Juan Ángel Bustos Pizarro (born 16 January 1961), known as Ángel Bustos, is a Chilean former professional

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 as a winger for clubs in Chile and Mexico.

Club career

Born in

Antofagasta Antofagasta () is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669. Once claimed by Bolivia follo ...

, Chile, he represented the city team at national level and next he joined

Deportes Antofagasta Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta currently playing in the Primera B Of Chile. The club's home stadium is the Estadio Bicentenario Calvo y Bascuñán, which has a capacity of 21,178. History The c ...

while he studied to get a degree in

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. In Chile, he also played for

Unión La Calera Unión La Calera is a Chilean football club based in La Calera, Chile. The club competes in the Primera División de Chile. It was founded as Club de Deportes La Calera on 26 January 1954, after the merger of three teams from the city: ''Condor' ...

Huachipato Huachipato FC is a Chilean football club based in Talcahuano that currently plays in the Chilean Primera División. Huachipato was founded on 7 June 1947 by workers of the homonymous steel mill in Talcahuano, and it currently plays its home g ...

Colo-Colo Colo-Colo (), officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, it competes in the Chilean Primera División, from which the club has never been ...

Cobreloa Club de Deportes Cobreloa S.A.D.P. (), commonly referred to as Cobreloa, is a professional Chilean football league system, Chilean football club based in Calama, Chile, Calama, Región de Antofagasta, Chile. They compete in the Primera B de Ch ...

, Fernández Vial and

Deportes Ovalle Club Deportes Ovalle is a Chilean football club who currently play in the fourth level of Chilean football, the Segunda División Profesional de Chile. The club's stadium is the Estadio Municipal de Ovalle. Their main rivals are Deportes La Se ...

, where he retired. In Mexico he played for

Morelia Morelia (; from 1545 to 1828 known as Valladolid; Otomi language, Otomi: ) is a city and municipal seat of the municipalities of Mexico, municipality of Morelia in the north-central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. It is both th ...

, Venados Yucatán and

Pumas UNAM Club Universidad Nacional, A.C., simply known as Pumas UNAM, is a professional football club based in Mexico City. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1954 as Club Deportivo Universidad, and they play ...

. He is a historical player of Morelia, where he played between 1987 and 1990 and scored 32 goals. As important facts, in his first season with the club he became the top goalscorer with 18 goals and also he scored the first goal in the Estadio Morelos versus América on 9 April 1989. In addition, he and his Chilean fellows Marco Antonio Figueroa and Juan Carlos Vera are well remembered as a prolific attacking trident. For Pumas UNAM, he made 10 appearances in the 1993–94 season and didn't score.

Personal life

Following his retirement, he worked as coach in the

youth system for 14 years from U6 to U19 level. Next, he has worked in a family transport company.

References

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at playmakerstats.com (English version of ceroacero.es) 1961 births Living people Footballers from Antofagasta Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Men's association football midfielders C.D. Antofagasta footballers Unión La Calera footballers Huachipato FC footballers Colo-Colo footballers Atlético Morelia players C.D. Cobreloa footballers C.D. Arturo Fernández Vial footballers Venados F.C. players Club Universidad Nacional footballers Deportes Ovalle footballers Primera B de Chile players Chilean Primera División players Liga MX players Ascenso MX players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Chilean football managers 20th-century Chilean sportsmen {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub