A disastrous season for Guadalajara’s top two soccer teams, Chivas and Atlas, has been offset by the change in fortunes for the Universidad de Guadalajara’s Leones Negros (Black Lions), who won the Ascencio MX league crown last weekend and are within one playoff game – to be held next May – of returning to the Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican soccer.
University chiefs must have been thrilled to see 55,000 boisterous fans cram into the city’s Jalisco Stadium for the first game of the two-legged final against Necaxa. Not even Atlas or Chivas managed to draw such a crowd during the season.