José Pilar Reyes
José Pilar Reyes Requenes ( born October 12, 1955 in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes ), also known by the nickname Piluco, is a former Mexican football goalkeeper who belonged to the Mexican World Cup squad in 1978.
Career
Association
Piluco Pilar Reyes began his professional career in 1974 with Club San Luis, the División at this time straight out of the Primera División was staying in the then second-rate Segunda. Two years later, San Luis second division champions and thus managed to return to the highest football league in Mexico. Although the team had completed a highly successful Erstligasaison 1976/77 - in the overall table occupied San Luis ninth place (of 20 teams) and in one's own group C even second place, which entitled to participate in the final round of the championship, for which a total of only eight teams qualified -, the team disappeared in 1977 again by license sales to the CD Tampico from the first division.
After three years in San Luis Potosí Pilar Reyes moved for the season 1977/78 to the UANL Tigres, who had occupied the last place in the preseason and were thus barely escaped relegation. With this club Reyes immediately won the championship and was able to repeat this triumph four years later at the end of the 1981/82 season. In between, there were still a finals appearance in the 1978/79 season and finals 1979/80, which was narrowly lost 0-1 and 3-3 against Cruz Azul.
The championship was for Reyes insofar tragically when he could not play in the final two pairings. In 1978, he lingered already surrounded by his national colleagues who represented Mexico at the World Cup in Argentina in 1978 and 1982, he was banished from his then coach due to a form of weakness on the bench. Exceptional were the finals in 1980 against Cruz Azul, as Reyes not guarded the gate, but even went on Torjagd and was appointed to the attack. Besides the fact that it is exceptional when a goalkeeper suddenly as a striker is used, Pilar Reyes felt in this role quite well. Again and again he moved out of the gate to initiate an attack of his team à la "Radi " Radenković. The audience was thrilled of these trips and sometimes even encouraged him to when it echoed through the Estadio Universitario " íSube, Pilar sube, "! ( something like this: Next, Pilar, forward)
After six years in the jersey of the Tigres Reyes moved to the end of the season 1982/83 on the Tampico - Madero FC - of all things that club whose predecessor had in 1977 acquired the license of his first employer San Luis - and stayed there for three years until the season end of 1985 / 86th His greatest success with this club were the two runners-up in the season 1985 / 86th Although both the Prode 85 as well as in México championships called 86 (a kind of forerunner of the Apertura and Clausura in use today ), both home games were won, they lost away later and missed the championship twice: first against Club América (4:1 and 0:4 ) and then against CF Monterrey ( 2:1 and 0:2 ).
For the 1986/87 season Reyes returned once more to the Tigres, with whom he failed this time in the quarter -finals of the play-offs. 1987/88 he hired just the arch rival CF Monterrey, who was in that season over long distances in a relegation battle.
National
His debut in the Mexican national was Pilar Reyes on 22 February 1977 in a friendly against Hungary (1-1), which was played in the Estadio Cuauhtémoc in Puebla. A total of 22 times tended Pilar Reyes for his country the gate for the last time on 10 February 1981 against South Korea ( 4-0) at the Azteca Stadium. Reyes also belonged to the Mexican squads at the 1978 World Cup, where he was in the first game against Tunisia (1:3) and in the second group game against Germany ( 0:6 ) are used. Immediately after Karl -Heinz Rummenigge in the after 38 minutes made it 3-0 had already succeeded, Pilar Reyes has been replaced, but also of replacing it, Pedro Soto got the game progresses even poured three goals.
Achievements
- Mexican Champion: 1978 and 1982
- Mexican runner-up: 1980, 1985, 1986
- Second division champions: 1976