Alberto Gallardo

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Alberto Gallardo
Personnel
Surname Félix Alberto Gallardo Mendoza
birthday November 28, 1940
place of birth Lima ,  Peru
date of death January 19, 2001
Place of death Lima ,  Peru
size 182 cm
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1958 Mariscal Sucre 18 (12)
1959-1963 Sporting Cristal 72 (56)
1963-1964 AC Milan 15 0(2)
1964-1966 US Cagliari 40 0(6)
1966-1967 Palmeiras São Paulo 47 (22)
1968-1975 Sporting Cristal 170 (71)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962-1970 Peru 37 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Sporting Cristal
Coronel Bolognesi
1 Only league games are given.

Félix Alberto Gallardo Mendoza (born November 28, 1940 in Lima , † January 19, 2001 ibid) was a Peruvian football player and later coach. Active at club level for Sporting Cristal , AC Milan and US Cagliari , among others , he took part in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Alberto Gallardo was born on November 28, 1940 in the Peruvian capital Lima . At the club Mariscal Sucre he learned to play football and moved from there to Sporting Cristal for the 1959 season . With this club Alberto Gallardo experienced by far his most successful time as a football player and won a total of four championships. The attacker was able to celebrate his first title win with Sporting Cristal in the 1961 season, when in the Primera División the decider for the title with 2-0 against Alianza Lima . Alberto Gallardo was the top scorer in the highest Peruvian football league with eighteen goals that year. He did the same again the following year. However, Sporting Cristal could not win the championship in 1962, they had to admit defeat to Alianza Lima with two points. In a first phase Alberto Gallardo played a total of 1959 to half of the 1963 season for Sporting Cristal and made 72 league games with 56 goals during this time.

In the summer of 1963, Alberto Gallardo moved to Europe to AC Milan in the Italian Serie A . At Milan he played fifteen league games for a year, helping the team to third place in Serie A in 1963/64 . Gallardo scored two goals this season. He then joined the emerging first division promoted US Cagliari , where he spent the following two seasons. Under coach Arturo Silvestri , the Sardinian club established itself in the first Italian division and the Peruvian Gallardo made forty league games with six goals for Cagliari . After the seventh place in the table was occupied in the first season, they were ranked eleven a year later. Another four years later, the US Cagliari became the first and only time Italian football championship.

Alberto Gallardo returned to South America in 1966 and played a year for the Brazilian club Palmeiras São Paulo , with whom he won the 1966 São Paulo state championship and in 1967 the Taça Brasil , to be regarded as the predecessor of the Brazilian football championship. For the 1968 season Gallardo moved back to Sporting Cristal, where he subsequently spent the rest of his career. With his long-standing club, he was three more times Peruvian champion. The 1968 season was decided by a 2-1 win in the playoff against Juan Aurich for themselves after both teams had been equal on points in the regular table. After Universitario de Deportes became champions the following year, Sporting Cristal and Alberto Gallardo succeeded in winning the next title in the 1970 season. The championship round ended in first place just ahead of the defending champion. Gallardo won his fourth title with Sporting Cristal in 1972 under German coach Rudi Gutendorf . Again they prevailed in the final round with one point ahead of Universitario de Deportes. Nevertheless, this successful phase of Sporting Cristal was coming to an end. The brewery's own team had aged and had already passed its zenith, until 1979 no further title was won. Alberto Gallardo ended his footballing career in 1975 at the age of 35.

National team

Between 1962 and 1970, Alberto Gallardo made a total of 37 international matches for the Peruvian national team . After Peru had qualified for a World Cup for the first time in 40 years in 1970 , Alberto Gallardo was also in his home country's squad for the tournament. Under the Brazilian coach Didi , the Peruvian selection played well in Mexico and survived the preliminary round in second place behind the Federal Republic of Germany , but ahead of Bulgaria and Morocco . Alberto Gallardo contributed a hit to the successful performance in the preliminary round. In the 3-2 win against the Bulgarians, he met a 1: 2 connection, which resulted in Peru turning the game around. In general, Alberto Gallardo was used in all tournament games of his team, he scored a second goal in the quarter-finals against eventual world champions Brazil . In a surprisingly even game, Peru lost 4-2 to the high favorites, but could keep up for a long time. After the 1970 World Cup, Alberto Gallardo ended his national team career at the age of 29.

He also took part with the Peruvian selection at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , but failed there with his team in the group stage.

After the active career

He later became a football coach and coached Sporting Cristal for numerous terms, but never crowned with long-term success. Also Coronel Bolognesi was one of the trained Gallardo teams.

Alberto Gallardo died on January 19, 2001 at the age of 60 in a clinic in Lima after complications from appendicitis . He was buried in a cemetery in the La Molina district . In 2012 the previous Estadio San Martín de Porres was renamed Estadio Alberto Gallardo in honor of Gallardo . The sports facility has space for 18,000 spectators and serves Gallardo's long-standing Sporting Cristal club as a venue for home games.

successes

Sporting Cristal

Palmeiras

  • Top scorer in the Peruvian Primera División 2 ×: 1961, 1962 with Sporting Cristal

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personal data
SURNAME Gallardo, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallardo Mendoza, Félix Alberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2001
Place of death Lima