Gustavo Peña Velasco (22 November 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Mexican professional

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and

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Life

Born in Talpa de Allende, Peña moved to

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, with his parents when he was young. Gustavo Peña died of

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on 19 January 2021, at age 78, during the

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Career

He began playing football with local side

CD Oro Club Deportivo Oro is a Mexican professional football club based in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, that competes in Liga TDP, the fourth level division of Mexican football. Founded in 1923, it was one of five clubs from the state of Jalisco to play ...

. He played for nearly twenty years in the Primera División with Oro,

Cruz Azul Club de Futbol Cruz Azul S.A. de C.V., commonly referred to as Cruz Azul, is a professional association football, football club based in Mexico City, Mexico. It competes in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football league system, Mexican footba ...

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and Club de Fútbol Laguna. 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

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(

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

and

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) tournaments.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first.''

Honours

Player

Individual * RSSSF CONCACAF Championship Team of The Tournament:

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...

* CONCACAF Team of the Century: 1998

Manager

Leones Negros *

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1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

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* * 1942 births 2021 deaths Mexican men's footballers Mexico men's 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 Men's association football defenders Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico 20th-century Mexican sportsmen {{Mexico-footy-defender-1940s-stub