Adolfo Bautista
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| Full name | Adolfo Bautista Herrera | |
| Date of birth | May 15, 1979 (age 27) | |
| Place of birth | Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico | |
| Height | 180 cm. (5'11") | |
| Nickname | El Bofo |
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| Playing position | Striker Center Attacking Midfielder |
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| Club information | ||
| Current club | Chivas de Guadalajara | |
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| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-2002 2002-2003 2003 2004- |
UAG Tecos Morelia CF Pachuca Chivas de Guadalajara |
70 (15) 45 (19) 20 (2) 123 (40) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2003- |  Mexico |
22 (9) |
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Adolfo "Bofo" Bautista Herrera (born May 15, 1979 in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican football player who is currently playing as a striker and midfielder for Chivas de Guadalajara. He is better known for his nickname of "Bofo", as well as for his shaved "bald head" and triple digit jersey number, "100". However, in the Mexico national soccer team he wore the 10, until the Hugo Sanchez period, he started to wear the last number possible, as in Chivas de Guadalajara, being it the 23. After his mother's death, he wore in his jersey the name "Bofo My Angel" as he wanted to say that besides him was his mother, taking care of him. After the Championship won in the Apertura 2006 season, Bautista changed and now below his name we can see a tiny set of 2 angel wings.
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[edit] Beginnings
He made his debut with UAG Tecos on March 7, 1998 at the age of 18. He played with UAG Tecos from 1998-2002 where he scored 15 goals for the team in those four years. Bautista's first Primera División goal was in the Invierno tournament against Necaxa on September 17, 2000, where Tecos lost 3-1.
In late 2002, Bautista was transferred to Monarcas Morelia where he scored 8 goals in 21 games and was an important player on the squad. He made a deadly frontline with Chilean footballer Reinaldo Navia where together they packed over 15 goals for the team. He played for Morelia for two seasons, appearing in the Apertura 2002, Clausura 2003 tournaments where the team came second place and reached the championship finals in two consecutive seasons. It was believe that Monarcas Morelia was the club that launched Bautista's career.
In mid 2003, Bautista was transferred to CF Pachuca where much was expected from him, and very little was showed in the field and spent most of his time on the bench. In 19 games, he scored only one goal against Jaguares de Chiapas and was struggling to find form. Despite his poor performances, Pachuca still managed to reached the finals against The Tigres of Monterrey. The UANL Tigres won the first of two games 1-0 at home and had scored another goal in the return game in Pachuca's home stadium. He scored a goal for Pachuca in the 77th minute and gave Pachuca a 3-1 victory over their opponent and took hold of the Championship title. Bautista's stay at Pachuca was marred with disputes with the coach Victor Manuel Vucetich, and soon desired to leave the club.
[edit] Chivas de Guadalajara
After a long transfer period, Bautista was transferred to the "All Mexican Team", Chivas de Guadalajara. The next season was one of Bautista's worst performance in his career, scoring three goals in 19 games. However, in the following season, he re-gained his form and had a successful tournament. During the 2006 Apertura, Bautista led chivas to win the final against Toluca. Bautista is known for his creative "ball control" skills, where he takes pride in giving passes to his teammates and prefers to play as an attacking-midfielder, who plays behind the other strikers to give them passes. Bautista and his teamates Omar Bravo and Alberto Medina make a deadly offensive to beat.
[edit] International Career
Nevertheless his results in international success has been seen as somewhat of a let down. He has been criticized in the international arena for being a showman and inconsistent. Bautista was left out of Mexico's 23 man squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament, By Former coach Ricardo Lavolpe. so he never played a FIFA World Cup tournament. Bautista has also been called up by coach Hugo Sanchez, to play in the Mexican senior national team and has been capped 24 times (as of March, 2007. He has scored nine goals with the Mexican National Team. Bofo again was called to play with the Mexican Senior National Team in a friendly game against Paraguay on March 25, 2007. On that game Bofo helped Mexico scored a goal making a pass to Jared Borgetti. His ninth goal for the national team came on March 28, 2007 on an international friendly match against Ecuador's National Football Team. This late goal assisted by fellow Chivas team mate Omar Bravo gave Mexico a 4-2 win over Ecuador.
[edit] European Team Offers
After being an important man and making Guadalajara Champion in the Apertura 2006, he was linked in going to Borussia Dortmund alongside his teammates Omar Bravo and Alberto Medina. And later on Holland team PSV Eindhoven where his national teammate Carlos Salcido is at showed interest in him, but nothing has happened yet.
[edit] External links
- Chivas de Guadalajara Team website (In Spanish)
- FootballDatabse provide Bofo's Statistics
- Profile and Statistics (In Spanish)
| Chivas de Guadalajara - Current Squad |
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1 Arias | 2 Martínez | 3 Rodríguez | 4 Reynoso | 5 Araujo | 6 Esparza | 7 Pineda | 8 Olvera | 9 Bravo | 10 Medina | 11 Morales | 13 Ávila | 14 Patlán | 15 Sol | 17 Talavera | 18 Rivera | 19 Magallón | 20 Mejia | 21 Santana | 23 Michel | 34 Baez | 43 López | 45 Hernández | 48 Ledesma | 49 Rivera | 100 Bautista | Manager: de la Torre |
