Manuel Camacho Meléndez

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Manuel Camacho
Personnel
Surname Manuel Camacho Meléndez
birthday April 6, 1929
place of birth Atemajac del Valle ,  Mexico
date of death September 24, 2008
Place of death San Diego , California ,  USA
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1944-1946 America 29 (0)
1946-1948 Veracruz 10 (0)
1948-1949 Asturias 2 (0)
1949-1953 Marte 51 (0)
1953-1955 America 32 (0)
1955-1959 Toluca 84 (0)
1961-1964 America 72 (0)
1964-1966 Atlante 52 (0)
1966-1967 Zacatepec
1967 Chicago Spurs 28 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956-1958 Mexico 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Manuel Camacho Meléndez (born April 6, 1929 in Atemajac del Valle , Jalisco ; † September 24, 2008 in San Diego , California , USA ), also known by the nickname La Bruja (the witch ), was a Mexican soccer goalkeeper who was practically a professional player was in use for a quarter of a century.

player

society

La Bruja Camacho made his professional debut in the Mexican Primera División at the age of fifteen in a game between Club América against Club Marte , which was played on November 2, 1944 and won 4-1 by América. In 1946 Camacho left Club America and went to CD Veracruz . Two years later he returned to the capital and played one season for CF Asturias . From 1949 to 1953 he was under contract with Club Marte. Otherwise, he only managed four years of club membership at Deportivo Toluca FC , for whom he guarded the goal 84 times between 1955 and 1959. Most of the missions (132 in total) he had for the Club America; the only club for which he worked several times. After his early years (1944 to 1946) and two more years from 1953 to 1955 and three seasons between 1961 and 1964, he was under contract with América for a total of seven years. In the seasons 1953/54 and 1954/55 he won the cup competition with the Americanistas and in 1955 the Supercup .

In 1967 he moved to the newly formed US National Professional Soccer League and guarded the gate for the Chicago Spurs . There he ended his active career and stayed in the USA, where he last lived in San Diego, where he died on September 24, 2008 of complications from a heart attack .

National team

Camacho, who was appointed to the Mexican World Cup squad in 1958 , where he got no chance of appearances behind Antonio Carbajal , only completed one half in the goal of the Mexican national team . On March 17, 1956, he was substituted on in a game against Chile (2: 1) at halftime when the score was 1: 1 for "Tubo" Gómez and remained clean.

In addition, Camacho was used in ten games, the unofficial Mexican national team against an Argentine national team as well as the CA Lanús , the CF Atlante , Deportivo Toluca , Hannover 96 , a team from Guadalajara , Belenenses Lisbon , Benfica Lisbon , Dukla Prague and the club León denied.

successes

  • Mexican Cup Winner: 1954, 1955
  • Mexican Supercup: 1955

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personal data
SURNAME Camacho Meléndez, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camacho, Manuel; La Bruja (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Atemajac del Valle , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2008
Place of death San Diego , California, USA