Gustavo Peña Velasco (22 November 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Mexican professional
footballer
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and
manager
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.
Life
Born in
Talpa de Allende Talpa de Allende is a city and municipality in Jalisco, Mexico. Surrounded by pine-covered mountains, Talpa de Allende is a silver mining town founded by the Spanish in 1599. The name "Allende" is in honor of General Ignacio Allende.
Talpa is the ...
, Peña moved to
Guadalajara,
Jalisco,
Mexico
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, with his parents when he was young.
Gustavo Peña died of
COVID-19
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in
Mexico City
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on 19 January 2021, at age 78, during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
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The virus was confirmed to ha ...
.
Career
He began playing football with local side
CD Oro
Club Deportivo Oro is a football club that plays in the second division. It is based in the city of Guadalajara. The club was one of five clubs from the state of Jalisco to play in the Mexican first division. It only won one league title, back ...
. He played for nearly twenty years in the
Primera División with Oro,
Cruz Azul
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,
Monterrey and
Club de Fútbol Laguna
Club de Fútbol Laguna (nicknamed La Ola Verde) is a football club. The club played in the Mexican football league system Primera División de México and it was based in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.
History
Club de Fútbol Laguna was found ...
.
He earned 82 caps and scored 3 goals for the
Selección de fútbol de México (Mexico national team) from 1961 to 1974, and captained the team in
FIFA World Cup
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(
1966 and
1970
Events
January
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* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...
) tournaments.
International goals
:''Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first.''
Honours
Manager
Leones Negros
*
CONCACAF Champions' Cup:
1978
References
External links
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1942 births
2021 deaths
Mexican footballers
Mexico international footballers
1966 FIFA World Cup players
1970 FIFA World Cup players
Cruz Azul footballers
C.F. Monterrey players
Mexican football managers
Mexico national football team managers
C.F. Monterrey managers
Liga MX players
Association football defenders
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
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