Leonardo Cuéllar

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Leonardo Cuéllar
Personnel
Surname Leonardo Cuéllar Rivera
birthday January 14, 1952
place of birth Mexico City ,  Mexico
size 173 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1972-1979 UNAM Pumas
1979-1981 San Diego Sockers 57 (9)
1981-1982 Atletas Campesinos
1982-1984 San Jose Earthquakes 71 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1973-1981 Mexico 40 (3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998-2016 Mexico (women)
1 Only league games are given.

Leonardo Cuéllar Rivera (born January 14, 1952 in Mexico City ) is a retired Mexican soccer player and was most recently the coach of the Mexican senior women's team and the women's U-20 team. During his active time, he also stood out for his distinctive head of hair.

Career

As an amateur and in a club

Cuéllar, also known by the nickname León de la Metro, was a member of Mexico's Olympic football team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and subsequently entered his first professional contract with his home club UNAM Pumas . He wore the Pumas jersey for seven years and won the Mexican Club Cup with them in 1975 and the championship two years later .

In 1979 he moved to the San Diego Sockers for two seasons . For the 1981/82 season he returned to his home country, where he played for the Atletas Campesinos . With Cuéllar strengthened in their ranks, the campesinos missed the championship finals by just one point. At the end of the season, the club's license was sold to Tampico-Madero FC and Cuéllar returned to the USA, where he played for the San José Earthquakes in the following three years and also let his active career fade away.

National team

Cuéllar made his debut for the Mexican national team on February 6, 1973 in a friendly against Argentina, which the Mexicans decided 2-0 in their favor at the Aztec Stadium . In his first internationals only called up as a substitute, Cuéllar came for the first time on August 6, 1975 in a test match against the GDR (1-0) over the full distance.

In the first half of his national team career (1973-1977) el León de la Metro was always used in attack and usually as a left winger, with one exception. In that era he also scored his only goals for el Tri , as the national team is commonly known in Mexico because of their color combination green-white-red: two in the 7-0 win against Costa Rica on August 17, 1975 in Mexico City and one in the 3-0 win against the USA on September 27, 1977 in Monterrey . Since October 1977 he has always been called up in midfield.

In the position in the left midfield, he also played in full all three games that the Mexicans played at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina , which was so disappointing for them (balance: 2:12 goals and 0-6 points).

His last international match played Cuéllar on November 15, 1981 in a World Cup qualifier in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , against Canada, which ended 1-1.

Coaching

With the Mexican senior women's team , he took part in the World Championships in 1999 and 2011 , but the team was eliminated in the preliminary round. Before that, he reached the final of the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup with his team in 1998 and 2010 , but failed in both finals against Canada. In 2004 he and his team took part in the Olympic soccer tournament, in which the team made it to the quarter-finals. At the U-20 Women's World Cup in 2012 , he was in charge of the Mexican U-20 team, with whom he also reached the quarter-finals. His son Christopher , who has been a volunteer for Mexican women's football since 2005, is the coach of the Mexican U-17 women's national team, with which he took part in the 2012 U-17 Women's World Cup. On April 6, 2016, the Mexican Federation announced that Cuéllar is no longer the coach of the Mexicans.

successes

  • Mexican champion: 1977
  • Mexican Cup Winner: 1975

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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) . Two of his goals are not listed there, the naming of a goalscorer (namely Cuéllar) against the USA was forgotten and one of his two goals against Costa Rica was credited to another player. The number of goals adopted here follows the information on the official website of the Mexican Football Association .
  2. ↑ FIFA.com: Cuéllar: "We're on the right track"
  3. ↑ fifa.com: "Cuéllar no longer in office"

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personal data
SURNAME Cuéllar, Leonardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cuéllar Rivera, Leonardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico