Carlos Miloc Pelachi (February 9, 1932 – February 25, 2017) was a

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an- Mexican football coach and former player who managed

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, Club América, and the Guatemala national team, among other teams.

Playing career

Miloc played professionally in Uruguay for

Nacional de Montevideo Club Nacional de Football (, ''National Football Club'' or simply as Nacional) is a Uruguayan professional sports club based in Montevideo. The club was founded on 14 May 1899 as a result of the merger between ''Uruguay Athletic Club'' and ''Mo ...

from 1950 to 1954. From there he moved to Colombia, where he played two years, and in 1956 he arrived to Mexico, where he played for

Morelia Morelia (; from 1545 to 1828 known as Valladolid) is a city and municipal seat of the municipality of Morelia in the north-central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. The city is in the Guayangareo Valley and is the capital and lar ...

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

, and León.

Managerial career

As the coach of Tigres, he was champion two times, in 1978, and 1982, and until 2009. He is also the only coach never to have lost a

Clásico Regiomontano Clásico Regiomontano, Clásico Regio, Clásico del Norte or Clásico Norteño is a football derby in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, between crosstown rival teams Monterrey and Tigres. Since the first Clásico in 1974, the two teams have competed over 1 ...

. He was also the league runner-up with América, and in 1991, he won the nonoon Cup and the ''Copa Interamericana'' with that team. In Guatemala he had several different tenures as the head coach of

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, whom he led to league titles in the 1996-97, 1998–99, and 1999 ''Apertura'' seasons. After his success with Comunicaciones he was appointed Guatemala's national coach, managing the team at the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup and in three matches during the 2002 World Cup qualification campaign. As of 2009, he resided in San Nicolás de los Garza and was an editorialist for ''

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'' until his death on Saturday, February 25, 2017.

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