Soccer Hall of Fame (Pachuca)

Soccer Hall of Fame
EstablishedJuly 9, 2011
FounderGrupo Pachuca[a], FIFA
Inductees198 [b]

The Soccer Hall of Fame, (known as Salón de la Fama del Fútbol in Spanish) is a football museum and FIFA's hall of fame for professional footballers from Mexico and from all over the world. It is located in Pachuca, Mexico. The Hall of Fame includes two sections: Mexican and international football. It is currently the only official FIFA-recognized hall of fame.[1]

Background

In 2002 five days before the start of the World Cup, FIFA announced plans to open its own FIFA Hall of Fame in Valencia, Spain, with a planned inauguration of November 2004. The hall would be built and run as a joint venture between FIFA, Spain's football federation and the municipality of Valencia.[2] However, the museum was never built.

A year later, in 2003 in Mexico, a proposal of a commemorative site for the personalities who contributed to the construction and success of soccer in the country became publicly known after a newspaper article written by Antonio Moreno. Afterwards, he was contacted by the president of the Pachuca Football Club, Jesús Martínez, who proposed to start a project for the materialization of his idea in Pachuca, the birthplace of Mexican football.[3] The museum and hall of fame would be the anchor in the institution's plan to accompany the University of Football and the club's sports facilities. Jesús Martínez also suggested that the museum should be international and not only local.[4][5]

The museum

On March 13, 2005, the David Ben Gurion Park was inaugurated; a Museum of Contemporary Art was originally planned in this complex.[6] The building that would house the Museum of Contemporary Art was built between 2004 and 2005. In mid-2010, the Government of the state of Hidalgo ceded the building to the Pachuca Group, arguing that the building was abandoned. The building would house the Museum of Contemporary Art became the headquarters of the Mundo Fútbol Interactive Center, the Soccer Hall of Fame.

Construction work was completed on June 9, 2011, by the architect Ricardo Calderón Zorrilla, using reinforced concrete. The building is shaped like a sphere that emulates a huge soccer ball. It has a height of 38 m and a diameter of 36 m; It has three levels and 120 steps.[7]

On July 9, 2011, the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, accompanied by the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera Echenique and the head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, inaugurated the Soccer Hall of Fame and the Mundo Fútbol Interactive Center. On November 8, 2011, the first Investiture Ceremony was held at the Gota de Plata Auditorium Theater, where 30 soccer players were inducted.

Inductees - Mexico

Source: rsssf.org

As a criterion to be inducted, a player must have participated at least a total of ten years in official international competitions, and have retired for five years.

Inaugural Class of 2011

Inductees - World

Source: rsssf.org

As a criterion to be inducted, a player must have participated at least a total of ten years in official international competitions, and have retired for five years.

Men

Inaugural Class of 2011

Class of 2012

Class of 2013

Class of 2014

Class of 2015

Class of 2016

Class of 2017

Class of 2018

Class of 2019

Class of 2020

Class of 2023

Class of 2024

Class of 2025

  • In italics players who were retired and eligible for selection in the inaugural Class of 2011, but they were inducted later.

Deans

Inaugural Class of 2012

Class of 2013

Class of 2014

Class of 2015

Class of 2016

Class of 2017

Class of 2018

Class of 2019

Class of 2020

Class of 2023

Class of 2024

Class of 2025

Women

Class of 2013

Class of 2014

Class of 2015

Class of 2016

Class of 2017

Class of 2018

Class of 2019

Class of 2020

Class of 2023

Class of 2024

Class of 2025

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Grupo Pachuca in collaboration with Grupo Carso owns a string of football clubs: CF Pachuca, Mineros de Zacatecas, Club León, Tlaxcala FC and Everton de Viña del Mar.
  2. ^ 198 inductees as of 2025.
  3. ^ George Weah, Cafu were inducted 10 years after their retirement. Others like David Beckham, Guardiola, Mágico González were inducted in 11 years, Valderrama in 12 years, Roberto Baggio, Emilio Butragueño and Hristo Stoichkov in 14, Franco Baresi, Higuita in 16, Kempes, Van Basten, Ruud Gullit in 17, Didier Deschamps in 18.
  4. ^ Maldini, Xavi and Samuel Eto'o, Roberto Carlos were inducted the soonest, only 4 years after their retirement. Others like Ronaldo, Javier Zanetti, Ronaldinho, Raul, Iker Casillas were inducted in 5 years, Luis Figo, Kaka, Totti, Romário in 6, Diego Forlán and Pirlo in 7, Rivaldo in 8, Puyol and Cannavaro, Juan Román Riquelme in 9.

References

  1. ^ Mundo Fútbol in Pachuca de Soto - atlasobscura.com
  2. ^ "Soccer: Valencia chosen for Fifa's hall of fame". nzherald.co.nz. 27 May 2022.
  3. ^ Pachuca, the birthplace of Mexican football - mlssoccer.com
  4. ^ "Historia del Salón de la Fama FIFA". Salón de la Fama del Fútbol Internacional. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  5. ^ FIFA (ed.). "Pachuca: cradle of football to Hall of Fame". Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  6. ^ Sistema de Información Cultural (5 March 2019). "Museo Salón de la Fama". Secretaría de Cultura (México). Gobierno de México. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  7. ^ Beloglovsky pide rescatar el museo - milenio.com

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