Luis Alejandro García Barrera (born 26 February 1961) is a Mexican former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played at both professional and international levels as a

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Club career

Born in

Monterrey Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...

, García played professionally for Deportivo Neza,

Club América Club de Fútbol América S.A. de C.V., commonly known as Club América, is a professional association football, football club based in Mexico City. Nicknamed ''Las Águilas'' (The Eagles), it competes in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football ...

Irapuato Irapuato is a Mexican city and municipalities of Mexico, municipality located at the foot of the Arandas Hill (in Spanish Language, Spanish: ''Cerro de Arandas''), in the central region of the Mexican state, state of Guanajuato. It lies between the ...

and

Puebla Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...

. He began his career with Deportivo Neza in the 1986–87 season, moving to América the next year.

International career

García also represented

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at international level, earning a total of 5 caps. All of them were during 1993, beginning with a 2–0 victory over

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on February 10, 1993. He also made three appearances during the

1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 2nd edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's soccer championship of the North, Central American and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF. The tournament took place from 10 to 25 July ...

, in each case coming on as a second-half substitute for a field player to enable starting keeper Jorge Campos to play as a forward in decisive Mexican victories.Bobrowsky, Josef
"CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1993 - Full Details"
. ''

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'', October 22, 2001. Retrieved on January 20, 2013.

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* 1961 births Living people Footballers from Monterrey Men's association football goalkeepers Mexican men's footballers Mexico men's under-20 international footballers Mexico men's international footballers 1993 Copa América players 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup players CONCACAF Gold Cup–winning players Deportivo Neza footballers Club América footballers C.D. Irapuato footballers Club Puebla players Liga MX players 20th-century Mexican sportsmen CONCACAF Champions Cup–winning players {{Mexico-footy-goalkeeper-stub