Hector Zelada

Hector Zelada
Personnel
Surname	Hector Miguel Zelada Bertoqui
birthday	April 30, 1958
place of birth	Maciel ,  Argentina
size	178 cm
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1988	Rosario Central
1979-1987	Club America	148 (0)
1987-1988	without a club
1988-1990	CF Atlante	54 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Argentina
1 Only league games are given.

Héctor Zelada (born April 30, 1958 in Maciel , Santa Fe Province ), also known by the nickname El Cabezón , is a former Argentine football goalkeeper who was part of the squad of the 1986 world championship .

Life

Héctor Miguel Zelada began his professional career in 1976 at his hometown club Rosario Central and moved to the Mexican first division club América in 1978 , where he was under contract for almost a decade and with whom he won the Mexican championship three times in a row in the 1980s .

With a penalty in the final second leg of the 1983/84 season against the great arch rival Chivas Guadalajara , Zelada had a significant share in the Americanistas' first title win in eight years, which was followed by the next title in the two following seasons (1984/85 and Prode 85).

Zelada, who is seen by many fans of Club America as the best goalkeeper in the club's history, played his first game for America on March 4, 1979 in a Superclásico against Chivas Guadalajara, which was played at the Estadio Jalisco and ended goalless. He played his last game for America on May 8, 1987 in a 1-1 draw against Club León in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City .

As the home ground of Club América, the Aztec Stadium was not only his field of activity for eight years, but also the place of his greatest triumph, although he was only passively involved in it. Because in “his” stadium the third goalkeeper of the Argentine national soccer team belonged to the selection that won the 1986 soccer world championship with a 3-2 final victory over Germany.

successes

• Soccer world champion : 1986
• Mexican champion : 1983/84, 1984/85, Prode 85

Footnotes and individual references

1. ^ Argentina - H. Zelada - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway. Retrieved April 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Mission data only from the 1978/79 season up to and including the 1982/83 season
3. ^ Profile at Realidadamericanista ( Memento from March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 18, 2011 (Spanish).

Web links

• Fútbol Generoso: Héctor Zelada (Spanish; article of February 12, 2008)