Jorge Campos

Jorge Campos Navarrete (* October 15, 1966 in Acapulco, Guerrero ) was one of the most famous Mexican soccer player in the 1990s.

Actually, he was goalkeeper, but he played sometimes as a striker, which added much to his fame. He scored 38 goals during his career. Despite its small for a goalkeeper height of 1.75 m, it always showed a good penalty area and excellent reflexes.

In the Primera División de México Campos played for UNAM Pumas, Atlante, Cruz Azul, Tigres UANL and Puebla. In the U.S. he was in Major League Soccer for three years for Los Angeles Galaxy active and then moved to Chicago Fire SC.

Campos graduated 129 caps for the Mexican national football team and participated in the FIFA World Cup 1994, at the Football World Cup 1998 (but only as a substitute ) in the Football World Cup 2002 in part. From 2003 /04 he worked as an assistant coach of the Mexican national team coach Ricardo Antonio La Volpe. Campos made ​​the mid-nineties attention to themselves by wearing extremely colorful play clothes, which he had designed for the part itself.