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This March 25 marks the 110th anniversary of the basic coup that was the expulsion from the University of Chile. One day today, in 1911, an organization of academics from our factory and former students of the Barros Arana Boarding School (INBA), led through Carlos Fanta and supported through Professor Leotardo Matus and the rector of the Boarding School, Eduardo Lamas, came together to create a university football club that would have representation in the official leagues.
The history of this base dates back to 1902, when the INBA separated from the National Institute and created its own football directorate: the Internado Escolar. In 1905, the team began to be linked to the Arturo Prat Association, which formed two municipal champions and interscholastic champions. years later. One of the players in this school camp was Carlos Fanta, who later – in 1910 – president of the Ram.
The educational study ended, and in 1911, the INBA students went on to study in their graduate studies at the University of Chile. The students wish to create a new club that would constitute the education and competition of the Santiago Football Association (AFS) in contact. with the rest of the amateur teams. In this context, the Club Atlético Internado would later be known as Club de Football Internado.
This happened in the context of the founding of the club described by “El Mercurio” when it published, on March 19, 1911, the creation of the INBA Alumni Center: “All the alumni of this status quo will meet in one of the rooms of the Barros Arana Boarding School to organize the National International Center (. . . ) This center will have 3 segments: a literary and clinical segment, a music segment, and a sports segment.
The statement also says that “Internado Nacional FC will be one of the moments of the sports segment and will be, without a doubt, a club, which will have accounts between its members and its low-skill level players. “elected an interim director appointed through Professor Leotardo Matus as president.
After the “La Mañana” era came to fruition, a month after this coup, on April 23 at the premises of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile (FECH), the election of the definitive director of the sports commission was held, sublime. Carlos Fanta was the president.
Regarding the purposes of this incipient football club, in the e-book “Toda la Historia de la U” (RIL editores, 2017), through Roberto Rabi and Gustavo Villafranca, it is said that “March 25, 1911 marks the moment” in which “The academics will do all their desire to shape a football club that will compete in the other leagues of the capital before the rest of the amateur to through official competitions. “
The Internship’s participation in the AFS began the following year with its foundation, which is responsible for the registration of applicable actions. From 1920, and as successor to Carlos Fanta, he assumed the presidency of Arturo Flores Conejeros, a lawyer from the University of Chile and former player of the club with active participation in boxing, tennis, basketball and swimming. Flores Conejeros will be a leading role for the boy who will triumph in the coming years as one of the great promoters of sports at Universidad de Chile. club.
Regarding the importance of March 25, 1911 in the history of the deportees from the University of Chile, Nicolás Sandoval, a member of the Circle of Historians and Researchers of the “U”, says that “the team is formed through the ‘students of ‘The University of Chile’. The Barros Arana Boarding School and the university students ended up competing at the federal level in Santiago. Its importance is radical for this football club to merge with other university trains at the latest to finance the University Sports Club. “
In this sense, Sebastián Núñez, also a researcher of the same team, has the direct dating of the continuity between the FC Boarding School and the existing Football Club of the University of Chile: “it merged with student sports disciplines -such as the Náutico club and the Atlético-. – in 1928, the Boarding School would be renamed Universitario de Deportes, later adopting its royal name in 1934, by decree of the rector of the House of Studies, Juvenal Hernández”.
This merger of the sports leaders of the academics of the University of Chile, which the researchers referred to, preceded a general meeting held in the offices of the Journal Illustré on May 24, 1927. This meeting was chaired by Arturo Flores. The directors, then president of the FC Boarding School, had the participation of representatives of the Athletic Club, the Yacht Club (which bears the player as its emblem) and the University Sports Federation, created in 1919. On this occasion, they agreed to constitute a committee that creates the bases, regulations and statutes to merge these entities into a single university club that represents the entire student community.
This union, legally formalized in October 1928, had its origin in the Club Universitario de Deportes (CUD). Subsequently, and to the pleasure of the rector Juvenal Hernández, he decreed the definitive name: Club Deportivo de la Universidad de Chile, incorporated into the trains. which are from the CUD and the University Sports Federation.
One of the artifacts of the founding of the FC Boarding School in 1911 was Carlos Fanta Tomaszewski. Born in Chillán, he is remodeled into a multifaceted professional league in football and sports management. During his school studies, he was a goalkeeper and captain of the INBA and in 1909, a variety of internal football of the University of Chile, he played in the first university harvest against the Catholic University.
In 1911, as a student of physical and manual school at the Casa de Bello (at the same time as studying Chemistry and Pharmacy), he asked the lawyer of the rector of the INBA to create a new club, separate from school football, in which he participated in local competitions. While at Internado FC, he had Fanta as his first president and as a player of the team. In addition, Internado played in Magallanes and Santiago Nacional for separate periods.
In 1913 he was goalkeeper of the Chilean National Team on an excursion to Brazil, while in 1916 he became the first coach of the national squad in an official jurisdiction: the South American Championship in Buenos Aires, where he was also a referee of the final. followed in the benchmark for more than a decade.
His life was linked to the game and leadership, as honorary director of the Colo-Colo Foundation and in the index of direct assignments in football associations in the country. In addition, according to the e-book “The Whole History of the U. S. “, Fanta “is the secretary of the Chilean Olympic Committee and one of the leaders of the South American Football Confederation (now Conmebol). “