Vicente García (football player)

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Vicente García , also known by the nickname Chamaco ( Spanish for The Boy ), is a retired Mexican football player in the position of a striker .

Life

García played at the beginning of his career at Real Club España , with whom he won the championship title of the 1929/30 season. At the beginning of the 1930s he moved to Club Necaxa and was part of the regular formation of the team that went down in Mexican football history as Once Hermanos ( Elf Brothers ), which achieved four championship titles between 1932/33 and 1937/38 and provided the vast majority of players who won the first title of a Mexican national soccer team at the Central American Championships in El Salvador in 1935 .

Between 1934 and 1938 "Chamaco" García played a total of nine international matches: he made his debut on March 4, 1934 as part of the World Cup qualification against Cuba (3-2) and his last game he completed on February 14, 1938 as part of the fourth Central American Championships in Panama, which won 1-0 against Venezuela. He scored a total of five goals: his first was on March 27, 1935 for a 1-0 lead against hosts El Salvador as part of the third Central American Championship. In the same game that Mexico won 8-1, he also scored the intermediate result to the 4: 1. The following day he scored the goal for the 5-0 break against Guatemala, which was won 5-1 in the end. Another "double" he succeeded on September 25, 1937 in a friendly against the USA, which was also won 5-1.

successes

society

  • Mexican champion : 1929/30 (with España) and 1932/33, 1934/35, 1936/37 and 1937/38 (with Necaxa)

National team

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mexico - International Results Details 1920-1939 at RSSSF
  2. Central American and Caribbean Games at RSSSF