Gustavo Peña

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Peña and the second or maternal family name is Velasco.

Gustavo Peña Velasco (22 November 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Mexican professional footballer and manager.

Gustavo Peña

Peña in 1970
Personal information
Full name	Gustavo Peña Velasco
Date of birth	(1942-11-22)22 November 1942
Place of birth	Talpa de Allende, Jalisco, Mexico
Date of death	19 January 2021(2021-01-19) (aged 78)
Place of death	Mexico City, Mexico
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1967	Oro Guadalajara
1967–1970	Cruz Azul
1970–1973	Jalisco
1973–1976	Monterrey
1976–1977	Laguna	3	(0)
International career
1961–1974	Mexico	82	(3)
Managerial career
1977–1978	Tampico Madero
1978–1979	Leones Negros
1979	Monterrey
1979	Mexico
1980–1983	Tampico Madero
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Life

Born in Talpa de Allende, Peña moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, with his parents when he was young.

Gustavo Peña died of COVID-19 in Mexico City on 19 January 2021, at age 78, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.^[1]

Career

He began playing football with local side CD Oro. He played for nearly twenty years in the Primera División with Oro, Cruz Azul, Monterrey^[2] and Club de Fútbol Laguna.^[3]

He earned 82 caps and scored 3 goals for the Selección de fútbol de México (Mexico national team) from 1961 to 1974,^[4] and captained the team in FIFA World Cup (1966 and 1970) tournaments.^[5]

International goals

Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first.^[6]

No	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	22 June 1966	Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	1–?	1–4	Friendly
2.	20 October 1968	Estadio Nacional de Lima, Lima, Peru	Peru	2–3	3–3	Friendly
3.	11 June 1970	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico	Belgium	1–0	1–0	1970 FIFA World Cup

Honours

Player

Individual

• RSSSF CONCACAF Championship Team of The Tournament: 1965,^[7] 1967^[8]
• CONCACAF Team of the Century: 1998^[9]

Manager

Leones Negros

• CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 1978^[10]