Fernando Bustos

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Fernando Bustos
Personnel
Surname Fernando Bustos Castañeda
birthday August 1, 1944
place of birth Mexico City ,  Mexico
date of death September 23, 1979
Place of death at Tepeji del Río de Ocampo , Hidalgo ,  Mexico
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1959-1963 Unión Obrera
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963-1976 Cruz Azul (79)
1976-1977 Atlético Español 19 0(2)
1977-1979 Cruz Azul 23 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1967-1973 Mexico 38 (11)
1 Only league games are given.

Fernando Bustos (born August 1, 1944 in Mexico City , † September 23, 1979 in Tepeji del Río de Ocampo , Hidalgo ) was a Mexican football player on the position of the winger .

Life

society

At the age of 15, Bustos joined his hometown club Unión Obrera , in whose youth teams he played from 1959 to 1963.

Bustos received his first professional contract for the 1963/64 season with the second division club Cruz Azul , for which he made his debut on December 22, 1963 in a home game against Deportivo Tepic . At the end of the same season, Cruz Azul won the second division championship and made it to the Primera División , in which the team has been continuously represented since then.

Bustos was to go down as the first superstar and most successful player in the club's history of the Cementeros , with whom he won six of the eight championship titles to date between 1968/69 and 1978/79. In the 16 years between 1963 and 1979 he only played during the 1976/77 season for another club, Atlético Español , also based in the capital .

He scored his last goal on January 6, 1979 in the 4-1 victory of the Cementeros over Chivas Guadalajara in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City.

National team

Between 1967 and 1973 Bustos completed a total of 38 missions for the Mexican national team , in which he scored eleven goals. He made his international debut on January 5, 1967 in a 3-0 victory over Switzerland. He contributed his first international goal on March 12, 1967 to the 4-0 win against Trinidad and Tobago. His only brace for the national team came on May 28, 1968 in a 2-2 draw against Uruguay. He scored his last international goal on October 16, 1973 in a 2-0 win over the USA. He played his last international game on December 3, 1973 in a World Cup qualifier against Honduras, which ended 1-1.

death

Fernando Bustos Castañeda died on September 23, 1979 at the age of only 35 when he was involved in a serious traffic accident on the highway from Mexico City to Santiago de Querétaro not far from the city of Tepeji del Río de Ocampo in the state of Hidalgo .

successes

swell

Web links

literature

  • La Historia Azul: 40 años en Primera división (1964-2004)
personal data
SURNAME Bustos, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bustos Castañeda, Fernando (full name); El Centavo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1979
Place of death at Tepeji del Río de Ocampo , Hidalgo , Mexico