Gustavo Peña
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Gustavo Peña Velasco | ||
Date of birth | 22 November 1942 | ||
Place of birth | Talpa de Allende, Mexico | ||
Date of death | 19 January 2021 | (aged 78)||
Place of death | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1960–1967 | Oro Guadalajara | ||
1967–1970 | Cruz Azul | ||
1970–1973 | Jalisco | ||
1973–1976 | Monterrey | ||
1976–1977 | Laguna | 3 | (0) |
National team | |||
1961–1974 | Mexico | 82 | (3) |
Teams managed | |||
1977–1978 | Tampico Madero | ||
1978–1979 | Leones Negros | ||
1979 | Monterrey | ||
1979 | Mexico | ||
1980–1983 | Tampico Madero | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Gustavo Peña Velasco (22 November 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Mexican football defender and manager.
Life[]
Born in Talpa de Allende, Peña moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico with his parents when he was young.
Gustavo Peña died of COVID-19 on 19 January 2021, in Mexico City, at age 78, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[1]
Career[]
He began playing football with local side CD Oro. He played for nearly twenty years in the Primera División with Oro, Cruz Azul, Monterrey[2] and Club de Fútbol Laguna.[3]
He earned 82 caps and scored 3 goals for the Selección de fútbol de México (Mexico national team) from 1961 to 1974,[4] and captained the team in FIFA World Cup (1966 and 1970) tournaments.[5]
International goals[]
- Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first.[6]
No | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 22 June 1966 | Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | 1–? | 1–4 | Friendly |
2. | 20 October 1968 | Estadio Nacional de Lima, Lima, Peru | Peru | 2–3 | 3–3 | Friendly |
3. | 11 June 1970 | Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico | Belgium | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1970 FIFA World Cup |
Honours[]
Manager[]
Leones Negros
References[]
- ^ Falleció Gustavo Halcón Peña, símbolo de Cruz Azul y de la Selección mexicana (in Spanish)
- ^ Anceno Rivas; Fr. José Manuel (7 April 2002). ""El Halcón" Peña prepara el vuelo" ["The Hawk" Peña prepares for flight] (in Spanish). Semanario. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ Rosas, Sergio Luis (24 March 2010). "Recuerdos del Ayer" [Memories of yesterday] (in Spanish). El Siglo de Torreon.
- ^ Passo Alpuin, Luis Fernando; Reyes Padilla, Macario (6 March 2012). "Mexico - Record International Players". RSSSF.
- ^ "Setenta Aniversario: Gustavo Peña" [Seventieth birthday: Gustavo Peña] (in Spanish). Esto. 25 August 2011.
- ^ "Peña, Gustavo". National Football Teams. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/leonesnegroscf/status/1351603446814826497.
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External links[]
- Gustavo Peña – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Gustavo Peña at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- 1942 births
- 2021 deaths
- Mexican footballers
- Mexico international footballers
- 1966 FIFA World Cup players
- 1970 FIFA World Cup players
- Cruz Azul footballers
- C.F. Monterrey players
- Mexican football managers
- Mexico national football team managers
- C.F. Monterrey managers
- Liga MX players
- Association football defenders
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
- Mexican football defender stubs