List of América de Cali presidents

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Since its founding the club has had 33 presidents, 10 presidents in the amateur era of the team, from 1927 to 1947 and 23 presidents in the professional era, from 1948 to the present; besides a commission formed by the coach and the players.

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History

The first president who had America de Cali after its foundation was Hernán Zamorano Isaacs. According to Hernán, "the end of 1926 ran when, with my two friends Serafín Fernández and Alvaro Cruz, we decided to create a" team. "Serafin was the only one who had access to cash since he managed the box of his father's the coins that we managed to "collect" we bought once a fortnight an Argentine sports publication called "El Gráfico." In one of those magazines told the exploits of a team called Racing Club then with Serafin and Alvaro we decided to buy a ball and started playing In a field of the Central Cemetery under the name of Racing, the T-shirts, obviously made with fabrics donated by Serafin, were white with celestial sticks such as those of that Argentine team ". On February 16, 1948, Humberto Salcedo Fernández "Salcefer" and Dr. Manuel Correa Valencia, constitute the America in the first professional soccer championship in the country. "Salcefer" receives the appointment as first president in the professional era of the team and later it would become the first of the Dimayor.

The team began an odyssey of difficult times when it was included in the Clinton List in 1996 under the command of Carlos Puente González. In 2011, America suffers another serious event when it falls in the second division, time when Carlos H. Andrade becomes the new president of the institution, after bad campaigns of the previous directives; It was not until 2013, when Oreste Sangiovanni took the reins of the team in his attempt to not disappear and after 4 years of failed efforts aimed at restructuring for further sanitation, the new América S.A. organization was created.

Since May 10, 2016, Tulio Gómez became the new president and largest shareholder of América de Cali with 53 percent of the shares, after the era of Oreste Sangiovanni was concluded. Under his mandate, on November 27, 2016, Gómez became one of the architect men in the rise of América de Cali to the first division of Colombian football, after 5 years of remaining in second division.

On May 16, 2018, Tulio Gómez announced his retirement as President of the institution after bad management and an irregular campaign in the 2018 Liga Águila, although declared that it would continue being the owner of the team. [1]

On May 30, 2018, Ricardo Pérez was announced as the new executive president of the America. The "Gato" Pérez would return to the team, after acting as a player between 1994 - 1996 and 1998. [2] After a year of presiding as president of the América and reaching the 14th title in his administration, Ricardo Pérez said goodbye to the presidency on December 16, 2019 obeying "personal reasons". [3]

Currently, the president of the America is the Colombian former player Mauricio Romero. He's assumed the presidency on December 18, 2019, after Ricardo Pérez left the team. [4] Romero was linked to America de Cali as a player, where he managed to reach the Colombian championship in 2000, 2001 and the 2002 torneo apertura, in addition to the 1999 Copa Merconorte. [5]

List

List of all América de Cali presidents in history:

Amateur
TenurePresident
1927 - 1930Hernán Zamorano Isaacs
1931 - 1934Luis Carlos Cárdenas
1935 - 1937Hernando Lenis
1938 - 1939Rafael Martínez
1940Guillermo Sandoval
1941Carlos Alberto Suárez
1942 - 1943Alfonso Fernández
1944Jesús Flórez
1945 - 1947Luis E. Valdez
1947Guillermo Sardi Zamorano
Professional
TenurePresident
1948Humberto Salcedo Fernández
1949Manuel Correa Valencia
1950Luis Carlos Cárdenas
1950 - 1955Manuel Correa Valencia
1956 - 1960Pedro Sellarés
1961Gustavo Valdez
1965Jorge Rengifo
1966Gonzalo Zambrano
1967 - 1973Alberto Anzola
1974 - 1975Juan de Dios Guerrero
1976 - 1978Ricardo León Ocampo
1979 - 1986José "Pepino" Sangiovanni
1987 - 1991Juan José Bellini
1992Oreste Sangiovanni
1992 - 1994Pedro Chang
1995 - 1996Álvaro Muñoz Castro
1996 - 2009Carlos Puente González
2009 - 2011Álvaro Guerrero Yanci
2011 - 2012Carlos H. Andrade
2012 - 2016Oreste Sangiovanni [6]
2016 - 2018 Tulio Gómez [7]
2018 - 2019 Ricardo Pérez
2019 - 2023 Mauricio Romero
2024 - currentlyMarcela Gómez

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References

  1. ↑ "Tulio Gómez renuncia a la Presidencia del América de Cali". elpais.com.co (in Spanish). 16 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Ricardo 'El Gato' Pérez, nuevo presidente de América de Cali". rcnradio.com (in Spanish). 30 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Ricardo el 'Gato' Pérez renunció a la presidencia del América de Cali". Elpais.com.co (in Spanish). 16 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  4. ↑ "¡Confirmado! Mauricio Romero es el nuevo presidente del América de Cali". Elpais.com.co (in Spanish). 18 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Mauricio Romero, nuevo presidente del América de Cali". 90minutos.co (in Spanish). 18 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Oreste Sangiovanni". americadecali.co (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "La historia de Tulio Gómez, presidente del América de Cali". Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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