Raúl Estrada

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Raúl Estrada (* around 1910 in Mexico ; † February 12, 2007 ibid), better known as "Pipiolo" (youth), was a Mexican football goalkeeper . Pipiolo Estrada was the Mexican national goalkeeper and won the Mexican football championship several times with his clubs Necaxa and Atlante .

biography

Charisma

Estrada not only had excellent reflexes, but also knew how to please off the field. He impressed both by his appearance (he was known as the "Mexican Clark Gable ") and by his sonorous voice. Football historian Carlos Calderón Cardoso reports that many women literally melted away when they heard interviews with him on the radio. Another indication of its high popularity, otherwise rather unusual for the 1930s, was the fact that many teenage girls made the pilgrimage to the Necaxa training ground just to see it.

Necaxa

According to the Spanish language Wikipedia, he began his active career in 1930 with CF Atlas . A few years later he was signed by Necaxa as the successor to Ernst Pauler , who retired as a goalkeeper and continued to work as a coach . The extra goalkeeper from Austria and the new goalkeeper Pipiolo Estrada won the Mexican championship of the 1934/35 season together. In the following years Estrada was an important support and part of the team that went down in Mexican football history as Once Hermanos (Elf Brothers) . The best Mexican club team of those days also won the championships in the seasons 1936/37 and 1937/38.

National team

In the period between 1935 and 1938, when he won three championships with Necaxa, he guarded the goal of the Mexican national team nine times and did not lose a single game: eight times he left the field as the winner and only once (in the 2-2 win against Panama on 20. February 1938) he had to be content with a loss of points. His greatest success with the national team was winning the Central American Championships in El Salvador in 1935 ; it was the first title of a Mexican national soccer team, which consisted almost exclusively of players from the Club Necaxa at this tournament.

Atlante

Sometime between 1938 and 1940 Estrada switched to Necaxa's arch-rival Atlante, with whom he won the championship in 1940/41 and 1946/47. The Mexican football chronicler Carlos Calderón Cardoso commented on this step with the words: Raúl “Pipiolo” Estrada was one of the first to leave Necaxa when Atlante offered him better conditions.

death

Estrada passed away in the early morning hours of February 12, 2007 at the age of 96.

successes

society

National team

  • Central American Championship: 1935

References and comments

  1. ↑ According to the quoted article in El Universal newspaper on the occasion of his death, Estrada died at the age of 96. So he must have been born either in 1910 or early 1911.
  2. ↑ Carlos Calderón Cardoso: Por amor a la camiseta (1933–1950), Editorial Clío, Mexico City, 1998, p. 13 / ISBN 970-663-023-6

Web links

literature

  • Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de oro del fútbol mexicano , Mexico City: B. Costa-Amic (1960/61)
personal data
SURNAME Estrada, Raúl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2007
Place of death Mexico