Dionisio Mejía
| Dionisio Mejía | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | January 6, 1907 | |
| date of death | 17th July 1963 | |
| position | attack | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| CF Atlante | ||
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1930-1934 | Mexico | 4 (7) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Dionisio Mejía ( January 6, 1907 , † July 17, 1963 ), also known by the nickname Nicho , was a Mexican football player on the position of the striker .
biography
He was a member of the Mexican national soccer team and took part with it in the first soccer world championship in 1930 . There he was used in the game against France (1: 4). He was also used in the national team of his home country during the World Cup qualification for the 1934 tournament . There he was used in the games against Cuba (3: 2 and 5: 0) and in the decisive game against the USA (2: 4) and scored a total of seven goals. His hat-trick in the first game against Cuba (3-2) on March 4, 1934, when he scored the 3-0 lead for the hosts in less than five minutes, was record-breaking .
He was also a member of the 1928 Summer Olympics , where Mexico lost to Spain (1: 7) and Chile (1: 3), but was not used there.
At club level, he was the top scorer of the capital league in the 1928/29 season and won the championship three years later with his long-term club Atlante .
Web links
- Dionisio Mejía in the database of FIFA (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dionisio Mejia. Retrieved November 12, 2011 .
- ^ Composition of the World Cup squad in Mexico at the 1930 World Cup on the FIFA website
- ↑ Match statistics of the game Spain against Mexico on fifa.com ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mejía, Dionisio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | mexican soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1907 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1963 |