José Pilar Reyes

José Pilar Reyes
Personnel
Surname	José Pilar Reyes Requenes
birthday	October 12, 1955
place of birth	Aguascalientes ,  Mexico
size	170 cm
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1977	Club San Luis
1977-1983	UANL Tigres
1983-1986	Tampico-Madero FC
1986/87	UANL Tigres
1987/88	CF Monterrey
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1977-1981	Mexico	22nd
1 Only league games are given.

José Pilar Reyes Requenes (born October 12, 1955 in Aguascalientes , Aguascalientes ), also known by the nickname Piluco , is a former Mexican football goalkeeper who was part of the 1978 Mexican World Cup squad .

Career

society

Piluco Pilar Reyes began his professional career in 1974 at Club San Luis , who at that time had just been relegated from the Primera División to the Segunda División , which was then still second class . Two years later, San Luis became second division champions and thus managed to return to the top soccer league in Mexico. Although the team had an extremely successful first division season 1976/77 - in the overall table San Luis finished ninth (of 20 teams) and in their own group C even second place, which entitled to participate in the final round of the championship, for which only eight teams qualified - the team disappeared again in 1977 through the sale of licenses to the CD Tampico from the first division.

After three years in San Luis Potosí , Pilar Reyes moved to the UANL Tigres for the 1977/78 season , who had occupied penultimate place in the previous season and thus just escaped relegation. With this club Reyes won the championship straight away and was able to repeat this triumph four years later at the end of the 1981/82 season. In between there were a final round participation in the 1978/79 season and a final participation in 1979/80, which was just lost 0: 1 and 3: 3 against Cruz Azul .

The championship titles were tragic for Reyes in that he was unable to play in either of the final pairings. In 1978 he was already among his national team colleagues, who represented Mexico at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and in 1982 he was relegated to the bench by his coach at the time due to a weakness in form. The 1980 finals against Cruz Azul were also exceptional, when Reyes did not guard the goal, but went hunting himself and was called to attack. Aside from the fact that it is unusual when a goalkeeper suddenly comes into play as a striker, Pilar Reyes felt very comfortable in this role. Because again and again he was pulled out of the gate to initiate an attack by his team à la “Radi” Radenković . The audience was enthusiastic about these excursions and sometimes even encouraged them to do so when it resounded through the Estadio Universitario : “íSube, Pilar, sube”! (roughly: to the front, Pilar, to the front )

After six years in the Tigres jersey, Reyes moved to Tampico-Madero FC at the end of the 1982/83 season - the club whose legal predecessor had acquired the license of its first employer San Luis in 1977 - and stayed there for three years until the end of the 1985/86 season. His greatest successes with this club were the two finals in the 1985/86 season. Although both home games were won in both the PRODE 85 and México 86 championships (a kind of forerunner of the Apertura and Clausura that are in use today ), they lost higher away and twice missed the championship title: first against Club America (4: 1 and 0: 4) and then against CF Monterrey (2: 1 and 0: 2).

For the 1986/87 season Reyes returned once more to the Tigres, with whom he failed this time in the quarterfinals of the play-offs. In 1987/88 he was hired by arch-rivals CF Monterrey, who was in a relegation battle for long stretches that season.

National team

His debut in the Mexican national team was Pilar Reyes on February 22, 1977 in a friendly against Hungary (1-1), which was played in the Estadio Cuauhtémoc in Puebla . Pilar Reyes has guarded the goal for his home country 22 times, the last time on February 10, 1981 against South Korea (4-0) in the Aztec Stadium . Reyes was also part of the Mexican squad at the 1978 World Cup , where he was used in the first game against Tunisia (1: 3) and in the second group game against Germany (0: 6). Immediately after Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had made it 3-0 in the 38th minute, Pilar Reyes was substituted, but Pedro Soto , who replaced him, also got three goals in the further course of the game.

successes

• Mexican champion: 1978 and 1982
• Mexican runner-up: 1980, 1985, 1986
• Second division champions: 1976

Web links

• Pilar Reyes José Pilar Reyes in the database of weltfussball.de
• Article about Pilar Reyes (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jose-reyes/
2. ↑ http://solotigres.com/2009/03/05/sube-pilar-sube/
3. ↑ The statistics on the international matches were taken from the book by Jorge Gomez Anguas: A History of Football in Mexico (Heart Books, Rijmenam, Belgium, 1995) .