Hugo Sanchez

Hugo Sánchez Márquez (Mexico City, July 11, 1958) is a former Mexican soccer player and coach. In 2000 he was declared by the IFFHS as the best Mexican soccer player of the 20th century, the best soccer player of the 20th century in CONCACAF and the number 26 in the world in the 20th century.

He was a goalscorer and figure for Real Madrid in the second half of the 1980s, where he was a member of the "Quinta del Buitre", a club in which he won ten titles, four Pichichi Trophies for top scorer in league, a Golden Boot, and two Don Balón Awards. At the time of his retirement, he was the club's fourth all-time top scorer with 208 goals, after Alfredo Di Stéfano, Carlos Santillana and Ferenc Puskás. With 516 goals in 883 official matches, he is the Mexican soccer player with the most goals in official matches in history. He celebrated his numerous goals by doing an acrobatic pigeon somersault, which he did in tribute to his gymnast sister.

In 2019 the English magazine FourFourTwo included him among the 100 best footballers in the history of football, placing him in the 82nd position.

Due to his goals, achievements and career, he was inducted by FIFA into the Soccer Hall of Fame in 2011.

He has a degree in dentistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Biography

He was born in Mexico City in 1958. Around 1975, he studied high school at the UNAM National Preparatory School Campus 7 and later entered the UNAM School of Dentistry.

The UNAM soccer team saw him born and, although as a player his greatest achievements were achieved in Spain, he is one of the most representative players of that university team, being the case that he was champion with said institution both as a player as technical director.

He was married to Emma Portugal and they were the parents of former player and sports commentator Hugo Sánchez Portugal (1984-2014), who died on November 14, 2014 in his apartment in Mexico City due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hugo Sánchez is the son of Héctor Sánchez, who was also a soccer player who played for Asturias and Atlante. Sánchez is currently married to Isabel Martín since 2000, and they have two children, a son and an older daughter from his previous marriage. His son, Hugo Sánchez Portugal, was also a soccer player and played for Universidad Nacional and Atlante.

Sanchez was named the official FIFA/SOS ambassador for Mexico, joining Wayne Rooney (Ambassador for England), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands), and fifty other players in raising charity funds for FIFA.

On September 1, 2007, Hugo Sánchez inaugurated a street named after him in Puebla, central Mexico, in front of a thousand locals.

Trajectory as a player

U.N.A.M.

He began his career as a soccer player in the amateur sector, joining the basic forces of Pumas de la UNAM in 1969 at the age of 11. Due to his concern and insistence on taking a test to enter the youth team of Mexico, he was observed by their coaches, Diego Mercado and Alfonso Portugal, who invited him to be part of that team.

He participated with the Mexican Youth Team and won the title in the Under-20 Amateur Youth World Cup in Cannes, France in 1975. Due to his great performance, the chronicler Ángel Fernández baptizes him as the "Golden Child".
He also won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico, in addition to participating with his team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

He made his debut with the UNAM Pumas on October 23, 1976 at the Nuevo León University Stadium against the UANL Tigres; the technical director, Jorge Marik, sends him to the field of play as relief after 25 minutes, entering for the Brazilian José Geraldo Cândido. That game ended with a Puma victory (1-0), thanks to a goal from Cabinho. It would not be until March 27, 1977 when he would score his first goal, in his team's 1-2 defeat against América on the Azteca Stadium field.

He was a member of this team, alternating during the vacation season (summer) with the San Diego Sockers, a team from the defunct North American Soccer League.

Together with the UNAM Pumas, they managed to be league champions in their first season 1976-77 (it was the first league title in the club's history). In his third season, he managed to take the title of scoring champion by scoring 26 goals, shared with his teammate, the Brazilian Evanivaldo Castro Cabinho (1978-79 season). He won the Concacaf Champions Cup in 1980, a tournament in which he scored 3 goals, and the Inter-American Cup in 1981, with two of his goals in the first game. On August 9, 1981, he said goodbye to the Pumas to leave for Spain, scoring a goal in the 4-1 victory (4-2 overall) of his team in the match corresponding to the second leg of the grand finale of the 1980-81 season against Cruz Azul, achieving the second league title for the college squad. With his club he scored a total of 104 goals in five seasons.

Atletico Madrid

He was transferred to Atlético de Madrid in 1981. He made his debut on August 19 against Liverpool in a friendly match that Atlético won 2-1.

He made his debut with his new club in the Spanish First Division on September 19, 1981 in the Atlético 2:0 Athletic Club match at the Vicente Calderón Stadium. His first goal in the Spanish League, he scored on November 30, 1981 by converting the final 1-0 win over Hércules de Alicante.

With this team he obtained the title of top scorer (Pichichi) in the 1984/85 season, scoring 19 goals. That same season, Hugo Sánchez won a Copa del Rey with his team, scoring the two goals in the victory over Athletic Club on June 30, 1985, in addition to the league runner-up. With Atlético he played 111 league games and scored 54 goals.

Real Madrid

On July 15, 1985, at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario, he signed the contract linking him with Real Madrid Club de Fútbol. Ramón Mendoza and Guillermo Aguilar Álvarez Mazarrasa agreed to the agreement after the mattress board triangulated the negotiation via the UNAM Pumas, to avoid inconvenience from their fans.

Hugo Sánchez on 19 April 1988

He made his league debut with Los Blancos on September 1, 1985 against Betis in a match held in Seville. However, his debut is bittersweet, because, although he scores his first goal with the white jacket and helped the "merengue" team win 2-1, he was sent off for protesting to judge Urizar Azplitarte.

In that same season, he collaborated with two goals in the 5-1 comeback of the second leg of the UEFA Cup semifinals (the first leg had been lost 3-1) and later he would score one in the first leg of the final against FC Colonia (5-1 win), an irreversible result in the second leg on May 14, with which he obtained his first international title with Real Madrid. Days later, on May 20, he achieved the Pichichi as the top scorer in the league for the second time and for the first time with the madridistas.

On April 10, 1988, he scored his most memorable goal against Club Deportivo Logroñés, with a spectacular overhead kick, which caused white handkerchiefs to be waved throughout the Santiago Bernabéu stadium as a sign of admiration and recognition.

In the 1989-90 season, he reached his highest level together with the club, which set the mark of 107 goals in one season. On his own, Hugo also won the Golden Boot as the top league scorer in Europe and also tied Telmo Zarra's record for most goals scored in a season with 38. His highest number of goals in Spain was achieved within the round of the round of 16 of the 1990-91 European Champions Cup, scoring 4 goals in the 9-1 win over FC Swarovski Tirol.

On March 21, 1992, matchday 27, he played his last official match with Real Madrid in the 1-0 victory against Deportivo La Coruña at the Bernabeu, the goal was also his. Four days earlier he had scored his last goal in European competition, in the UEFA Cup against Sigma Olomouc, also a 1-0 win. In short, during his stay at Real Madrid, he obtained the Pichichis of 1985/86 (22 goals), 1986/87 (34 goals), 1987/88 (29 goals) and 1989/90 (38 goals).

With the white team, he won five consecutive league titles (1985/86, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1988/89 and 1989/90), one Copa del Rey, three Spanish Super Cups and one UEFA Cup. With Real Madrid, he played seven seasons, making 240 league appearances in which he scored 164 goals. In his last season at the club, he played very few games (only eight in the league) due to injuries.

He was the top foreign scorer in the Spanish First Division for more than twenty years until on March 23, 2014, he was surpassed by Lionel Messi.

America

In the 1992-93 season, he returned to Mexican soccer to play for América, making his debut on August 19 at the Marte R. Gómez stadium against the UAT Correcaminos, scoring the winning goal. With the Americanista team, he won the Concacaf Champions Cup, beating Alajuelense from Costa Rica, scoring the winning goal in the grand final.

In 1993, he participated in the Copa América held in Ecuador, where the Mexican team led by Miguel Mejía Barón achieved runner-up, losing the final against Argentina.

Rayo Vallecano

A year later, he returned to the Spanish league, signing for Rayo Vallecano, a team with which he played 29 league games and scored 16 goals. In total, he played 347 Spanish league games and scored 234 goals. With this shirt he descended to the second division of Spain.

Atlantean

In 1994-95, he signed with Atlante, in a season fueled by the controversy against the then American coach, former Real Madrid coach Leo Beenhakker, with whom he engaged in a series of statements the week before the match in which Atlante they beat the then tournament leader, the Águilas del América, 4-1. Ironically, the Atlantista coach was Ricardo La Volpe with whom he had maintained a well-known rivalry in his football days when he was a goalkeeper for the same institution.

Linz

Later, in the 1995-96 season, he was transferred to the Austrian team of Linzer A. S. K. of the First Division, to which he arrived in a controversial way already started the tournament that he played alternately with the F.C. Dallas of the newly formed MLS.

The Austrian club finished sixth in the 1995-96 season with Hugo as its most notorious reinforcement. There are disagreements about his performances in said club, since when he merged with FC Linz he was wrongly attributed participations in this club (in the Second Division). He participated in 20 of the 30 games in the competition, scoring in 5 games for a total of 6 in the league.

Atletico Celaya

Before retiring as a soccer player, he played a tournament (Summer 1997) in Mexico with Atlético Celaya, a team in which he met his Real Madrid teammates, Emilio Butragueño and Miguel González Michel, making his debut on January 11 against Monterrey. On April 20, he scored his second goal of the tournament, defining the 3-1 victory against Pachuca, this being his last goal in an official match; finally on May 4, 1997, after playing 55 minutes in the duel against Santos Laguna at the Corona Stadium, he was replaced by Hugo Santana, in what was his last official match. Hugo Sánchez formally retired from football by playing a friendly match held in his honor with Real Madrid on May 29, 1997. The result of the match was Real Madrid 4-1 PSG, in which Hugo scored three goals.

Hugo Sánchez is the third foreign player (after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo) with the most goals scored in the Spanish League. He also held the record (shared with Telmo Zarra) for the most goals scored in a single season, with 38 goals, achieved in the 1989-1990 campaign (a record later surpassed by Cristiano Ronaldo with 41 goals in the 2010-2011 season, and later also surpassed by Lionel Messi with 50 goals in the 2011-2012 season); the same year that he wins the Golden Boot (top scorer in all European leagues), shared with Bulgarian footballer Hristo Stoichkov, then a PFC CSKA Sofia player.

In addition, he is the third player who has won the Pichichi Trophy the most times and the only one in the history of Iberian soccer to win it for four consecutive tournaments without sharing it on any occasion, making it clear that his productivity as a striker was constant and accurate. Hugo Sánchez has been considered the best Mexican player of all time, being chosen by the IFFHS as the best North American and Central American soccer player of the 20th century.

Hugo Sánchez had a peculiar way of celebrating goals, doing a somersault every time he scored. It was his sister, an Olympic gymnast who participated in the 1976 Montreal Olympics (Canada), who taught him the traditional maroma or somersault with which she used to celebrate her goals, Hugo Sánchez also being a participant in the aforementioned Olympic Games. Equally characteristic was his Chilean shot, which he executed to perfection, becoming known as the "Huguiña".

National team

1978 World Cup

At the request of José Antonio Roca, he made his debut with the senior team of the Mexican national team on September 27, 1977, taking over from Leonardo Cuéllar in the second half of the match against the United States, played on the field of the Azteca stadium, which ended 3-0 in favor of the locals. His first goal with the national team occurred on October 9 in a qualifying game for the World Cup against Haiti, also at the Azteca, 30 seconds into the game, which ended 4-1 in favor of Mexico.. On June 2 of the following year, he made his debut in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, playing 90 minutes in the 3-1 defeat against Tunisia.

1981 Concacaf Championship

After the elimination of the Premundial de Honduras in 1981 (in which he scored 3 goals) and his hiring in the Spanish league, Hugo's activity with the Mexican team was considerably reduced, to the point of not playing any match in more of a year and a half, and only a few friendlies prior to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, all this at a time when there were no "FIFA dates" and the integration of national players in foreign leagues was very complicated outside of official tournaments..

1986 World Cup

On June 3, 1986, he scored a goal with a header in Mexico's 2-1 victory over Belgium, at the start of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Hugo would not score again, and even missed a penalty a few days later against Paraguay. After the elimination of the tricolor team on penalties against the German team, Hugo would not play another official game with the team until 1993, not only because of the already mentioned fact of the non-existence of "FIFA dates", but also because of the disqualification of Mexico from all international competition because of the scandal of "los cachirules", for which it could not play, not only the 1990 World Cup in Italy, but not even the qualifiers scheduled for 1989, a fact that occurs at the best moment of its career. In 1991, an injury and federation problems made it impossible for him to attend the first Gold Cup.

1993 Copa América and 1994 World Cup

His return to the national team took place in 1993 during the final Quadrangular of the World Cup qualifier for the United States 94, scoring one of the two goals in the 2-1 victory over Canada on May 9, and which allowed the qualification to a World Cup away from home for the first time since 1978. Subsequently, he lined up in the pioneering Mexican team that debuted on June 16, 1993 in the Copa América in Ecuador, playing the first 45 minutes in the 2-1 defeat against Colombia. On June 30, he scores one of the goals with which Mexico defeats and eliminates the host Ecuador (2-0) in the semifinal round. Then, on July 4, he would play the 90 minutes of the grand final against Argentina, in which Miguel Mejía Barón's team lost 2-1.

On July 5, 1994, after exchanging points of view with Miguel Mejía Barón, he did not enter the field in the game that Mexico lost on penalties against Bulgaria, in the round of 16 of the 1994 World Cup in the United States. Hugo only played the first match against Norway. He would play a farewell match at the Azteca on March 18, 1998 against Paraguay (1-1).

He played a total of 58 official matches and scored a total of 29 goals with the Mexican national team. He won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1977 and 1993.

Trajectory as a coach

Pumas U.N.A.M.

Hugo Sánchez began as technical director in the UNAM Pumas team, making his debut on March 26, 2000 during date 11 of the Verano 2000 tournament, with a 3-0 victory over Necaxa, a match held at the Olympic stadium of Ciudad Universitaria; that tournament, he lifted the team taking them to the semifinals. He was fired the following season due to conflicts with the board.

He returned to the Pumas in Invierno 2001, taking them to two consecutive semifinal rounds in Verano 2002 and Apertura 2002, in both cases occupying the third position of the general table. On February 4, 2003, with a 2-3 defeat against Gremio de Porto Alegre, he made his debut in the 2003 Copa Libertadores, a tournament in which they reached the round of 16, being eliminated by Cobreloa from Chile.

In a few years, he gained prestige by leading the Pumas de la UNAM to the Bicampeonato de la Liga, winning the Clausura 2004 tournaments by beating Guadalajara 5-4 (goal score 1-1) on penalties on June 13, 2004, playing at home in CU; and Apertura 2004 after a 3-1 aggregate against Monterrey.

In that same year, he was awarded the Champion of Champions trophy of Mexican soccer, by beating Pachuca 6-1 (agg, 7-3), in a match held at the Olímpico Universitario stadium on August 8, 2004. Days Later, as part of the preseason, they won the Santiago Bernabéu Trophy, beating Real Madrid 1-0 with a goal from Israel Castro in their own stadium.

UD Almeria

On December 22, 2008, he signed for UD Almería, after the dismissal of Gonzalo Arconada as team coach. He made his home debut on January 4, 2009 with a 1-0 victory against Betis. He achieved the permanence of the Andalusian team and continued on the bench; but on December 21, 2009, Sánchez was dismissed as UD Almería coach due to the poor results obtained at the start of the season and after the defeat against RCD Español (2-0) in Cornellá.

Mexican National Team

• He owes as a Mexican player during the USA Cup, between June 3 and 11, 2000, with a team composed mostly of UNAM Pumas players (a team he was running at the time) and some reinforcements of other teams, losing the end to the United States, for two goals to one.
• After the resignation of Ricardo La Volpe, he is presented as the official coach of the selection of Mexico (for the second time), debuting as a selector on February 7, 2007, again to the United States, losing for two goals to zero.
• In its second match as a Mexican coach, the Mexican team defeats 3-1 to the Venezuelan team, thus achieving its first victory.
• In its third and fourth party, Hugo Sánchez wins against the representatives of Paraguay and Ecuador, with scorers of 2-1 and 4-2 respectively
• His fifth match was on 2 June of the same year at Alfonso Lastras Stadium against Iran, with a result in favor of 4-0.
• His seventh match was on June 8 of the same year at the Giants Stadium in New York against the selection of Cuba, where Mexico was victorious with a 2-1 taste to defeat; Cuba played the whole game better and the reviews came on top of the game Pentapichichi.
• His eighth match was on June 10 of the same year at the Giants Stadium in New York against Honduras, in which he suffered his second defeat in a week, now with a score of 1-2 after the expulsion of Cuauhtémoc Blanco, causing more criticism of the coach.
• His tenth match was on June 21 of the same year, in which he faced a surprising selection of Guadalupe Islands which showed no resistance and was able to defeat just with a goal of difference to go to the end of the Gold Cup.
• Lose the end against the U.S. team for 2 goals to 1.
• In the first match of the Cup America Venezuela 2007 comes the most important victory so far, beating Brazil 2-0.
• In the second match of the Copa América Venezuela 2007, on July 1, 2007, the selection of Mexico beats the selection of Ecuador 2-1 with goals of Nery Castillo (21') and Omar Bravo (79') by the Mexican selection and Edison Méndez (84') by the selection of Ecuador.
• In the third match of the Copa América Venezuela 2007, on July 4, 2007, the selection of Mexico will match the selection of Chile 0-0. Mexico passes with 7 points to the quarterfinals.
• In the final quarters of the Copa América Venezuela 2007, on July 8, 2007, the selection of Mexico beats the selection of Paraguay 6-0 (historical gesture) with goals of Nery Castillo (5'), Gerardo Torrado (27'), Nery Castillo (38'), Fernando Arce (79'), Cuauhtémoc Blanco (87') and Omar Bravo (90+1').
• In semifinals, he loses by goleada with the selection Argentina 3-0.
• Play for the third position of the American Cup against the selection of Uruguay and achieve a worthy result of 3-1.
• In the pre-olympic elimination of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the United States, the sub-23 selection was eliminated in the first phase, after packing 1-1 with Canada, losing 2-1 with Guatemala and defeating 5-1 to Haiti.
• On March 31, 2008, he was no longer the technical director of the Mexican football team.

Statistics

For a complete statistical summary and a breakdown of them, see Hugo Sánchez Statistics

Clubs

Updated to end of sports career.

Club	Season	Div.	League		Cups		International		Total		Media Shotgun
			Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles
C. National University	1976-77	1. a	27	7	-	-	-	-	27	7	0.25
	1977-78		30	11	-	-	-	-	30	11	0.36
	1978-79		45	28	-	-	2	-	47	28	0.59
	1979-80		44	30	-	-	3	2	47	32	0.68
San Diego Sockers	1979	1. a	17	12	-	-	-	-	17	12	0.70
C. National University	1980-81	1. a	42	21	-	-	7	5	49	26	0.53
San Diego Sockers	1980	1. a	15	14	-	-	-	-	15	14	0.93
Total C. National University			188	97	0	0	12	7	200	104	0.52
Total San Diego Sockers			32	26	0	0	0	0	32	26	0.78
Atletico de Madrid	1981-82	1. a	20	8	5	4	2	-	27	12	0.44
	1982-83		31	15	8	7	-	-	39	22	0.56
	1983-84		27	12	10	7	2	-	39	19	0.48
	1984-85		33	19	12	9	2	1	47	29	0.61
Total Atlético de Madrid			111	54	35	27	6	1	152	82	0.53
Real Madrid C. F.	1985-86	1. a	33	22	5	2	11	5	49	29	0.59
	1986-87		41	34	6	6	7	3	54	43	0.79
	1987-88		36	29	7	3	7	3	50	35	0.70
	1988-89		35	27	8	5	7	5	50	37	0.74
	1989-90		35	38	6	3	3	1	44	42	0.95
	1990-91		19	12	3	2	3	5	25	19	0.76
	1991-92		8	2	1	-	1	1	10	3	0.30
Total Real Madrid C. F.			207	164	36	21	39	23	282	208	0.73
C. F. America	1992-93	1. a	29	11	-	-	6	7	35	18	0.51
Rayo Vallecano	1993-94	1. a	29	16	6	1	-	-	35	17	0.48
C. F. Atlante	1994-95	1. a	31	13	-	-	-	-	31	13	0.41
Linzer A. S. K.	1995-96	2. a	20	6	-	-	-	-	20	6	0.30
Dallas Burn	1996	1. a	25	7	-	-	-	-	25	7	0.28
Athletic Celaya	1996-97	1. a	12	2	-	-	-	-	12	2	0.16
Total career			684	396	77	49	63	38	824	483	0.59
↑ Includes data from the Copa del Rey, Supercopa, Copa de Liga (1985-92). ↑ Includes data from the Concacaf Champions Cup and Inter-American Cup (1978-81; 1992-93) / UEFA Cup; Recopa; European Cup (1981-92). ↑ It does not include goals in friendly matches.

Selections

International Goals

Absolute international goals
N.o	Date	Stadium	Local	Res.	Visitor	Competition
1.	09/10/1977	Estadio Azteca, Mexico, D. F.	MexicoMexico	4-1	HaitiHaiti	Concacaf Championship of 1977
2.	15/10/1977	University Stadium, San Nicolás	MexicoMexico	8-1	SurinameSuriname	Concacaf Championship of 1977
3.
4.	22/10/1977	University Stadium, San Nicolás	MexicoMexico	3-1	CanadaCanada	Concacaf Championship of 1977
5.	05/02/1978	Stadium Cuscatlán, San Salvador	El SalvadorEl Salvador	1–5	MexicoMexico	Friendly
6.
7.
8.	03/05/1978	Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki	FinlandFinland	0–1	MexicoMexico	Friendly
9.	06/01/1979	University Stadium, San Nicolás	MexicoMexico	1-	Soviet UnionSoviet Union	Friendly
10	04/12/1979	Stadium Cuscatlán, San Salvador	El SalvadorEl Salvador	0–2	MexicoMexico	Friendly
11.
12.	18/12/1979	Municipal Stadium, Texcoco,	MexicoMexico	1-1	El SalvadorEl Salvador	Friendly
13.	08/04/1980	Stadium Nemesio Díez, Toluca	MexicoMexico	5-	HondurasHonduras	Friendly
14.
15.	15/04/1980	Mateo Flores Stadium, Guatemala City	GuatemalaGuatemala	2–4	MexicoMexico	Friendly
16.	29/04/1980	Stadium Nemesio Díez, Toluca	MexicoMexico	2-2	GuatemalaGuatemala	Friendly
17.	09/11/1980	Estadio Azteca, Mexico, D. F.	MexicoMexico	5-1	United StatesUnited States	1981 Concacaf Championship
18.	16/11/1980	Estadio Azteca, Mexico, D. F.	MexicoMexico	1-1	CanadaCanada	1981 Concacaf Championship
19.	23/11/1980	Lockhart Stadium, Fort Lauderdale	United StatesUnited States	2–1	MexicoMexico	1981 Concacaf Championship
20.	20/01/1981	Estadio Azteca, Mexico, D. F.	MexicoMexico	1-1	BulgariaBulgaria	Friendly
21.	23/06/1981	Estadio Azteca, Mexico, D. F.	MexicoMexico	1-3	SpainSpain	Friendly
22.	01/11/1981	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa	MexicoMexico	4-	CubaCuba	1981 Concacaf Championship
23.
24.	11/11/1981	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa	HaitiHaiti	1–1	MexicoMexico	1981 Concacaf Championship
25.	25/08/1985	L. A. Coliseum Memorial, Los Angeles	MexicoMexico	2-1	ChileChile	Friendly
26.	03/06/1986	Estadio Azteca, Mexico, D. F.	MexicoMexico	2-1	BelgiumBelgium	1986 World Cup Soccer
27.	11/04/1993	Estadio Azteca, Mexico, D. F.	MexicoMexico	3-	HondurasHonduras	Classification for the 1994 World Cup
28.	09/05/1993	Varsity Stadium, Toronto	CanadaCanada	1–2	MexicoMexico	Classification for the 1994 World Cup
29.	30/06/1993	Atahualpa Olympic Stadium, Quito	EcuadorEcuador	0–2	MexicoMexico	Copa America 1993

Participations in final phases

Competition	Selection	Headquarters	Outcome	Parties	Goles
JJ. OO 1976	Amateur	CanadaCanada	First phase	3	1
Concacaf Cup 1977	Absolute	Mexico Mexico	Champion	5	4
World Cup 1978	Absolute	Argentina	First phase	3	0
Concacaf Cup 1981	Absolute	HondurasHonduras	Third post	5	3
World 1986	Absolute	Mexico Mexico	Final rooms	4	1
Copa America 1993	Absolute	EcuadorEcuador	Subfield	6	1
World Cup 1994	Absolute	United States	Final Octavos	1	0
Total in final phases	MexicoMexico		1 championship	32	10

World Cup Matches

Globalist presences
Date	Rival	Headquarters	Stadium	Goles	Outcome
2 June 1978	Tunisia	Rosario	Stage Dr. Lisandro de la Torre	0	3 - 1
6 June 1978	Federal	Córdoba	Olympic Stadium in Córdoba	0	6 - 0
10 June 1978	Poland	Rosario	Stage Dr. Lisandro de la Torre	0	3 - 1
3 June 1986	Belgium	Mexico, D. F.	Azteca	1	1 - 2
7 June 1986	Paraguay	Mexico, D. F.	Azteca	0	1 - 1
15 June 1986	Bulgaria	Mexico, D. F.	Azteca	0	2 - 0
21 June 1986	Federal	Monterrey	University	0	0 - 0
19 June 1994	Norway	Washington D.C.	RFK Memorial Stadium	0	1 - 0

Statistical summary

Coach

Equipment	Nac	From	Till	Statistics
				P	G	E	P	GF	GC	Dif	%
C. National University1, 2		2000	2005	202	89	63	50	328	295	+33	54.46%
C. Necaxa		2006	2006	7	2	4	1	8	11	-3	47.62%
Selection of Mexico3		2006	2008	26	13	9	4	45	32	+13	61.54%
U. D. Almeria		2009	2009	17	6	4	7	5	6	-1	43.13%
Pachuca4		2012	2012	23	9	7	7	22	22	0	49.27%
Total				275	119	87	69	408	366	+42	53.82%

Meetings conducted in Mexico

Humours as a player

National Championships

Title	Club	Headquarters	Year
First Division of Mexico	National University	Mexico Mexico	1977
First Division of Mexico			1981
Copa del Rey	Atletico de Madrid	SpainSpain	1985
Spanish League	Real Madrid C. F.		1986
Spanish League			1987
Spanish League			1988
Spanish League			1989
Supercopa de España			1988
Copa del Rey			1989
Supercopa de España			1989
Spanish League			1990
Supercopa de España			1990
First League of Austria	Linzer A. S. K.	AustriaAustria	1996

International Cups

Title	Selection	Headquarters	Year
Pan American Games	Selection of Mexico	Mexico Mexico	1975
Concacaf Nations Championship			1977
Title	Club	Headquarters	Year
Concacaf Champions Cup	National University	Tegucigalpa	1980
Inter-American Cup		Los Angeles	1981
UEFA Cup	Real Madrid C. F.	Cologne	1986
Concacaf Champions Cup	America	Santa Ana	1992

Honours as a coach

National titles

Title	Club	Headquarters	Year
First Division of Mexico	National University	Mexico	Closure 2004
First Division of Mexico			Opening 2004
Champion of Champions			2004

Individual awards