Gregorio Gómez

Gregorio Gómez
	El Tepa
Personal information
Full name	Gregorio Gómez Álvarez
Date of birth	27 February 1927
Place of birth	Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico
Date of death	24 March 2015 (aged 88)
Place of death	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1948–1954	C.D. Guadalajara
1954–1960	Atlas
1960–1968	Pumas de la UNAM
International career
1949–1960	Mexico
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gregorio Gómez Álvarez (14 February 1927 – 24 March 2015), better known as El Tepa Gómez, was a Mexican soccer player who played in the position of lateral defense right and later as central. He played for the C.D. Guadalajara, Atlas F.C. and for the Pumas de la UNAM.

Trajectory[edit]

C.D. Guadalajara[edit]

He arrived at C.D. Guadalajara, drawn from the local team of his city, Club Tepatitlán (amateur), in the second half of the 1940s, making his debut when the Hungarian Jorge Orth was as coach, making his debut on 15 February 1948, in a game against Club Tampico held in Tampico, Tamaulipas.

His great stature and good football made it very difficult to pass him in the aerial plays, a factor that made him reach the Mexico National Team in which he played in international tournaments and a World Cup.

Atlas F.C.[edit]

He left rojiblanco in August 1954, when his card as a player was released by the club, which would be used by Atlas F.C. who hired him to play with rojinegra.^{[clarification needed]}

PUMAS de la UNAM[edit]

Finally in 1960 he would play with the Pumas de la UNAM in this team. He culminated his career as a professional soccer player, obtaining excellent sporting results in the different clubs in which he was a member.

México Fútbol Team[edit]

He made his debut with the Mexico National Team on 25 September 1949, in the II North American and Caribbean Cup, at the Sports City stadium in Mexico City. He was one of the first C.D. Guadalajara players to play in a Soccer World Cup, he was summoned along with his teammates Max Prieto and Rodrigo Ruiz for the 1950 World Cup.

However, Gómez and Ruiz were the only ones to play since Prieto would stay on the bench, Gómez played the second game against Yugoslavia and the third game against Switzerland. He was also nominated to participate in the 1954 World Cup but was not in the final call.

Statistics of Gregorio Gómez in the National Team
#	Date	Place	Opponent	Goal	Outcome	Competition
1	19 de julio de 1953	Mexico City, México	Haiti	3	8–0	Qualification for the 1954 Soccer World Cup

Participations in World Cups[edit]

World	Place	Outcome
Soccer World Cup 1950	Brazil	First phase

Stadium in his Honor[edit]

In Tepatitlán de Morelos, the Municipal Government commemorated him by naming the local stadium the Stadium Tepa Gómez, said stadium that still retains its name and location; where his childhood and youth team plays.

It was inaugurated in September 1970, with the match between Club Tepatitlán vs C.D. Guadalajara with a score of 0–3 in favor of Guadalajara, with 3,200 spectators. With the presence of authorities from the Mexican Football Federation, the Municipal and State Government, in addition to the presence of Gregorio Gómez el "Tepa" † who was named in his honor the stadium, which together with the authorities cut the opening thread .

Clubs[edit]

Club	Country	Year
C.D. Guadalajara	Mexico	1948–1954
Atlas F.C.	Mexico	1954–1960
Pumas de la UNAM	Mexico	1960–1968

References[edit]

External links[edit]

FIFA profile