Juan Tuñas

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Juan "Romperredes" Tuñas Bajeneta (born July 17, 1917 in Havana , † April 4, 2011 in Mexico City ) was a Cuban football player .

Tuñas played for the Cuban clubs Juventud Asturiana and CD Centro Gallego . He was the longest surviving player on the Cuban national soccer team that played at the 1938 World Cup in France . After he helped Cuba to the quarter-finals in its only participation in a soccer world championship , he went to Mexico and played for Real Club España , with which he won the Mexican soccer championship twice ( 1941/42 and 1944/45 ). In 1943 he was named the best Cuban athlete working abroad. Several times Tuñas get three goals in one game during his time with the Españistas and on March 26, 1942 he even scored all four goals for a 4-1 win against city ​​rivals Club Marte . He moved to this club in 1946 and ended his sporting career with the Marcianos in the 1946/47 season . He spent the rest of his life in Mexico.

He got his nickname "el romperredes" ("the net breaker") after he had destroyed the goal net in a Cuban league game in 1941 with a powerful shot on goal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Mexican 1941/42 season on RSSSF
  2. ↑ Enrique Ballesteros: Juan Tuñas, El Romperredes Cubano, TV report undated, accessed via YouTube on May 12, 2014 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Juan Tuñas Bajeneta in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Juan Tuñas - a Cuban legend, on the official FIFA website, December 1, 2010, accessed May 12, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Tuñas, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romperredes (nickname); Tuñas Bajeneta, Juan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2011
Place of death Mexico city