Enrique Meza

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Enrique Meza
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Personnel
Surname Enrique Meza Enríquez
birthday March 3, 1948
place of birth Mexico City ,  Mexico
size 178 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968 - ???? Cruz Azul
???? - 1980 UANL Tigres
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1983 Cruz Azul
1992-1994 Cruz Azul
1995-1996 Monarcas Morelia
1996-1997 Toros Neza
1997-2000 Deportivo Toluca
2000-2001 Mexico
2002 Atlas Guadalajara
2003 Cruz Azul
2005 Deportivo Toluca
2006-2009 CF Pachuca
2009– Cruz Azul
1 Only league games are given.

Enrique Meza Enríquez (born March 3, 1948 in Mexico City ), also known by the nickname Ojitos (German: little eye ) is a Mexican football coach and former football goalkeeper .

Career

player

During his active time as a goalkeeper, Meza was most of the time under contract with his hometown club Cruz Azul and thus experienced the most successful era in the club's history. However, he was not part of the regular eleven for long stretches, as he mostly only acted as a substitute for the Argentinian Miguel Marín and was therefore rarely used. Meza later moved to the UANL Tigres , where he let his active career end in 1980.

Trainer

Enrique Meza coached various Mexican club teams as well as the national team . With four championship titles and three international titles, he is one of the most successful coaches in Mexico.

When Meza made his coaching debut at Cruz Azul on January 9, 1983, he replaced the previous assistant coach for ex-goalkeeper Miguel Marín, who was insurmountable for him during his playing career and who had been suspended for a year for violating a referee. During his reign, however, the team fell short of expectations, so Meza was soon transferred to the club's youth department.

1992 Meza was again committed as head coach at Cruz Azul. This time he was more successful and even reached the 1994 finals with the team, but they were lost to Necaxa . After a stopover at Monarcas Morelia , he came to the Toros Neza at the beginning of the 1996/97 season , which he had an attractive offensive football practice, which made the Toros the most accurate team with 70 goals scored. As a result of their offensive qualities, the Toros reached the semi-finals of Apertura 1996 and the final of Clausura 1997.

For the next season 1997/98 Meza moved to Deportivo Toluca , whose team he led three times to the championship in the following three years.

At the end of the 1999/00 season he ended his engagement in Toluca to train the national team. His international debut against Ecuador (2-0) on September 20, 2000 was followed by victories against Bolivia (1-0) and Trinidad (7-0). But from then on it went downhill. In the following 16 games, in which he supervised "el tri", there were only two wins (4-0 against Jamaica and 1-0 against Poland), but eleven defeats. After a failed start in the final group of the CONCACAF qualifying round for the 2002 World Cup with only one win, one draw and three defeats, Meza was replaced immediately after the defeat in Honduras (1: 3) by Javier Aguirre , who made the national team in the last five Games led to four wins and a draw, so that the Mexicans qualified for the World Cup.

After his failure with the national team, Meza was again active as a club coach, but had the desired success neither with Atlas Guadalajara nor with Cruz Azul or Toluca.

His commitment to CF Pachuca at the beginning of the 2006/07 season ushered in the second great epoch of his career: Meza led the team straight away to win the Copa Sudamericana 2006 (the first success of a Mexican club team in the area of ​​responsibility of CONMEBOL !) And to the semi-finals the Mexican championship, where his new team lost to his ex-club Toluca. In the Clausura 2007 he led Pachuca to the second title win in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup and to the fifth championship. In 2008 the title in the Champions' Cup could be defended. In the Clausura 2009 Pachuca was able to reach the finals in the domestic championship again under his leadership, but lost to the UNAM Pumas .

In June 2009 Meza ended his engagement with Pachuca in order to take over the coaching position at his "heart club" Cruz Azul - for the fourth time (!). In addition, after the resignation of Javier Aguirre on June 30, 2010 , he was in charge of the Mexican national team with Efraín Flores as interim coach until José Manuel de la Torre, a new national coach, was appointed on October 19, 2010 .

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.femexfut.org.mx/portalv2/secciones.aspx?s=999&ep=171
  2. ↑ http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/427687.html
  3. ↑ Kicker Online: De la Torre is the new coach of the "Tri"

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personal data
SURNAME Meza, Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meza Enríquez, Enrique; Ojitos (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city