José Luis Rodríguez (soccer player, I)

José Luis Rodríguez , also known by the nickname "Puma", is a retired Mexican soccer player in the position of a striker .

career

Puma Rodríguez began his football career in an amateur league in the Mexican city ​​of Torreón , where he first played for a team called Maderería Regional . In 1983 he received a professional contract with Club Atlas , where he was only used in its farm team Académicos , which at that time played in the fourth-class Tercera División . After only three appearances for the Académicos, he returned to Torreón because he would rather play for his hometown club Santos IMSS , which is represented in the third-class Segunda División 'B' . At the end of the 1983/84 season Rodríguez won the championship with Santos and thus managed to move up to the second-rate Segunda División , where he continued to play for Santos IMSS in the 1984/85 season. Overall, Rodríguez scored 38 goals for his club and thus aroused the interest of Club Atlante , who signed him for the 1985/86 season. Puma Rodríguez made his first appearance in the Primera División for the Atlantistas in a game against Ángeles de Puebla .

Before the coming 1986/87 season, Rodríguez was obliged by Club Deportivo Guadalajara and was part of the squad of the championship team that won the ninth league title in the club's history of the Rojiblancos . Because of his frequent knee injuries, which resulted in several operations, “the Puma” had to end his active career early. Today he runs a football school in the Comarca Lagunera on behalf of his former club CD Guadalajara.

successes

• Mexican champion: 1986/87
• Mexican third division champions: 1983/84

Web links

• Sergio Luis Rosas (El Siglo de Torreón): Recuerdos del Ayer: José Luis "Puma" Rodríguez (Spanish; article from October 15, 2008)