Franco Navarro

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Franco Navarro
Full name	Franco Enrique Navarro
Date of birth	November 10, 1961 (1961-11-10) (age 46)
Place of birth	Lima, Peru
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980-1982 1983-1985 1985-1986 1986-1988 1988 1989 1989-1990 1991 1992-1993 1994 1995	Municipal Sporting Cristal Deportivo Cali Independiente UAG Tecos FC Wettingen Unión de Santa Fe Sporting Cristal ? Carlos Manucci Alianza Lima	- - - - - 8 (0) - - 4 (2) -
National team
1980-1989	Peru	56 (16)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of February 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Franco Navarro (born 10 November 1961 in Lima) is a former football striker and manager from Peru. As a player, he was a participant at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He was also member of the Peru national football team for the qualification stages of the World Cup for Mexico 1986 and Italy 1990. He played a total of 56 games for Peru between 1980 and 1989, scoring 16 goals.^[1]

He is also famous because five minutes into the deciding game between Argentina and Peru for qualification into the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, an Argentinian defender (allegedly under orders from Carlos Bilardo the Argentinian coach^{[citation needed]}) almost broke Navarro’s leg, taking him out of the game. In addition, the Argentinian player was not expelled from the game. After that Argentina with Diego Maradona tied the game 2-2 and qualified to the World Cup. That same team would then win the World Cup in Mexico.

Navarro played for Deportivo Municipal, Sporting Cristal, Alianza Lima, Independiente from Argentina and Grasshoppers from Switzerland among others. He retired in 1995. He has been a coach for several Peruvian teams, including Sporting Cristal and Alianza Lima, as well as the Peruvian national team. He is currently the coach of Cienciano.

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^ rsssf: Peru record international footballers

v • d • e Peru squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup

1 Acasuzo • 2 Duarte • 3 Salguero • 4 Gastulo • 5 Leguía • 6 Velásquez • 7 Barbadillo • 8 Cueto • 9 Uribe • 10 Cubillas • 11 Oblitas • 12 González • 13 Arizaga • 14 Gutiérrez • 15 Díaz • 16 Olaechea • 17 Navarro • 18 Malásquez • 19 La Rosa • 20 Rojas • 21 Quiroga • 22 Reyna • Coach: Tim