Dionisio Mejía

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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

Individual evidence

  1. Dionisio Mejia. Retrieved November 12, 2011 .
  2. ^ Composition of the World Cup squad in Mexico at the 1930 World Cup on the FIFA website
  3. Match statistics of the game Spain against Mexico on fifa.com ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )