Ignacio Calderón

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Ignacio Calderón
Personnel
Surname Ignacio Francisco Calderón González
birthday December 13, 1943
place of birth Guadalajara , Jalisco ,  Mexico
size 1.83 m
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1959-1962 CD Guadalajara
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1975 CD Guadalajara
1975-1980 University of Guadalajara
1980 Atlas Guadalajara
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965-1974 Mexico 60 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Autograph from Ignacio "Nacho" Calderón from his playing days.

Ignacio Calderón (* 13. December 1943 in Guadalajara , Jalisco ) is a former Mexican soccer goalkeeper , who until 1975 from 1962 for Chivas Guadalajara played and was part of the legendary team that in the nine years from 1957 to 1965 seven Mexican champion was and Was nicknamed "Campeonísimo". He also played from 1975 to 1980 for the university team Universidad de Guadalajara , which is also based in Guadalajara , before ending his active career in 1980 with Atlas Guadalajara . He was also known by the nicknames "el Cuate" (the twin) and "Nacho", the Mexican pet form of the name Ignacio, which he usually used for his autographs (see picture).

Life

society

Ignacio Calderón filled the huge void that his two great predecessors soon threatened to leave behind - Jaime Gómez in the club and Antonio Carbajal in the national team - with such bravura that no one had to cry a tear after these legends of Mexican football. Rather, "el Cuate" - his nickname, which creates a connection to his twin brother Carlos Calderón , who is also under contract with Chivas and who acts in midfield - developed such a fascination for the masses early on due to his positive charisma that he himself soon became an irreplaceable idol.

Primarily, "Nacho", another nickname of this great Mexican goalkeeper, was considered "the Rudolph Valentino of Mexican football and a darling of the ladies" because of his good looks . In addition to his outstanding performance and his leadership personality, Calderón was particularly noticeable for his charisma, his completely white dress and his long sideburns; in addition, he was known in his homeland as a hero of visual novels.

Calderón is not infrequently accused of having laid the foundation for the soon explosive increase in player salaries in Mexico . 1975 - "Nacho" was already the highest paid player on his team with a monthly salary of 18,000 Pesos - he demanded a raise to 33,000. When his president refused, he moved to the city rivals Club Universidad de Guadalajara , at whose university he had completed his degree in dentistry in the 1960s . In the four seasons from 1975/76 to 1978/79, the Leones Negros always managed a better placement than his old club, with the university football team even becoming runner-up twice in a row in the first two seasons (1975/76 and 1976/77). In retrospect, Calderón describes these five years as the best time of his entire career as a professional footballer . Today he is a member of the Technical Commission at the Leones Negros .

National team

Ignacio Calderón played a total of 60 international matches between 1965 and 1974, more than any other Mexican goalkeeper before him. He made his debut in the dress of the Mexican national team on March 28, 1965 against El Salvador (2-0), his departure on September 8, 1974 in Dallas , Texas against the United States (1-0).

"El Cuate" was both the 1966 World Cup as the 1970 World Cup nominated and played a total of six out of seven World Cup matches. Only in the last World Cup game of the Mexicans in England in 1966 against the Uruguay team (0-0) did he have to let goalkeeper legend Antonio “Tota” Carbajal go first - for “reasons of farewell policy”. At the 1970 World Cup, which was held in his own country, "Nacho" was allowed to play all games and even remained the longest of all goalkeepers from the start without conceding a goal: the entire preliminary round and the first 24 minutes in the quarter-finals, so a total of 294 minutes. But even he was ultimately unable to prevent the high 1: 4 defeat against Italy , which once again prevented Mexico from making it into a semi-final of a soccer World Cup .

Calderón would probably have been in goal at the 1974 World Cup in Germany if the Mexicans had qualified. But they failed surprisingly, so that in their place the selection was allowed to travel from Haiti to Germany.

successes

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ In contrast to the profile at National Football Teams (see web links ), which put his change in 1974, 1975 is mentioned on the Leones Negros website (see link below under number 4) and adopted here accordingly.
  2. ↑ Idolos de las Chivas ( Memento of December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish); Retrieved October 3, 2007
  3. ↑ Mexico, Land of Goalkeepers on FIFA.com (July 19, 2007 article)
  4. ↑ Leyendas Leones Negros: Ignacio Calderón (Spanish; accessed September 20, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Calderón, Ignacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ignacio Francisco Calderón González
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Guadalajara , Jalisco