's Arellano scored the first goal for his team. With 10 minutes remaining, José Santiago tied the game for América after scoring a penalty provoked by defender Pedro Nuño, who touched the ball with his hands inside the penalty area.

With the game tied again, two more periods of overtime, each one of 10 minutes, were played. No squad was able to score and with the score still tied, a series of penalties was kicked.

Each team had to choose only one player to kick three penalties. América picked Argentine striker Emilio Fizel and Juan Jasso was the striker for Guadalajara. Fizel scored all the three penalties. Jasso scored his first and third shots, but missed the second penalty, that was stopped by the game's hero, Eduardo González Palmer.

Details

12 May 1954

América	1–1	Guadalajara
Santiago 110' (pen.)		Arellano 92'
Penalties
Fizel Fizel Fizel	3–2	Jasso Jasso Jasso

Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Mexico CityAttendance: 30,000Referee: Geoffrey Sunderland

América

Guadalajara



GK	1	Manuel Camacho
RB	2	Norberto Yácono
LB	3	Esqueda
HB	4	Manuel Gutiérrez
CB	5	Héctor Ferrari
HB	6	Pedro Nájera
OF	7	Pepín González
IF	8	José Santiago
CF	9	Eduardo González Palmer
IF	10	Emilio Fizel
OF	11	José Luis Buendía
Manager:
Octavio Vial



GK	1	Jaime Gómez
RB	2	Pedro Nuño
CB	3	Guillermo Sepúlveda
LB	4	José Villegas
CH	5	Juan Jasso
LH	6	Rafael Rivera
OR	7	Javier de la Torre
IR	8	Salvador Reyes
CF	9	Adalberto López
IL	10	Tomás Balcázar
OL	11	Raúl Arellano
Manager:
José María Casullo

References

^ "América Campeón de Copa 1953-1954" (in Spanish). Club América. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ "América campeón Copa México 53-54" (in Spanish). Club América. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ Guerrero, Mario (13 March 2019). "La final de Copa que le ganó América a Chivas en penales". AS.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ "Por penales, América es campeón de la Copa México". El Informador (in Spanish). 13 May 1954. Retrieved 10 September 2019.

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