Edgar García de Dios

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Édgar García
Personnel
Surname Edgar Arturo García de Dios
birthday September 1, 1977
place of birth Mexico City ,  Mexico
date of death June 26, 2010
Place of death Naucalpan ,  Mexico
size 175 cm
position Midfielder / striker
Juniors
Years station
until 1995 UNAM Pumas
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1995 CF Atlante 13 (1)
1995-1996 FC Linz 19 (6)
1997-1999 Deportivo Toluca 13 (0)
1999-2000 UAG Tecos 18 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993 Mexico U-17 4 (3)
1997 Mexico U-20
1 Only league games are given.

Edgar Arturo García de Dios (born September 1, 1977 in Mexico City , † June 26, 2010 in Naucalpan ) was a Mexican football player . At the beginning of the 1990s, the player, who was used either in attacking midfield or attacking, was considered a great talent, but never made the breakthrough. In 2000, at the age of 23, he ended his short career, which was initially strongly supported by the Mexican national hero Hugo Sánchez .

After the sudden end of his career, he earned his living as a taxi driver. In June 2010 he was found murdered in his taxi by seven close-range shots.

Club career

Career start

García began his career in the youth of the UNAM Pumas , where he developed into one of the greatest Mexican soccer talents in the early 1990s. At the age of fifteen he made his first appearance in the Mexican U-17 national team. Furthermore, in 1993 he became the youngest member of the Mexican squad for the U-17 World Cup in Ghana .

After he was not accepted into the club's professional squad, he moved from the Pumas youth team to league rivals CF Atlante at the end of 1994 . The player was signed through the agency of the UNAM legend and then star striker of Atlante Hugo Sánchez , who subsequently pushed his career forward. In 1995 he started in two games as a striker on the side of Sanchez before he moved to Austria for FC Linz . By the end of the season, eleven more games followed with a goal before the reputation of Sánchez reached him again.

FC Linz

On December 15, 1995, he moved again on the recommendation of Sanchez to his then club FC Linz in the Austrian 2nd division . The change turned out to be a stroke of luck for everyone involved. García was used in seven games by the end of the season, in which he scored six goals and prepared four more. Linz celebrated the undisputed championship title in the 2nd division with a lead of twelve points and the associated promotion to the Bundesliga . After the rise, Sánchez left the club again in the direction of Dallas Burn , whereupon García announced plans to change. However, the then FC manager Jürgen Werner vetoed a move because he was planning with García as a star in League 1.

The 1996/97 season developed for the club against the high expectations. The club was in relegation battle from the start of the season and García acted as one of the hopefuls completely listless and presented himself out of shape. García justified his poor performance mainly with the fact that he no longer felt comfortable in Linz without Sánchez and thus literally forced another change. At the end of 1996, after twelve first division games without a goal, the contract was terminated in Linz.

Toluca & UAG

In 1997 Garcia, who was still considered a great talent in Mexico, despite his inglorious departure from Linz, signed a contract with the then top club Deportivo Toluca . With Toluca he won the "Verano Championship" twice and was just as often "Superlider" as Mexico's best club in terms of points. Due to many injuries and a great competition in the squad of Toluca, he was in no phase of his time with the club and came in four years to only thirteen league appearances without scoring. After he sustained a serious knee injury in 1999, his expiring contract was not extended.

At Invierno 1999, coming straight from convalescence, he signed a trial contract for 4 months, including an option, with the Mexican medium- sized company , UAG Tecos . This was followed by nine games without scoring, in which he again brought appealing performances, which earned him a contract extension at UAG. After seven games in Verano 2000, however, he again injured his knee severely, whereupon he had to end his career at the age of only 23 years.

assassination

On June 26, 2010, García's body was found in the driver's seat of his taxi in the Mexican city of Naucalpan . The current investigations revealed that he was shot at close range, presumably from the passenger seat of his vehicle, with seven rounds from a 45 caliber handgun. The case is currently (as of July 2010) still unresolved.

National team

As a great talent, he celebrated his debut in the Mexican U-17 national team in 1993 at the age of 15 , in which he immediately scored a goal. As a result, he was the youngest member of the squad at the U-17 World Cup in Ghana for Mexico. In the course of the World Cup, he was used in all three preliminary round matches and scored the decisive goal for the 2-1 win in his country's opening game against Italy. Another goal followed in the 2-1 defeat against Japan before Mexico was eliminated in third place in the preliminary round.

In 1997 he caused a sensation as a member of the Mexican U-20 national team when he was removed from the squad for the Toulon tournament due to disciplinary reasons .

As a result, coach Javier Galindo surprisingly deleted him from the final squad for the 1997 Junior World Cup . After 1997 he never ran on for a Mexican national team.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [http://www.revistarecord.com/2010/06/30/C-4781-se-da-a-conocer-la-ejecucion-del-ex-futbolista-edgar-garcia-de-dios. php Se da a conocer la ejecución del ex futbolista Edgar García de Dios (Spanish)] (Link not available)
  2. ↑ a b Tournament squad Mexico U-17 1993 ( Memento from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) de.fifa.com, accessed on August 21, 2010
  3. ^ "Bold plans are rolling over again Jürgen Werner ...." Neue Kronen-Zeitung "of December 16, 1995 Page: 52 Edition: Upper Austria
  4. ↑ Anota Garcia de Dios; Linz asegura ascenso (Spanish) accessmylibrary.com, accessed on August 21, 2010
  5. ^ "Hugo's last somersault in Linz", Kurier "of May 12, 1996 Page: 19
  6. ^ "García de Dios before parting" Neue Kronen-Zeitung "of December 5, 1996 Page: 52 Edition: Upper Austria
  7. ^ Garcia de Dios a punto. (Spanish) accessmylibrary.com, accessed August 21, 2010
  8. ^ Firma con los Tecos Edgar Garcia de Dios (Spanish) accessmylibrary.com, accessed on August 21, 2010
  9. ↑ Asesinan a ex futbolista Édgar García de Dios (Spanish) ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) jarochos.net, accessed on August 21, 2010
  10. ↑ Japan 1993 Match Report: Italy - Mexico ( Memento from June 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) de.fifa.com, accessed on August 21, 2010
  11. ↑ Japan 1993 Match Report: Japan - Mexico ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) de.fifa.com, accessed on August 21, 2010
  12. ^ Salen sin Garcia de Dios (Spanish) accessmylibrary.com, accessed August 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME García de Dios, Édgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES García de Dios, Édgar Arturo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2010
Place of death Naucalpan , Mexico