Manuel Lapuente

Manuel Lapuente
Personnel
Surname	Manuel Lapuente Diaz
birthday	May 15, 1944
place of birth	Mexico City ,  Mexico
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
1952-1961	Colegio Patria
1961-1964	Centro Vasco de la Liga Española
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1966	CF Monterrey
1966-1970	Necaxa
1970-1974	Puebla FC
1974-1976	Atlas Guadalajara
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1967-1973	Mexico	7 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1978-1980	Puebla FC
1982-1984	Puebla FC
1984-1986	UANL Tigres
1986-1987	Ángeles de Puebla
1987-1988	CF Atlante
1988-1989	CD Cruz Azul
1989-1993	Puebla FC
1994-1997	Necaxa
1997-2000	Mexico
2001	CF Atlante
2001-2003	Club America
2006	Club America
2008-2009	UANL Tigres
2010-2011	Club America
2013	Puebla FC
1 Only league games are given.

Manuel Lapuente Díaz (born May 15, 1944 in Mexico City ) is a former Mexican soccer player and coach . Having won five championship titles, he is one of the most successful coaches in Mexico's professional league, which was introduced in 1943 . In addition, "Manolo" Lapuente coached the Mexican national team at the 1998 World Cup in France and a year later at the 1999 Confederations Cup , which the Mexicans won by beating Brazil 4-3 in the final.

Player career

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Manolo Lapuente signed his first professional contract in 1964 with CF Monterrey . Because he was not often used there, he returned to his hometown in 1966 and from then on played for Club Necaxa . He later worked for Puebla FC before ending his playing career in 1976 with Atlas Guadalajara .

National team

Lapuente's debut with the national team could not have gone better: when he was substituted on for the international match against Nicaragua on March 6, 1967, five minutes before the end, he scored his first international goal in his first minute to make it 4-0. Four days later, he played his second international match - at the same time his only full-length match - against Guatemala, which was lost 1-0. It was then more than six years before Manolo Lapuente was called back to the national team: Between August and December 1973 Lapuente made another five international appearances, in which he scored an 8-0 goal against the Netherlands Antilles on December 8, 1973. The disappointing 4-0 defeat for the Mexicans against Trinidad and Tobago on December 14, 1973, through which they missed the 1974 World Cup in Germany , was also his last game for the national team.

Coaching career

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Together with Javier de la Torre , who also won five championship titles, Manuel Lapuente is the third most successful coach in the Primera División . Only Ignacio Trelles (7 titles) and Raúl Cárdenas (6) were even more successful. He celebrated his greatest successes with the two clubs for which he worked both as a player and as a coach: he was twice champion with Puebla and Necaxa. He celebrated his fifth championship in the summer of 2002 with Club America , of which he was then temporarily vice-president.

National team

Lapuente had his first engagement for the national team in 1990 and 1991, when he was under contract full-time with Puebla FC. During this time he coached the team only eleven times. For the 1997 Confederations Cup , Lapuente was reactivated and held the role of head coach for the next three years. He coached the team that represented Mexico at the 1998 World Cup in France and that won the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup and 1999 Confederations Cup . For the last time he coached the national team in a World Cup qualifier on September 3, 2000 against Panama, which was won 7-1.

successes

society

• Mexican champion: 1983 and 1990 (with Puebla), 1995 and 1996 (with Necaxa), Verano 2002 (with América)
• Mexican Cup Winner: 1990 (with Puebla), 1995 (with Necaxa)

National team

• CONCACAF Gold Cup: 1998
• Confederations Cup: 1999

Individual references / web links

1. ↑ The club statistics are based on the information on the official website of Manolo Lapuente ( memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ The information on his international appearances as an active player is based on the information on the official website of the Mexican Football Association . The source of other Wikipedia language versions, according to which Lapuente should have completed 13 international matches and scored 5 goals, is unknown, but also not relevant because the FMF database has an official character.
3. ↑ The coach statistics are based on the information from the official website of Manolo Lapuente ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as well as the coach profile at Mediotiempo 
4. ↑ The wording in the biographical data on the official website of Manolo Lapuente ( memento of the original from June 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. gives the impression that he stayed with Club Necaxa until 1974 after allegedly signing a contract with Puebla FC that year. In contrast, the report on the same website ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. published tables on the stages of his life that he went to Puebla in 1970 and switched to Atlas Guadalajara in 1974. The biography says that after a year in Puebla (1975) he switched to Atlas Guadalajara.  
5. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/mexchamp.html