Alberto Baeza

Luis Alberto Baeza Mena (born December 6, 1938 ), also known by the nickname Pato ( Eng. Duck ), is a former Mexican football player who mostly acted in attack .

Life

player

From the difficult to understand data of his playing career, we only know that Alberto "Pato" Baeza played for Club Necaxa in the early 1960s (at least between 1959/60 and 1961/62) . Allegedly he also played in the Española de Fútbol league and for CF Pachuca .

Baeza once said of the once significant rivalry between his former club Necaxa and CF Atlante : “The match between Atlante and Necaxa was a real derby ; a game that was marked by hatred and that you couldn't lose. As is the case today between America and Chivas . It was a classic that sent the fans into ecstasy a week or two before the match and kept them talking about the game for a long time afterwards, even if the performance on the pitch wasn't exactly worth seeing. "

Although Pato Baeza was part of the Mexican World Cup squad in 1962 , he was not used at the World Cup itself or in any other game of the Mexican national team and thus remained without an international match nomination.

Trainer, club founder and youth coordinator

Many years after the end of his active career, a football club called Pato Baeza FC was created, which plays in the fourth-class Tercera División and whose team is coached by Alberto "Pato" Baeza. The club's premises are in Texcoco , which was once home to the Club Deportivo Texcoco, founded by the former soccer player José Sánchez “El Peque” .

But the name "Pato Baeza" now stands not only for a Mexican club in the fourth division, but also for promoting youth sports in general. There is now a children's and youth league called Liga de Futbol Soccer Infantil y Juvenil Pato Baeza , in which a trophy called Copa Pato Baeza is played.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Mexican Supercup Finals at RSSSF
2. ↑ Profile in line 32 of the list of former professional football players who played in the Liga Española de Fútbol de México (Spanish)
3. ↑ El Clásico Atlante-Necaxa se dio de Forma Natural  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; article of November 4, 2008)  
4. ↑ Jorge Gómez Anguas: A History of Football in Mexico , Heart Books, Rijmenam / Belgium, 1995, p. 190
5. ↑ Report from the game Alamos FC vs Pato Baeza on November 20, 2010 ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
6. ↑ El otro lado del balón: Pato Baeza FC, una forma de vivir por el juego (Spanish; article of March 11, 2010)
7. ↑ Liga de Futbol Soccer Infantil y Juvenil Pato Baeza ( Memento of December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish; accessed on May 14, 2011)
8. ↑ El buen vicino: Jugadores de Pato Baeza van a visorias ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish; article from July 26, 2010)