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Francisco García Moreno
Mexican water polo player (born 1947) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Francisco García Moreno (born 1 June 1947 in Mexico City, died 26 March 2016 in Cuernavaca) was a Mexican Olympic water polo player (1968, 1972, 1976),[1] and a former coach of the national team.[2]
El Panchote, as Garcia Moreno was known, was a member of the bronze medal winning teams at the 1967 and 1971 Pan American Games and a member of the gold medal winning team at the 1975 Pan American Games. Garcia Moreno owned a gym in Cuernavaca where he specialized in teaching babies and children to swim. He promoted water polo among young people in the area. He was murdered during a robbery attempt near his home in Tlatenango, Cuernavaca in 2016.[3] He was always surrounded by other athletes such as Felipe Tibio Muñoz.[4]
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