Héctor Núñez

Héctor " Pichón " Núñez Bello ( born May 8, 1936 in Montevideo, † December 19, 2011 in Madrid, Spain ) was a Uruguayan - Spanish football player and coach.

Playing career

Association

The striker Galician descent began his career with 15 years at Liverpool in the local Fifth league team. In 1954 he moved to Nacional Montevideo and debuted there in the same year in the First Uruguayan league. 1956 and 1957 he won the Uruguayan championship in the Uruguayan capital club with disastrous appearance. 1957, he was honored going to be voted the best player of Uruguay. After the Trofeo Teresa Herrera took with Nacional in Uruguay in 1958, he aroused by his performance in the tournament, the interest shown by some Spanish clubs. So in addition to Granada and Celta de Vigo and Valencia became aware of him. At the latter club he joined at the age of 22 years to Spain where he came to the English club Everton FC on April 8, 1959, its first operation. By far the largest part of his playing career, namely seven seasons he spent at Valencia. With this team he twice won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. He then played one more season for the RCD Mallorca and a half seasons at Levante UD.

National

Núñez was also a member of the Uruguayan national team. From his debut on July 28, 1957 until his last mission on April 2, 1959, he was seven times for use. A goal he did not achieve.

Coaching career

Núñez went to the end of his playing career coach various activities at club teams and national teams worldwide after. So he trained in Spain, for example, the clubs FC Granada, Atlético Madrid ( five games of the 1978/79 season before in the course of a confrontation with the Brazilian Luiz Pereira his work ended soon ), CD Tenerife, Rayo Vallecano, Valencia ( between December 1993 and March 10, 1994 after just two wins in eleven games ) and Real Valladolid, was in Mexico in Guadalajara and in Saudi Arabia at Al Nassr under contract. In his home country he won the Uruguayan Nacional's coach as the Copa Interamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana. He had begun on 5 January 1989 His thereat as coach and practiced it out until early 1990. As a coach he subsequently completed a term in Costa Rica. Already in November 1990 ended this commitment. From 1994 to 1996 he was manager of the Uruguayan national football team. With this he won the 1995 Copa América. In the same year he was named in the aligned by El País choice to South America Coach of the Year. During the ceremony he called the Spaniard Domingo Balmaña, whom he described among other things as a true encyclopedia of football, as his role model for a trainer. His coaching career, he eventually ended in his home country. His last stop was the Tacuarembó FC, ​​where he retired in 2007.

Others

Moreover, Núñez was Player's agent, representative of a sports clothing company in Spain and shareholder of a company that acquired a hotel in Punta del Este.

Núñez died in his adopted home of Madrid after a long illness at the age of 75 years.