BenjamÃn Galindo
Benjamín Galindo Marentes ( born December 11, 1960 in Tierra Blanca, Zacatecas ) is a Mexican football coach and former player, who acted mostly as an attacking midfielder. He was also known by his nickname El Maestro ( Master ).
- 2.1 As a player
- 2.2 As a coach
Life
Player
Benjamín Galindo made his debut in La Liga, the top division of the Mexican Association football, on September 30, 1979, the Tampico - Madero FC. In 1986 he moved to Mexico's most popular club Chivas Guadalajara, with whom he won the championship right away, and in which he remained under contract until the 1994/95 season.
In the second half of the 1990s Galindo changed his employer relatively common and won with different clubs several championship titles. His active career he finished in 2001 at the age of 40 years, but again the Club Deportivo Guadalajara, for whom he also worked as a coach in the 2004/05 season.
His international debut was " El Maestro " on March 15, 1983 against Costa Rica ( 1-0), but was long afterwards was not nominated and therefore also missed the discharged in their own country World Cup 1986. During the eight years later discharged 1994 World Cup in the neighboring United States Galindo was then but for the World Cup squad of the Mexican national team and was twice used: a mid-term in the preliminary round group match against Norway ( 0-1) and full-length in the second round against Bulgaria, which ended 1-1 and in which the Mexican - as so often - lost in the subsequent penalty shootout. Overall Galindo came on 65 international appearances, in which he scored 21 results.
Coach
In the summer of 2004, he took over the office of the head coach at his Exverein Chivas Guadalajara and practiced it from the end of 2005. He then worked for the city rivals Atlas and his other Exvereine Cruz Azul and Santos Laguna. With the last club he won the Clausura 2012 for the first time as a coach the Mexican soccer championship. Since 2013 he is back as head coach at Chivas in use.
Achievements
As a player
- Mexican champions ( 4): 1986 /87 ( with Chivas Guadalajara), Winter 1996/97 ( with Santos Laguna ), Winter 1997/98 ( with Cruz Azul ), Winter 1999/ 00 ( with Pachuca).
As a coach
- Mexican masters: Clausura 2012 ( with Santos Laguna )