Foundation
Founded December 14th, 1924, in the heart of English Neighborhood in Cordoba by a group of friends members of the railroad company. The club's name went down through a vote between "Tiro Federal" in honor of a succesful Rosario team and "Racing" in honor of the Buenos Aires club who was the most popular at the time. The winner was the latter and the cordobese adopted the name and iconic light blue and white striped jersey.
A legend is born
Racing would go to be a tough team in the city's football league and 38 years later in 1962 would achieve it's first title in the Liga Cordobesa. After years of amazing football Racing would prove to be an elite club after the province's teams were finally included in the argentine Football top tournaments who had been mostly gatekept by the country's capital. The pinnacle of this amazing team would arrive in the1980's National Tournament where Racing would make a historic campaing. Eliminating Argentinos Juniors, where the new wonderkid Diego Maradona was playng, in quarter finals, humiliating Independiente, the top international winner of the continent, in semifinals, but just making it short and loosing the final against Rosario Central. Racing would never go to win a first division league title, nor has ever gotten so close to winning one. Was it over?
The Iconic Korea Cup
South Korea hosted a yearly footbal competition between east asian national teams, as well as european and southamerican clubs. They invited Argentine's by then champion Rosario Central but they declined, then they turned to the second option: runners up Racing de Cordoba. They accepted participating.
Racing became an unstopable force in the peninsular country, beating Malaysia, Japan, Saarbrucken FC and Chatoreaux, but tying with the South Korea, the hosts. They would beat brazilian team, Vitoria, in semis and had to face none other than the koreans for the title match. The final game hosted in Dongdaedmun Stadium resulted in a 2-2. Due to weird 80's asian football rules the title was given to both teams simultaneously and Racing became the first international (non Buenos Aires team) champions.
Uberaschen, Uberfallen
The club went on to have a great decade full of memorable moments like winning the "Sports Predicition" (A lottery game where you predict each match result on a matchday) by guessing each result correctly including the last one where Racing won 2-1, getting it's stadium remodeled and relegating both its classic rival Instituto and the team wich its name honored, the Racing from Buenos Aires. Despite this the team would say goodbye to the first division forever after relegation in 1990. The road since has not been smooth. From relegation, to relegation, to 3 promotions in a calendar year (known as the "Triple Promotion"), to relegation, to bankrupcy, to relegation. I was born in this world, where Racing was another small crappy team.
Legends Never Die
It's far from over. In fact Racing has been on the up and up in recent years. in 2022 we were promoted to the second tier of argentine football after 18 years. For me that was an unheard of thing but here we are. Who knows what will happen next? will we be lucky and astute enough to get an improbable promotion and being so back after so many years? or this will be just another false hope? One thing is for certain, we are never giving up. We have this thing in Argentina called ilusion that keep us going even when the odds of succes are remote (I recommend putting that term through google translate and you'll see what I mean). Anyways, would you like to join this ilusion?
