Luis de la Fuente

Luis " Pirata " de la Fuente y Quesada ( born January 17, 1914 in Vera Cruz, † May 28, 1972 ) was a Mexican national football team. He is considered together with Hugo Sanchez as the best Mexican player of all time.

Especially many fans of " pirate " to this day in the Mexican port city of Veracruz, where he was born and he spent the last eleven years of his active career in the sporting flagship CD Veracruz. In his honor, the football stadium in Veracruz in Estadio Luis de la Fuente was renamed in 1981.

Play

Fuente was an exceptionally talented and technically fogged offensive player who often acted in central midfield and successfully intervened from there in the attack. His dribbling skills were feared by the defenders. He also bribed with templates passes by in depth, which repeatedly showed scoring opportunities for his teammates. His constant goal threat was mainly due to its strength, with full force to behead balls from every imaginable position both to shoot and with both feet on the goal.

Career

Luis Fuente was born on January 17, 1914 as the son of a Mexican mother and a Spanish father in the Mexican port city of Veracruz. When local Club España, he learned at a young age the football game. He spent part of his youth in the homeland of his father, where he attended school in Santander and in Extremadura. When he was back in Mexico and just the Colegio Alfonso XIII visited in Mexico City, he was the resident Club Aurrera (see also under Primera Fuerza ) invited for a trial. As the headmaster wanted to forbid him to participate, Luis pulled out and played several years from now in the ranks of Club Aurrera.

Around the turn of the year 1933 on 1934, he moved to the big Real Club España, for which he was, however, only works in the short term. Because Fuente, now international, left in the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 1934 in Italy (where the last and decisive qualifier against the United States was held in Rome and Mexico defeated ) such a great impression that the Spanish club Racing Santander him immediately lucrative offer submitted. In Spain, however, it soon plagued by homesickness, so Fuente in 1935 returned to Mexico and tried to sign on again at his previous club Real España. But the person in charge of the proud Spanish club did not like Fuentes " gypsy life " and refused him admission. Finally Fuente landed at Club América, where he played so successful that España him could never have bring back because he had become " unaffordable".

1939 Fuente again left Mexico and went first to Paraguay to Atlético Corrales and then to Argentina to Velez Sarsfield. Soon, however, he returned again to Mexico and played back for Marte, with whom he 1942/43, won the championship. Incidentally, it was the last championship before the introduction of the professional league in which the migrant bird Fuente only played for a club. Shortly before the start of the professional league, he signed a contract with his hometown club, CD Veracruz, for until the end of his playing career he was eleven years working. His final game took place on 13 June 1954 at the stadium of a sports town - today's Estadio Azul at League Cruz Azul - Mexico City instead. Luis Fuente at that time was already almost 40 ½ years old.

He died on 28 May 1972 of a heart attack a few days later and was buried in his hometown of Veracruz.

Achievements

• Masters of Mexico: 1943 ( with Marte on amateur basis ), 1946 and 1950 ( with Vera Cruz in the professional league )
• Cup Winners of Mexico: 1948 ( with Vera Cruz )