Leonardo Cuéllar

Leonardo Cuéllar Rivera ( born January 14, 1952 in Mexico City) is a former Mexican football player and currently coach of the Mexican national team of the Women's U-20 team and women. At his time he also struck by its distinctive head of hair.

Career

As an amateur and in the club

Also known by the nickname León de la Metro Cuéllar was a member of the football Olympic team at the Mexico Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and subsequently joined his first professional contract with his hometown club at UNAM Pumas. For seven years he wore the jersey of the pumas and won with them in 1975 the Mexican Association Cup and two years later the championship.

In 1979 he joined for two seasons with the San Diego Sockers. For the 1981/82 season he returned to his homeland, where he played for the Atletas campesinos. Reinforced with Cuéllar in their ranks, the campesinos missed the championship final by just one point. At the end of the season the license of the association at the Tampico - Madero FC was sold and Cuéllar returned to the U.S., where he played in the next three years for the San Jose Earthquakes and trailed off and his active career.

National

His debut in the Mexican national was Cuéllar on 6 February 1973 in a friendly against Argentina, which decided the Mexicans at the Azteca Stadium 2-0 in their favor. In his first international matches mustered only as Substitute, Cuéllar was first on August 6, 1975 in a friendly match against East Germany (1-0 ) over the full distance to use.

In the first half of his national career (1973-1977) El León de la Metro came as a left winger for use with one exception, always in attack and in the rule. In that period he also scored his only goals for El Tri, as the national team is due to their color combination green -white-red in Mexico commonly known: two in the 7-0 victory against Costa Rica on August 17, 1975 in Mexico City and one in a 3-0 win against the United States on September 27, 1977 in Monterrey. Since October 1977, he was always summoned in midfield.

On the position in left midfield, he played in all three full-length games, the Mexicans at the so disappointing for her 1978 World Cup in Argentina: completed (total 2:12 Goals and 0-6 points).

His last international match played Cuéllar on 15 November 1981 in a World Cup qualifying match in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, against Canada, which ended 1-1.

A trainer

With the Mexican national team of women, he took part in the World Championships in 1999 and 2011, but the team different from each in the preliminary round. Before he reached respectively at the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup with his team in 1998 and 2010, the final, but failed in two finals in Canada. In 2004, he participated with his team at the Olympic football tournament in which the team made ​​it to the quarter-finals. In the U-20 World Cup Women 2012, he oversaw the Mexican U-20 team, with whom he also reached the quarterfinals. His son Christopher, who is an honorary capacity for the Mexican women's football since 2005, is the coach of the Mexican U-17 women's national team, with which he participated in the U-17 World Cup Women's 2012.

Achievements

• Mexican champion: 1977
• Mexican Cup Winners: 1975