Sport in Mexico lower division. Each team must earn their promotions. Since 1943, Mexico's five most successful clubs in Mexican football league system matches have been América, Chivas (12 championships), Toluca (10), Cruz Azul (8) and Pumas (7). Chivas are renowned for using only Mexican players in their squad. Consequently, they have long fed players to the Mexico national football team. Antonio Carbajal was the first player to appear in five World Cups, and Hugo Sánchez was named best CONCACAF player of the 20th century by IFFHS. Cuauhtémoc Blanco is the only Mexican football player to be presented with an award (Silver Ball
Chivas USA buying out former partners Antonio and Lorenzo Cué. On May 29, 2013 two Chivas USA youth coaches, Dan Calichman and Ted Chronopoulos, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the club, on the grounds they had been dismissed because they were not Latino. Shortly after the acquisition of the club, Vergara is alleged to have told his staff that those who did not speak Spanish would be fired. Chronopoulos claimed that Jose David, the team's new president and chief business officer, asked Chronopoulos for a list of youth players and coaches who were Mexican or Mexican American and of those that weren't.