| Sumario: | Between 1912 and 1950, teams created by Spanish immigrants had a prominent presence in Mexico City soccer scene. In this context, other soccer teams build their identity as “Mexican” clubs as opposed to Spanish sport associations, giving rise to a bitter sports rivalry that sometimes turned into political conflicts and episodes of violence. This article studies the main characteristics of this sport rivalry through its more relevant episodes, as well as the social implications it had. In the following pages I argue that the daily staging of the conflict between Spaniards and Mexicans in soccer must be understood both within the centrality of Spain and the Spanish in the discourses about the Mexican nation, as well as at each specific juncture, where the rivalry was affected by the commercial interests of the sports world, the changing interests of Spain and the Spanish colony in Mexico, and by the social tensions between the Mexican population and this immigrant group.
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