Liga-TQ

by **Tequilo** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:22 am

TAPALUPÉ, TEQUILO - Welcome to the shiny new sports wire for Tequilo's all new proto-commercialised national league, Liga-TQ, brought to you by the Unión de Pitxi Tequilo - the UPT, or the football association to the rest of us.

A word from the president of the UPT, the most revered Señor Lepe (about whom you may read further down in this newswire):

The UPT welcomes one and all to the publication of this, the Tequiloan national sports wire for the national sport, pitxi - or 'football', as you might know it, and even 'Soccer' if you live over the horizon of our northern borders. Whilst we hope you enjoy the information provided herein, will you kindly note the following;

Please do not post in this thread unless by invitation - it is a domestic newswire for Tequilo only.

Thank you.

For more information please email spamdelete@liga.teq^{[OOC:or TG Tequilo]} Collaborative works always negotiable, but you are also welcome to come up with your own ideas for your sports thread and positively invited not to copypaste from here, that would be lazy and rude.

by **Tequilo** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:29 am

by **Tequilo** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:34 am

The modernisation - and internationalisation - of football in Tequilo has been led by football legend (in Tequilo) Señor Lepe, the great Oriente striker of yore, and the first president of the Unión de Pitxi Tequilo. He was the driving force behind the foundation of Liga-TQ and perhaps the only person who could reconcile clubs, fans and commercial interests to form a national league over and above the traditional state leagues. Lepe recruited another football legend to the role of Commissioner, the chief executive officer of the new league, in famously eccentric former striker at Fábrica, Pablo Invocador, who held the post for three seasons before an election failed to re-appoint him for another term...

Here we present short bios of the two key gentlemen, copied with kind permission from GOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL-a!!! Daily, your first and best resource for football updates, daily.

The President
Carolina Ruiz

Carolina Ruiz, season 127 (TQ-5) onward

At Big Ten club Fábrica, the board of directors always seem to be too busy when the annual Liga-TQ General Meeting comes around, off on their jet-skis and speed boats in a fancy tax-free resort like Ipanema or Taxhavn or the principality of Mustardy. So they send poor put-on commercial shop manager Carolina Ruiz to the meetings, to listen to all that the powerful chairmen and women have got to say, take some notes, deliver any messages and to report back on how it all goes in the fancy meeting rooms of the Museo de Pitxi, the Tequiloan FA's HQ, in Tapalupé. Some seasons ago she got a bit ahead of herself and threw an idea into the pot that led to the adoption of the 'Cosmopolitos Amendment' - permitting unlimited foreign players to feature in Liga-TQ, largely for the benefit of widening television audiences, increasing shirt sales, encouraging pitxi tourism... generally leveraging as many chèlinpesos from the game as possible. Well done Señora Ruiz - it certainly worked.

Repeating her habit of uninvited interventions at the next AGM, she suddenly came up with a plan to help all the big clubs ensure they had a better chance of qualifying from the state championship to the money pot of Liga-TQ via the now widely known but barely understood ‘Carolina Plan’. This restructure of the league means all the big teams can barely fail to qualify for the money pot at the end of the rainbow. Bravo again!

To make the most of her strategic vision, and to stop her making all the chairpersons look stupid at the next year’s meeting, the Unión put her in charge of the disastrous City of Football project, to build new facilities for the national team - which had fallen eight years behind schedule. Of course, she got it back on track - and completed it inside one calendar year with help from a friend of a friend at the Fluid Time factory in Bonesea. She’s a very underrated shopkeeper, that Señora Ruiz. There seemed nothing else to do but put her in charge of the whole darned thing, and the men in grey suits behind the scenes unanimously and without consultation appointed her President of the Unión.

The Commissioner
Martín Escorinato

Martín Escorinato, season TQ-4 onwards

Pablo Invocador seemed to have the election for the Commissioner's second term of office in the bag, even though media-darling and mad Moto chairman Gedeó Dosrius decided to run against him. An electoral advisor from Kelssek, one Mr. Wilson, called for a third candidate with absolutely no hope of being successful to also go on the ballot, to lend some additional air of credence to the winner (who everyone knew was going to be Señor Invocador) and preventing the runner-up (who everyone knew was going to be Señor Dosrius) from being able to delegitimise the vote in any way.

No-one in the room of powerful and rich club owners wanted to volunteer to be the lame duck in a crapshoot, and when they looked around the room, there weren’t many of those types about. Just Carolina Ruiz, who was busy with other things, and that fellow over there, from the Unión, in the grey suit with the grey tie, and the double-entry ledger on the table in front of him, who would soon do a statistical presentation for them on the cash flow forecast for the next three years which, if they didn’t turn the aircon down to just above freezing, would send them all to sleep.

Martín Escorinato.

As it happened, the election was surprisingly tight between Señors Invocador and Dosrius. Mr. Wilson’s ‘narrow margin Droop quotient separator’ mechanism for splitting indivisible ties was applied. It seemed, though he had neglected to mention it in plain Tequiloan, that in the case where there was very strong support for one or other candidate with great resistance for the other, it was likely the middle-of-the-road, not-competing-for-air lame-duck-in-a-crapshoot third candidate would appeal to both sides as the alternative so as to exclude the strong unwanted second candidate. Señor Martín Escorinato won the election in the Droop-off to become the second commissioner of Liga-TQ. And after all, he did know how to make the league work. He had spent a lot of late nights and early mornings generating the data that kept the system running. He knew how to use the XK OpTeq simulator.

by **Tequilo** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:36 am

Formed as part of Tequilo's modernisation process, the all-new national Liga-TQ, for the first time in over 120 years of football in Tequilo, provides a step beyond the individual state championships in an effort to determine a national champion for the country, and to easily nominate, on merit, entrants to the IFCF Champions League, Challenger's Cup, Liga-B Champions Trophy, Cup Winners Cup and the FFI tournaments.

Liga-TQ follows the traditional state championships: six states, each with around fifty teams competing in three tiers. The championships of Antivador, Chazapa, Guastenango, Maranco, Ocotapa and Puezan have been running for more than 120 years, having their own rivalries, and declaring their own champions. Although the equally ancient and massive Copa Tequilo has been running a national competition with a national winner for all that time, there has never before been an official Tequiloan national champion achived through a league system. Each state championship runs a promotion and relegation system with playoffs through the tiers, which are referred to as 1-Sección, 2-Sección and 3-Sección respectively; the top 1-Sección being a professional tier, down to the 3-Sección being largely semi-pro. Below that are local amateur tiers, collectively 4-Sección, and there is no usual promotion/relegation between 3- and 4-Seccións.

Liga-TQ will offer an opportunity for the best teams from each state to come together to compete in a short form league to decide a national champion. Liga-TQ2 offers a similar opportunity for 2-Sección winners, while Liga-J offers an elite academy league covering the whole country, initially of one tier which will gradually be extended to two and three divisions, offering places for up to 42 academies in total once fully operational.

A quick note on the inauguration of Liga-TQ. Naturally, nothing is simple in Tequilo. A modern unified nation comprising six former sovereign states and three indigene kingdoms, each with a proud history and unique identity, much of life remains connected to the culture and infrastructure of those individual states - and the same is true of pitxi - the Tequiloan word for football. After 120+ years of state championships, in which each state declared it's own winner, the clubs, fans and authorities were far too invested in state football to dismantle it. A unification league had never been tried before, and in order to preserve both the integrity and the status of the six championships, Liga-TQ sits as an extension to, rather than a replacement for, the state championships. Thus, at the end of the State Championships, teams qualify on merit for the 'closura' - the Liga-TQ.

Liga-TQ itself divides into three top flight sections, each one made up of six teams - the Primera for the six state champions; the Proxima for the six state runners-up, and the Pequena for the six third-placed teams of the state championships. Each division of six plays a double round robin totalling ten games within their group, to decide a final table of 18 in three sections. The winner of the Primera will thus be declared the national champion, while second, third and fourth in this division will be awarded births in the IFCF Challenger's Cup.

In order to confirm places for the Liga-B Champions Trophy, the winners of each state second tier - the 2-Sección - will also compete in an end of season competition, the Liga-TQ2 Eliminatorio, to decide the second tier national winner and the three births for the Trophy.

Got it? Then let's get on with it.

by **Tequilo** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:17 am

LIGA-TQ CLUB HONOURS

División Primera
Liga-TQ national championship.

Primera	Winner			Runner-Up		Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Florentino		SC Pedregal
TQ-3	SC Pedregal		Florentino		Motozintla
TQ-2	Florentino		Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Motozintla
TQ-1	Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Peru Urzagui		Real Gardaresso

División Proxima
Liga-TQ second tier competition.

Proxima	Winner			Runner-Up		Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Atlás Ciuredor		Argón Tacranza		Pelotón
TQ-3	Resplendiente		CF Frantxizko-A		Real Gardaresso
TQ-2	SC Pedregal		Pingüinos		Pelotón
TQ-1	Continente Tulan	Galaxía			Racquette-22

División Pequeña
Liga-TQ third tier competition.

Pequeña	Winner			Runner-Up		Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Fábrica Tapalupé	Atlético Lipa		Independiencia
TQ-3	Haïtiens		Acacoyagua		Atlás Ciuredor
TQ-2	Resplendiente		Real Gardaresso		Índigo Huayna
TQ-1	CF Frantxizko-A		Resplendiente		Atlás Ciuredor

Liga-IS Interstate Championship
From season TQ4, the official closura for teams failing to qualify for Liga-TQ.

Season	Winner			Runner-Up		Third			2-División Winner	3-División Winner		
TQ-5
TQ-4	Juventoyan		Estudiantes Tacranza	Equipo Caimán		Páramos			Cuba Tapalupé

Liga-TQ Eliminatoria
The official 2-Sección closura ran only for the first three seasons of Liga-TQ.

Eliminatorio			Runner-Up		Third
TQ-3	Clazada Larga		SC Raití		Estudiantes Tacranza
TQ-2	Atlético Lipa		Gimnástico Chichi.	Cisne Senzapa 
TQ-1	Telmo-Léao		Asociación Olaya	Ocozoxhuatla

by **Tequilo** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:17 am

LIGA-TQ HALL OF FAME

The Humberto Bustamonte Medal
Awarded to the best player of the Liga-TQ season.

Player of the Season			Club			Runner-Up			Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Tlcaolotl (ST)			Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Ebardo Feliu (DL)		Mâártën Âllámbâlár (ST)(FFD)
TQ-3	Kai Sidiki (GK)			SC Pedregal		Kayara (ST)			Jeremías Carballal (AMC)
TQ-2	Tlacolotl (ST)			Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Antton Machinena (DC)		Cygnet Valeri (DR)(ASU)		
TQ-1	Chicchan (DR)			Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Hogbe Mbida (AMC)		Raimi Dokunanga (ST)

The Ooóoos Skueri Cosmo Award
Awarded to the best foreign player of the Liga-TQ season.

Cosmo of the Season			Club			Runner-Up			Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Mâártën Âllámbâlár (ST)(FFD)	Florentino		Rüí Lütáò (AMC)(FFD)		Vâásk Çêwé (ST)(FFD)
TQ-3	Venâncio Paiva (ST)(AUD)	Florentino		Tesco Zuniga (ST)(AUD)		Frank Kolar (DC)(STL)
TQ-2	Cygnet Valeri (DR)(ASU)		Resplendiente		Goran Olazabar (DL)(ASG)	Venâncio Paiva (ST)(AUD)
TQ-1	Not awarded

The Pablo Invocador Golden Boot
Awarded to the top scorer of the Liga-TQ Primera division.

Golden Boot Winner			Club			Runner-Up			Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Mâártën Âllámbâlár (29)		Florentino		K'antu (27)			Kjetil Rongstad (27)
TQ-3	Gavriel de Astudillo (29)	Atlás Ciuredor		Mateo Homs (27)			Roxelio Toran (26)
TQ-2	Tlacolotl (24)			Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Roxelio Toran (22)		Mendo Davila (22)
TQ-1	Pano Coyote (27)		Equipo Caimán		Roxelio Toran (23)		Tlacolotl (22)

The Alano Caballero Golden Glove
Awarded to the top goalkeeper of the Liga-TQ Primera division.

Golden Glove Winner			Club			Runner-Up			Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Orm Hinisser (20)		Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Matias Caldas (20)		Tepin Mecatl-Rubió (17)
TQ-3	Kai Sidiki (27)			SC Pedregal		Tati Arguinariz (27)		Oscar Bienvenida (25)
TQ-2	Orm Hinisser (29)		Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Marko Zuazo (23)		Cosme Peres (23)
TQ-1	Donisio (24)			Benemérito		Kai Sidiki (21)			Marko Zuazo (21)

The Esâ Neá Memorial Badge
Awarded to the top young player of the Liga-TQ season.

Young Player of the Season		Club			Runner-Up			Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Manuel Cañero (ST)		Real Gardaresso		Puma Caldeira (ST)		Vâásk Çêwé (ST)(FFD)
TQ-3	Jonatan Torrubiano (ST)		Xicoa			Actzin Tehuaco (AMC)		Axó (DMC)
TQ-2	Alex Gallo (ST)			Florentino		Frodo March (ST)		Niño Pinto (AMC)	
TQ-1	Tlacolotl (ST)			Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Ixtub Tün (DMC)			Niño Pinto (AMC)

Pythagoras' Golden Compass
Awarded to the top coach of the Liga-TQ season.

Coach of the Season			Club			Runner-Up			Third
TQ-5
TQ-4	Eskaminzin			Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Roibén Ravelo			Rodolpho Bola
TQ-3	Ramiro Paredo			SC Pedregal		Francisco Javier Sandoval	Tim Knute-Grahn
TQ-2	Huey Wight			Florentino		Eskaminzim			Mosey Ackanard
TQ-1	Eskaminzim			Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Balentin Astondoa		Ferrando Clemente

by **Tequilo** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:18 am

El Gran Gallo, The Grand Old Father [Lit: Cockerel; Collq: progenitor, father] of Tequiloan football and national knockout cup competition, the Copa Tequilo is one of the oldest competitions in the Costelloan diaspora, and possibly The Wide Enness Ocean: having surpassed 120 years of organised pitxi, the Copa is at least very old, by Yuman standards. In fact, the football clock of Tequilo ticks by the standard of the Copa - 'temporada-1' (season one) in the history of all Tequiloan football was the first Copa tournament enumerated in the history books, won by Polibio. Any games before this took place in 'La Prehistoria' according to the Tequiloa. The first season of the modern era, beginning with the inauguration of Liga-TQ, is in fact season 123 in Copa-time.

Not only is the Grand Old Father truly ancient, it is extremely difficult to win - with over 600 teams taking part over a two-season cycle, no one team has been truly dominant. The mighty CF Frantxizko-A, commonly CFFA or Los Oros, The Golds, have won the most titles - a meagre six in almost a century and a quarter of competition.

A two season cycle, you say?

It is true to say that though there is a final every year, the Copa is fairly unique in that it offers every single team registered with the UPT a chance to participate in the competition, no matter how small or large. In any given year, this is usually a compliment of 600-700 teams; far too many for a single-season tournament. Thus, a preliminary competition, La Copa Del Pueblo or commonly Copa Pueblo - The People's Cup - runs every season, providing a stepping stone to the Copa Tequilo the following season. Running strictly for the 4-Sección amateur tiers, the Copa Peublo does proceed all the way to a final and provides for an overall winner, but perhaps more importantly, the final sixteen teams of the Copa Peublo automatically qualify for the following season's Copa Tequilo. Beginning with an extra preliminary round to reduce the field from 16 to 10 from the Copa Peublo, the Copa Tequilo includes the lowest ranked 3-Sección semi-pro teams joining in the preliminary round; the majority of 3-Sección starting the first round proper; 2-Sección joining in the second round; and the top flight 1-Sección teams joining in the fourth round.

There are a further five rounds leading to the final, known as El Gallo Dorado, The Golden Cock, which is so enthusiastically anticipated and so widely followed in Tequilo that it falls on a national holiday all of its own. So difficult is it to win through then, that in the long history of the game, only three teams have successfully defended their title - SC Pedregal by winning in seasons 15 and 16; Acacoyagua in 106 and 107; and Resplendiente in seasons 118 and 119. Acacoyagua in fact came close to making it three in a row, reaching the 108 final before losing to Atlético Lipa. They remain the only team to reach three consectutive finals. Twelve teams have won a Copa and State Championship double in the same season, most recently Resplendiente in season 118; no team has achieved that honour more than once.

A future record to be made will be the first treble - never available until now - of State Championship, Liga-TQ and Copa Tequilo. Can it ever be done? As usual, Motozintla have announced they aim to do precisely that; and as usual, they probably won't.

The record final victory was Tequiloa's famous 13-0 victory over Estudiantes in season 91, whilst only Inter Raití have also hit double figures in a final, beating Erreal Tiresias 11-0 in the 64th de Oro. Uniquely, the second Copa Tequilo was awarded to Unuiĝinta without a final being played. In a political row of the time between different states, in the earliest days of the competition, Académico of Chazapa state and Raquette-22 of Antivador, bowing to the pressure of bigger clubs throughout the nation, refused to play their semi-final match, and when forced to, played out a ridiculous 0-0 draw with no shots on goal, no corners, and no goals scored in 44 penalty kicks in the shoot-out before the enraged referee called time on the game. With Unuiĝinta having won through the other semi against holders Polibio, the UPT decided to avoid any further fuss and awarded the title to The Reds. Famously then, the competition has one more winner than it does finals, and Unuiĝinta have one more title than they do final appearances.

Both Académico and Raquette-22 were banned from the competition for ten years, reduced to seven on appeal. Incredibly, on their return, Raquette went on to win the Copa in what was to be their only appearance in the final.

Modern Era Winners

The inauguration of Liga-TQ in season 123 is officially considered the beginning of the modern era, although 'modern' records usually reflect back to season 120, just to be tidy.


Season	Winner (wins)			Score	Runner-Up				

126	Motozintla (3)			1-0	Real Gardaresso
125	Florentino (4)			2-0	SC Pedregal
124	Jaguar Ixtacomitán (5)		1-0	Acacoyagua
123	El Quetan CF (4)		2-1	SC Raití
122	SC Bravo Cuahjuluca (1)		2-0	SC Bozoa
121	Fortuna Tulan (1)		5-0	Irregulares Quetodino
120	Alianza Tirinto (1)		3-0	Argón Tacranza

Records

Most Wins:	CF Frantxizko-A		6	Most Finals: 	CF Frantxizko-A		8 (6 wins)
								Jaguar Ixtacomitán	8 (5)
		Jaguar Ixtacomitán	5			
								Tequiloa		7 (4)
		Florentino		4			Acacoyagua		7 (3)
		El Quetan CF 		4			Cóndor Sezalco		7 (3)						
		Fábrica Tapalupé	4
		Unuiĝinta		4			Fábrica Tapalupé	6 (4)			
		Tequiloa		4			SC Pedregal 		6 (3)
								Florentino		6 (3)
		Motozintla		3			Fortuna Tulan		6 (1)
		Resplendiente		3
		Acacoyagua		3			Benemérito		5 (3)			
		Las Guías Oriente	3			Naranja			5 (2)
		Cóndor Sezalco		3			Sporta Ibaeta		5 (0)*			
		Urbo Ibaeta		3
		Benemérito		3			El Quetan CF 		4 (4)			
		SC Pedregal 		3			Unuiĝinta		3 (4)§
													
								* Worst finals record
								§ One win awarded without final


Season	Year	Winner			Wins	Score	Runner-Up		FT		
1	498	Polibio			1	5-2	Correcaminos	
2	499	Unuiĝinta §		1	AWARDED		
3	500	Naranja			1	4-1	Tequiloa	
4	501	Macarada Gaona		1	4-0	Las Guías Oriente	
5	502	AS Ferrocarril		1	3-0	Jaguar Itxacomitán	
6	503	CF Frantxizko-A §	1	5-2	Acacoyagua	
7	504	AC Sezalco		1	5-3	Fortuna Tulan	
8	505	Ciupa Azul §		1	8-1	Fortuna Tulan	
9	506	Fábrica Tapalupé	1	3-1	FT Orazun	
10	507	Racquette-22		1	4-1	SC Raití	
11	508	Jaguar Itxacomitán	1	4-3	Blanco Horizonte	
12	509	Urbo Ibaeta		1	2-1	Benemérito	
13	510	Tequiloa		1	1-0	Demokrito	
14	511	Universitario		1	1-0	Argentinako	
15	512	SC Pedregal		1	1-0	SC Marcapira	
16	513	SC Pedregal		2	2-1	Cóndor Sezalco	
17	514	Fábrica Tapalupé §	2	3-1	Sporta Oroboros	
18	515	Polo Sur		1	2-0	Galaxía	
19	516	AS Ferrocarril		2	6-2	Alianza Tirinto	
20	517	Los Miñeros		1	6-0	Acacoyagua	
21	518	Olimpika		1	5-3	Chapulineros	
22	519	Florentino		1	1-0	Esqueletos	
23	520	Sarrazenos		1	5-2	Cooperativa	
24	521	Cóndor Sezalco		1	4-0	Chazapañol	
25	522	Unuiĝinta		2	2-0	Cóndor Sezalco	
26	523	Xicoa			1	7-0	Independiencia	
27	524	Atlás Ciuredor §	1	3-2	Rebelión Hernandados	
28	525	Peru Urzagui		1	1-0	Sporta Ibaeta	
29	526	Motozintla		1	0-0	Cooperativa		3-1
30	527	Argón Tacranza*		1	0-0	Polibio	2-2
31	528	Florentino		2	2-0	La Milega AC	
32	529	CF Frantxizko-A		2	5-1	Internacional CF	
33	530	Chapulineros		1	3-1	Urbo Ibaeta	
34	531	Chazapañol		1	1-1	La Milega AC		1-1
35	532	Peru Urzagui		2	1-1	SC Pedregal		5-2
36	533	Florentino*		3	2-2	Aserrío de Garriché	3-3
37	534	Correcaminos		1	5-2	AS Matiguás	
38	535	Ciupa Azul		2	2-0	Benemérito	
39	536	Socrates*		1	0-0	Aserrío de Garriché	1-1
40	537	Rebelión Hernandados	1	2-1	Urbo Ibaeta	
41	538	Zamalakarregi		1	4-2	Flechas Azules	
42	539	Tequiloa §		2	4-2	SC Tescoa	
43	540	El Quetan CF*		1	0-0	Fortuna Tulan		1-1
44	541	Benemérito		1	4-0	Jaguar Itxacomitán	
45	542	Chiapula de Corzo AC	1	1-0	KKA Bixintxo	
46	543	Jaguar Itxacomitán	2	2-1	AS Ferrocarril	
47	544	Unuiĝinta		3	2-0	CF Frantxizko-A	
48	545	Pelóta San Anreso	1	2-2	Sporta Ibaeta		4-3
49	546	Independiencia		1	3-1	SC Tescoa	
50	547	Pelotón			1	2-2	Equipo Caimán		3-2
51	548	Deportivo Torente*	1	4-4	Sporta Ibaeta		6-6
52	549	Acacoyagua		1	4-1	Motozintla	
53	550	Equipo Muna		1	4-0	AS Matiguás	
54	551	SC Tescoa		1	4-3	Inter Raití	
55	552	Resplendiente		1	6-1	Los Miñeros	
56	553	Las Guías Oriente	1	5-3	Argón Tacranza	
57	554	Urbo Ibaeta		2	4-1	Demokrito	
58	555	Tequiloa		3	5-4	Atlético Lipa	
59	556	SC Azcarreta		1	0-0	Fortuna Tulan		4-1
60	557	Benemérito		2	4-0	Blanco Horizonte	
61	558	AS Tonalá		1	0-0	Reconquista		1-0
62	559	Las Guías Oriente	2	4-2	SC Azcarreta	
63	560	Flechas Azules		1	1-0	Florentino	
64	561	Inter Raití		1	11-0	Erreal Tiresias	
65	562	Xicoa			2	8-1	Resplendiente	
66	563	Real Gardaresso		1	0-0	Atlético Lipa		2-0
67	564	SC Marcapira		1	5-1	KKA Bixintxo	
68	565	Comitán Argente		1	3-1	Equipo Caimán	
69	566	Caballero AC*		1	0-0	Olimpika		1-1
70	567	FT Orazun		1	1-1	Cóndor Sezalco		2-1
71	568	Los Miñeros		2	3-1	Naranja	
72	569	Cimarrones Desatas	1	2-1	Real Gardaresso	
73	570	El Quetan CF		2	2-1	Demokrito	
74	571	Continente Tulan	1	4-1	Pitxi-Pitxi 77	
75	572	Atlás Ciuredor		2	3-1	Serpentina	
76	573	Cóndor Sezalco §	2	2-0	SC Marcapira	
77	574	Motozintla		2	0-0	Tequiloa		3-1
78	575	Juventoyan		1	4-2	Erreal Tiresias	
79	576	Convivencia		1	2-0	Racing Guadatral	
80	577	Sarrazenos		2	3-1	Flechas Azules	
81	578	Jaguar Itxacomitán §	3	2-0	KKA Bixintxo	
82	579	El Quetan CF §		3	2-1	Erreal Tiresias	
83	580	Chapulineros		2	5-2	Cóndor Sezalco	
84	581	SC Bozoa		1	1-0	Sporta Ibaeta	
85	582	Chiapula de Corzo AC	2	3-2	Atlético Lipa	
86	583	SC Raití		1	4-1	AS Matiguás	
87	584	Benemérito		3	6-2	Peru Urzagui	
88	585	CF Frantxizko-A		3	5-2	Florentino	
89	586	Jaguar Itxacomitán	4	1-0	Equipo Caimán	
90	587	Académico		1	4-2	Naranja	
91	588	Tequiloa		4	13-0	Estudiantes	
92	589	Unuiĝinta		3	2-0	Pitxi-Pitxi 77	
93	590	Daring Monvador		1	2-0	Equipo Caimán	
94	591	SC Pedregal §		3	3-1	Florentino	
95	592	Unuiĝinta		4	2-1	Polo Sur	
96	593	Fábrica Tapalupé	3	1-0	Ciupa Azul	
97	594	Naranja			2	5-4	SC Raití	
98	595	Urbo Ibaeta*		3	1-1	Jaguar Itxacomitán	0-0
99	596	Universitario*		2	2-2	Fábrica Tapalupé	4-4
100	597	Fábrica Tapalupé	4	8-0	Fortuna Tulan	
101	598	Las Guías Oriente	3	5-2	CF Frantxizko-A	
102	599	Gimnástico Chichiguina	1	2-0	Fábrica Tapalupé	
103	600	AS Tonalá		2	3-1	Inter Raití	
104	601	AS Matiguás		1	3-1	Sporta Ibaeta	
105	602	Cóndor Sezalco		3	4-3	Tequiloa	
106	603	Acacoyagua		2	4-1	Alianza Tirinto	
107	604	Acacoyagua		3	3-1	Gallandaires	
108	605	Atlético Lipa		1	2-1	Acacoyagua	
109	606	CF Frantxizko-A		4	5-2	Aliantza Iparra	
110	607	Galaxía			1	6-0	Pelotón	
111	608	Pitxi-Pitxi 77 §	1	4-4	Polo Sur	
112	609	Flechas Azules*		2	0-0	Gimnástico Calcazon	2-2
113	610	Pelotón			2	5-1	SC Pedregal	
114	611	Juventoyan		2	3-1	Páramos	
115	612	CF Frantxizko-A		5	3-2	Deportivo Torente	
116	613	Pitxi-Pitxi 77		2	5-4	Aliantza Iparra	
117	614	CF Frantxizko-A		6	1-0	Cisne Senzapa	
118	615	Resplendiente §		2	3-1	Naranja	
119	616	Resplendiente		3	4-2	AS Tonalá	
120	617	Alianza Tirinto		1	3-0	Argón Tacranza	
121	618	Fortuna Tulan		1	5-0	Irregulares Quetodino	
122	619	SC Bravo Cuahjuluca	1	2-0	SC Bozoa	
						
		* won on penalties				
		§ state & cup double

by **Tequilo** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:22 am

Not content with a new national league and a pathway to the international club competitions of the IFCF, as well as a new national team competing in the World Cup for the first time, the UPT also organised the first edition of a national youth league, Liga-J, in season 123 of Tequiloan pitxi - that is to say, at the start of the modern era in Liga-TQ's inaugural season. In the initial set-up, the academies of the 10-Nacional ('Big Ten') clubs were invited to compete, along with three state champions from season 122 who sat outside the Big Ten - Serpentina, Xicoa and Unuiĝinta. With an unbalanced 13 teams, one more team was invited to complete the first Liga-J division, based on the size and reputation of academies, and the place was awarded to Motozintla. Thus in the first season, a fourteen-team Under-20 Academies national league saw a 26-game schedule to decide the youth champion. In the expansion for the following season, season 124, the four bottom teams of the first year's Liga-J were relegated to the second tier, where they were joined by a further ten teams, with a final tier and an additional six teams being added in season 125. Provision was also made for a potential additional twelve teams, creating a three-tier 14-14-14 structure commencing season 126.

Liga-J Winners


Season	Winner			Runner-Up		Third			PoS		

4/126	Acacoyagua		Resplendiente		Atlás Ciuredor		Pedro Ramo (Acacoyagua)	
3/125	Argón Tacranza (2)	Serpentina		Acacoyagua		Felip Novés (Argón)
2/124	Resplendiente		Argón Tacranza		Florentino		Firmino Vale (Argón)
1/123	Argón Tacranza		CF Frantxizko-A		Fábrica Tapalupé	Jacob Emade (Argón)

by **Tequilo** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:51 am

In the time before the foundation of the Liga-TQ and it's purpose to decide a national champion, all clubs competed in their own state championships, and but for the Copa Tequilo, pre-season friendlies and invitational tournaments, clubs rarely competed directly with other teams beyond state borders. Competitive matches between some of the biggest teams in the country might be once-in-a-lifetime affairs, and arguments to settle who the best teams were at any given time might rage for a decade or more because there were no easy ways to prove it. For the big teams, the only way to really compare would be to match trophy cabinets - who had won the most Copas? Who had won the most state championships? This latter measure gave rise to the 10-Nacional - an informal association of the 'Big Ten': those ten clubs across the country with the most state titles. Entry to the club had traditionally been guaranteed only by winning, and whilst the clubs in it are often called the 'big ten', the membership naturally can, and has, changed over time; some truly big clubs, with money, resources, and wide support, were not always members - Motozintla, for example, would big-headedly but with fair cause claim to be one of the three or four biggest clubs in the country based on the size of support - but had not won enough titles to be incumbents of the 10-Nacional for several decades. Likewise one might point to Inter and SC Raití - two huge clubs from one city - as well as Oriente, Atlético Lipa and the people's club, Cooperativa, as giants of the Tequiloan game who sit outside the 10-Nacional. The door is open to them - if they can bag a few state titles, or under new interpretations, get themselves an unlimited line in credit.

Controversially, after season three of Liga-TQ, the Big Ten was expanded to include Motozintla - though by then they had won enough titles to win their place fair and square, replacing Resplendiente, a rule change allowed both teams to remain in the club because of cash reserves - alonmg with another rich but largely unsuccessful sibling: even more controversial, small fry - by the size of their trophy cabinet alone - Haïtiens were 'inducted' into the informal club... apparently based on the size of their bank balance alone. So now, while still referred to as the 10-Nacional, the club bizarrely includes 12 members - something most Tequiloa are perfectly able to conceptualise, but another quirk of domestic football in Tequilo which is entirely baffling to outsiders.

No-one is quite sure what will become of the 10-Nacional members club once the new Liga-TQ has been going a while and is producing annual champions; perhaps it will become a redundancy. But for the time being, at least, it remains the easy way to identify the most successful, and if not at least the richest, clubs in Tequilo.

Contents
In this section:

Acacoyagua		Argón Tacranza		Atlás Ciuredor		CF Frantxizko-A
Fábrica Tapalupé	Florentino		Haïtiens		Motozintla
Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Real Gardaresso		Resplendiente		SC Pedregal

Club scouts might find the 10-Nacional Database on Google Docs useful ahead of the next transfer window. A help sheet is included; editing is not permitted.

ACACOYAGUA

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Proxima 9th; TQ-season 4
State Championships: Guastenango State Champions 18 times; most recent season 120
Copa Tequila: Winners 3 times; most recent season 107

Stadium: Estadio Cuahtémoc, Huayna-Comitán.Capacity: 72,305
Nicknames: Acaco, Los Blancolirios (The Lily Whites)
Colours: All white, with brown & gold trim
Alternate: Brown shirts, gold shorts & socks
Rivals: Índigo Huayna (El Huappa); SC Pedregal (El Gigantico)
Legend: Xero

Current Manager: Marcos Bran
Team Captain: Camilo Caira (DC)
Star Player: Macedoni Altés (ST)
Young Prospect: Orpinton (AMC)

The Huayna Empire, one of the three great tribes of ancient Mesopletora, built the magnificent city state of Huayna-Comitán and while the alliance of Tequilo holds all people in equal regard and technically without geographic bias, the cloud forest city is one of the most spectacular ancient homes of the Índigo people, and even in modern times is a large majority Huayna people. That also means, quite unusually, that the two main pitxi clubs in the city are not informally divided - in terms of support and appeal - on racial lines as is the case in other major conurbations where there are large mixes of both heritages: here, both Índigo Huayna and it’s much larger and more successful rival, Acacoyagua, are widely supported by native communities as well as the minority Costelloa immigrant groups. Acaco, or Los Blancolirios, are one of the great names of pitxi - though unlike the likes of SC Pedregal, the ’77os, or CF Frantxizko-A, they are not greatly supported outside of their home state, as they have never been perceived as a glamour club in the eyes of the nation. And yet they have matched SC Pedregal for titles and continue to compete for trophies.

ARGÓN TACRANZA

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Proxima 2nd; TQ-season 4
State Championships: Ocotapa State Champions 17 times; most recent season 121
Copa Tequila: Winners - 1 time, season 30

Stadium: Estadio Argonautas, TacranzaCapacity: 48,000
Nicknames: The Argonauts, Los Argonautas; The Squids, Los Calamares
Colours: Violet & black striped shirts, black shorts & socks
Alternate: All white with violet trim
Rivals: Estudiantes (El Juicio), AS Ferrocarril (El Elemento), Fábrica Tapalupé (El Térifico)
Legend: Râmón Tüjânger (FFD)

Current Manager: Luis Tenorio
Team Captain: Máximo San Martín (MC)
Star Player: Kayara (ST)
Young Prospect: Firmino Vale (ST)

Argón might be considered one of the glamour sides in Tequilo; a strong tradition of flamboyant pitxi, a draw for the glitterati of national society, a fancy new stadium, and always a healthy sprinkling of the most exciting and extrovert players in all the state championships. Blessed it seems with eternal wealth thanks to their connection to the Ixtal farming industry - whether that is all above board and regular is open to scrutiny - the club have always had a big budget by Tequiloan standards and have never been afraid of more exotic and experimental signings. The Tamarindian influence is clear, including the team captain and regular hero in these parts, Máximo San Martín - and Argón are well underway with their Atlético Refugiados project, which on the one hand is an admirable lower league club to support under-pressure influx populations - previously Tamarindia during the Fall, and more recently Farfadillis as it descends into anarchy - and on the other hand is a good way to scout for new talent. Everyone remembers Râmón Tüjânger as one of Argón’s favourite foreigners, and he paved the way for modern Farves who, like Tamarindians and Ipañemos in these parts, are considered inherently better at the pitxi than the locals. Watch out for new fancy foreign heroes soon.

ATLÁS CIUREDOR

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Proxima winner; TQ-season 4
State Championships: Antivador State Champions 16 times; most recent season 121
Copa Tequila: Winners - 2 times including one state & cup double; most recent win in season 75

Stadium: Estadio Atlás, CiuredorCapacity: 68,350
Nicknames: Atlás, Los Aros - The Hoops
Colours: Red & black hooped shirts, white shorts & socks
Alternate: All green
Rivals: Atlético Lipa (El Destructo), Florentino (El Brillantíno), Laguna de Léon (El Bombón)
Legend: Aiayia V'shyui

Current Manager: Xerman Figueredo
Team Captain: Tinni Grímólfursson (GRF) (DMC)
Star Player: Tsttnauayui (MR)
Young Prospect: Minermo Ocamica (GK)

Antivador has more than it’s fair share of glamour clubs - but the most successful Antivadorio club isn’t one of them. An antidote to the glitz and glamour of football in general in the state, Atlás Ciuredor are the ‘spit and sawdust’ sleeves-rolled-up no-nonsense grafters (and other working class stereotypes) who get things done and have won more than their fare share of state titles. More even than perhaps two of the most well known Antivadorio clubs across the Wide Enness Ocean - your Real Gardaresso and Florentino wonderclubs. Do Atlás have a chip on their shoulder? Not a bit of it - they love being the unfancied and stoic workhorses that frequently upstage the fancy-pants neighbours.

CF FRANTXIZKO-A

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 4th; TQ-season 2
State Championships: Puezan State Champions 22 times - most recent season 124
Copa Tequila: Winners - 6 times, the most titles; including one state & cup double, most recent win in season 117

Stadium: Estadio Florentzio Mesperuza (El Mesperuza), IragartzeCapacity: 76,505
Nicknames: CFFA; Los Oros, The Golds
Colours: All gold strip with black trim
Alternate: Black shirts, white shorts, red socks
Rivals: Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (El Splendído), Unuiĝinta (El Massívo), KKA Bixintxo (El Humüngo)
Legend: Bazkoare 'Bazûka' Bartuy

Current Manager: Urdintxo Lecuona
Team Captain: Alexandro Calvoecheaga (ST)
Star Player: Alexandro Calvoecheaga
Young Prospect: Monné (ST)

Only Pitxi-Pitxi 77 of Chazapa state can claim to match the dominance of Los Oros in domestic football, each of the two teams winning more than twenty state championships. But with multiple Copa Tequilo wins, it is CF Frantxizko-A who have long held the crown as most successful team of all time; in amongst those titles are a rare cup and state championship double, and the first four-in-a-row of state titles, with that record only ever having been matched once, by Cooperativa of Ocotapa state. The widest supported team in the country, they rightly claim to be both the biggest and the best - but it’s this attitude that also makes them a divisive team - while the ‘77os are just about everyone’s second team, The Golds certainly are not; you either love them or you hate them. In football-mad Puezan they have dominated a championship that otherwise still has some big and famous clubs, including Peru Urzagui, Urbo Ibaeta, Sporta Ibaeta, KKA Bixintxo and Unuiĝinta - but none have managed to come close to the huge status of CFFA.

FÁBRICA TAPAPULPÉ

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 5th: TQ-season 3 (Pequeña winners season 4)
State Championships: Ocotapa State Champions 19 times; most recent season 125
Copa Tequila: Winners - 4 times, most recent season 100

Stadium: Cuidad de Pitxi, TapalupéCapacity: 80,000
Nicknames: The Spanners, Las Llaves, The Factory Team
Colours: Blue & white harlequin quartered shirt with red trim, white shorts & socks with blue trim.
Alternate: All red with white trim.
Rivals: Argón Tacranza (El Térifico), Haïtiens (Los Bonquas), Galaxía (El Galacto), Independiencia (El Tzizla),
Legend: Pablo Invocador

Current Manager: Francisco Javier Sandoval
Team Captain: Jaylli Ñahuis Quelka (DMC)
Star Player: Ricardo Bailén (AMR)
Young Prospect: Biel Loris (DR)

Though not the best supported in the capital city of Tapalupé - behind both Haïtiens and Galaxía - The Spanners are certainly the most successful, comfortably sitting in the nation’s top ten by state titles and a strong Copa Tequilo performer - indeed, overall in total silverware they sit equals with just about anyone behind the much more decorated Pitxi-Pitxi 77 and CF Frantxizki-A. Not recognised to the same extent as the ’77o and only the third best supported team in their home city, this is the club with a bit of a chip on it’s shoulder fighting for the same recognition as the other two giants. Even in Maranco state they sit second behind rivals Argón in most popularity poles, despite leading them by one title in the state championships. For the Spanners, it seems to be a constant battle for recognition, and the only thing they can do is win things… which they do, regularly.

FLORENTINO

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Champions; TQ-season 2
State Championships: Antivador State Champions 18 times; most recent season 126
Copa Tequila: Winners - 4 times; most recent season 125 (state & cup double)

Stadium: Estadio Gianfrancesco Lego (Villa Lego), FlorenioCapacity: 47,980
Nicknames: Los Violetas
Colours: Violet shirts, shorts & socks
Alternate: Red & white halved shirts, white shorts, black socks
Rivals: Real Gardaresso (El Spectáculario), Humberto (El Cinematíco), Atlético Lipa (El Gran Kika), Atlás Ciuredor (El Brillantíno), Juventoyan (El Rangél)
Legend: Humberto Bustamante

Current Manager: Huey Wight (Aueioeay W'ighta)
Team Captain: Venâncio Paiva (AUD) (ST)
Star Player: Mâártën Âllámbâlár (FFD) (ST)
Young Prospect: Aiker Têa (ML)

In the glamour stakes, there really is only one team in all Tequilo who do not stand in the sparkling shadow of Real Gardaresso, and that is their Antivadorio rivals, Florentino, the famous Violets. They may not have the wider appeal that Real have achieved but certainly a club with flair and attacking creativity at the heart of their playing philosophy over so many decades of success means Los Violetas are naturally associated with the more glamorous side of the game. Many of the greats of antiquity have played here in Florentin, including legendary fatty, footballer, circus strongman and cinema superstar Humberto Bustamante, El Lechero or ‘The Milkman’; Wightling World Cup winners Mardellion Hummingbird and Marriner Friend-Forsaken along with fellow countryman and progenitor of the famous Bonesea Jones’ dynasty - Asbo Jones; local legends here in these parts Hernando de la Nata, Gavriel Carrión and Sansón, and of course El Ladrillo - The Brick - colourful defender Gianfrancesco Lego, the first galloping fullback for whom the stadium is named.

HAÏTIENS

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Proxima 8th, TQ-season 4 (Pequeña winners season 3)
State Championships: Ocotapa State Champions 4 times; most recent season 62
Copa Tequila: Best finish - losing semi-finalists 3 times

Stadium: Estadio Metrópolo, Distrito Santa Eleso, TapalupéCapacity: 61,900
Nicknames: Los Brujos, The Wights
Colours: White shirts with blue & red diagonal stripe, white shorts & socks with blue trim.
Alternate: Blue & red quartered shirts with white trim, blue shorts & socks with red trim.
Rivals: Fábrica Tapalupé (Los Bonquas), Independiencia (El Rumbla), Galaxía (El Combato), Motozintla (El Granpeso)
Legend: Mardellion Hummingbird (WGT), former World Cup winner way back when

Current Manager: Ramiro Paredo
Team Captain: Frank Kolar (STL) (DC)
Star Player: Ecuador (ST)
Young Prospect: Hector Hurtado (AMC)

The cult club from the capital city Tapalupé. 'Los Brujos' - The Witchdoctors, or commonly The Wights - are the city's, and therefore one of the nation's, biggest clubs - in terms of support at least, although they have continuously failed to live up to their billing having won less than a handful state championships and never having even reached a Copa finale. Bigger than 20-time state champion Fábrica, bigger than 10-time champions and stadium co-habitors Independiencia, they are famed as much as anything for not winning much, although they are at least usually competitive. Their last title was decades ago but they have been second on eight occasions since then, so a recent relegation was, even by Haïtiens disappointing standards, quite a low point. The club do have some international appeal too - they have a sister club in Wight with the same name, with whom they shared an affiliation although they were entirely separate and independent business entities. Haïtiens (Tapalupé) are very much the stronger partner in that relationship these days, although it wasn't the case 140 years ago. Back then the team from the city of Spit, a UICA competitor and Wightleague serial contender, sent a group of philanthropists (some might say cultural imperialists) to Tapalupé City to found an outpost team in the early days of 'pitxi' and thus was the Tequiloan version born.

MOTOZINTLA

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 3rd, TQ-seasons 2,3
State Championships: Maranco State Champions 16 times; most recent season 126
Copa Tequila: Winners - 3 times; most recent season 126 (including state & cup double, season 126)

Stadium: Arenamoto, TirintoCapacity: 77,200
Nicknames: Moto
Colours: Royal blue shirts with black & white trim, white shorts, black socks
Alternate: Silver shirt with light blue chevron; silver shorts and socks with light blue trim
Rivals: Resplendiente (El Resentimiento), Alianxa Tirinto (El Grandísimo), Universitario (El Stramajz), Las Guías Oriente (La Granbatalla), Haïtiens (El Granpeso)
Legend: Mateo Tafalla

Current Manager: Mauricio Nores
Team Captain: Oscar Bienvenida (GK)
Star Player: Isidoro Artechevarria (ML)
Young Prospect: Mani Quita (ST)

At Motozintla, so it is said, they never stop going on about how big they are. And what they are going to do next to prove they are the greatest. To be fair, they are big. Very big. No-one outside of Moto likes to admit it, but they rival CFFA and Pitxi-Pitxi 77 for support across the country. They have spent much of their history inside the 10-Nacional, the country's best ten clubs by state championships, but their best days are a long way behind them. Hence all the talk about what they are going to do next. With the resources they have, the backing they can rely on, the time will surely come when Motozintla are great again - but many both inside and outside of the supporter base also hint darkly at the Curse of Moto - that the Wights of Pitxi (mythical demons of Confusionism) are against them for rumoured transgressions that offended the spirits. It's all tosh of course, but makes for great content. And there definitely is something wrong when a club the size of Moto just can't win anything any more.

PITXI -PITXI 77

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Champions (2); TQ-seasons 1 & 4
State Championships: Chazapa State Champions: 25 times - highest nationally; most recent season 126
Copa Tequila: Winners - 2 times including one state & cup double; most recent win in season 116

Stadium: Estadio '77o, Ixta-Comitán, ChazapaCapacity: 66,309
Nicknames: ’77o
Colours: Green & white striped shirts, white shorts & socks
Alternate: All black with green & white trim
Rivals: CF Frantxizko-A (El Splendído), Jaguar Ixtacomitán (El Spectaculotl), Xicoa (El Cálculotl), Real Gardaresso (El Bânga)
Legend: Eskaminzim, former DMC, coach, now head coach

Current Manager: Eskaminzim
Team Captain: Con Hatzileftheriou (NPH) (AMR)
Star Player: Tlacolotl (ST)
Young Prospect: Oranel Dhasririn (KOR)(AMC)

Here is one of the superpowers of football in Tequilo, at the heart of one of the country's most extraordinary cities. Like Huayna-Comitán in Guastenango, Ixta-Comitán has been beautifully preserved as a great Indigo city state, although unlike it’s rival city, it is surrounded by a much less interesting and more heavily industrialised region; it’s borders are now more or less the end of traditional Ixta cultural identity. The city itself supports three top flight or 1-Sección clubs, with Jaguars and Serpentina both strong clubs in the state championship. But there is only one club in the state - and arguably the nation - that all others must merely follow, the mighty Pitxi-Pitxi 77. Formed nearly 150 years ago they are one of the oldest clubs in the country, and are the most favoured by the strong Ixta population throughout Chazapa and the nation. Rivalled only by Puezan states’ CF Frantzixko-A, they have the most state titles and are surely the widest supported - CFFA are popular of course, but also the team everyone loves to hate: not so the ’77os, who really are just about everyone’s second favourite team.

REAL GARDARESSO

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 3rd; TQ-season 1
State Championships: Antivador State Champions 16 times; most recent season 123
Copa Tequila: Winners - once; season 66

Stadium: Palacios de Cristal, GardaressoCapacity: 81,800
Nicknames: Los Vidrieros - The Glaziers
Colours: Dark burgundy shirts, white shorts, dark green socks
Alternate: All dark blue with dark green trim
Rivals: Florentino (El Spectáculario), Atlético Lipa (El Tremendo), Racquette-22 (El Fantastíco), Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (El Bânga)
Legend: Raimi Dokunanga (ex-ST)

Current Manager: Isaac Martí
Team Captain: Nicolas Cano (DMC)
Star Player: Rüí Lütáò (FFD) (AMC)
Young Prospect: Duarte Tapia-Huayanay (ML)

Alright, lets talk glamour now - Real Gardaresso practically invented the concept. The oldest team in Antivador, they are the biggest and best supported club on the islands, and play at the largest domestic stadium in Tequilo. The Crystal Palace, Real’s fortress so named for the large amount of fancy glass used in renovating the stadium which effectively hides a multitude of sins underneath - the old stadium was a vast and shambolic edifice which really hasn’t been renovated so much as camouflaged. Still, it looks great, sounds great, and vibrates on a terrifying frequency if half the ground are jumping up and down - something Real’s ultras enjoy doing to frighten the bejesu out of visiting supporters. Nicknamed the Glaziers after their ground, Real probably have not won as many titles as they might have expected, since the state championship is one of the most competitive. And yet this grand old team is still one of the most famous across the whole of the Wide Enness Ocean.

RESPLENDIENTE

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 7th; TQ-season 4 (Proxima winners s.3, Pequeña winners s.2)
State Championships: Maranco State Champions 15 times; most recent season 118
Copa Tequila: Winners - 3 times including one state & cup double; most recent season 119

Stadium: Estadio Grajo Resplendiente (El Nido Cuervo, The Crow's Nest), La Conon, MarancoCapacity: 62,800
Nicknames: Los Cuervos, Las Platasnegras
Colours: Black & silver striped shirts with light blue trim, white shorts, black socks
Alternate: Light blue shirts & shorts, white socks
Rivals: Motozintla (El Resentimiento), Las Guías Oriente (La Gafa), Xicoa (El Stupendó)
Legend: Diego Cuello-Azul

Current Manager: Ilhicadira
Team Captain: Jeremías Carballal (AMC)
Star Player: Kâásîmîró (FFD) (ST)
Young Prospect: Mó Reverté (DC)

The black-and-silvers have a reputation in Tequilo for style, for attacking prowess and for shaking up the elite, harking from the smaller regional city of La Conon (population 350,000) where they have fanatical following and no serious competitor locally, making them one of the biggest supported ‘local’ clubs, as they like to style themselves. It doesn’t stop them from shopping widely for players, and they have often carried a number of foreign stars within their team. Presently they have a much more homegrown feel but do contain two youngsters from abroad that they consider wonderkids in the making - midfielder Laurent Lapix from Reçesión (RCN) and forward Kâásîmîró Êrsáreng of Encuentrodillo (FFD): both real hot prospects. Resplendiente’s main rivals are Motozintla from the state capital Tirinto and Oriente from Aticenta, the three of them traditionally fighting it out for the top spot in the state championships.

SC PEDREGAL

Liga-TQ: Champions; TQ-season 3 (Proxima winners s.2)
State Championships: Guastenango State Champions 19 times; most recent season 125
Copa Tequila: Winners - 3 times including one double; most recent win in season 94
Intercontinental: FFI LdV runner-up, IF-season 5 (domestic 4/126)
Stadium: Estadio San Pedro, Cuara.Capacity: 42,000
Nicknames: Los Silbadores - The Whistlers; Los Caballeros - The Gentlemen
Colours: Yellow shirts, white shorts, black socks
Alternate: Black shirts & shorts, white socks
Rivals: Acacoyagua (El Gigantico), Equipo Caimán (El Snappa), Tequiloa (El Scaldera), SC Raití (El Originario)
Legend: 'Gentilhombre' Gento Pollanijo

Current Manager: Armando & Aaron Garrido
Team Captain: Aleixo Claver (DMC)
Star Player: Kai Sidiki (GK)
Young Prospect: Narciso Pineiro (MR)

In the state capital of Cuara (pop. 1.3m for the whole metropolitan district), two teams vie for supremacy of the city, and of the state championships - one is the upstart, brash, new money noisy neighbour Sporting Club of Tequilo, commonly Tequiloa, whilst the other is pitxi royalty - old school, old money, old manners: SC Pedregal, the oldest club in Guastenango and arguably the first pitxi club in all Tequilo. They are a popular club throughout the country for their heritage, although they are also the club many love to hate, considered like all aristocratic types to be a bit arrogant and a bit fancy. Their fame is uncontested though, and throughout the Wide Enness Ocean they are well known - not just for some ancient ideal of the good old days, and of how the game used to be played; they are equally famous for being pretty damned successful too - vying with Acacoyagua for most titles and some considerable distance ahead of the chasing pack where Equipo Caimán are the best of the rest.

by **Tequilo** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:55 am

The state of Antivador is in fact not part of the Tequiloan mainland but a large separate island and a series of archipelagos within the Golfo de Tequílo, and in mentality as well as geography has always considered itself apart from the rest of the country - an attitude which is perceived across the rest of the country as rather arrogant and snobbish. While the Puezaños are a very independently-minded lot and quite different from the rest of the union, willing and patriotic members of the alliance, deeply involved in the foundation and unification of the country and to be found active in all forms of national life, the Antivadorio prefer not to dirty their hands in the affairs of the nation. It is remarkable that they willingly joined the union in the first place - and remain - when they consider themselves a country apart, and in all ways superior to ‘the rest’. And yet at the heart of it they know their economy is stronger for the union and tolerate their membership because of it. A populous main island with several large cities including the capital Lipa, it certainly is distinct, with a more cosmopolitan feel to it and the most attractive part of the nation for visitors. The island has a minority Índigo tribe, the Uiaiey, who were largely an early subsistence bartering tribe that did not establish city states and empire like the Ixta, Huayna and Xico peoples, and therefore when the Costelloan settlements occurred they integrated more quickly and are today less populous.

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Juventoyan	Atlético Lipa

JUVENTOYAN

Liga-TQ: Best position: Proxima 4th, TQ-season 2
State Championships: Antivador State Champions 13 times; most recent season 118
Copa Tequila: Winners 2 times; most recent season 114

Stadium: Estadio San Toyan, Toyan.Capacity: 33,800
Nicknames: Móvi/Móvirico, Las Ballenas (The Whales),
Colours: Black & white wide stripe shirt, with blue trim, white shorts & socks
Alternate: Blue shirts with chequered trim, blue shorts & socks
Rivals: Páramos (El Cálculo Toyan), Humberto (La Batalla), Florentino (El Rangél)
Legend: Popojo

Current Manager: Francisco de Arçe
Team Captain: Pontzio Zugastiguchia (ST)
Star Player: Bernaldino (MR)
Young Prospect: Iñigo Mallén (MVE) (DL)

Based in the popular seaside tourist resort of Toyen, Móvi recall a less glamorous time when the city was founded on the whaling industry and was far from anywhere an innocent tourist might want to travel to. But Toyen has been on the up over the last century as Tequilo turned away from whale-hunting, and with better times came a fancy football club - Juventoyan have fallen a little behind their rivals Atlás, Real and Florentino in a competitive state league, but they have history... and have been a 10-Nacional team at different times in their history. Still a big club with wide support and a glamourous front, it was a humble beginning as an athletics club for the fisheries and factories of Toyan, before growing into the big commercial operation it is today. One of several clubs hoping to capitalise on the new found enthusiasm for Liga-TQ, they will need to catch their Antivadorian rivals and grab a state title or three before they can return to the big time of the big ten.

ATLÉTICO LIPA

Liga-TQ: Best position: Pequeña 2nd; TQ-season 4 (Liga-TQ2 Eliminatorio winner, s.2)
State Championships: Antivador State Champions 10 times; most recent season 119
Copa Tequila: Winners once; season 108

Stadium: Estadio de Avenida Agostin de Leyva (La Avenida)Capacity: 43,120
Nicknames: Atléti. Los Blancos Rojos
Colours: Red & white striped shirts, white shorts, white socks
Alternate: Gold shirts with offset white cross, gold shorts, black socks
Rivals: Atlás Ciuredor (El Destructo), Florentino (El Gran Kika), Real Gardaresso (El Tremendo), Humberto (El Crujxa)
Legend: Brüxö (Brüxö dos Seû), AMR, current assistant manager

Current Manager: Alvar de Madrid
Team Captain: Roger Creus (ST)
Star Player: Hossù (DC)
Young Prospect: Neso (DC)

Lipa is a big football city and Atléti are certainly the biggest team from the city in terms of resources and following, though they vie for most successful with upstarts Humberto; in Antivador state they might be considered one of the big six along with their city rivals, but with only one title in the last five decades they have certainly underperformed in the modern game, even having to spend time in the second tier when things have been really poor at La Avenida. With Real Gardaresso they vie for the record of oldest club on the islands of Antivador, founded as a reacreation and sports club for the old transport corporation Ómnibus Popular Antivador and their manufactury in the city. Their most successful spells were in the thirties and fifties but they have retained one of the largest followings in the state despite their relative lack of success in living memory.

by **Tequilo** » Sat Aug 01, 2020 6:24 am

The industrial heartland of Tequilo, Chazapa State doesn’t have the prairies of Maranco, the deserts of Ocotapa, or the mountains of Guastenango; but what it does have is infrastructure, tech, entrepreneurs, money and big grimy cities. The motto for the state is ‘We Build It In Chazapa’ and that is undeniably true. Alcaraiso, Sezalco, Senzapa… these are all huge manufacturing conurbations, sprawling cities that support a huge amount of football clubs - although most of the sporting money goes into the first love of the state - Lucho Grasiento, or greasy wrestling, with football following on behind. The workmanlike nature of the state is reflected in the clubs - unglamorous, unloved outside their own supporter base, mostly ignored outside Chazapa state itself. But one city stands apart - Ixta-Comitán, heart of the Ixta people’s historic empire - and so does its football team: the mighty Pitxi-Pitxi 77. But while the 77o dominate state football, there are plenty of other decent sides to follow...

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Jaguar Ixtacomitán

JAGUAR IXTACOMITÁN

Liga-TQ: Best position: Proxima 4th; TQ-season 4
State Championships: Chazapa State Champions 13 times; most recent season 121
Copa Tequila: Winners 5 times; most recent season 124

Stadium: Estadio Jaguares, Ixta-ComitánCapacity: 34,855
Nicknames: Los Jags
Colours: Light blue & mustard striped shirts, white shorts & socks
Alternate: White shirts with light blue & mustard trim, light blue shorts & socks
Rivals: Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (El Spectaculotl), Xicoa (El Punjxalotl), Serpentina (El Hümdinga)
Legend: Tezcatl Notario (Tez)... & worst player of all time: Haizinto

Current Manager: Mateu Alberó
Team Captain: Ufrasio Ena (AMC)
Star Player: Huracan (DC)
Young Prospect: Pascual Arias (DR)

Hailing from the same city as Pitxi-Pitxi 77, the Jags stand in the shadow of the nation's most successful club, and you might think they'd struggle to get noticed. On the contrary, the 77o's cross-town rivals have been hugely successful in their own right, have often competed on level terms with the big guns, and will remind everyone that they have won more Copas than them. The rivalry is largely a friendly one, often with families split down the middle in their loyalties, and the Jags fans have not been short of their own glory days. Plus they go down in history as the only team to fork out actual cash for the Worst Player of All Time - Haizinto. They claim it was an ID mix-up, but that doesn't detract from paying ¢40 for the defender (just under half an NS dollar) and even letting him have one game in the seniors. That aside, the popular team from Ixta-Comitán are always a good bet for entertainment.

by **Tequilo** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 12:42 am

The predominantly highland cloud forest region of Guastenango State is in many ways the most exotic and diverse of the six regions of Tequilo, a region famous for adventuring opportunities and home to coffee, caapi and mapachi production - three of the great brain stimulants of the country. Not that you would go there for such narcotic motivations, nonono. The state is the number one area for fruit cultivation and there is plenty of llama, alpaca, mountain goat and Nango sheep farming for the agriculturists to explore. The home of the Huayna people, together with it’s psychoactive domestic products and spectacular landscapes, makes Guastenango a central source of mysticism & ritual, and a devoted production house of the mythologies in Confusiónismo. The smallest state by population, it’s mountain cities of Cuara, Raití and Huayna-Comitán have still managed to produce some fine pitxi clubs, two of which are firmly in the 10-Nacional and compete in the Cálculo Gigantico, or reckoning, as we call our derby rivalries: SC Pedregal and Acocoyagua.

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El Quetan CF		SC Raití		Cuipa Azul

EL QUETAN CF

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 8th; TQ-season 4
State Championships: Guastenango State Champions 6 times; most recent season 103
Copa Tequila: Winners - 4 times; most recent season 123

Stadium: Estadio Lima, El QuetanCapacity: 32,300
Nicknames: El Tano
Colours: Light green shirts, white shorts, red socks
Alternate: Red shirts & shorts, white socks
Rivals: SC Bozoa (El Gran Absurdo)
Legend: Pelaxio Rios; GK; seasons 67-85.

Current Manager: Quriwayra
Team Captain: Damián Hanto (DC) (TAM)
Star Player: Roman Troncoso (MR)
Young Prospect: Pinchi (ST)

El Tano haved carved themselves something of a reputation as a cup team, winning the Copa Tequilo on four occasions, the second highest after mighty CFFA, and this has brought their dedicated following some considerable joy down the years as one of the few teams that enter the Copa who are considered having a change of winning it - so difficult is the competition, even Pitxi-Pitxi 77 are not given much hope at the outset. In state football the achievements of the club have been modest down the years, but with six titles they are not without some history, including winning back-to-back titles in seasons 82 and 83. The small mountain city of El Quetan, a popular tourist destination and transit point for cloud forest adventures, hosts two decently-sized clubs in El Tano and cross-town rivals SC Bozoa; the derby or cálculo, 'The Big Farce', is a hotly contested affair between two teams who treasure local bragging rights - something that more often than not has been the pleasure of El Tano's supporters.

SC RAITÍ

Liga-TQ: Best position - Primera 6th; TQ-season 4
State Championships: Guastenango State Champions 10 times; most recent season 126
Copa Tequila: Winners - once; season 86

Stadium: Estadio San Raí, Raití (groundshare with Inter)Capacity: 66,810
Nicknames: Los Rojosnegros; La Abuela - The Grandmother
Colours: Red & black striped shirts, white shorts, black socks
Alternate: Yellow shirts, black shorts, yellow socks
Rivals: Inter Raití (La Confrontación) , Equipo Caimaín (El Scrappo), SC Pedregal (El Originario)
Legend: Afonso Tapia

Current Manager: Roibén Ravelo
Team Captain: Llounguís Figueredo (DMC)
Star Player: Marcos Acevedo (DL)
Young Prospect: Isaac Coello (ST)

One of the grand old clubs of Tequilo, Sporting Club Raití can certainly name themselves in a small group of the three oldest clubs in existence along with SC Pedregal and Pitxi-Pitxi 77*; but unlike those two, have not come so close to legendary status in terms of silverware. Certainly 9 state titles is none too shabby, but this is a huge team that for a couple of generations now has woefully underperformed. With support throughout the state and beyond, it is a genuinely big club that has never had a sniff at the 'Big Ten' of the 10-Nacional, and most neutral observers would call that a travesty. They have always had great players on the books including the legend that is Afonso Tapia; manager and former player Roibén Ravelo, and current national team winger Tutayan - but have so little to show for it. Fans don't seem to mind - attendances at the spectacular Estadio San Raí are always at capacity, and the atmosphere electric come rain or shine. And in recent years, there has not been a lot of shine. The fans have certainly earned their nickname: Los Esperanzados - The Hopefuls.

* The actual oldest of the three is not entirely agreed upon, with historians divided between SC Pedregal and 'La Abuela' - SC Raití.

CIUPA AZUL

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 5th; TQ-season 2
State Championships: Guastenango State Champions 7 times - most recent season 124
Copa Tequila: Winners - 2 times; including one double, most recent win in season 38

Stadium: Estadio Torcado Borruchaga (El Torcado), CiupaCapacity: 26,500
Nicknames: Los Ahogamosodores, approx. The Chokers; The Blues, Los Azules
Colours: All dark blue with white & gold trim
Alternate: Silver shirts with black & blue trim, black shorts, gold socks
Rivals: Petrolero (El Pünxo), Arsenál Ciupa (El Bombardeo)
Legend: Humberto Toca, Midfielder

Current Manager: Benjamin da Villa
Team Captain: Ferran Teixidó (GK)
Star Player: Yngve Wollum (DMC)
Young Prospect: Marcián Borrell (ML)

It has been a long time since Ciupa Azul were anything but an average top flight team with occasional dips into the second tier. Almost no-one alive can remember when the big team from the city of Ciupa were actually a top team in the state of Guastenango and considered a top team in the country. It seems hardly imaginable, but there was a time when legendary midfielder Humberto Toca lead the Blues at a state and cup double - then only the second team to do it and in the process setting a record for the biggest win in the final that would stand for more than fifty years when they beat Fortuna Tulan 8-1 in the eighth Copa. Thirty years after that famous double they would win a second and last cup; they would stack up a decent six state titles - but then, around seventy years ago, they stopped being good at anything, until a recent title win put them temporarily back on the map.

by **Tequilo** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:14 am

The largest of the six former countries that now make up the vast nation of Tequilo, Maranco State is a blend of major conurbations such as the city of Tirinto (pop. 6.6 million) and Matiguá (4.3 million), the vast open reaches of the Great Prairie which was the traditional plains-home of the Xico people, centred on the ancient city-state and modern tourist attraction of Xico-Comitán, and the high Sierra Muralla chain with it’s famous mountain cities of La Milega and La Conon. The vast state has no shortage of famous pitxi teams, perhaps none more so than Motozintla from the capital; but Moto come up short after a barren spell in the last decade or so and surprisingly to some, they don’t make the Big 10 in Tequilo - that honour belongs to to team from La Conon in the mountains; in a competitive state championship, it is Resplendiente who are the sole 10-Nacional representative from Maranco State, with Moto trailing behind; in a competitive field Xicoa, Oriente, Alianza Torinto and Continente Turan all have titles into double figures.

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Xicoa

XICOA

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 6th; TQ-season 1
State Championships: Maranco State Champions 13 times; most recent season 123
Copa Tequila: Winners - 2 times; most recent season 77

Stadium: Estadio Reyes Xicoa (El Traxapa), Xico-ComitánCapacity: 101,920 (largest stadium in Tequilo)
Nicknames: Los Reyes, The Kings
Colours: All black with gold trim
Alternate: Gold shirt with red & black centre stripe; gold shorts and socks with red & black trim
Rivals: Resplendiente (El Stupendó), Índigo Huayna (El Rumbla Real), Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (El Cálculotl)
Legend: Montezuma

Current Manager: Samsó Sol
Team Captain: Vernaldino Rancha (GK)
Star Player: Praxil Law (NPH)(DL)
Young Prospect: Mateu Homs (ST)

There was a time The Kings were biggest and best at everything. The índigo club from the capital city of the old Xico empire, they were the first dominant force in the sport in Tequilo, and that is reflected in a huge and ancient arena, still the biggest in the country - a monument to better times and a national treasure, it has hosted some of the greats of the sport down the years and was even considered the national stadium in it's youth. But club and stadium have seen others overtake it - in Maranco state, first Resplendiente, then Oriente, and now Motozintla all have bragging rights over Xicoa. The great índigo rivals Pitxi-Pitxi 77 have far outstripped them, and upstart teams from Ocotapa to Puezan - Argón, Fábrica, CF Frantxizko-A - have all surpassed them in greatness down the years. They remain a big club, and one their fans hope can rise like a fénix from the ashes of moderate success to become the giant they once were.

by **Tequilo** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:28 am

The former nation of Ocotapa, now the home state of the national capital Tapalupé (population 13.3 million), sits in the central area of modern Tequilo, neighbouring sea, mountain, desert and steppe in the vast reaches of that land that unites two continents - Pletora to the north and Plataforma to the south. The second smallest state by area is also the most crowded per capita, in no small part due to the insane scale of the two major cities - Tapalupé and Tacranza (population 8.2 million). Not surprisingly, those cities have a good share of half decent pitxi clubs and have produced two of the nation’s most successful - the rivals of the Cálculo - that is to say ‘reckoning’, or derby, in your language - known as El Térifico: Fábrica of Tapalupé and Argón of Tacranza. But they are far from alone.

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Pelotón

PELOTÓN

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 4th; TQ-season 1
State Championships: Ocotapa State Champions 11 times; most recent season 123
Copa Tequila: Winners - 2 times; most recent season 113

Stadium: El Velódromo, Santa ClaresCapacity: 36,665
Nicknames: Las Bicicletas - The Bikes
Colours: Lime shirts with blue chevron; blue shorts, white socks
Alternate: All yellow with lime & blue trim
Rivals: Chapulineros (El Momento), Naranja (El Choque), Cooperativa (La Disputa Larga)
Legend: Carpintero, ex-AMC, seasons 105-120 (now coaching staff)

Current Manager: Juan Esteban Quesada
Team Captain: Max Seco (DR)
Star Player: Joe Arabo (AMR)
Young Prospect: Rito Pircora (ST)

The big team in Santa Clares, The Bikes attract a rabid following at The Velodrome for their state championship matches, where they have been in the shadow of Argón, Fábrica and Cooperativa throughout pitxi history. But they are not without their own successes - eleven state titles tells a story all it's own - the team that formed out of a cycle club have their day in the sun and are always competitive. Club Pelotón Santa Clares are the country's biggest and most successful competitive cycling association with widespread following nationally, and their sister club for football benefit from their profile, sharing club colours and even the 'chélin-doublon' logo; the chélin-doublon being one of the earliest styles of bicycle when it was new technology.

by **Tequilo** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:01 am

Though entirely enthusiastic about the union of Tequilo, cantankerously patriotic and historically one of the first proponents of a united states, the people of Puezan retain a fiercely protected identity and consider themselves both a part of, and separate to, the country Tequilo. Geographically the fertile prairie state of Puezan is sheltered by mountains across the large part of its border, sits on the north-east coast of the nation, and is the more temperate breadbasket of the nation. The fire of Puezan, so the saying goes, is the character of its people - they are considered, perhaps a little unfairly, [/perhaps not - ed.] the hotheads of the country. We prefer to think of them as passionate. A strong cultural identity is matched by a huge passion for sport as an expression of Puezaño independence; pitxi is their favourite sport and in CF-Frantxizko-A they have the (almost) undisputed jewel in the crown of domestic football. But CFFA are not the be all and end all of Puezaño Pitxi...

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PERU URZAGUI

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Runner-up; TQ-season 1
State Championships: Puezan State Champions 12 times; most recent season 123
Copa Tequila: Copa Tequila Winners - 2 times; most recent season 35

Stadium: Estadio Peru Sagastichea (El Saga), UrzaguiCapacity: 44,810
Nicknames: Los Peruanos
Colours: Red shirt with white diagonal stripe, red shorts & socks
Alternate: All white with red trim
Rivals: Atléta Idal (El Grosso Enormo), Unuiĝinta (El Gargántua)
Legend: Peru Sagastichea, club founder & famous eccentric

Current Manager: Balentin Astondoa
Team Captain: Hogbe Mbida (ZEN) (AMC)
Star Player: Jaïr Iscla (ML)
Young Prospect: Jorge Sancho (ST)

Hailing from the small coastal city of Urzagui, Peru have spent decades punching well above their weight to compete at the highest level, with an impressive twelve state titles probably the best of all the more 'provincial' teams in Tequilo. Never quite in the 10-Nacional big boys club, they have enjoyed giving some of them a bloody nose down the years and are never far away in the final shakeup. It says something about their modest background that their biggest rivals, in the Cálculo grandly referred to as 'The Big Fatty', are second and third tier bouncers from across town, Atléta Idal.

UNUIĜINTA

Liga-TQ: Best finish - Primera 9th; TQ-season 4
State Championships: Puezan State Champions 13 times; most recent season 126
Copa Tequila: Copa Tequila Winners - 4 times; most recent season 95

Stadium: Harea Gorrien (Reds' Arena), IragartzeCapacity: 47,650
Nicknames: Lehoiak Gorri - The Red Lions
Colours: All red with gold trim
Alternate: Green shirts with black sleeves, black shorts, green and black hooped socks
Rivals: CF Frantxizko-A (El Massívo), Peru Urzagui (El Gargántua), Demokrito (El Gran Büta)
Legend: Bova Urruticoechea (father of the present manager)

Current Manager: Horazio Urruticoechea
Team Captain: Haize Apeiztegui (DC)
Star Player: Kjetil Rongstad (BEO)(ST)
Young Prospect: Irai Zabalu (DC)

Perhaps, in the early days, The Red Lions were an even bigger team than their cross-town rivals and one of Tequilo's superclubs, CFFA. But over time The Golds have come to dominate Puezaño football, leaving Unuiĝinta somewhat in their wake. But they remain a powerhouse of the state and are one of the best Copa teams, with four wins from four finals. Only one team has more Copas... yes, CFFA again. If they are tired of being second best, it never shows - meetings between the two, El Massívo, is one of the most crazy passionate fixtures in the pitxi season - one for the football tourists, if any are brave enough to try it.

by **Tequilo** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:36 pm

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: ANTIVADOR

A tightly-contested league with more glamour than all the other state championships put together, 'Liga Islas' can point to having more teams as champion than any other state league (19), as well as more teams with ten or more titles (6) and more teams in the 10-Nacional (3). The dominant six are Real Gardaresso, Atlás Ciuredor and Florentino (in the 10-Nacional) along with Juventoyan, Humberto and Atlético Lipa. Humberto & Florentino hold the record for most consecutive titles (3), while Florentino are the state's best Copa team (3 wins).

Modern Era State Titles


Season	Champion (Titles)	Runner-Up		Third			2-Sección Winner	3-Sección Winner

126	Florentino (18)		Real Gardaresso		Atlás Ciuredor		Edicto de Fe		Masvidal Toyan
125	Florentino (17)		Real Gardaresso		Atlás Ciuredor		Errentes Monvador	Golondrinas	
124	Florentino (16)		Juventoyan		Real Gardaresso		Atlético Lipa		Daring Monvador
123	Real Gardaresso (16)	Racquette-22		Atlás Ciuredor		Intramura		Etxegoian
122	Real Gardaresso (15)	Florentino		Atlético Lipa		Reconquista		Llaro Marín
121	Atlás Ciuredor (16)	Real Gardaresso		Juventoyan		Edicto de Fe		Finca Cailon
120	Humberto (10)		Florentino		Atlético Lipa		Páramos			Hoqué-Coqué

1	Atlás Ciuredor
2	Real Gardaresso
3	Reconquista
4	Gallandaires
5	Racquette-22
6	Polo Sur
7	Reconquista
8	Convivencia
9	Real Gardaresso
10	Juventoyan

11	Deportivo Sixtus IV
12	Atlás Ciuredor
13	Páramos
14	Real Gardaresso
15	Juventoyan
16	Real Gardaresso
17	Humberto
18	Real Gardaresso
19	CF Arradura
20	Florentino

21	Atlás Ciuredor
22	Atlético Lipa
23	Atlético Lipa
24	Florentino
25	Juventoyan
26	Real Gardaresso
27	Atlás Ciuredor
28	Aserrío de Garriché
29	Reconquista
30	Atlás Ciuredor

31	Aserrío de Garriché
32	Laguna de Léon
33	Pelóta San Anreso
34	Atlético Lipa
35	Convivencia
36	Humberto
37	Laguna de Léon
38	Atlético Lipa
39	CF Arradura
40	Blanco Horizonte

41	Florentino
42	CF Arradura
43	Atlás Ciuredor
44	Laguna de Léon
45	Juventoyan
46	Daring Monvador
47	Atlás Ciuredor
48	Florentino
49	Atlás Ciuredor
50	Atlético Lipa

51	Polo Sur
52	Aserrío de Garriché
53	Atlético Lipa
54	Juventoyan
55	Real Gardaresso
56	Convivencia
57	Juventoyan
58	Polo Sur
59	Atlético Lipa
60	Atlético Lipa

61	Florentino
62	Juventoyan
63	Florentino
64	Atlás Ciuredor
65	Juventoyan
66	Atlás Ciuredor
67	Atlético Lipa
68	Polo Sur
69	Racquette-22
70	Atlás Ciuredor

71	Humberto
72	Deportivo Sixtus IV
73	Deportivo Sixtus IV
74	Florentino
75	Real Gardaresso
76	Atlético Lipa
77	Racquette-22
78	Atlás Ciuredor
79	Florentino
80	Pelóta San Anreso

81	Atlás Ciuredor
82	Florentino
83	Real Gardaresso
84	Humberto
85	Humberto
86	Deportivo Sixtus IV
87	Humberto
88	Florentino
89	Blanco Horizonte
90	Florentino

91	Real Gardaresso
92	Real Gardaresso
93	Florentino
94	Real Gardaresso
95	CF Arradura
96	Humberto
97	Humberto
98	Humberto
99	Juventoyan
100	Atlás Ciuredor

101	Juventoyan
102	Florentino
103	Páramos
104	Juventoyan
105	Florentino
106	Gallandaires
107	Juventoyan
108	Reconquista
109	Pelóta San Anreso
110	Aserrío de Garriché

111	Juventoyan
112	Real Gardaresso
113	Páramos
114	CF Arradura
115	Real Gardaresso
116	Convivencia
117	Florentino
118	Juventoyan
119	Atlético Lipa
120	Humberto

121	Atlás Ciuredor
122	Real Gardaresso

by **Tequilo** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:49 am

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: CHAZAPA

With Pitxi-Pitxi 77 so dominant as the nation's most successful state team, there sometimes seems little room for anyone else in the Chazapa State Championships history books. But of course the 77o don't get it all their own way, all of the time - Los Miñeros, Pingüinos, Cóndor Sezalco and especially city rivals Jaguar Ixtacomitán all play their part in making sure there is never a walkover in this league. Pitxi-Pitxi recently became only third team nationally to have won four state titles in a row after CFFA (Puezan) and Cooperativa (Ocotapa); while it is Jaguar who are the state's best Copa team with most wins. All that aside, the state's one representative in the 10-Nacional is of course the nation's biggest and best team of all time - you can't really take much away from the green-and-whites of Pitxi-Pitxi 77, they reign supreme.

Modern Era State Titles


Season	Champion		Runner-Up		Third			2-Sección Winner	3-Sección Winner

126	Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (25)	Cisne Senzapa		Jaguar Ixtacomitán	Serpentina		El Rinoceronte
125	Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (24)	Jaguar Ixtacomitán	Chazapañol		Juniors Chazapa		Hielo Permanente
124	Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (23)	Pingüinos		Asociación Olaya	Cisne Senzapa		Albarracín
123	Pitxi-Pitxi 77 (22)	Benemérito		Cóndor Sezalco		Asociación Olaya	Llamas Texidor
122	Serpentina (7)		San Joaxha		Pitxi-Pitxi 77		AS Tonalá		Hipopótamo-Joaxha
121	Jaguar Ixtacomitán (13)	Los Miñeros		Pitxi-Pitxi 77		Búfalo-66		Taíno
120	Chiapula de Corzo (1)	Los Miñeros		Benemérito		San Joaxha		Indalezio

1	Pingüinos
2	Jaguar Itxacomitán
3	Rebelión Hernandados
4	Pingüinos
5	Pingüinos
6	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
7	Benemérito
8	Jaguar Itxacomitán
9	AC Sezalco
10	Benemérito

11	Los Miñeros
12	Benemérito
13	Los Miñeros
14	Pingüinos
15	Jaguar Itxacomitán
16	Chazapañol
17	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
18	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
19	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
20	Cisne Senzapa

21	Gimnástico Calcazon
22	Benemérito
23	Zamalakarregi
24	AS Tonalá
25	Serpentina
26	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
27	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
28	Los Miñeros
29	Rebelión Hernandados
30	Jaguar Itxacomitán

31	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
32	Cisne Senzapa
33	Flechas Azules
34	AS Tonalá
35	Chazapañol
36	Académico
37	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
38	Cóndor Sezalco
39	Pingüinos
40	Los Miñeros

41	Cisne Senzapa
42	Benemérito
43	Rebelión Hernandados
44	Jaguar Itxacomitán
45	Flechas Azules
46	Chazapañol
47	Jaguar Itxacomitán
48	Cóndor Sezalco
49	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
50	Rebelión Hernandados

51	Pingüinos
52	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
53	Pingüinos
54	RCD Calzacon
55	Jaguar Itxacomitán
56	Cóndor Sezalco
57	Zamalakarregi
58	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
59	Serpentina
60	RCD Calzacon

61	Los Miñeros
62	Jaguar Itxacomitán
63	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
64	Los Miñeros
65	Los Miñeros
66	Los Miñeros
67	Chiapula de Corzo AC
68	Chazapañol
69	Cóndor Sezalco
70	Pitxi-Pitxi 77

71	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
72	Cisne Senzapa
73	Serpentina
74	Académico
75	AS Tonalá
76	Cóndor Sezalco
77	Gimnástico Calcazon
78	Cisne Senzapa
79	Cóndor Sezalco
80	Cóndor Sezalco

81	Jaguar Itxacomitán
82	Serpentina
83	AS Tonalá
84	Los Miñeros
85	Rebelión Hernandados
86	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
87	Flechas Azules
88	Los Miñeros
89	Serpentina
90	Zamalakarregi

91	Chazapañol
92	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
93	Gimnástico Calcazon
94	Benemérito
95	Cisne Senzapa
96	Los Miñeros
97	Pingüinos
98	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
99	San Joaxha
100	RCD Calzacon

101	Pingüinos
102	Cóndor Sezalco
103	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
104	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
105	Jaguar Itxacomitán
106	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
107	Serpentina
108	Cisne Senzapa
109	Zamalakarregi
110	Pingüinos

111	Pitxi-Pitxi 77
112	Benemérito
113	Gimnástico Calcazon
114	Flechas Azules
115	Jaguar Itxacomitán
116	San Joaxha
117	Pingüinos
118	Los Miñeros
119	Jaguar Itxacomitán
120	Chiapula de Corzo AC

121	Jaguar Itxacomitán
122	Serpentina

by **Tequilo** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:03 am

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: GUASTENANGO

The cloud forest state of Guastenango boasts two teams in the 10-Nacional and they are certainly the two dominant clubs in state football, with no-one coming close to matching them over time. Trading titles down the years, Acacoyagua and SC Pedregal are historically peerless in the mountains and forests of this mystical place; one team alone shows any sign of catching them - Equipo Caimán. Yet we must not forget there are some other sizeable clubs with plenty of glamour attached to them, notably Raití city rivals SC and Inter, and the 'upstart' team, Tequiloa. Despite the dominance of the big two here, no-one in the state has yet managed an historic three-in-a-row, the only state championship where such a feat has not been achieved. The state also boasts one of the nation's most successful Copa team in El Quetan CF, who have become cup specialists down the years.

Modern Era State Titles


Season	Champion		Runner-Up		Third			2-Sección Winner	3-Sección Winner

126	SC Raití (10)		El Quetan CF		SC Pedregal		Indigo Huayna		CF Blay de Sant Roman
125	SC Pedregal (19)	El Quetan CF		Acacoyagua		SC Raití		Iberamericano
124	Ciupa Azul (7)		SC Pedregal		Índigo Huayna		Gimnástico Chichiguina	RC Olentzaro
123	Equipo Caimán (13)	SC Pedregal		Acacoyagua		Ocozoxhuatla		Hércules Ciupa
122	SC Pedregal (18)	Acacoyagua		El Quetan CF		Gimnástico Chichiguina	Arsenál Ciupa
121	Correcaminos (6)	Acacoyagua		SC Raití		Racing Guadatral	Costello Raití
120	Acacoyagua (18)		SC Raití		Inter Raití		Helmántico		Ocozoxhualta

1	Tequiloa
2	Esqueletos
3	Ciupa Azul
4	Inter Raití
5	Tequiloa
6	SC Raití
7	SC Raití
8	Ciupa Azul
9	Correcaminos
10	Equipo Caimán

11	Tequiloa
12	SC Pedregal
13	Sporta Oroboros
14	Bocas del Toro
15	Inter Raití
16	Ciupa Azul
17	SC Raití
18	Inter Raití
19	Caballero AC
20	Equipo Caimán

21	Índigo Huayna
22	Acacoyagua
23	Acacoyagua
24	SC Raití
25	SC Bozoa
26	SC Pedregal
27	SC Pedregal
28	Acacoyagua
29	Índigo Huayna
30	Acacoyagua

31	Racing Guadatral
32	Acacoyagua
33	Inter Raití
34	SC Pedregal
35	Acacoyagua
36	Índigo Huayna
37	El Quetan CF
38	Petrolero
39	Ciupa Azul
40	Equipo Caimán

41	Acacoyagua
42	Tequiloa
43	Acacoyagua
44	El Quetan CF
45	SC Pedregal
46	Esqueletos
47	Equipo Caimán
48	Ciupa Azul
49	Correcaminos
50	Ciupa Azul

51	Bocas del Toro
52	Petrolero
53	Correcaminos
54	SC Raití
55	Racing Guadatral
56	Equipo Caimán
57	SC Raití
58	SC Raití
59	SC Pedregal
60	Equipo Caimán

61	Inter Raití
62	Esqueletos
63	SC Raití
64	Bocas del Toro
65	Esqueletos
66	Bocas del Toro
67	Equipo Caimán
68	SC Pedregal
69	Equipo Caimán
70	SC Raití

71	Tequiloa
72	SC Pedregal
73	SC Pedregal
74	Sporta Oroboros
75	SC Pedregal
76	Índigo Huayna
77	Tequiloa
78	Tequiloa
79	SC Pedregal
80	Acacoyagua

81	SC Pedregal
82	El Quetan CF
83	El Quetan CF
84	Acacoyagua
85	SC Pedregal
86	Índigo Huayna
87	Acacoyagua
88	Caballero AC
89	Equipo Caimán
90	Petrolero

91	Equipo Caimán
92	Racing Guadatral
93	Caballero AC
94	SC Pedregal
95	Gimnástico Chichiguina
96	SC Bozoa
97	Correcaminos
98	El Quetan CF
99	Tequiloa
100	Acacoyagua

101	Equipo Caimán
102	Esqueletos
103	El Quetan CF
104	SC Pedregal
105	Acacoyagua
106	Sporta Oroboros
107	Racing Guadatral
108	Petrolero
109	Correcaminos
110	Inter Raití

111	Petrolero
112	Acacoyagua
113	Tequiloa
114	SC Pedregal
115	Acacoyagua
116	Acacoyagua
117	Equipo Caimán
118	Acacoyagua
119	SC Pedregal
120	Acacoyagua

121	Correcaminos
122	SC Pedregal

by **Tequilo** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:30 am

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: MARANCO

The Maranco State Championship is historically perhaps the most competitive and hardest to win of the six states, and it's most successful teams, Motozintla & Resplendiente, are only narrowly ahead of a whole host of very competitive teams, notably Xicoa, Alianza, Continente and Universitario, along with one of the older powerhouses of Tequiloan pitxi - Las Guías Oriente. They were, a century ago or even fifty years ago, the outright best pair in the whole country and one of only two in the state to win the championship three-in-a-row - along with Moto. But Resplendiente lead the batch of teams that have caught and surpassed them in modern times. Los Cuervos are also tied with Oriente as the state's best Copa team.

Modern Era State Titles


Season	Champion		Runner-Up		Third			2-Sección Winner	3-Sección Winner

126	Motozintla (16)		Xicoa			Resplendiente		Alianza Tirinto		Sindicato Torente
125	Motozintla (15)		Resplendiente		Macarada Gaona		Clazada Larga		Capitán Belmoro
124	Motozintla (14)		Xicoa			Resplendiente		Deportivo Torente 	SC Kukalayos
123	Xicoa (13)		Continente Tulan	Resplendiente		1492 Carranza		Qiwa Tulan
122	Xicoa (12)		Resplendiente		Las Guías Oriente	AS Matiguás		Toro Reyes
121	Comitán Argente (6)	Tumuloa Xico		Las Guías Oriente	Flamencos		Chimpancés Guayabal
120	Motozintla (13)		Resplendiente		Xicoa			Macarado Gaona		Toro Reyes

1	Internacional CF
2	Xicoa
3	La Milega AC
4	Motozintla
5	Universitario
6	La Milega AC
7	Xicoa
8	Las Guías Oriente
9	Resplendiente
10	Deportivo Torente

11	Motozintla
12	La Milega AC
13	Resplendiente
14	Macarada Gaona
15	Motozintla
16	Internacional CF
17	Alianza Tirinto
18	Resplendiente
19	Universitario
20	Xicoa

21	Continente Tulan
22	Motozintla
23	Xicoa
24	Alianza Tirinto
25	Fortuna Tulan
26	Tumuloa Xico
27	Macarada Gaona
28	Xicoa
29	Las Guías Oriente
30	Alianza Tirinto

31	Motozintla
32	Resplendiente
33	Las Guías Oriente
34	Las Guías Oriente
35	Xicoa
36	Motozintla
37	Las Guías Oriente
38	Las Guías Oriente
39	Las Guías Oriente
40	Alianza Tirinto

41	Motozintla
42	Motozintla
43	Motozintla
44	Alianza Tirinto
45	Universitario
46	Fortuna Tulan
47	Fortuna Tulan
48	Alianza Tirinto
49	Alianza Tirinto
50	Continente Tulan

51	SC Tescoa
52	Comitán Argente
53	Fortuna Tulan
54	Xicoa
55	Motozintla
56	Las Guías Oriente
57	Universitario
58	Las Guías Oriente
59	Internacional CF
60	Comitán Argente

61	Universitario
62	Resplendiente
63	Continente Tulan
64	Universitario
65	Continente Tulan
66	Universitario
67	AS Matiguás
68	Motozintla
69	Tumuloa Xico
70	La Milega AC

71	SC Tescoa
72	Continente Tulan
73	SC Tescoa
74	Comitán Argente
75	Resplendiente
76	AS Matiguás
77	Alianza Tirinto
78	Deportivo Torente
79	Tumuloa Xico
80	Universitario

81	Xicoa
82	Xicoa
83	Continente Tulan
84	Resplendiente
85	Las Guías Oriente
86	Macarada Gaona
87	Resplendiente
88	Comitán Argente
89	Deportivo Torente
90	Resplendiente

91	La Milega AC
92	Xicoa
93	Continente Tulan
94	Universitario
95	Alianza Tirinto
96	Resplendiente
97	Resplendiente
98	Xicoa
99	Continente Tulan
100	Comitán Argente

101	Alianza Tirinto
102	Alianza Tirinto
103	Equipo Muna
104	Macarada Gaona
105	Continente Tulan
106	Macarada Gaona
107	Resplendiente
108	Macarada Gaona
109	Las Guías Oriente
110	Continente Tulan

111	Fortuna Tulan
112	Resplendiente
113	Motozintla
114	Alianza Tirinto
115	Resplendiente
116	Fortuna Tulan
117	Macarada Gaona
118	Resplendiente
119	Las Guías Oriente
120	Motozintla

121	Comitán Argente
122	Xicoa

by **Tequilo** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:41 am

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: OCOTAPA

Two teams sit astride the Ocotapa State Championship, and close to the pinnacle of the national game too - El Térifico rivals Fábrica Tapalupé and Argón Tacranza. It's The Factory vs. The Argonauts. The Spanners vs. The Squids. Like Acacoyagua and SC Pedregal in Guastenango State, these two certainly feel like they own the Maranco state championship between them, although Péloton & Cooperativa will have something to say about that. Fábrica perhaps hold the advantage as the state's best Copa team. After Pitxi-Pitxi 77 & CFFA, they are probably the best two sides nationally from an historical perspective. But one team holds an enviable record that neither can match: Cooperativa's four state titles in a row back in the 80s, one of only three times this was achieved anywhere in Tequilo, is beyond the big two of El Térifico.

Modern Era State Titles


Season	Champion		Runner-Up		Third			2-Sección Winner	3-Sección Winner

126	Ascension SP (2)	Argón Tacranza		Pelotón			Socrates		Distrito Atela
125	Fábrica Tapalupé (19)	Argón Tacranza		Haïtiens		Estudiantes Tacranza	611 Rosado
124	Independiencia (9)	Pelotón			Argón Tacranza		Boca Cielo		Coyotes
123	Pelotón	(11)		Galaxía			Argón Tacranza		Cuba Tapalupé		Gil de Roblado
122	Fábrica Tapalupé (18)	Cooperativa		Argón Tacranza		Ascension San Pasito	Cuba Tapalupé
121	Argón Tacranza (17)	Haïtiens		Naranja			Socrates		Nacionál SP
120	Argón Tacranza (16)	Fábrica Tapalupé	Cooperativa		Haïtiens		611 Rosado

1	Galaxía
2	Ascension San Pasito
3	Fábrica Tapalupé
4	Irregulares Quetodino
5	Chapulineros
6	Independiencia
7	Fábrica Tapalupé
8	AS Ferrocarril
9	Independiencia
10	SC Bravo Cuahjuluca

11	Argón Tacranza
12	Pelotón
13	Chapulineros
14	Independiencia
15	Fábrica Tapalupé
16	Haitïens
17	Fábrica Tapalupé
18	Argón Tacranza
19	Naranja
20	Fábrica Tapalupé

21	Cimarrones Desatas
22	Fábrica Tapalupé
23	SC Bravo Cuahjuluca
24	SC Hormigas
25	Pelotón
26	SC Hormigas
27	Argón Tacranza
28	Cooperativa
29	Fábrica Tapalupé
30	Independiencia

31	Fábrica Tapalupé
32	Chapulineros
33	Argón Tacranza
34	SC Marcapira
35	Cimarrones Desatas
36	SC Hormigas
37	SC Hormigas
38	Haitïens
39	Naranja
40	Haitïens

41	SC Bravo Cuahjuluca
42	AS Ferrocarril
43	Cooperativa
44	Pelotón
45	AS Ferrocarril
46	SC Hormigas
47	Irregulares Quetodino
48	Naranja
49	Argón Tacranza
50	Galaxía

51	SC Marcapira
52	Naranja
53	Fábrica Tapalupé
54	Socrates
55	Fábrica Tapalupé
56	Naranja
57	Argón Tacranza
58	Cimarrones Desatas
59	Argón Tacranza
60	Independiencia

61	Galaxía
62	Haitïens
63	SC Hormigas
64	Argón Tacranza
65	Independiencia
66	Argón Tacranza
67	Pelotón
68	Estudiantes
69	Independiencia
70	Pelotón

71	Argón Tacranza
72	Estudiantes
73	Galaxía
74	Galaxía
75	Cooperativa
76	Fábrica Tapalupé
77	Fábrica Tapalupé
78	Galaxía
79	Estudiantes
80	Cooperativa

81	Cooperativa
82	Cooperativa
83	Cooperativa
84	Chapulineros
85	Argón Tacranza
86	AS Ferrocarril
87	Fábrica Tapalupé
88	Argón Tacranza
89	Naranja
90	SC Hormigas

91	AS Ferrocarril
92	SC Hormigas
93	AS Ferrocarril
94	Fábrica Tapalupé
95	Pelotón
96	AS Ferrocarril
97	Galaxía
98	Fábrica Tapalupé
99	Naranja
100	Naranja

101	Socrates
102	Fábrica Tapalupé
103	Naranja
104	Cooperativa
105	Pelotón
106	Argón Tacranza
107	SC Marcapira
108	Irregulares Quetodino
109	Cooperativa
110	Cooperativa

111	Independiencia
112	Estudiantes
113	Argón Tacranza
114	Cooperativa
115	Argón Tacranza
116	Pelotón
117	Pelotón
118	Fábrica Tapalupé
119	Pelotón
120	Argón Tacranza

121	Argón Tacranza
122	Fábrica Tapalupé

by **Tequilo** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:49 am

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: PUEZAN

Home of the second most successful state team across all Tequilo, the Puezan State Championship has had it's fair share of glory in the form of mighty CF Frantxizko-A, commonly CFFA or The Golds, the only team who, until recently, managed to keep pace with Pitxi-Pitxi 77 of Chazapa state, and the undisputed kings of Puezan. A long barren spell has allowed other big clubs to take back some glory, particularly Unuiĝinta and the Ibaeta city rivals Sporta and Urbo; but the small provincial Peru Urzagui have moved themselves into the distant second place while CFFA prevaricate. The Golds also hold the record as most successful Copa team in Tequilo, and were the first and so far one of only three clubs to win four state championships in a row.

Modern Era State Titles


Season	Champion		Runner-Up		Third			2-Sección Winner	3-Sección Winner

126	Unuiĝinta (13)		Erreal Tiresias		CF Frantxizko-A		Argentinako		Bolivaro
125	Sporta Ibaeta (13)	CF Frantxizko-A		KKA Bixintxo		Atléta Idal		Urugaiko 
124	CF Frantxizko-A (22)	FT Orazun		Sporta Ibaeta		Urbo Polibio		Urzagui CF-72
123	Peru Urzagui (12)	Urbo Ibaeta		CF Frantxizko-A		Telmo-Léao		Wanderers AK
122	Unuiĝinta (12)		Peru Urzagui		KKA Bixintxo		Argentinako		Cáfunda
121	Erreal Tiresias (10)	Peru Urzagui		Unuiĝinta		Batasuna Telmo		Lotsagarria
120	KKA Bixintxo (8)	Peru Urzagui		CF Frantxizko-A		Atléta Reten		Bezala

1	Unuiĝinta
2	Unuiĝinta
3	Erreal Tiresias
4	Sporta Ibaeta
5	Erreal Tiresias
6	CF Frantxizko-A
7	Sporta Ibaeta
8	FT Orazun
9	Unuiĝinta
10	CF Frantxizko-A

11	Sporta Ibaeta
12	Atléta Reten
13	Batasuna Telmo
14	CF Frantxizko-A
15	CF Frantxizko-A
16	Urbo Ibaeta
17	SC Azcarreta
18	Peru Urzagui
19	Demokrito
20	Atléta Reten

21	Atléta Reten
22	Sporta Ibaeta
23	Demokrito
24	Sporta Ibaeta
25	Atléta Reten
26	KKA Bixintxo
27	Sporta Ibaeta
28	FT Orazun
29	Unuiĝinta
30	Demokrito

31	FT Orazun
32	SC Azcarreta
33	Sarrazenos
34	Urbo Ibaeta
35	Atléta Reten
36	CF Frantxizko-A
37	Peru Urzagui
38	Sporta Ibaeta
39	Peru Urzagui
40	FT Orazun

41	FT Orazun
42	CF Frantxizko-A
43	Erreal Tiresias
44	Sarrazenos
45	Urbo Ibaeta
46	Peru Urzagui
47	KKA Bixintxo
48	KKA Bixintxo
49	Polibio
50	Urbo Ibaeta

51	Urbo Ibaeta
52	Olimpika
53	Sporta Ibaeta
54	CF Frantxizko-A
55	CF Frantxizko-A
56	CF Frantxizko-A
57	CF Frantxizko-A
58	Aliantza Iparra
59	Peru Urzagui
60	Nómada

61	CF Frantxizko-A
62	Unuiĝinta
63	Argentinako
64	CF Frantxizko-A
65	SC Azcarreta
66	CF Frantxizko-A
67	Urbo Ibaeta
68	Atléta Reten
69	Unuiĝinta
70	Demokrito

71	Peru Urzagui
72	Unuiĝinta
73	Aliantza Iparra
74	Demokrito
75	Atléta Reten
76	KKA Bixintxo
77	Demokrito
78	Batasuna Telmo
79	CF Frantxizko-A
80	Erreal Tiresias

81	CF Frantxizko-A
82	Sporta Ibaeta
83	Urbo Ibaeta
84	CF Frantxizko-A
85	CF Frantxizko-A
86	Urbo Ibaeta
87	Aliantza Iparra
88	Unuiĝinta
89	Atléta Reten
90	SC Azcarreta

91	Peru Urzagui
92	KKA Bixintxo
93	Unuiĝinta
94	CF Frantxizko-A
95	Sporta Ibaeta
96	Polibio
97	Erreal Tiresias
98	Peru Urzagui
99	Demokrito
100	CF Frantxizko-A

101	CF Frantxizko-A
102	Peru Urzagui
103	Peru Urzagui
104	KKA Bixintxo
105	Sporta Ibaeta
106	Erreal Tiresias
107	Urbo Ibaeta
108	CF Frantxizko-A
109	Unuiĝinta
110	Erreal Tiresias

111	Unuiĝinta
112	Peru Urzagui
113	Sporta Ibaeta
114	Urbo Ibaeta
115	KKA Bixintxo
116	Urbo Ibaeta
117	Erreal Tiresias
118	Unuiĝinta
119	Erreal Tiresias
120	KKA Bixintxo

121	Erreal Tiresias
122	Unuiĝinta

by **Tequilo** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 6:55 am

The principle asset of the Unión de Pitxi Tequilo - that's the FA to you and me - and headquarters is the magnificent former Palacio Aratinco, once home of despots in waiting, and now the famous museum of everything football in Tequilo. In this article we reproduce a recorded lecture by Assistant Curator of the museum Exidio Coyopa of Socrates which briefly outlines the development of this wonderful site. Here, Señor Coyopa speaks to a party of tourists from around the multiverse who are exploring the museum.

MUSEO de PITXI
1, Plaza Pitxi, Camino Recto, Distrito Socrates, Tapalupé

Welcome, welcome back from the café - I hope your break was pleasant and you did not go overboard on the intoxicants, dear turistas. Do join my tour group as we proceed through the fascinating history of pitxi - that is football to you - in Tequilo, informed by the exhibitions of this wonderful museum, set in the old palace of La Familia Aratinco. Should you have any questions along the way, do not hesitate to ask, and I, Exidio Coyopa of Socrates, Assistant Curator, will be happy to help. My knowledge is encyclopaedic, to quote a review in the Stowaway City-Break Guide for Tapalupé City, and my language skills are quite something to behold, they say. So please, your rarely asked questions.

RAQ: Can you tell us a bit more about La Familia?

Okay, Señor, a pertinent question.

The Aratincos had been poor farmers of this region for a couple of centuries, and hard workers too, but they were of Antivadorio stock originally and therefore inclined to haughtiness and self-importance. The fruits of their labour were widespread estancias built over time, and gradually they became one of the wealthiest families in Ocotapa - but being of Antivadorio inclinations, preferred not to mix in fancy society of the vibrant young city of Tapalupé.

You there, young boy, with the plastic tiara and your hand in the air, what is it?

RAQ: Does this have anything at all to do with pitxi, or is this just a boring history lesson?

Well, that is very forward for a small child. And yes, it does have something to do with pitxi, since they built a magnificent house and you are now standing it, learning all about the sport. So I should say it has a lot to do with pitxi. Now I will kindly request your parents take you in hand for a bit while I finish this introduction, when you will see that it has everything to do with pitxi. Now, where was I?

I suppose the boy does have a point, the whole history is probably a lesson for a whole other thread, but in summary, by and by, the Arantincos lived on the edges of fancy society and despite being the richest of people in the old country of Ocotapa, they had deliberately isolated themselves; and as often is the case, came to resent being isolated even though it was of their own making, and wanted to prove themselves the better people. By the time of Baztan Aratinco, La Familia considered themselves far superior to just about anyone, anywhere; and Baztan, doing some early genealogical work on the family tree, asserted - probably with a dash of exaggeration and a very large helping of historical fiction - that he could trace a line back to an old monarchy of the great progenitor empire long forgotten, the royal family of Costelloa; he asserted his claim on a new crown for all the nations of the region and applied for title through various means that included bureaucratic, propaganda, administrative fraud and armed methods of acquisition. He also tried the performative approach - act like a King and people will accept that you must be one. He built a palace - this palace - and entertained royalty from all over the multiverse in an effort to be invited into the secret sect, The Free Architects of the New Multiversal Order. But he never got the invite, and in any case it really was just a tennis club for royal relatives, and Baztan I of Ocotapa & The Índigo Nations - self-appointed - was too coarse and not related to anyone, so they wouldn’t let him in. The royalty claim eventually failed, as Baztan was laughed at in both royal circles and Ocotapa high society as a snooty pretentious farmer.

It was about this time that modernist dictatorship and totalitarianism was really catching on in other parts of the world, and Baztan’s son, Alberto, was reaching adulthood. Frustrated by the failure of his father and disillusioned by the promises of a hopeless monarchial bid, Alberto was attracted to this new model of acquisitive avarice and decided that Might Was Right; instituting his own army. I will not go into the whole bloody history of the War of The Cacti here, for fear of boring little Junior Tiara over there, but the self-appointed General Aratinco and his private army were key belligerents in one of Tequilo’s dark periods in history; and he almost won, too. Thankfully a number of idealist all-rounders including Simon Paravar, Túvilca Bamba and Uropa Tequilo Mérika managed the final victory to defeat the dictator General, and out of darkness rose modern Tequilo, a unification of six nations and the three índigo empires. The gross dictator General was captured in the mountains and, since we have children present, shall we just say he was dealt with, and that was the end of that sorry affair.

General Aratinco’s daughter Aularia Santos Aratinco, the only surviving member of the family, lived on in an increasingly dilapidated palace, as the family farming empire was sold off to pay debts to society. She became a well-loved philanthropist, devoting her time to helping the poor of the new nation of Tequilo, donating all her dwindling fortune over time into promoting health and wellbeing - this included the new trend for athletics clubs. She founded the Aratinco Poor People’s Athletic Society, and from that we still have today Santos Aratinco, a minor second tier club of Tapalupé. Aularia’s final act was to bequeath the family palace to the newly founded UPT, the pitxi authority, who have lovingly restored the palace as the Museo de Pitxi as well as, on the upper floor, its own headquarters.

And so you see, boy with the plastic tiara - it was about the pitxi! Ha!

by **Tequilo** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:48 am

CIUDAD de PITXI
Distrito Quezaldad, Tapalupé

The national stadium, the jewel in the crown of Tequilo's 'Football City' development centre of El Unión (that's the national FA to you and me), opened it's turnstiles for the first time with three 'test matches' against the confederation champions of Ao, Rushmore and Esportiva as part of Tequilo's winning debut in the Eagles Cup. Built over the top of the former 'character' suburb of Quezaldad on the outskirts of the capital city Tapalupé, it had become a complete white elephant as the Unión failed to progress from demolishing a residential zone of some 300,000 people into building the dream centre. After eight years of ruin, new Unión project manager Carolina Ruiz got the whole thing erected inside twelve months and was subsequently voted Unión President for Life. After hosting Cassadaigua in the opening event, followed by ties against The Commonwealth of Baker Park and Nova Anglicana de Esportiva, Ciudad de Pitxi now looks forward to hosting it's first ever NS World Cup fixtures for Los Pitxileros.

The headquarters of the Unión, formerly located in the Museo de Pitxi in the Socrates district, has moved to state of the art facilities in the Ciudad, which includes the national stadium; a second stadium, the Estadio Juvenil with a capacity of 32,300 to host secondary games including the national amateur People's Cup Final, youth internationals and most likely future internationals within hosted tournaments; the national physiotherapy centre; the Escuela Nacional de Pitxi or national football school to help development of Tequilo's youth players; and the commercial headquarters of several sports-related companies including sportswear manufacturers Natty kit., sports data company XK-OpTeq, Bonesea sports publisher BoldSport and their Tequiloan imprint GOLa (trading as GOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLa!!!), and multiversal scouting group KickAdviser™. It is also expected the famous Museo de Pitxi will eventually move there, or at least open a second facility in 'Football City'. Having won the tenth edition of The Eagle's Cup, a fully-fitted Eagle's Club will be constructed in the district in due course.

To increase revenue, both stadiums have taken on domestic tenant teams with Fábrica Tapalupé, the state of Ocotapa's most successful team with 19 state championships, enthusiastically moving into the national stadium, thus succeeding Real Gardaresso as the domestic team with the largest stadium - by ten seats. Meanwhile Galaxía, without a proper home these last nine years since the demolition of Quezaldad and their ramshackle Domo Galaxía stadium, will be delighted to upgrade as tenants of the Estadio Juvenil.

TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING
THE WHITE ELEPHANT THAT BECAME THE HOME OF FOOTBALL

A vision of the future of the national team sport made real, 'Football City' was an idea that became a great big hole in the ground; it cost some very senior officials their job, and eventually, made careers for others. Like a phoenix rising out of the detritus, this spectacular and surely the cleanest district of the 'Tapa-sprawl' is a bold statement of intent... but 'bold' and 'intent' are only a part of the story.

If you take the Tonorobos Rápido expressway out toward the suburb of Quezaldad, in the sprawling capital city of Tapalupé, Tequilo, you will eventually come upon the massive construction site of La Ciudad de Pitxi - The City of Football emerging from the mud and rubble of this once poor and crowded district. It is not much of an appealing site right now - but then Quezaldad never was much, and knocking most of it down has certainly been an improvement; but one day, a shining monument to the ambition of the Unión de Pitxi Tequilo - that’s the FA to you and me - will stand proud on this site; 2.5 square kilometres of prime football development location including the brand new national stadium.

SEÑOR LEPE’S PITXI PLAN
“It’s quite simple really,” says Señor Lepe, President of the UPT, “we just have to win everthing and dominate everyone.” Well, that’s easy for him to say - it was his philosophy as a player and he did find that quite simple really: in Tequilo, he won everything, beat everyone. But Lepe is talking bigger now. He is talking about The Multiverse. At club level, at international level. And especially, at player level. He wants the best of everything, he’s willing to spend to get it, and he has the backers. To some, maybe, it’s a pact with the devil, or devils: The Oroboros Cooperative, a seemingly limitless resource - the investment arm based in Taxhavn, financiers of the former rise to footballing power of Tamarindia, of Wight, of Bonesea (albeit briefly, and with… uncomfortable… endings: “don’t worry about that,” says Lepe, “we will be different”); and with Satélite Boldsport, some foreign media company with preposterously deep pockets and connections to the underworld. Well, Wight, again. Same same. But more about the complex financial deals Señor Lepe has signed off on another time - with all that cash in their pockets, what are the UPT planning - apart from world domination?

The masterplan is already visibly underway and undeniably promising: unifying the six states of Tequilo to produce a national team for the World Cup and other tournaments? Check. And with a Baptism of Fire semi-final, a top half group finish in WC qualifying, reaching the knockout rounds of their debut Cup of Harmony - initial results are promising. Next - build a commercialised national league for the country that can generate serious revenue as well as getting recognition for Tequiloan club teams on the wider stage? Check. Liga-TQ enters it’s second season already a success in the eyes of the Tequiloa, and what’s more, clubs have not generally made a complete ass of themselves in IFCF and IFF international club competitions this season. In fact, one or two have done remarkably well. Next - concentrate on the kids? Check. Liga-J provided excellent competition for the under-19s, and let’s not forget a very acceptable bronze medal finish in the Under-18 World Championship. The kids are alright. Add in a development under-21 team for the Mike Sarzo Memorial Trophy (oh dear) and under-23 for the Independent Association Championships (gulp), with developmental coaching as part of the package, and you have age pathways for all the best players. Next - start bidding for international hosting duties to further the profile of the domestic game? Check. Voting? Well, let’s not get into that now, it’s mere detail…

All you need now is a unified coaching philosophy taught at a bespoke centre to further advance the quality of football in Tequilo, a place to play and learn, and a national stadium to be proud of. And that is where the City of Football in Quezaldad suburb, Tapalupé comes in. Forty pitches; two junior stadiums; the 100,000-seater national stadium; full training facilities; hotels and admin centres; a host of innovations to assist in the innovation of the game and the grand plan to rule the world. Today it may be a very large hole in the ground. Tomorrow it’s the future… said Señor Lepe at the end of our interview. But who is paying for all this? And what was here before Pitxi? Should we care?

CASH TO BURN
It’s an old saying in Tequilo - understand the sequence of the resplendent jackdaw in flight, and you will come to anticipate the order of movements that divine the hiding place of the secret and elusive rattleworm. Often that is abbreviated to the more pragmatic but less whimsical ‘follow the money’.

Who is funding Señor Lepe’s grand scheme to dominate world football, and why? Answer the first part of that question, and you can pretty quickly surmise the latter. It may surprise, and it may come to worry you, when you know. But you need to know, if you are a good honest Tequiloan with a healthy distrust of the mischievous spirits of Confusiónism. Uncanny business is afoot. At first glance, you may not think so. You’ll be saying, it’s this huge broadcast TV deal, right? Yes. It is partly that - Satélite Boldsport, a foreign media company with preposterously deep pockets, has paid enough money down to invest heavily in the modern commercial enterprise of Liga-TQ, and the rest will follow off the back of that. But wait, Satélite who? Isn’t that name familiar? Boldsport? And no, it’s not another Havynwilde duplication service. Boldsport is the money that funded Bonesea’s rise to (almost) the top of world football. Ok, so that’s no big deal for a big deal is it? Media corporation funds football league?

Well - then there is the contract to build the City of Football. That went to Heavy Products, and they are based in Taxhavn. Which used to be in Rushmore, a hundred years ago, until the nation was forcibly exiled during one of those dubious Maxtopian Z-Day apocalyptic crashes. That happened about the same time as the poor residents of The Septen Islands were forcibly removed from Ao during the same multiversal crisis. And Banque Sept-Nat, which is the principal financial partner in the construction, was of course founded as the national bank of the Septen Islands, with it’s central reserve held in Taxhavn. Then there was a third forced ethnic cleansing during the Z-Day land grab: the Wightlings, forced from Ao along with their Septen neighbours and sent to the Rejected Realms. It was the Wightlings who rose to power in world football funded by their mysterious Oroboros Cooperative, a syndicate of murky finances that had previously been linked to both the rise and fall of our near neighbours and good friends in Tamarindia - a nation that also started to look like it might become a power until… The Fall. Sponsored, allegedly, by the Oroboros Cooperative. And when Wight fell, and Taxhavn, and Bonesea, like dominoes - the OC was there, and remains there.

The Oroboros Cooperative - a shadowy Wightling syndicate funding power surges, collapses and restorations since way back when, and - get this - the majority stakeholders in a wide range of syndicates including, amongst others, Boldsport, Heavy Products, Banque Sept-Nat, and Grupo Taxhavn. At the bottom of all this cash to burn, is a dark, dangerous wight with a match and a can of chlorine trifluoride, The Oroboros Cooperative. What are they up to? Who can understand the Wightling Agenda? But whatever it is, nations that take the Oroboros doubloon tend not to last long enough to find out. Will Tequilo be next to suffer a Catastrophic Termination Event?

THE MAN WITH THE PLAN
They call him Dik ten Beuenk, and he comes from Mustardy. Now I don’t know about you, but I hadn’t even heard of Mustardy until two World Cups ago - the small island nation entered for the first and only time, didn’t do very well, didn’t do atrociously badly, and disappeared from view again. A little below par, but certainly in the realm of ordinary and, frankly, easily missed. I bet most people didn’t notice at the time, and have long since forgotten the shock win in South Covello, the highlight of an otherwise dull qualifying campaign. Hardly the stuff of dreams; not somewhere you would look for a mastermind of football. No offence, Mustardos of the world. When Tequilo announced it would send a national team to the last Baptism of Fire tournament to take it’s international bow, the announcement of Dik ten Beuenk as Team Director raised a few eyebrows, but not many. The logic was sound - he had guided a new entrant in the last cycle, picked up a shock win, a few half decent results, and had ensured a very small nation was never humiliated. It didn’t sound very ambitious to get such a man, but at the same time, it sounded unusually pragmatic for the UPT.

Skip forward three years, and Dik ten Beuenk is the mastermind behind a football revolution. How did that happen? He is advising at every level of the game. He designed the new Liga-TQ format. He’s the brains behind the coaching progression that has placed prominent older players in coaching positions with the junior national teams. He’s co-designed a technical and tactical strategy for the national team and is mastermind of the City of Football project, a vast development centre to make Tequilo a dominant force in football over an undisclosed period. This might sound fanciful and maybe it is, but they have not had a bad start. Dik ten Beuenk, it seems, might just be a genius. But a genius from… Mustardy? A small island of hardly any inhabitants, not even enough to fill up the small Socrates district of our own capital here in Tapalupé. Can that be right?

We took a look back at the archives. There is almost nothing on the man - except… one little thing. One tiny throwaway mention in an obscure forum post. A problem with Mustardy passports, just a small incident. They are, apparently, nigh impossible for the international community to verify, and there is often a hint - or worry - of fakery. Mustardy passports might not be what they seem, and Mustardy passport holders may not be who they say they are. So, who exactly is Dik ten Beuenk? Certainly, we cannot argue that he knows his pitxi. He has a background in business too, according to his sketchy bio on the Locked Off professional networking site, where it states his work with the Barque syndicate to a senior level before switching to football… that would be Barque, of Tamarindian origin, who transferred operations to Bonesea after The Fall. He is quite old too - old enough now to have been about the right age to switch from maritime work to football at the time when Bonesea were making waves in the world - led by a genius strategist who had switched from being a sailor to a football coach. We propose that he’s not from Mustardy at all. We propose that was a sham, a cover-up, a diversion: he’s from Bonesea. And there is only one genius football strategist from Bonesea who had once been a sailor, masterminded the rise of the nation to the top of world football, and conceived of ‘World Cup Island’ - an island of stadia, training facilities, rehabilitation, accommodation; an integrated football-based centre not unlike his masterplan for the City of Football. Dik ten Beuenk, we suggest, is he.

Pythagoras Jones, the brains behind Bonesea.

THE DISLOCATED
The old district of Quetzaldad in Tapalupé had its attractions and a certain charm - kilometres of narrow alleyways and shutts full of traders of dubious wares, intoxicants, and life-affirming (or exterminating) adventures; ‘lively’ markets; rambunctious mariachi and latin shanties; pickpockets, shiners, rum cullies, tricksters, brazen trollops, bold deceivers and sharps; all types of the rodent genus including but not limited to sewer rats, street rats, desert rats, cactus rats, tile rats, strutting rats, dog rats and the famously aggressive alley rats; overcoat confectioners and tobacconists; shamans and brujas and even a few wights-in-residence; all manner of wild tapas, grills and barbecues; beer sloshing everywhere; bent coppers, runaway soldiers and drunk sailors; every girl and/or guy of your dreams shoulder to shoulder with those of your nightmares; shrunken heads and goatballs; wisdom, knowledge, experience, joy, delight, and terror; gold trinkets that cost nowt but spare change and pig nickel chips that would’ve cost you everything… it wasn’t for the faint of heart.

All that is gone now - or going; buried under a thousand tons of rubble. Everything came down.

But where has everyone gone, and what do they think about their former den of a thousand iniquities, cemented now in the foundations of a sporting dream and shiny architectural delights? Rubèn Curto grew up in Quetzaldad’s narrow and lively alleyways, the son of a tanner or hidemonger. We spoke to him about his life in the district, and the time that came for him to be relocated. He went to school in the overcrowded rooms of the institution buildings, and left when he was eleven to collect faeces for the tannery - “five chèlins for a handful” - and under his father’s watchful eye, he refused to join the local gang or cuadrilla, The Many Hands; he spent his youth kicking a can down the alleys or reading second-hand books he bought with his shitmoney or which he stole from outside old bookshops. Later he earned a living selling overpriced trinkets to tourists and lost people - well, mostly lost people - and discovered he had an eye for antiques. His work strayed into valuations for thieves looking to fence stolen goods, he worked the occasional auction and got a stall at one of the famous character night markets. Sometimes he boosted his income as a taxi driver, or rarely, as a tour guide. He settled down with his childhood sweetheart Ginebra Pintà; they were making plans to have a family of their own, right there in the heart of Quetzaldad, although they reserved their most lavish dreams for a win on La Lotería and a fancy beach-house in Antivador. Looking back, Rùben is unequivocal about his life in ‘Queto’ as the locals call it:

“What a shitswamp,” he says, reminiscing. And then one day, the order came from the city planners. Queto was to be razed. Rùben was being moved to Chanco Condor, a village sixty kilometres away. “I mean, this place is no paradise, but Queto was the devil’s own septic tank. Thank the patron wights they are burying it.”

WHAT LIES BENEATH
Heavy excavator & crane operator Miguel Costello - known by his workmates as Tío (Uncle) Mík - has seen it all in his time. Well into his 80s, he’s still considered the best in the business and is being paid a handsome fee to work on the City of Football site, pulling down old Quezaldad and putting up a spanking new coaching and development centre for the national teams as well as the much-anticipated national stadium. Tío Mík is also a passionate detectorist and amateur archeologist, and he sees his work using cranes and diggers as an extension of that passion - a continuous treasure hunt. If there is one thing Tío loves almost as much as treasure hunting with his industrial excavator, it’s talking about what he’s found in his day. The man is a storyteller supreme, of the confusionist tradition much loved in Tequilo. We caught up with him at a cantina on the edge of Quezaldad, and it didn’t take many bottles of wightbeer to get him talking about what he’s seen and found on his latest job.

“General Chukwumeka? The Cannibal Mobster?! What a load of old tripe!’ he says, laughing off one of the more gruesome rumours coming out of the rubble of Quezaldad; “If you ask me, he’s still running the Zenegalese mafia in Valanora. Them pointy-ears is easy pickings. No, he’s not buried under Quetzaldad - although we’ve dug up a fair few concrete coffins.”

What’s that now?

“Round here,” elaborates Tío, “it’s The Many Hands Gang who ran the old town. They didn’t eat their enemies like The General does, but they sure weren’t averse to a concrete burial, when it suited them.” Tío Mík goes on to explain, rather ghoulishly, that he’s found heads severed from their bodies and bodies estranged from their heads, hands without owners and corpses without hands, all stashed within concrete foundations for buildings he’s pulled down. “The foundations of buildings built without planning or permission in the heart of old Quezaldad are the cemeteries of the honoured friends and sworn enemies of The Many Hands. If they liked you, you got buried with full honours underneath a children’s hospital. If they didn’t like you, you were probably still alive when they poured the base of an illegal apartment block into a hole they had kicked you into.”

But what of buried gold and jewels, the rumours of pirate hoards and national treasures?

“Come on,” says Tío, a pragmatist at heart, “this was Quezaldad. Even the fillings in our teeth were pig nickel: treasure! Pah! The closest any of us ever came to treasure was fresh bread without weevils, and no-one was burying fresh food in ‘Quezo’. For sure there were pirates - poor ones - but if Isla Tesoro tells us anything, it’s that they can’t leave their hard-won gains alone for five minutes on a deserted island… what chance it would last the night buried under half a million chancers and rum cullies? No, there was no treasure here, let me tell you. Just a lot of bones and restless spirits.”

by **Tequilo** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:25 am

NATIONAL TEAM RECORDS
To the end of WC cycle 87

All-Time Results (senior team): P 104 W 63 D 20 L 21 F 266 A 151 Win% 60.6
Highest NSWC Ranking: 46 (post WC86)
Highest KPB Score: 16.92 (post WC87)

Titles: IAC-12; Mike Sarzo Memorial Trophy (WCC'87);
Runner-Up - U18 World Championship-12;
Bronze Medal finishes - Baptism of Fire 72, U18 World Championship-11

Biggest Win: 8-1 vs. South Charlia, BoF-72
Highest Scoring Win: 6-5 vs. Twicetagria, BoF-72
Winning Sequence: 6 games, IAC-10 & IAC-12
Sequence Unbeaten: 11 games (twice), BoF-72 & WC-85Q/CoH-77

Heaviest Defeat: 0-3 vs. Cheergirls, WC-85Q
Highest Scoring Loss: 3-5 (twice)
Losing Sequence: 3 games, WC-85Q
Non-winning Run: 4 games, WC-85Q, WC-87Q
INDIVIDUAL RECORDS

Most Caps: Oscar Bienvenida (82)
Most Goals: Tlacolotl (52)

Highest Career Rating: Mateo Tafalla (7.52)
Most Consecutive Apps: Oscar Bienvenida (30)
Most PoM Awards: Tlacolotl (14)

Youngest Player: Niño Pinto (16)
Oldest Player: Callañuapa (36)
Youngest Scorer: Niño Pinto (16)
Oldest Scorer: Urlegi Gorostola (35)

Team Captains:

Mateo Tafalla; WC cycles 85-86
Vilca Hualla; WC cycles 87-

Team Managers*:

Mauricio Nores; Baptism of Fire 72
Isaac Martí; WC cycles 85-86
Ramiro Paredo; World Cup 87
August Toset (JUV); Cup of Harmony 79
Juan Manuel Botín; WC cycle 88

*IAC Managers:

Luka Entenza; IAC-10/11
Juan Manuel Botín; IAC-12

NATIONAL TEAM RECORDS
By Competition

INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 12
Muralos & Almuzahara

Finish: CHAMPIONS (Won 3-1, Squidroidia)
Player of the tournament: Tsttnauayui
Top Goalscorer: Alexandro Calvoecheaga, 5 goals

UNDER-18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 13
Zeta Reka Hügeltaldon

Finish: Quarterfinal
Player of the tournament: Monné
Top Goalscorer: Monné, 3 goals

MIKE SARZO MEMORIAL TROPHY
Sarzonia

Finish: CHAMPIONS (Won 3-2, HUElavia)
Player of the tournament: Jaïr Iscla
Top Goalscorer: Hugo Rabellino & Gavriel de Astudillo, 3 goals

CUP OF HARMONY 79
Cassadaigua & Northwest Kalactin

Finish: Round of 32 (Lost 2-4, Eura)
Final NSWC Ranking: 53
Player of the tournament: Niño Pinto
Top Goalscorer: Çenturion, 3 goals

WORLD CUP 87
Qualifying Stage

Group Finish: 4th/10 - eliminated
Final NSWC Ranking: 51
Player of the tournament: Tlacolotl
Top Goalscorer: Tlacolotl, 13 goals

INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 11
Gibberwilde

Finish: Quarter-Finals
Player of the tournament: Niño Pinto
Top Goalscorer: 4 players, 2 goals each

UNDER-18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 12
Cromatika

Finish: Runners-Up (Final: Lost 1-3, Hispinas)
Player of the tournament: Pep Ballera
Top Goalscorer: Urbano Noboa, 7 goals

CUP OF HARMONY 78
Ethane & Sylestone

Finish: Round of 32 (Lost 0-2, Electrum)
Final NSWC Ranking: 46
Player of the tournament: Mateo Tafalla
Top Goalscorer: Mateo Tafalla & Niño Pinto, 2 goals

WORLD CUP 86
Qualifying Stage

Group Finish: 3rd/10 - eliminated
Final NSWC Ranking: 49
Player of the tournament: Tlacolotl
Top Goalscorer: Tlacolotl, 8 goals

INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP X
Omerica

Finish: Fourth place (TPPO: Lost 0-2, Squidroidia)
Player of the tournament: Ecuador
Top Goalscorer: Ito, 5 goals

UNDER-18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 11
Commonwealth of Baker Park

Finish: Third place (TPPO: Won 1-0, Megistos)
Player of the tournament: Ostando Bertendona
Top Goalscorer: Firmino Vale, 9 goals

CUP OF HARMONY 77
Kelssek & Zwangzug

Finish: Round of 32 (Lost 0-1, Trolleborg)
Final NSWC Ranking: 71
Player of the tournament: Haize Apeiztegui
Top Goalscorer: Tlacolotl, 3 goals

WORLD CUP 85
Qualifying Stage

Group Finish: 4th/13 - eliminated
Final NSWC Ranking: 90
Player of the tournament: Callañuapa
Top Goalscorer: Tlacolotl, 15 goals

BAPTISM OF FIRE 72
Ethane, Deleclava & Appalachian Nation

Finish: Third Place (TPPO: Won 3-0, Reina)
Final NSWC Ranking: 185
Player of the tournament: Mateo Tafalla
Top Goalscorer: Roxelio Turan & Tlacolotl, tied on 8 goals

by **Tequilo** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:26 am

TAPALUPÉ, TEQUILO - Welcome to the precursor of a shiny new sports wire that will soon hit the forums once all the nice formatting is polished up and the art department at the Unión Pitxi de Tequilo - that's the sweet FA to you and me - have completed all the graphic inserts. In the meantime, forming part of the official entry form of Tequiloan clubs into the third IFCF series, allow us to give you a brief run down on the very first season of the all-new national league, Liga-TQ, which for the first time in over 120 years of football in Tequilo, provides a step beyond the individual state championships in an effort to determine a national champion for the country, and to easily nominate, on merit, entrants to the Champions League, Challenger's Cup, Liga-B Trophy, Cup Winners Cup and the FFI tournaments.

A quick note on the inaugural Liga-TQ. Naturally, nothing is simple in Tequilo. A modern unified nation comprising six former sovereign states and three indigene kingdoms, each with a proud history and unique identity, much of life remains connected to the culture and infrastructure of those individual states - and the same is true of pitxi - the Tequiloan word for football. After 120+ years of state championships, in which each state declared it's own winner, the clubs, fans and authorities are far too invested in state football to dismantle it. A unification league has never been tried before, and in order to preserve both the integrity and the status of the six championships, Liga-TQ must sit as an extension to, rather than a replacement for, the state championships. Thus, at the end of the State Championships, teams qualify on merit for the 'closura' - the Liga-TQ.

Liga-TQ itself divides into three top flight sections, each one made up of six teams - the Primera for the six state champions; the Proxima for the six state runners-up, and the Piqueno for the six third-placed teams of the state championships. Each division of six plays a round robin of ten games within their group, to decide a final table of 18. The winner of the Primera will thus be declared the national champion, while second, third and fourth in this division will be awarded births in the IFCF Challenger's Cup.

In order to confirm places for the Liga-B Trophy, the winners of each state second tier - the 2-Sección - will also compete in an end of season competition, the Liga-TQ2 Eliminatorio, to decide the second tier national winner and the three births for the Trophy.

Got it? Then let's get on with it.

Watch out for the new Liga-TQ Wire, coming soon, for a complete and preposterously detailed run-down on how the state championships played out. For now, under spoiler for those who don't have the time, are the top 5 finishers in each of the state championships.

1-Antivador              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Real Gardaresso           26   15   5   6    51   31  +20    50  Qual: Liga-TQ Primera 
 2 Racquette-22              26   13   7   6    37   30   +7    46  Qual: Liga-TQ Proxima
 3 Atlás Ciuredor            26   12   7   7    49   32  +17    43  Qual: Liga-TQ Pequeno
 4 Polo Sur                  26   12   5   9    45   43   +2    41
 5 Florentino                26   12   4  10    45   34  +11    40

   1-Chazapa                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Pitxi-Pitxi 77            26   15   8   3    54   29  +25    53  Qual: Liga-TQ Primera 
 2 Benemérito                26   15   6   5    41   22  +19    51  Qual: Liga-TQ Proxima
 3 Cóndor Sezalco            26   14   6   6    48   27  +21    48  Qual: Liga-TQ Pequeno
 4 Los Miñeros               26   13   6   7    39   29  +10    45
 5 Pingüinos                 26   11   8   7    35   31   +4    41

   1-Guastenango            Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Equipo Caimán             26   14   7   5    61   37  +24    49  Qual: Liga-TQ Primera 
 2 SC Pedregal               26   14   5   7    52   34  +18    47  Qual: Liga-TQ Proxima
 3 Acacoyagua                26   13   6   7    41   26  +15    45  Qual: Liga-TQ Pequeno
 4 Petrolero                 26   11   5  10    45   47   −2    38
 5 Índigo Huayna             26   10   7   9    50   50    0    37

   1-Maranco                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Xicoa                     26   15   5   6    53   33  +20    50  Qual: Liga-TQ Primera 
 2 Continente Tulan          26   15   4   7    49   38  +11    49  Qual: Liga-TQ Proxima
 3 Resplendiente             26   13   6   7    41   36   +5    45  Qual: Liga-TQ Pequeno
 4 Motozintla                26   12   6   8    45   34  +11    42
 5 Universitario             26   10   6  10    32   29   +3    36

   1-Ocotapa                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Pelotón                   26   14   6   6    40   29  +11    48  Qual: Liga-TQ Primera 
 2 Galaxía                   26   14   4   8    45   28  +17    46  Qual: Liga-TQ Proxima
 3 Argón Tacranza            26   13   5   8    45   31  +14    44  Qual: Liga-TQ Pequeno
 4 Cooperativa               26   13   3  10    43   41   +2    42
 5 Independiencia            26   12   5   9    47   40   +7    41

   1-Puezan                 Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Peru Urzagui              26   17   4   5    58   37  +21    55  Qual: Liga-TQ Primera 
 2 Urbo Ibaeta               26   14   7   5    50   30  +20    49  Qual: Liga-TQ Proxima
 3 CF Frantxizko-A           26   12   8   6    46   30  +16    44  Qual: Liga-TQ Pequeno
 4 Aliantza Iparra           26   12   4  10    45   43   +2    40
 5 Unuiĝinta                 26   11   6   9    38   41   −3    39

The big news here is the return, at last, of the '77os to the top, winning a record-breaking 22nd State Championship in Chazapa after an eleven-year drought. Meanwhile the so-called 'big ten' of domestic pitxi - the ten clubs with the most state championships across the country - have not fared so well with only Real Gardaresso in Antivador winning a shot at the national title; Fábrica Tapalupé didn't even make the top five, let alone the Liga-TQ in what was a disastrous season for them, finishing sixth in Ocotapa state. Meanwhile Motozintla's campaign to 'Make Moto Great Again' failed for another season as they end up fourth in Maranco.

On to the second tier, 2-Sección, where each state operates a 2-up/2-down promotion system which includes a play-off for the second spot between 2nd to 5th placed teams. This season, each 2-Sección winner also qualifies for the Liga-TQ2 Eliminatorio, to run alongside the top flight version with a mini-league of six teams. This will then produce the three qualifiers for the IFCF Liga-B Trophy.

2-Antivador              Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Intramura                 38   19   6  13    72   53  +19    63  (P)  Qual: Liga-TQ2
 2 Masvidal Toyan            38   19   6  13    65   59   +6    63
 3 Sorcia                    38   16  11  11    70   59  +11    59
 4 Ciuredor Orden            38   16  10  12    63   54   +9    58  (P - Play-off winner)
 5 Aserrío de Garriché       38   17   7  14    59   53   +6    58  

   2-Chazapa                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Asociación Olaya          38   22   7   9    64   42  +22    73  (P)  Qual: Liga-TQ2
 2 Juniors Chazapa           38   19  10   9    59   44  +15    67  (P - Play-off winner)
 3 Unión Esteno              38   18   5  15    83   71  +12    59
 4 Cultúra Calzacon          38   14  15   9    51   46   +5    57
 5 SC Alcaraiso              38   16   8  14    59   54   +5    56

   2-Guastenango            Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Ocozoxhuatla              38   19  10   9    72   54  +18    67  (P)  Qual: Liga-TQ2
 2 Rápido Raití              38   18  11   9    72   48  +24    65
 3 El Chilamatos             38   18   8  12    74   67   +7    62
 4 Deportivo Requexón        38   17   9  12    57   53   +4    60  (P - Play-off winner)
 5 SC Horcontitos            38   16  11  11    64   56   +8    59

   2-Maranco                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 1492 Carranza             38   18   9  11    66   46  +20    63  (P)  Qual: Liga-TQ2
 2 Arma de Fuego             38   18   8  12    60   45  +15    62
 3 Escolásticos              38   17  11  10    67   60   +7    62
 4 Equipo Muna               38   17  10  11    56   41  +15    61
 5 SC Torre Espinaquer       38   17   9  12    65   59   +6    60  (P - Play-off winner)

   2-Ocotapa                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Cuba Tapalupé             38   21   8   9    75   60  +15    71  (P)  Qual: Liga-TQ2
 2 Tenís de Tacranza         38   18  13   7    62   34  +28    67  (P - Play-off winner)
 3 Siete Onze Espato         38   19   7  12    74   56  +18    64
 4 Goya Tacranza             38   17   8  13    73   67   +6    59
 5 Sociedad Santos           38   16  10  12    65   53  +12    58

   2-Puezan                 Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Telmo-Léao                38   22   8   8    82   59  +23    74  (P)  Qual: Liga-TQ2
 2 Dinamo Iragartze          38   17  15   6    58   35  +23    66  (P - Play-off winner)
 3 Cáfunda                   38   20   6  12    60   43  +17    66
 4 Poliziaren                38   15  17   6    54   41  +13    62
 5 FT Istaso                 38   16  10  12    69   61   +8    58

Moving straight into the post-season Liga-TQ2, to decide a second tier champion for the country and to establish the Liga-B Trophy qualifiers, without further ado...

Intramura 1–0 Telmo-Léal
Asociación Olaya 1–1 Cuba Tapalupé
    Ocozoxhuatla 3–1 1492 Carranza

      Telmo-Léal 1–0 1492 Carranza
   Cuba Tapalupé 1–1 Ocozoxhuatla
       Intramura 1–3 Asociación Olaya

Asociación Olaya 0–0 Telmo-Léal
    Ocozoxhuatla 1–4 Intramura
   1492 Carranza 1–0 Cuba Tapalupé

      Telmo-Léal 4–1 Cuba Tapalupé
       Intramura 4–4 1492 Carranza
Asociación Olaya 3–1 Ocozoxhuatla

    Ocozoxhuatla 4–2 Telmo-Léal
   1492 Carranza 1–0 Asociación Olaya
   Cuba Tapalupé 2–1 Intramura

      Telmo-Léal 2–2 Intramura
   Cuba Tapalupé 1–0 Asociación Olaya
   1492 Carranza 1–2 Ocozoxhuatla

   1492 Carranza 0–0 Telmo-Léal
    Ocozoxhuatla 2–1 Cuba Tapalupé
Asociación Olaya 5–3 Intramura

      Telmo-Léal 2–0 Asociación Olaya
       Intramura 4–2 Ocozoxhuatla
   Cuba Tapalupé 0–1 1492 Carranza

   Cuba Tapalupé 1–3 Telmo-Léal
   1492 Carranza 2–2 Intramura
    Ocozoxhuatla 1–1 Asociación Olaya

      Telmo-Léal 0–0 Ocozoxhuatla
Asociación Olaya 1–0 1492 Carranza
       Intramura 2–2 Cuba Tapalupé

Liga-TQ2 Eliminatorio  Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
1  Telmo-Léao             10    4   4   2    14    9   +5    16  Qual: IFCF Liga-B Trophy	
2  Asociación Olaya       10    4   3   3    14   11   +3    15  Qual: IFCF Liga-B Trophy
3  Ocozoxhuatla           10    4   3   3    17   18   −1    15  Qual: IFCF Liga-B Trophy
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4  Intramura              10    3   4   3    24   23   +1    13
5  1492 Carranza          10    3   3   4    11   13   −2    12
6  Cuba Tapalupé          10    2   3   5    10   16   −6     9

Telmo-Léao from the Puezaño city of Telmo sweep all before them in a surprising season, finishing the state championship well ahead of city rivals Batasumo, themselves smarting from having been relegated to the second tier for the first time in their history and hoping, nay, expecting to bounce back at the first time of asking. They finished 10th of 20. Meanwhile upstarts Léao were newly formed of the controversial merger of Telégrafo and Atléta Léao, in many eyes should not have even had a place in the second tier and were favourites for instant relegation to 3-Sección. Goes to show you never can tell.

And so on to the main attraction, the inaugural season of Liga-TQ and a perhaps surprising line-up for the first season, with only two of the Big Ten reaching the Primera division in Pitxi-Pitxi 77 and Real Gardaresso. One of the '10-Nacional' made the Proxima - SC Pedregal - but of course are already eliminated from any hope of becoming the first national champion. It is the third section where we can find most of the big fish, with five of the six competing for places 13-18 in the national standings coming from the Big Ten; this feels like the division most fans would like to see deciding the national champion, but in each case with these five teams, they really need to pull their socks up if they want to wear the crown.

Real Gardaresso 2–2 Peru Urzagui
 Pitxi-Pitxi 77 4–2 Pelotón
  Equipo Caimán 3–1 Xicoa

   Peru Urzagui 1–1 Xicoa
        Pelotón 1–1 Equipo Caimán
Real Gardaresso 2–2 Pitxi-Pitxi 77

 Pitxi-Pitxi 77 1–0 Peru Urzagui
  Equipo Caimán 0–1 Real Gardaresso
          Xicoa 2–2 Pelotón

   Peru Urzagui 2–2 Pelotón
Real Gardaresso 2–0 Xicoa
 Pitxi-Pitxi 77 1–0 Equipo Caimán

  Equipo Caimán 1–3 Peru Urzagui
          Xicoa 1–1 Pitxi-Pitxi 77
        Pelotón 2–1 Real Gardaresso

   Peru Urzagui 3–1 Real Gardaresso
        Pelotón 5–3 Pitxi-Pitxi 77
          Xicoa 3–2 Equipo Caimán

          Xicoa 2–3 Peru Urzagui
  Equipo Caimán 3–1 Pelotón
 Pitxi-Pitxi 77 4–0 Real Gardaresso

   Peru Urzagui 2–2 Pitxi-Pitxi 77
Real Gardaresso 1–0 Equipo Caimán
        Pelotón 2–0 Xicoa

        Pelotón 1–1 Peru Urzagui
          Xicoa 3–2 Real Gardaresso
  Equipo Caimán 1–0 Pitxi-Pitxi 77

   Peru Urzagui 3–4 Equipo Caimán
 Pitxi-Pitxi 77 1–0 Xicoa
Real Gardaresso 2–1 Pelotón

Liga-TQ Season 1 Final Standings

Liga-TQ Primera       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
1  Pitxi-Pitxi 77         10    5   3   2    19   13   +6    18  Qual: IFCF Champions League
2  Peru Urzagui           10    3   5   2    20   17   +3    14  Qual: IFCF Challenger's Cup
3  Real Gardaresso        10    4   2   4    14   17   −3    14  Qual: IFCF Challenger's Cup
4  Pelotón                10    3   4   3    19   19    0    13  Qual: IFCF Challenger's Cup
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5  Equipo Caimán          10    4   1   5    15   15    0    13
6  Xicoa                  10    2   3   5    13   19   −6     9

   Liga-TQ Proxima       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
7  Continente Tulan       10    6   4   0    20   11   +9    22
8  Galaxía                10    5   4   1    22   15   +7    19
9  Racquette-22           10    4   2   4    16   19   −3    14
10 SC Pedregal            10    3   4   3    20   17   +3    13
11 Urbo Ibaeta            10    3   1   6    18   21   −3    10
12 Benemérito             10    1   1   8     8   21  −13     4

   Liga-TQ Pequena       Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
13 CF Frantxizko-A        10    6   2   2    22   13   +9    20
14 Resplendiente          10    6   2   2    12   10   +2    20
15 Atlás Ciuredor         10    6   1   3    13   12   +1    19
16 Acacoyagua             10    3   3   4    14   14    0    12
17 Argón Tacranza         10    2   3   5    16   14   +2     9
18 Cóndor Sezalco         10    1   1   8     9   23  −14     4

It seems fitting in the end that the mighty '77os, on breaking the record for most state championship titles with their 22nd win, should become the first national champion, and few would dispute it. With deadly rivals CF Frantxizko-A, 21-times state champion, watching on from the depths of the Pequena, it was their state compatriots Peru Urzagui who came closest to preventing the inevitable, coming into the final round of ties with a good chance of stealing the title from Pitxi-Pitxi's grasp, but a disastrous home defeat to Equipo Caimán left them trailing in second place. The Green-and-Whites celebrated in style at Estadio 77o, Ixta-Comitán, beating surprise Maranco state champions Xicoa in the all-Índigo derby, or 'Cálculo' as they consider them here - a reckoning. 'El Spectacúlotl' - the match up of the main representative teams of the Ixta and Xico peoples - ended with the '77os celebrating their elevation to first national champion of Tequilo.

Elsewhere, Tequilo's glamour club Real Gardaresso sealed their place in the Challenger's Cup along with Ocotapa State's dominant team of the times, Pelotón, hailing from the city of Santa Clares. CFF - The Golds - did at least win the battle of the the big teams in the Pequeno on goal difference from Resplendiente, while in the Proxima, Continente were the only team unbeaten in Liga-TQ to take the highest 7th place on offer.

Not content with a new national league and a pathway to the international club competitions of the IFCF, as well as a new national team competing in the World Cup for the first time, the UPT also organised the first edition of a national youth league, Liga-J. In the initial set-up, the academies of the 10-Nacional big clubs were invited to compete, along with three state champions from season 122 who sit outside the Big Ten - Serpentina, Xicoa and Unuiĝinta. With an unbalanced 13 teams, one more team was invited to complete the first Liga-J division, based on the size and reputation of academies, and the place was awarded to Motozintla. Thus in the first season, a fourteen-team Under-20 Academies national league saw a 26-game schedule to decide the youth champion. The UPT includes plans to expand to thirty academy teams in total, competing in three tiers of 10. In the first expansion for the following season, season 124, the four bottom teams of this year's Liga-J will be relegated to the second tier, where they will be joined by a further ten teams, with a final tier and an additional six teams being added in season 125.

And without further ado, the final standings in the inaugural Liga-J are as follows:

Liga-J                Pld    W   D   L    GF   GA   GD   Pts 
 1 Argón Tacranza         26   13   7   6    50   34  +16    46	  Qual: IFCF Rising Stars Cup
 2 CF Frantxizko-A        26   12   5   9    34   35   −1    41
 3 Fábrica Tapalupé       26   12   5   9    50   52   −2    41
 4 Florentino             26   10   8   8    36   33   +3    38
 5 Resplendiente          26    9  10   7    40   30  +10    37
 6 Real Gardaresso        26   10   6  10    36   32   +4    36
 7 Acacoyagua             26    9   9   8    36   35   +1    36
 8 Serpentina             26    9   8   9    33   31   +2    35
 9 Xicoa                  26    9   8   9    35   34   +1    35
10 Unuiĝinta              26    8   8  10    43   48   −5    32
11 Atlás Ciuredor         26    8   7  11    28   34   −6    31	  Relegated to Liga-J2	
12 Motozintla             26    7   8  11    39   43   −4    29	  Relegated to Liga-J2
13 Pitxi-Pitxi 77         26    7   8  11    32   43  −11    29	  Relegated to Liga-J2
14 SC Pedregal            26    7   7  12    31   39   −8    28	  Relegated to Liga-J2

The academy team at Argón, under young coach Poncio Desclot, are crowned first champions of Liga-J, eventually winning through against principle challengers CF Frantxizko-A and eternal rivals Fábrica. At the wrong end of the table, Pitxi-Pitxi's history-making season as the first annointed national champion is somewhat blemished by the relegation of their youth team to next season's second tier, along with 'the best academy in Tequilo' - by their own estimation - at Motozintla. The campaign to 'Make Moto Great Again' really isn't looking too clever at present...

Argón Under-20s - Names to watch out for...

Captain: Jacob Emade, 19, Defender
Player of the season: Jacob Emade
Golden Boot: Firmino Vale, 17, Striker
Golden Glove: Samuel Cedillo, 17, Goalkeeper
Golden Blanket: Juan Manuel Notario, 17, Midfielder
Golden Brick: Chimalpopoca, 16, Defender
Golden Boy: Joaquin Riba, 14, Striker

The Copa Tequilo enters it's 123rd season, possibly the oldest competition in The Wide Enness Ocean unless you account for time like the Pointy Ears and assume there have been 408 centuries passing in the last decade - but since we don't do that here, we'll take it the Copa is at least very old, by Yuman standards. And it is extremely difficult to win - with over 300 teams taking part, no one team has been truly dominant. The might CF Frantxizko-A, The Golds, have won the most titles - a meagre six in almost a century and a quarter of competition. Can they compensate for a poor Liga-TQ finish of 13th with another Copa? It's unlikely - but let's take a look...

Preliminary Round

              Pirillos 0–0 Amanexü Norteño 		(0–0 AET) (2–4 pen.)
     Langile Konplexua 0–0 Gorrasblancas 		(1–0 AET)
         Eslavosonidos 1–2 Cuidad Senzapa
  Cortadores Margarita 0–0 Atlético Patoto 		(0–0 AET) (4–3 pen.)
  Los Pozos de Herrera 0–0 Uharteko Estatuak Polai 	(0–0 AET) (6–5 pen.)
          Florencio SM 0–3 Merkatondoa
               Dolores 1–2 Camp Esportiu
       Astojaurtiketak 2–3 Hoqué-Coqué
          Refugiado-AC 3–2 Extremo Norte Sezalco
      Lope de Salmeron 2–2 Unionistas El Quetan 	(4–2 AET)
    Pateadores Torente 3–3 Capitán Belmoro 		(3–3 AET) (3–4 pen.)
   Audaces Engañadores 2–0 Chanco Quillahuaman
        Bayona Comitán 2–4 Partisanos
             Mondragon 3–1 Bastardos de Toyan
        Unión Zamolaco 2–0 Oinezkoentzat Telmo
    Castaliá Guadatral 3–4 Ballenas Alcaraiso
       Eguzki Tiresias 1–2 498.Desafito
    Espainiako Urzagui 2–3 Compañónes

First Round

     Elkarte Iragartze 2–2 Albaviedo 			(2–2 AET) (4–5 pen.)
     Braçayda Mexía SC 0–1 Guardabosques
          Hego Muturra 0–1 Deportivo Gironella
     Langile Konplexua 2–2 Hipopótamo-Joaxha 		(3–3 AET) (4–2 pen.)
       Mejillones Lipa 2–1 CF Siervo
                 Pumas 2–1 BA Ibaeta
         Elkarte Reten 1–0 Atléta Iragartze
               Urritxe 6–0 Audaces Engañadores
            Helmántico 2–5 Constitución Yaya
       Atlético Esteno 3–1 Gil de Roblado
     Atlético Trinidad 0–1 KA Iparra
               Coyotes 1–3 Polideportivo
           Gladiadores 0–0 Grupo Capybara 		(1–0 AET)
             Indalezio 2–0 AC de Galvas
           Merkatondoa 2–1 Lope de Salmeron
       AS Colquehuanca 4–5 Burros Selvatíco
   Chimpancés Guayabal 1–0 10 AS Cuahjuluca
               La Visa 2–0 Wanderers AK
                 Orkak 2–2 498.Desafito 		(2–2 AET) (4–3 pen.)
              Mulareño 3–0 Iberamericano
              FK Alaiz 3–2 Distrito Atela
            Montañeros 0–1 Gimnàstic
         Camp Esportiu 0–2 El Mizona
                Bezala 3–1 Los Murciélagos
            Partisanos 1–1 Yugo Arradura 		(3–1 AET)
             Retenaiko 2–2 Recreativo Cuara 		(2–3 AET)
            Hondureños 1–2 von Steteren Germaniká
           Unuio Reten 2–2 Racing Azéma 		(2–2 AET) (4–2 pen.)
       Capitán Belmoro 1–0 Mondragon
        Proyecto Gotán 2–0 CF Guanarillo
              Ganzábal 1–1 Qiwa Tulan 			(2–2 AET) (4–2 pen.)
     Sociedad Ciuredor 3–2 Asociación Hueyac
     Factoría Calzacon 0–3 Chile-33
        Unión Zamolaco 3–3 San Masón 			(3–4 AET)
    Jugadores Florenio 1–0 Florés Pasito
           Cartagonova 1–0 Hércules Ciupa
             Búfalo-66 2–2 Astillero Ciuredor 		(2–2 AET) (4–3 pen.)
         Atlético Riba 1–1 Refugiado-AC 		(2–2 AET) (5–4 pen.)
              Urugaiko 1–0 Albarracín
           Hoqué-Coqué 0–0 Santutxoa 			(0–0 AET) (4–3 pen.)
        Cuidad Senzapa 5–0 San Jonito
    Palacio Gardaresso 3–2 Espartanos
      Gorilas Tapalupé 1–1 Distrito Roldán 		(1–2 AET)
         El Soportante 3–4 Etxegoian
             Mecánicos 1–1 Amanexü Norteño 		(3–1 AET)
              Arcángel 4–3 Txibia Orazun
       SC Aguaprofunda 3–4 Unión Argain
       Barrachina-Itxa 2–1 Olano
        Costello Raití 2–1 El Mazo
      Huayna Colombino 2–1 Farvedilos
        Llamas Texidor 2–1 Mártires San Anreso
            Sardíneros 2–0 Cortadores Margarita
             Buruzagia 1–2 Castaliá Guadatral
       Tamarindica Muna 0–1 Real Notario
            Compañónes 0–1 Los Pozos de Herrera
            Merenciano 0–2 Tortugas Linio

Second Round

           Unuio Reten 4–2 Etxegoian
           El Ejército 4–3 Mecánicos
          Escandinavos 1–0 SC Marcapira
         Polideportivo 4–4 Chile-33 			(4–5 AET)
              FK Alaiz 1–3 Cebra Cebras
        Costello Raití 2–0 Deportivo Gironella
              Olimpika 3–1 Errefuxiatu
   SC Torre Espinaquer 3–0 Chimpancés Guayabal
             SC Metetí 3–2 SC Kukalayos
             SC Tescoa 1–2 Luis de Lunar IX
     Langile Konplexua 3–1 Arma de Fuego
                 Orkak 1–3 Barrachina-Itxa
           Nacionál SP 7–1 Mulareño
     Sindicato Torente 3–2 Unión Argain
              Bolivaro 4–0 Cimarrones Desatas
         Clazada Larga 1–2 Mejillones Lipa
            Esqueletos 0–0 Deportivo Requexón 		(1–0 AET)
     Sociedad Ciuredor 0–0 San Masón 			(1–0 AET)
      Asociación Olaya 3–2 Zamalakarregi
           Hoqué-Coqué 0–1 Taíno
        El Rinoceronte 4–0 Ocozoxhuatla
            Sardíneros 4–3 Juniors Chazapa
    Jugadores Florenio 0–3 SC Reten
   Gimnástico Calcazon 3–0 Proyecto Gotán
       Capitán Belmoro 4–2 Palacio Gardaresso
             El Mizona 1–0 Urritxe
           Atléta Idal 2–1 Sporta Oroboro
      Hielo Permanante 3–2 Guardabosques
         Goya Tacranza 0–0 La Conon CF 			(0–0 AET) (4–3 pen.)
      Blanco Horizonte 0–0 Gallandaires 		(1–1 AET) (4–3 pen.)
   Aserrío de Garriché 1–0 La Visa
     Constitución Yaya 0–2 SC Horcontitos
             Búfalo-66 0–2 Unuio Alaiz
     Villa Comaltitlán 0–2 Ciudad Cuahtémoc
            Partisanos 1–0 Escolásticos
        Batasuna Telmo 0–3 Intramura
              Ganzábal 0–1 Ciclistas Aticenta
       Sociedad Santos 0–2 Huayna Colombino
           Equipo Muna 1–0 Insurgentes Nísa
      JS Solistahuacan 3–0 Bezala
               CF Lipa 0–0 Merkatondoa (1–0 AET)
      Tamarindica Muna 5–2 Golondrinas
     Pelóta San Mérito 4–1 Gladiadores
             Antigüaya 4–0 Unión Esteno
         Cuba Tapalupé 2–1 Lotsagarria
             KA Iparra 2–1 Burros Selvatíco
         1492 Carranza 1–0 Recreativo Cuara
        Erresistentzia 2–0 Atlético Esteno
        Masvidal Toyan 1–0 Chiapula de Corzo AC
            SC Cañazas 2–1 SC Bozoa
           Cartagonova 3–2 Los Índices
         Arsenál Ciupa 1–1 Castaliá Guadatral 		(1–1 AET) (2–3 pen.)
         Elkarte Reten 0–1 Tortugas Linio
            Poliziaren 1–1 CF Blay de Sant Roman 	(1–1 AET) (3–5 pen.)
           SC Hormigas 0–1 Telmo-Léao
     Errentes Monvador 1–2 RC Olentzaro
             Indalezio 0–2 Atlético Riba
         Itaete-Orazun 1–2 Colegio Nísa
        Combinar Toyan 1–1 Cáfunda 			(1–1 AET) (3–4 pen.)
             Gimnàstic 3–5 FT Istaso
      Cultúra Calzacon 0–0 Llamas Texidor 		(1–0 AET)
        Ciuredor Orden 0–0 Progresso CF 		(0–0 AET) (4–3 pen.)
      AC Simón Paravar 4–1 Cuidad Senzapa
     Siete Onze Espato 1–1 Llaro Marín 			(1–3 AET)
            Alumbrados 0–0 Laguna de Léon 		(0–0 AET) (3–1 pen.)
       Daring Monvador 1–1 El Chilamatos 		(1–1 AET) (3–1 pen.)
          Rápido Raití 1–0 PK Xicocomitán
         Urzagui CF-72 2–3 Dinamo Iragartze
       Villa Guadratal 3–1 Comuna Cailon
 Skelinga Santa Clares 2–2 Reyes Católicos 		(2–2 AET) (4–2 pen.)
        Los Anasticios 3–3 Bocas del Toro 		(3–3 AET) (4–5 pen.)
                Nómada 3–2 Toro Reyes
     Deportivo Torente 1–1 Urbo Polibio 		(3–1 AET)
von Steteren Germaniká 1–2 RCD La Constancia
       Depportivo Tapa 1–4 Flamencos
       Distrito Roldán 2–2 Sorcia 			(2–2 AET) (4–2 pen.)
          Finca Cailon 0–3 Senzapa de Oro
             Späristas 1–2 Chapulineros
            Sarrazenos 1–1 Boca Cielo 			(2–2 AET) (1–2 pen.)
     Tenís de Tacranza 2–0 611 Rosado
              Arcángel 1–0 SC Alcaraiso
              Urugaiko 1–3 Edicto de Fe
        Lertxun Iparra 3–1 Entenza AS
  Los Pozos de Herrera 1–2 Pumas
          RCD Calzacon 2–0 Albaviedo
   Las Navas de Talosa 0–4 Unión Cuara
        Flechas Azules 2–3 Unión Tapa
           Cuidad Yaya 1–2 Venustianos 

Third Round

        SC Horcontitos 1–2 Venustianos
          Rápido Raití 5–2 CF Lipa
           El Ejército 1–2 Villa Guadratal
     RCD La Constancia 3–1 KA Iparra
      Hielo Permanante 3–1 1492 Carranza
 Skelinga Santa Clares 0–1 Asociación Olaya
          Colegio Nísa 2–3 Ciuredor Orden
     Tenís de Tacranza 4–1 Langile Konplexua
           Cartagonova 1–3 Escandinavos
   SC Torre Espinaquer 1–0 Sardíneros
              Arcángel 1–4 Atléta Idal
      Luis de Lunar IX 1–0 Partisanos
             Flamencos 1–0 Dinamo Iragartze
                Nómada 0–1 Nacionál SP
             El Mizona 2–0 Antigüaya
    Castaliá Guadatral 1–4 Olimpika
          Chapulineros 2–1 Tortugas Linio
          Edicto de Fe 1–0 Taíno
        Senzapa de Oro 1–0 SC Cañazas
         Goya Tacranza 5–2 Barrachina-Itxa
              Bolivaro 4–2 Cáfunda
              SC Reten 2–3 Bocas del Toro
     Sociedad Ciuredor 3–3 Lertxun Iparra 		(4–3 AET)
       Capitán Belmoro 1–2 Daring Monvador
      Tamarindica Muna 2–3 Distrito Roldán
          Cebra Cebras 3–0 Esqueletos
         Cuba Tapalupé 0–1 SC Metetí
            Alumbrados 4–3 Cultúra Calzacon
             FT Istaso 3–3 Huayna Colombino 		(4–3 AET)
            Unión Tapa 1–0 AC Simón Paravar
     Deportivo Torente 2–1 CF Blay de Sant Roman
        Erresistentzia 2–3 Unión Cuara
   Aserrío de Garriché 1–0 Ciclistas Aticenta
           Equipo Muna 1–1 El Rinoceronte 		(2–1 AET)
          RCD Calzacon 2–2 Mejillones Lipa 		(3–2 AET)
          RC Olentzaro 5–2 Unuio Reten
              Chile-33 4–1 Llaro Marín
     Sindicato Torente 2–4 Unuio Alaiz
      JS Solistahuacan 0–1 Telmo-Léao
            Boca Cielo 1–0 Costello Raití
      Ciudad Cuahtémoc 1–1 Pumas 			(1–1 AET) (3–4 pen.)
        Masvidal Toyan 5–2 Atlético Riba
      Blanco Horizonte 1–0 Gimnástico Calcazon
     Pelóta San Mérito 2–2 Intramura 			(3–2 AET)

Fourth Round

             Académico 1–0 Deportivo Sixtus IV
     RCD La Constancia 2–5 Macarada Gaona
           Reconquista 3–3 Juventoyan 			(4–3 AET)
          Edicto de Fe 1–1 Rebelión Hernandados 	(1–2 AET)
            Florentino 1–3 AC Sezalco
        Argón Tacranza 2–2 AS Tonalá 			(3–4 AET)
            Benemérito 2–1 Humberto
            Telmo-Léao 5–0 Luis de Lunar IX
             FT Istaso 2–3 SC Pedregal
           Nacionál SP 7–2 La Milega AC
        Bocas del Toro 0–1 Xicoa
            Boca Cielo 0–1 Gimnástico Chichiguina
       Distrito Roldán 0–1 Real Gardaresso
           Urbo Ibaeta 1–2 Serpentina
       Aliantza Iparra 0–0 Racing Guadatral 		(2–0 AET)
      Asociación Olaya 3–3 Tenís de Tacranza 		(4–3 AET)
           Unuio Alaiz 2–0 Escandinavos
             Unuiĝinta 1–0 Ciuredor Orden
         Equipo Caimán 3–2 Conviviencia
           Argentinako 2–1 Cebra Cebras
           AS Matiguás 2–4 Peru Urzagui
   SC Bravo Cuahjuluca 4–1 Polibio
         Goya Tacranza 0–1 Chapulineros
       Comitán Argente 0–1 Estudiantes Tacranza
             Demokrito 1–2 Cisne Senzapa
            Motozintla 1–0 Internacional CF
               Pelotón 2–0 Ciupa Azul
     Las Guías Oriente 2–1 Sporta Ibaeta
         Índigo Huayna 2–1 SC Metetí
      Blanco Horizonte 2–0 Pelóta San Anreso
          RC Olentzaro 2–2 El Mizona 			(2–2 AET) (1–3 pen.)
          Rápido Raití 5–3 Daring Monvador
              Chile-33 0–2 Ascension San Pasito
       Erreal Tiresias 1–2 RCD Calzacon
   Aserrío de Garriché 1–3 Alumbrados
         Atlético Lipa 3–1 Bolivaro
              SC Raití 4–2 FT Orazun
            San Joaxha 3–1 Tumuloa Xico
   SC Torre Espinaquer 2–1 Fábrika Tapalupé
       Villa Guadratal 0–2 Pitxi-Pitxi 77
          Caballero AC 0–2 Cooperativa
         Resplendiente 0–1 Equipo Muna
      Continente Tulan 0–0 Universitario 		(1–1 AET) (2–3 pen.)
              Olimpika 2–3 Unión Tapa
       Alianza Tirinto 3–0 Galaxía
        AS Ferrocarril 5–2 CF Arradura
              Haïtiens 2–3 Racquette-22
        Independiencia 1–0 Acacoyagua
             Flamencos 1–2 Chazapañol
             Petrolero 1–2 Atléta Idal
           Inter Raití 1–2 Naranja
             Pingüinos 0–0 Senzapa de Oro 		(0–0 AET) (4–5 pen.)
         Fortuna Tulan 2–0 Jaguar Ixtacomitán
               Páramos 0–1 Irregulares Quetodino
          Atléta Reten 1–0 SC Azcarreta
              Tequiloa 2–0 Masvidal Toyan
              Polo Sur 3–0 Pumas
          Correcaminos 0–1 Socrates
          El Quetan CF 4–2 Venustianos
     Sociedad Ciuredor 1–3 Cóndor Sezalco
           Unión Cuara 1–2 CF Frantxizko-A
        Atlás Ciuredor 1–0 Deportivo Torente
      Hielo Permanante 2–0 KKA Bixintxo
           Los Miñeros 1–2 Pelóta San Mérito

Fifth Round

             Unuiĝinta 1–1 Rápido Raití 		(1–1 AET) (3–4 pen.)
        AS Ferrocarril 1–0 Ascension San Pasito
            Benemérito 0–1 Atléta Reten
              SC Raití 2–1 Unuio Alaiz
        Cóndor Sezalco 3–1 Peru Urzagui
           Reconquista 3–1 Atlético Lipa
  Rebelión Hernandados 1–0 RCD Calzacon
           Argentinako 1–0 Nacionál SP
      Blanco Horizonte 2–2 Xicoa 			(3–2 AET)
              Socrates 2–1 Alianza Tirinto
               Naranja 0–1 SC Torre Espinaquer
         Índigo Huayna 5–0 Hielo Permanante
         Fortuna Tulan 3–1 SC Pedregal
            Alumbrados 2–0 Pelotón
  Estudiantes Tacranza 1–0 Atléta Idal
            Motozintla 2–0 RC Olentzaro
        Macarada Gaona 2–5 Telmo-Léao
          Chapulineros 0–1 Racquette-22
            Unión Tapa 1–2 Aliantza Iparra
   SC Bravo Cuahjuluca 1–0 Serpentina
        Senzapa de Oro 2–3 Cisne Senzapa
              Polo Sur 1–0 Pelóta San Mérito
         Equipo Caimán 1–0 AS Tonalá
       Real Gardaresso 1–0 Tequiloa
        Pitxi-Pitxi 77 1–1 Chazapañol 			(1–1 AET) (1–3 pen.)
        Atlás Ciuredor 5–2 CF Frantxizko-A
           Equipo Muna 1–0 Gimnástico Chichiguina
            AC Sezalco 4–1 Universitario
        Independiencia 3–1 San Joaxha
          El Quetan CF 5–1 Las Guías Oriente
           Cooperativa 3–1 Académico
 Irregulares Quetodino 0–1 Asociación Olaya

Six rounds including a preliminary will have done for many of the 2- 3- and 4-Sección clubs hoping for a bit of glory as we get down to the nitty gritty of the latter rounds, which officially begins with the 32-club sixth round. Already fallen by the wayside are the Really Big Two - CFF, The Golds, knocked out in the fifth against another of the big-10, Atlás; while Pixti-Pitxi 77, on their way to the first ever national title, also drop in the fifth following a home shoot-out defeat to top flight and state rivals Chazapañol from the state capital Alcaraiso. It's been a poor Copa so far for the 10-Nacional; Real Gardaresso join fellow Antivadorios Atlás in the next round, while Florentino, Argón Tacranza, Resplendiente, Acacoyagua and Fábrika Tapalupé all fall in the fourth round, the entry point for the top flight teams across all states.

Sixth Round

              Socrates 5–2 Atlás Ciuredor
        Independiencia 3–1 Atléta Reten
            Chazapañol 1–0 Equipo Caimán
   SC Bravo Cuahjuluca 2–3 El Quetan CF
      Asociación Olaya 0–0 Fortuna Tulan 		(0–0 AET) (5–4 pen.)
            AC Sezalco 2–2 Alumbrados 			(3–3 AET) (4–2 pen.)
         Cisne Senzapa 1–4 Cóndor Sezalco
  Estudiantes Tacranza 2–2 Racquette-22 		(2–3 AET)
   SC Torre Espinaquer 2–5 Polo Sur
       Aliantza Iparra 0–1 Rebelión Hernandados
           Cooperativa 3–2 Índigo Huayna
           Argentinako 1–0 Equipo Muna
       Real Gardaresso 0–0 SC Raití 			(0–1 AET)
           Reconquista 1–0 Blanco Horizonte
        AS Ferrocarril 3–3 Telmo-Léao 			(3–4 AET)
            Motozintla 4–2 Rápido Raití

Seventh Round

        Independiencia 1–0 Racquette-22
            Telmo-Léao 1–0 AC Sezalco
  Rebelión Hernandados 3–1 Polo Sur
              Socrates 2–3 El Quetan CF
           Reconquista 1–0 Argentinako
        Cóndor Sezalco 1–0 Asociación Olaya
            Motozintla 0–1 SC Raití
            Chazapañol 0–1 Cooperativa

Quarter-Finals

              SC Raití 4–2 Independiencia
            Telmo-Léao 1–3 Cooperativa
           Reconquista 0–1 El Quetan CF
  Rebelión Hernandados 3–2 Cóndor Sezalco

Atlás Ciuredor and Real Gardaresso, the last of the Big Ten, both go out at the sixth round stage in a total wipeout for the 10-Nacional, but in one of the toughest cup competitions in the Wide Enness Ocean, that is nothing uncommon and makes this competition also one of the most loved. Only one non-top flight team however makes it to the quarterfinals, Telmo-Léao, also going strong in 2-Sección of the Puezan state championship, finally falling to Cooperativa.

Semi-Finals

           Cooperativa 3–4 El Quetan CF	 
              SC Raití 1–1 Rebelión Hernandados

          El Quetan CF 5–2 Cooperativa			(Agg. 9-5)
  Rebelión Hernandados 0–2 SC Raití			(Agg. 1-3)

So it is an all-Guastenango final as SC Raití overcome the odds to beat Rebelión, whilst El Quetan might hope for an impressive fourth cup triumph after eliminating the favourites at this stage, Cooperativa, in a fairly ding-dong attacking battle. SC have only won the cup on one occasion and, like El Quetan, are coming to the end of a drab season in the state championship, where both will finish in mid-table; this final is not one to whet the appetites of the wider world, but nonetheless, 'de Oro' - the final of the Copa Tequilo - is a great occasion anticipated throughout the country and great pride is attached to a cup triumph: it has up until now of course been the only competition which pits all sides across the country against one another. No-one ever pretended it was the national title - well, apart from that one time, of course - but even so, it has always been the pinnacle of pitxi achievement. Great excitement follows - but will the game live up to expectations?

Copa Tequilo : de Oro

SC Raití 1-2 El Quetan CF H/T 1-0
@ Estadio Cuahtémoc, Huayna-Comitán, Guastenango. Attendance 72,305

Goals: Davide Pazos 33' | Quri Pinchi-Caipa 52' Roman Troncoso 81'

Player of the match: Quri Pinchi-Caipa
Booked: Amaro Chacón, Felipe Sotolongo | Damián Hanto, Cristian Escribano

Player Ratings
SC Raití				El Quetan CF

Matias Caldas		[7.5]		Baltasar Ares		[6.4]			Match Statistics
Oliveiro		[8.0]		Taki'Illariq Reza	[7.5]
Amaro Chacón		[8.2]		Yuraq Guañuna Noboa	[7.3]sub		Poss (%):	51/49		
Ganiz Coutelarre	[8.8]		Damián Hanto		[9.2]			Shots:		17-19
Noa Aguiar-Okllo	[9.0]		Antigono Epalza		[9.2]			On Target:	9-7	
Llounguís Figueredo	[8.5]		Cristian Escribano	[8.3]			Pass Comp(%):	81-74
Felipe Sotolongo	[7.0]		Caetano Marin		[9.8]			Corners:	8-7
Davide Pazos		[8.9](1)sub	Quri. Pinchi-Caipa	[9.9](1)sub		Fouls:		11-9
Pumacaja Caldeira	[7.7]		Mendo Davila		[7.5]			Yellow cards:	2-2
Umiña Ccahuantico	[7.2]		Quentin de Pena		[8.4]sub		Reds:		0
Tutayan			[8.6]		Roman Troncoso		[9.7](1)	

Subs Used			        Subs Used
Siyaya Manco Olaya	[6.3]		Auquiyayasi Huanca	[7.3]
					Aarón Zoido		[6.3]
					Anibal Troche		[4.8]
El Tano Triumph At The Cuahtémoc
SC Raití 1-2 El Quetan CF

Qurichulpi Pinchi-Caipa took control of the Copa Tequilo finale to hand-deliver an impressive fourth cup win for El Quetan CF in the all-Guastenango de Oro at the Estadio Cuahtémoc in Huayna-Comitán. Cancelling out young Davide Pazos' first half goal after a nightmare fumble by El Tano keeper Baltasar Ares, Pinchi-Caipa stepped up to pull all the strings in a masterful display of attacking midfieldery, one that surely will alert the selectors for Los Pitxileros as they prepare for life after the World Cup. Pazos, already capped by his country, becomes the youngest player to score in the cup final as SC Raití got their noses in front in the first half, in a close fought tactical battle. This was a fascinating encounter between two teams who have disappointed in the state championships this season, but both showed enough in the free-flowing final here to suggest they can do much, much better.

With SC ahead at the break, El Quetan coach Quriwayra had his team switch to a higher press in the second half, pulling off centre back Yuraq Guañuna Noboa and shifting things around, with Auquiyayasi Huanca brought on to provide more fluid advancement from defensive positions. This paid dividends early, compressing play and closing down space in which to operate - the perfect environment for the combative and tricky Pinchi-Caipa to get about people, harrass midfielders and defenders, and generally make a nuisance of himself. Very soon into the second half he hit the equaliser and from that point there seemed only one winner, although SC were still proving a menace on rare counter-attacks, with Tutayan and Pumacaja Caldeira showing a turn of pace to trouble El Quetan's fluid back five. But you could feel El Tano's hand on the cup and when Roman Troncoso picked up a loose pass from Chacón under pressure from Pinchi-Caipa, he placed a perfect curving shot into the top far corner beyond SC keeper Matias Caldas' reach - giving El Quetan a lead which would not be overcome. Tamarindian team captain Damián Hanto lifted the de Oro trophy as his team booked a place in the IFCF Cup Winners Cup.

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