Fernando Cuellar

Fernando Cuéllar
Personal information
Full name Fernando Cuéllar Ávalos
Date of birth August 27, 1945(1945-08-27)
Place of birth Moquegua, Peru
Date of death November 5, 2008(2008-11-05) (aged 63)
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
Universitario de Deportes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1968-1976 Universitario de Deportes
National team
1971-1975 Peru 9 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Fernando Cuéllar (*Moquegua, 27 August 1945 - †Lima, 5 November 2008) was a Peruvian football player.

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Club career

He was a defender and mainly played in Universitario de Deportes in the 1970s.

International career

Cuéllar made nine appearances for the senior Peru national football team from 1971 to 1975.[1]

Career as manager

Cuéllar was also a successful trainer, leading San Agustin (a very small club from Lima) to win the Peruvian Championship (called "Descentralizado"). He repeated that success with Universitario de Deportes in 1990.

Personal

Cuéllar died 5 November 2008 in Lima.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Peru - Record International Players". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/peru-recintlp.html. Retrieved 2009-03-06. 
  2. ^ "Falleció Fernando Cuéllar, ex gloria de Universitario". El Comercio. 2008-11-05. http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/ediciononline/HTML/2008-11-05/fallecio-fernando-cuellar-ex-gloria-universitario.html. Retrieved 2009-03-06. 
Peru squad – 1987 Copa América