Miguel Calero

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Miguel Calero
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Personnel
Surname Miguel Ángel Calero Rodríguez
birthday April 14, 1971
place of birth GinebraColombia
date of death 4th December 2012
Place of death Mexico CityMexico
size 1.89 m
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1997 Deportivo Cali
1998-2000 Nacional Medellin 91 (0)
2000-2011 CF Pachuca 336 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-2009 Colombia 51 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Miguel Calero (born April 14, 1971 in Ginebra , † December 4, 2012 in Mexico City ) was a Colombian football player on the position of goalkeeper .

society

Calero began his professional career in 1991 with Deportivo Cali , with whom he won the Colombian championship in the 1995/96 season . In late 1997 he left Cali and played the next two and a half years for Nacional Medellin , with whom he won the Copa Merconorte in 1998 and another league title in 1999.

In the spring of 2000 he signed with the Mexican CF Pachuca , with whom he won a number of titles: four Mexican championships , twice the CONCACAF Champions' Cup and once each of its successor competition, the CONCACAF Champions League , the Copa Sudamericana and the SuperLiga . In 2011 he ended his football career.

On November 25, 2012, Calero was admitted to a hospital in Mexico City and diagnosed with a stroke . On December 3rd, Calero was pronounced brain dead after another stroke ; he died on December 4, 2012.

National team

Calero completed a total of 51 international matches for the Colombian national soccer team and won the Copa America with her in 2001 .

When Colombia participated in the 1998 World Cup , he was part of the Colombian World Cup squad , but got no chance of a mission behind the later Cologne-based Faryd Mondragón .

After poor performance at the 2007 Copa America , he announced his resignation from the Colombian national team.

successes

National

International

Web links

  • Miguel Calero in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallció Miguel Calero - El arco de luto (Spanish) on www.futbol.com.uy of December 4, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2012
  2. “Me voy del fútbol lleno de felicidad”: Miguel Calero
  3. Goal.com: Former Colombian international Miguel Calero is brain dead
  4. Fifa.com: Blatter regrets the death of the former goalkeeper Calero
  5. anuncia Miguel Calero que se retirará en junio ( Memento of 21 December 2008 at the Internet Archive )