Francisco Castrejon

Francisco Castrejon
Personnel
Surname	Francisco Castrejón Ramírez
birthday	June 11, 1946
place of birth	Tuxpan ,  Mexico
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1972	UNAM Pumas
1972-1973	CF Laguna
1973-1974	Puebla FC
1975-1979	Club America	86 (0)
1979-1980	CD Tampico	22 (0)
1980-1981	Atlas Guadalajara	56 (0)
1983-1984	Atlético Morelia	21 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1969-1981	Mexico	28 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2004–	Atlas Guadalajara (youth; TW-Tr.)
2007-2008	Atlas Guadalajara (TW-Tr.)
1 Only league games are given.

Francisco Castrejón Ramírez (born June 11, 1946 in Tuxpan , Jalisco ) is a former football goalkeeper who has been a goalkeeper coach in the youth teams of Atlas Guadalajara since 2004 and coached the goalkeepers of the first team in the 2007/08 season .

biography

society

Francisco Castrejón made his debut as a professional goalkeeper on February 3, 1964 in the dress of the capital club UNAM Pumas in a game against Deportivo Toluca , which was won 2-1. Because he married exactly four years later to the day, he called February 3rd his special date.

After eight years in the service of the Pumas, with whom the runner-up in 1967/68 was his most successful season to date, Castrejón moved to CF Laguna for the 1972/73 season . A year later he went to Puebla FC , where - depending on the source - he stayed for a year or two until he went back to the capital and signed with Club America . There he had his most successful time: in 1976 he became Mexican champion and Supercup winner , in 1977 he won the CONCACAF Champions Cup and in 1978 the Copa Interamericana .

After a season with CD Tampico (1979/80) he hired his "hometown club" Atlas Guadalajara before ending his career at Atlético Morelia in 1983/84 .

National team

Castrejón made his international debut for the Mexican national football team in a friendly against Colombia on February 4, 1969 (1-0). 1970 was his most successful year with a total of eleven international appearances, nine of which were between February 18 and April 26. Therefore, he may have hoped to play in the 1970 Football World Cup, which was held in his own country . Although he was one of three goalkeepers in Mexico's World Cup squad , he was not used because Ignacio Calderón was named goalkeeper and played all four of the hosts' games in full.

Castrejón brought it to a total of 28 international appearances; his last international match took place on November 22, 1981 in Honduras (0-0) as part of qualifying for the 1982 World Cup .

successes

• Mexican champion : 1976
• Mexican Supercup : 1976
• CONCACAF Champions Cup : 1977
• Copa Interamericana : 1978

Web links

• Mediotiempo: Paco Castrejón, un historico en la porteria (Spanish; article from November 2007)
• El Siglo de Torreón: Recuerdos del Ayer (Spanish; article from September 1, 2010)

References and comments

1. ↑ Date of birth according to Mediotiempo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Notwithstanding this, Weltfussball.de (accessed on November 1, 2010) stated July 11, 1947. At Mediotiempo, his age at the professional debut on February 3, 1964 is given as 18, which in turn would only be possible if he had been born in June (or July) 1945. The date of birth given by the Mexican Football Association as January 29, 1952 can be described as totally incorrect .  
2. ↑ Place of birth according to Mediotiempo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Milenio Online: La cantera no dejó de producir ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; article of February 14, 2009)  
4. ↑ Mediotiempo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mentions 1974 as the start of his activity at América, which is also estimated to have lasted five years there (which in arithmetical terms would correspond to his departure in 1979), while the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón dates his change to 1975.