Alfonso Riestra

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Alfonso Riestra is a retired Mexican soccer player in the position of goalkeeper .

Riestra emerged from the offspring of CF Asturias and was promoted to regular goalkeeper after the departure of the former national goalkeeper Isidoro Sota in the 1933/34 season, who also made the leap into the national team himself and played a total of five international matches for his home country: initially all three World Cup qualifiers against Cuba in 1934 (3: 2, 5: 0 and 4: 1) and two games in the Central American Championships against Cuba (6: 1) and Honduras (8: 2) in 1935.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo II (B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961), p. 346
  2. ^ The Mexican internationals of the 1920s and 1930s at RSSSF
personal data
SURNAME Riestra, Alfonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico