Horacio Ortiz

Horacio Ortiz , nicknamed "el Moco", was a Mexican soccer player who first played at Pachuca AC and later at Club America . He completed all six international matches that the Mexican national team played in 1923, scoring four goals.

biography

Horacio Ortiz began his footballing career at Pachuca AC, for which he has been proven to have worked at least between 1915 and 1920. In the 1917/18 season he was with Pachuca Mexican champions and - together with his teammate, the Englishman Frederick Williams, and the Spaniard Lázaro Ibarreche from Club España - top scorer of the Primera Fuerza . He was only the second Mexican to become top scorer in the Mexican league introduced in 1902/03: only Jorge Gómez De Parada had succeeded in this in the 1908/09 and 1912/13 seasons before him .

After another league title with Pachuca in 1920, Ortiz moved - together with his teammate Enrique "Matona" Esquivel - to the capital for Club America, for which he can be shown to have played between 1923 and 1926 and with whom he played in the 1924/25 and 1925 seasons / 26 became Mexican champion .

Ortiz took part in all six international matches for his home country in 1923; at that time the national team was (almost) identical to the team of Club America. In these games, all of which were played against the southern neighbor Guatemala, he scored four goals.

successes

• Mexican champion : 1918 and 1920 (with Pachuca), 1925 and 1926 (with América)
• Top scorer: 1918

References and comments

1. ↑ In Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , p. 17ff, Horacio Ortiz appears on various Pachuca AC team photos from the years 1915 to 1918 and his name also appears in the championship teams of the 1917/18 and 1919/20 seasons.
2. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano (Mexico City: B. Costa Amica, 1960), p. 130
3. ↑ Mexico's international match record from 1923 to 1939 (with team line-ups and information on the respective club membership)