Antonio José Mota Romero (January 26, 1939 – September 13, 1986) was a Mexican professional football

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

, who played for the

Mexico national team The Mexico national football team () represents Mexico in international football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation (). It competes as a member of CONCACAF. Mexico has qualified to seventeen World Cups and has qualified conse ...

between 1961 and 1970. He was part of the Mexico squad for FIFA World Cup tournaments:

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

and

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * 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 ...

. At club level, Mota played for

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 ...

and Necaxa.

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* * 1939 births Association football goalkeepers Mexico international footballers Footballers from Mexico City 1962 FIFA World Cup players 1970 FIFA World Cup players Liga MX players Club Necaxa footballers 1986 deaths Mexican footballers {{Mexico-footy-goalkeeper-stub