Miguel Calero

Miguel Calero ( born April 14, 1971 in Geneva, † December 4, 2012 in Mexico City) was a Colombian soccer player on the position of the goalkeeper.

Association

Calero began his professional career in 1991 with Deportivo Cali, with whom he won the Colombian championship in the 1995/96 season. The end of 1997 he left Cali and played the next two and a half years for Nacional Medellin, with whom he 1998 and 1999 Copa Merconorte another league title won.

In spring 2000 he signed the Mexican CF Pachuca, with whom he won a number of titles: four Mexican championships, twice the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup and once each its successor competition CONCACAF Champions League, the Copa Sudamericana and the Super League. In 2011 he ended his football career.

On November 25, 2012 Calero was admitted to a hospital in Mexico City, where a stroke was diagnosed. On December 3, Calero was declared brain dead after a recurrent stroke; He died on December 4, 2012.

National

Calero completed a total of 51 international matches for the Colombian national football team and won with their 2001 Copa América.

With the FIFA World Cup Colombia 1998, he belonged to the Colombian World Cup squad, was behind the eventual Cologne Faryd Mondragón but no chance of a bet.

After poor performances at the Copa América 2007, he announced his retirement from the Colombian National Team.

Achievements

National

• Colombian champion: 1996 ( with Deportivo Cali ), 1999 ( with Nacional Medellin )
• Mexican masters: Inv 2001 Ape 2003 Cla 2006 Cla 2007 (all with Pachuca)

Internationally

• Copa América: 2001 ( with Colombia )
• CONCACAF Champions ' Cup: 2007, 2008 (all with Pachuca)
• CONCACAF Champions League: 2009/10 ( with Pachuca)
• Copa Nissan Sudamericana: 2006 ( with Pachuca)
• Copa Merconorte: 1998 ( with Nacional Medellin )