Prudencio Cortés

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Prudencio Cortés
Personnel
Surname Prudencio Cortés Sánchez
birthday November 12, 1951
place of birth El Salto , Jalisco ,  Mexico
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1970 CD Zamora
1970-1975 Club America
1975-1987 UAG Tecos 286 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972-1981 Mexico 6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Prudencio Cortés Sánchez (born November 12, 1951 in El Salto , Jalisco ), also known by the nickname El Pajarito ( The Little Bird ), is a former Mexican football player in the position of goalkeeper .

career

Cortés began his career at that time in the second division playing CD Zamora .

In the summer of 1970 he was signed by the capital club, Club América , with whom he won the Mexican football championship in his first season in 1970/71 and is still the youngest goalkeeper to be used by a championship team at Club America . In total, he completed fifteen missions in the 1970/71 championship season. He also won the 1974 Mexican Cup with the Americanistas .

In 1975 he moved to the UAG Tecos, which had just been promoted to the top division . With the club based in his home state of Jalisco, "Pajarito" Cortés was under contract until the end of his active career and acted as his goalkeeper for long periods.

El Pajarito was featured six times for the Mexican national team: twice in 1972 and the other four times in 1981.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Los 14 campeones de liga (Spanish; the championship teams of Club América until 2005; accessed on January 11, 2017)

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personal data
SURNAME Cortés, Prudencio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cortés Sánchez, Prudencio (full name); Pajarito (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH El Salto , Jalisco , Mexico