Juan de Dios Castillo

Juan de Dios Castillo, 2005

Juan de Dios Castillo González (born January 31, 1951 in Mexico City , † May 1, 2014 in Monterrey , Nuevo León ) was a Mexican football player on the position of a striker and later coach .

Life

As a player, Castillo was for CF Monterrey , CF Pachuca , Club San Luis , Deportivo Toluca , Tampico-Madero FC , Atlético Español and Unión de Curtidores .

After his active career, Castillo was responsible for coaching various teams in Mexico and Honduras . In Mexico he coached, among other things, the Tampico-Madero FC, with whom he was relegated to the second division at the end of the 1994/95 season and later (1998 and 1999) the Club Santos Laguna . He was also responsible for the Mexican U-20 selection in 1992/93 .

Castillo celebrated his greatest successes in Honduras. He was Honduran football champions once with Real España (in Apertura 2003) and with Olimpia (in Clausura 2008) . He was also the coach of the Honduran national team in 2010 and 2011 , with which he won the 2011 Copa Centroamericana in January 2011 .

In the second half of 2012, Castillo, who died at the age of 63 from complications from skin cancer, was the head coach of the El Salvador national team .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan de Dios Castillo in the mediotiempo.com database (Spanish)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Muere Juan de Dios Castillo, ex seleccionador de Honduras (Spanish; article from May 1, 2014)
3. ↑ Santos Laguna lamenta muerte de Juan de Dios Castillo (Spanish; article from May 2, 2014)
4. ↑ Juan de Dios Castillo in the transfermarkt.de database
5. ↑ ¡Honduras, rey de Centroamérica! (Spanish; article of January 23, 2011)
6. ^ Fallció Juan de Dios Castillo, víctima de cáncer (Spanish; article from May 1, 2014)