Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez

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Aarón Padilla
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Personnel
Surname Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez
birthday July 10, 1942
place of birth Mexico CityMexico
date of death June 14, 2020
Place of death Guadalajara , Mexico
size 176 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1972 UNAM Pumas
1972-1973 CF Atlante
1973-1974 CD Veracruz
1974-1975 UNAM Pumas
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965-1970 Mexico 53 (8)
1 Only league games are given.

Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez (born July 10, 1942 in Mexico City , † June 14, 2020 in Guadalajara ), also known by the nickname El Gansito , was a Mexican football player who acted in attack . His son Aarón Padilla Mota was also a soccer player and his brother Marco Antonio Padilla , who was around eight years older than him, was also a professional soccer player in the 1970s.

biography

society

Padilla began his professional career in 1962 in the service of the Club Universidad Nacional , which had just been promoted to the Primera División , where he was under contract for ten years.

In 1972 El Gansito moved to city rivals CF Atlante , for whom he went on goal hunting in the 1972/73 season before returning to the Pumas via CD Veracruz ( 1973/74 season ), in whose service he continued his active career during the season Completed 1974/75 .

National team

Padilla made his debut in the Mexican national team on February 28, 1965 in a game against Honduras (1-0), which was played as part of qualifying for the 1966 World Cup . Gansito Padilla scored his first international goal in a 3-2 win over Jamaica on May 3, 1965; his only "double" for "el Tri" he succeeded in the 7-0 victory over Paraguay on April 24, 1966.

The highlights of his national team career were his participation in the soccer world championships in 1966 and 1970 . Of the total of seven games that the Mexicans played in these two World Cups, Padilla played six full-length games and was only absent from the opening match of the 1970 World Cup, which was played between Mexico and the Soviet Union (0-0).

death

Padilla died in June 2020 at the age of 77 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Muere Aarón Padilla, exdirectivo de los Pumas de la UNAM, a causa de Covid-19. Marca , June 14, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 (Spanish).