Luis Cruzado

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Luis Cruzado
Personnel
Surname Luis Fernando Cruzado Sánchez
birthday July 6, 1941
place of birth LimaPeru
date of death February 14, 2013
Place of death LimaPeru
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1973 Universitario de Deportes
1974 Walter Ormeño
1975 Juan Aurich
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1961-1971 Peru 26 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Luis Fernando Cruzado Sánchez (born July 6, 1941 in Lima , † February 14, 2013 there ) was a Peruvian football player . He spent most of his career at the capital city club Universitario de Deportes , celebrated many successes with this club and continued to take part with the national team of his home country in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico .

Career

Club career

Luis Cruzado, born in Peru's capital Lima in 1941, began his footballing career in 1959 with the local club Universitario de Deportes , where he would also be under contract for the following fourteen years until 1973. In the first year of his commitment in today's Peruvian champions Luis Cruzado took the Peruvian Championship, the first for the club since 1949. As a result, could the former Universitario team in which players such as Héctor Chumpitaz , Nicolás Fuentes or Eleazar Soria were until 1971 to win six more championships and develop into the absolute top team in Peru. With seven championship titles won, Luis Cruzado is one of the most successful football players in Peru in the 1970s.

The successful era of Universitario de Deportes reached its climax in 1972 when, after successes in the group phase against the Chilean representatives Universidad de Chile and Unión San Felipe and the league rivals Alianza Lima, and in the second group phase against Nacional Montevideo and CA Peñarol from Uruguay the final of the Copa Libertadores, the most important club competition for football teams in South America. There, defending champion Independiente Avellaneda, one of the best and, above all, defensively most compact teams of the time, was waiting for the Peruvians. Ultimately, the Universitario team, trained by Uruguayan Roberto Scarone , had to admit defeat after a 2-1 defeat in the second leg in Argentina after a goalless draw in Lima .

Luis Cruzado, who played in the position of midfielder, played at Universitario de Deportes until 1973, although he had increasingly lost his regular place recently and was only used in the second leg in the 1972 Copa Libertadores final, for example . In 1974 he played another year at the lower-class provincial club Walter Ormeño before he signed up for another year with Juan Aurich in 1975 . After the end of the 1975 season, Luis Cruzado's football career ended at the age of 34.

National team

Between 1961 and 1971, Luis Cruzado played a total of 26 international matches for the Peruvian national soccer team . In these 26 games he scored a goal. Brazil's soccer legend Didi acting at that time as coach of Peru, Cruzado was the squad for the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico called. At the tournament, the Peruvian team surprisingly reached the quarter-finals with a second place behind Germany and ahead of the national teams of Bulgaria and Morocco , but where they lost 4-2 against the eventual world champions from Brazil .

successes

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