Héctor Nuñez

Héctor Nuñez
Personnel
Surname	Héctor Núñez Bello
birthday	May 8, 1936
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
date of death	December 19, 2011
Place of death	Madrid ,  Spain
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
	Liverpool Montevideo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1954–	Nacional Montevideo
0000-1965	Valencia CF
1965-1966	RCD Mallorca
0000-1967	Levant UD
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1957-1959	Uruguay	7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1978	Atlético Madrid
1982-1983	UAG Tecos
1983	UD Las Palmas
1989-1990	Nacional Montevideo
1990	Costa Rica
12 / 1993-3 / 1994	Valencia CF
8 / 1994-11 / 1996	Uruguay
8/2001–12/2001	Al-Nasr
1 Only league games are given.

Héctor "Pichón" Núñez Bello (born May 8, 1936 in Montevideo , † December 19, 2011 in Madrid , Spain ) was a Uruguayan- Spanish football player and coach .

Player career

society

The striker of Galician descent began his career at the age of 15 with Liverpool Montevideo in the local fifth division team. In 1954 he moved to Nacional Montevideo and made his debut there in the same year in the Uruguayan First League. In 1956 and 1957 he was able to win the Uruguayan championship with his teammates at the Uruguayan capital club. In 1957 he was given the honor of being voted Uruguay's best player. After he brought the Trofeo Teresa Herrera to Uruguay with Nacional in 1958 , he aroused the interest of some Spanish clubs through his performances at the tournament. In addition to Granada and Celta de Vigo , Valencia also noticed him. He then moved to the latter club at the age of 22 to Spain, where he made his first appearance on April 8, 1959 against the English club Everton . The vast majority of his playing career, namely seven seasons he spent at Valencia . With this team he won the Exhibition Cities Cup twice . He then played one more season for RCD Mallorca and one and a half seasons for Levante UD .

National team

Núñez was also a member of the Uruguayan national team . From its debut on July 28, 1957 to its last use on April 2, 1959, it was used seven times. He didn't score a goal.

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Núñez pursued various coaching activities for club and national teams around the world. In Spain, for example, he coached the clubs FC Granada , Atlético Madrid (five games in the 1978/79 season, before his activity soon ended in a confrontation with the Brazilian Luiz Pereira ), CD Tenerife , Rayo Vallecano , Valencia (December 1993 to March 10, 1994 after only 2 wins out of eleven games) and Real Valladolid , was under contract in Mexico with Guadalajara and in Saudi Arabia with Al Nassr. In his Uruguayan homeland he won the Copa Interamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana as coach of Nacionals . He took up his coaching position there on January 5, 1989 and held it until the beginning of 1990. As national coach, he then completed a term in Costa Rica . This engagement ended in November 1990. From 1994 to 1996 he was the coach of the Uruguayan national soccer team . With this he won the Copa America in 1995 . In the same year he was named South America's Coach of the Year in the election organized by El País . During the award ceremony, he named the Spaniard Domingo Balmaña , whom he described as a true encyclopedia of football, as his role model for coaching. He finally ended his coaching career in his home country. His last stop was Tacuarembó FC , where he was eliminated in 2007.

Others

Núñez was also a player's agent, a representative of a sportswear company in Spain and a partner in a company that bought a hotel in Punta del Este .

Núñez died in his adopted home of Madrid after a long illness at the age of 75.

Web links

• Pichón ”, el técnico que condujo a Uruguay a la conquista de la Copa America (Spanish) on vivedeportes.com from December 20, 2011, accessed on December 24, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lr21.com.uy "fallenció Héctor “Pichón” Núñez " (Spanish) in La República on December 19, 2011, accessed on December 20, 2011
2. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team at www.rsssf.com , accessed on December 16, 2012
3. ^ South American Coach and Player of the Year on rsssf.com