Gustavo Peña

Gustavo Peña ( born November 22, 1941 in Talpa, Jalisco ) is a former Mexican football player who was occasionally used mostly as a central defender and as a full-back. The well known by the nickname Halcón ( falcon) known players acted most like and also most commonly known as (usually right ) Vorstopper.

• 2.1 Personal
• 2.2 club
• 2.3 national team

Career

Gustavo Peña graduated in 18 seasons, a total of 306 league games, of which he most appearances for his hometown club Club Deportivo Oro, in which a total of 12 years he was under contract in two stages and with which he was 1963 champion. His greatest successes came during his three years of service at the capital club Cruz Azul, with whom he won several titles.

With 82 international matches that he played in the period between March 1961 and September 1974 he was at that time international record holder of the Mexican National Team. He had a safe reception of the ball, was responsive, and it was 67 times as captain of the national team of his native country for use.

Association

Peña made ​​his professional debut in the Mexican Primera División at the age of 18 years in the season 1959/60. After eight seasons with his hometown club, he moved in 1967 to the short time before übergesiedelten in the capital of Cruz Azul, in which he stood the next three years under contract and with whom he celebrated the greatest success of his career at club level. Immediately after the discharged at home 1970 World Cup, he returned for four years at his home club, who had meanwhile been renamed to Club Jalisco. Between 1974 and 1976 he played for CF Monterrey, before his career ended in 1977 in the service of CF Laguna.

National

His international debut was "el Halcón " on 22 March 1961 in a World Cup qualifying match in San Jose against the selection of Costa Rica, the Mexicans lost 0-1. Peña, who was then inserted on the right -back position, completed all eight games that challenged the Mexican national team up to and including May 21, 1961. Then he did not come for nearly two years no longer in the national team used at the World Cup in Chile in 1962. In March 1963 he was again a member of the national team. With the exception of the first two games in which he acted in the unfamiliar position for him of the left full-back, he was usually as a central defender, mostly on the right side are used. From then on, he was not only starting eleven for the Mexicans, for whom he played 69 to October 3, 1971 against the Bermuda (2-0) of 92 international matches, but acted beyond in all 67 international appearances between February 1965 and October 1971 as their captain.

Peña was also a regular player at the World Championships in England in 1966 and 1970, and denied it all seven games of the Mexicans. Particularly in the case of the soccer World Cup 1970 in their own country Gustavo Peña was something of a tragic hero. First, he turned in the final group match against Belgium a penalty for match ends 1-0 decision winner. In the quarter- final match against Italy just three days later, he underwent an own goal for a 1-1 draw for the Azzurri, which ushered in the 1:4 defeat of the hosts.

After 1971 Peña came only five times in the national team for use. His last international game he played on September 8, 1974 in Dallas against the U.S. national team, which decided the Mexicans 1-0 for itself.

Achievements

Personally

• Mexico's Footballer of the Year: 1968 and 1970
• Appointment to the FIFA World XI: 1969 and 1971

Association

• Mexican masters: 1963 ( with Oro ), 1969 and 1970 ( with Cruz Azul )
• Mexican Super Cup: 1963 ( with Oro ) and 1969 ( with Cruz Azul )
• Mexican Cup Winners' Cup: 1969 ( with Cruz Azul )
• CONCACAF Champions ' Cup winner: 1969 and 1970 ( with Cruz Azul )

National

• CONCACAF Gold Cup winner: 1965
• World Cup participants: 1966 and 1970

• National football team (Mexico)
• Mexican champions ( football)
• Mexican
• Born in 1941
• Man