Juan Gomez Chapetes

Juan Gomez
Personnel
birthday	June 26, 1924
place of birth	Guadalajara , Jalisco ,  Mexico
date of death	May 9, 2009
Place of death	Mexico
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Occidente de Atemajac
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1945-1954	Atlas Guadalajara
	CD Tampico
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954	Mexico	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Juan Gómez (born June 26, 1924 in Guadalajara , Jalisco , † May 9, 2009 ), also known by the nickname Chapetes , was a Mexican football player who acted in attack .

biography

Juan "Chapetes" Gómez learned to play football at Club Occidente de Atemajac and probably signed his first professional contract in 1944 or 1945 with Atlas Guadalajara , with whom he won the 1946 cup . Five years later, he led the Rojinegros as captain in the 1950/51 season to their only championship title . At Atlas he was under contract until at least 1954 and in the same year came to a World Cup appearance against Brazil (0: 5), which was also his only assignment for the Mexican national team . He then switched to CD Tampico , in whose ranks he let his active career end.

In the last months of his life, Gómez had serious health problems. He died on Saturday, May 9th, 2009.

Nickname

His nickname Chapetes, a common name in Latin America for newly arrived Europeans, came from his red cheeks, which he often had while playing.

successes

• Mexican champion : 1951
• Mexican cup winner : 1946, 1950
• Supercup : 1946, 1950, 1951

Web links

• Player profile at the Mexican Football Association
• Article of May 11, 2009 on the occasion of his death on Mediotiempo.com (Spanish; article of May 11, 2009)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The 1954 Mexican World Cup squad on FIFA.com ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo II, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, p. 398