C.D. Guadalajara

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Club Deportivo Guadalajara S.A de C.V., also known as Chivas de Guadalajara, is a professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Akron. Founded in 1906 as Unión Football Club, the club changed its name to Guadalajara Football Club in 1908, and later changed to its current name in 1923. Nicknamed Chivas, it was one of ten founding members of the professional era of the Liga Mayor (current Liga MX). Guadalajara is one of the four most popular clubs in Mexico and one of seven Mexican clubs that have never been relegated. Chivas is the only football club in Mexico that does not sign foreign or naturalized players unless they are of Mexican descent. The team has historically relied on home-grown (cantera) players and has been the launching pad of many internationally successful players, including Javier Hernández, Carlos Vela and Carlos Salcido, among others...

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