José Luis Carranza Vivanco (born 8 January 1964) is a former

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er who played as a midfielder for his entire club career at

Universitario de Deportes Club Universitario de Deportes is a Peruvian sports club based in Lima, which has Association football, soccer as its main activity. It also has women's football, volleyball and basketball sections. The football team, popularly known as Universi ...

. Carranza also played for the Peru national football team, making 55 appearances from 1988 to 1997.rsssf: Peru record international footballers

Biography

He made his professional debut with Universitario on 13 May 1986 in

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against Club Bolívar. Carranza would remain with the club during his 19 years as a professional footballer. Carranza won the Peruvian league titles of

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1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

and

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. He is the player who has played the most Peruvian football derbies against traditional rivals

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. His number 22 has been retired by the club. He played 10

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. With 51 games in the Copa, Carranza surpassed Hector Chumpitaz, another symbol of Universitario, in number of games played in this competition for the club. In addition, Carranza played in 3

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and 3 World Cup qualification tournaments. He obtained 55 international caps for the Peru national football team and scored one goal. He played his first international match for Peru on September 21, 1988, in a friendly match against Paraguay (0-1), and his last for Peru was on November 16, 1997, in a World Cup qualifier match against Paraguay (1-0). His last game as a professional was played on 26 December 2004, where he scored one goal. His testimonial match took place on 6 April 2005 and was attended by renowned South American players. Several times during his career he rejected offers from teams in

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, and

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to stay at the club he supported and became a symbol of Universitario. After retirement, Carranza studied to become a coach, opened a youth football academy and ran a popular cebicheria (sea food restaurant). He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of the

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, promising “me, water and sewerage” and “fubo’ team”.

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(1985–2004)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carranza, Jose Luis 1964 births Living people Footballers from Lima Peruvian men's footballers 1989 Copa América players 1991 Copa América players 1993 Copa América players 1995 Copa América players Peru men's international footballers Peruvian Primera División players Club Universitario de Deportes footballers Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Peruvian sportsmen

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