Luis Cruzado

Luis Fernando Cruzado Sánchez ( born July 6, 1941 in Lima, † February 14, 2013 ) was a Peruvian football player. He spent most of his career at the capital club Universitario de Deportes, celebrated many successes with this club and continued to participate with the national team of his native country participates in the Football World Cup 1970 in Mexico.

Career

Club career

Luis Cruzado, born in 1941 in Peru's capital Lima, his footballing career started in 1959 at the local club Universitario de Deportes where he should be the next fourteen years until 1973 under contract. In the first year of its commitment in today's Peruvian giants took Luis Cruzado the Peruvian Championship, the first for the club since 1949. Subsequently could the then Universitario team in which players such as Héctor Chumpitaz, Nicolás Fuentes or Eleazar Soria were However, in 1971 still win six more championships to become the absolute top team in Peru. With seven league titles won Luis Cruzado is therefore one of the most successful national football players in Peru in the 1970s.

The climax of the successful era of Universitario de Deportes took place in 1972, when one after wins in the group stage against the Chilean representative Universidad de Chile and Unión San Felipe and the league rivals Alianza Lima and in the second group stage against Nacional and Penarol of Uruguay could reach the final of the Copa Libertadores, the most important club competition for soccer teams in South America. Was waiting with defending champion Independiente Avellaneda, however one of the best and especially defensively most compact team of that time to the Peruvians. Finally, the trained from the Uruguayan Roberto Scarone team Universitario was defeated after it had been after a goalless draw in Lima a 1-2 defeat in the return leg in Argentina.

Luis Cruzado, who acted in the position of a midfielder, played to 1973 at Universitario de Deportes where he had increasingly lost his place in the recent times and also, for example, in the final of the Copa Libertadores in 1972 only in the second leg was used. In 1974, he played one more year in the province unterklassigen club Walter Ormeño, before 1975, committed itself for a year in Juan Aurich. After the 1975 season ended the footballing career of Luis Cruzado at the age of 34 years.

National

Between 1961 and 1971, denied Luis Cruzado total of 26 appearances for the Peru national football team. In these 26 games he managed a score. From Brazil striker Didi, at that time acting as national coach of Peru, Cruzado was called to the squad for the World Cup 1970 in Mexico. In the tournament, the Peruvian team achieved a second place behind Germany and ahead of the national teams of Bulgaria and Morocco surprisingly the quarter-finals, where, however, came from the against the eventual champions from Brazil with 2:4.

Achievements

• Peruvian Championship: 7 × 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, Universitario de Deportes
• Final of the Copa Libertadores: 1 × 1972, Universitario de Deportes