José Antonio Roca

José Antonio Roca
Personnel
Surname	José Antonio Roca García
birthday	May 24, 1928
place of birth	Mexico City ,  Mexico
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	CF Asturias
	Necaxa
	CD Zacatepec
	CF Atlante
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1949-1952	Mexico	10 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1970-1975	Club America
1975-1976	CF Laguna
1976-1988	Atlético Español
1977-1988	Mexico
1978-1979	CD Tampico
1979-1981	Club America
1981-1982	Atlas Guadalajara
1982-1984	Deportivo Toluca
1984-1985	Necaxa
1985-1987	CF Atlante
1987-1988	Ángeles de Puebla
1 Only league games are given.

José Antonio Roca García (born May 24, 1928 in Mexico City , † May 4, 2007 ibid) was a Mexican football player and coach .

biography

player

During his playing career, Roca was under contract with CF Asturias , Club Necaxa , CD Zacatepec and CF Atlante .

Between 1949 and 1952 he completed a total of ten international matches, including all three games that the Mexicans played at the 1950 World Cup . Also in 1954 and 1958 , the trained defender was part of the World Cup squad of the Mexican national team , but was not used.

Trainer

After finishing his playing career, Roca held an administrative post at the Mexican Football Association , before he took on a multi-year coaching post at Club America in 1970 . In his first coaching season 1970/71, he led the team straight away to the championship; Incidentally, it was the first soccer championship in Mexico in which the champions were not determined based on an overall table. In that season, the championship was held in two seasons for the first time and the two season winners faced each other in the final. Here América was able to prevail (0-0 and 2-0) against Deportivo Toluca .

In the following season 1971/72 America reached - this time via an upstream semi-final - again the final, which this time was played in just one game because both finalists came from Mexico City and therefore no return game was required. The final in the Aztec Stadium , the very home of Club America, was lost 4-1 to the CD Cruz Azul team, who had moved to the capital from Jasso before the start of the season . This game marked the beginning of the Clásico Joven .

After América had missed the "final round of the four best" by a few points in the next few years, Roca was replaced as head coach at the end of the season 1974/75. Before that he managed to win the Copa México with America in the 1973/74 season. In the finals, his team prevailed 2: 1 and 1: 1 against Cruz Azul and thus retaliated for the final defeat of the Mexican championship two years earlier. In the subsequent Supercup final against the then "series champion" Cruz Azul, América lost again with 1: 2.

During his time at América, the traditional arch rival of Club Deportivo Guadalajara , Roca was known as "el antichiva número uno de México", the greatest enemy of the club from Mexico's second largest city, Guadalajara . He banned his players from swapping shirts at the Superclásico .

After his time at America he coached various Mexican clubs and ended his coaching career in 1988 in the service of Ángeles de Puebla , who at the same time ended their financially not profitable first division adventure by selling their license to Santos Laguna . The highlight of his coaching career was the post as head coach of the Mexican national team , which began so hopefully on February 1, 1977 with a 5-1 win against Yugoslavia and with three hefty defeats against Tunisia (1: 3), Germany (0: 6) and Poland (1: 3) ended sobering at the 1978 World Cup .

Web links

• El antichiva número uno de México (Spanish)