Gustavo Peña

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Gustavo Peña
Personal information
Full nameGustavo Peña Velazco
Date of birth (1942-11-22) 22 November 1942
Place of birthTalpa de Allende, Mexico
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionDefender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1960–1967Oro Guadalajara
1967–1970Cruz Azul
1970–1973Jalisco
1973–1976Monterrey
1976–1977Laguna
National team
1961–1974Mexico82(3)
Teams managed
1977–1978Tampico Madero
1978–1979Leones Negros
1979Monterrey
1979Mexico
1980–1983Tampico Madero
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Gustavo Peña Velazco (born 22 November 1942) is a retired Mexican football defender and manager.

Career

Born in Talpa de Allende, Peña moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco with his parents when he was young. He began playing football with local side CD Oro. He played for nearly twenty years in the Primera División de México with Oro, Cruz Azul, Monterrey[1] and Club de Fútbol Laguna.[2]

He earned 82 caps and scored 3 goals for the Mexico national football team from 1961 to 1974,[3] and took part in two FIFA World Cups (1966 and 1970), where he was captain in both tournaments.[4]

References

  1. Anceno Rivas, Fr. José Manuel (7 April 2002). ""El Halcón" Peña prepara el vuelo" ["The Hawk" Peña prepares for flight] (in Spanish). Semanario. 
  2. Rosas, Sergio Luis (24 March 2010). "Recuerdos del Ayer" [Memories of yesterday] (in Spanish). El Siglo de Torreon. 
  3. Passo Alpuin, Luis Fernando and Reyes Padilla, Macario (6 March 2012). "Mexico - Record International Players". RSSSF. 
  4. "Setenta Aniversario: Gustavo Peña" [Seventieth birthday: Gustavo Peña] (in Spanish). Esto. 25 August 2011. 

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