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Jorge Rafael Massó Mustelier (born 16 February 1950) is a Cuban 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 le ...
, born in Santiago de Cuba.


Club career

Born in Santiago de Cuba, Massó played for La Habana in the city his parents moved to 8 months after his birth.


International career

He made his international debut for Cuba in 1971 and has earned a total of 32 caps, scoring 1 goal. He represented his country in 4
FIFA World Cup qualification The FIFA World Cup qualification is a competitive match that a national association football team takes in order to qualify for one of the available berths at the final tournament of the (men's) FIFA World Cup. Qualifying tournaments are hel ...
matches. He competed in the
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and in the
1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
and won a bronze medal at the
1971 Pan American Games * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Jan ...
and a silver medal at the
1979 Pan American Games The 1979 Pan American Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Panamericanos de 1979''), officially the VIII Pan American Games were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, and were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from July 1 to July 15 ...
.


Retirement

He was given a farewell match in August 1989 and went on to live in Venezuela with his wife Norelkis.


References

1950 births Living people Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba Men's association football forwards Cuban men's footballers Cuba men's international footballers FC Ciudad de La Habana players Olympic footballers for Cuba Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in football Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Cuban expatriate sportspeople in Venezuela Footballers at the 1971 Pan American Games Footballers at the 1975 Pan American Games Footballers at the 1979 Pan American Games Footballers at the 1983 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games 20th-century Cuban people {{Cuba-footy-bio-stub