Edwin Cubero

Last updated
Edwin Cubero
Personal information
Full name Edwin Cubero Rivera
Date of birth(1924-02-11)February 11, 1924
Place of birth San Antonio de Belén, Costa Rica
Date of death March 8, 2000(2000-03-08) (aged 76)
Place of death Guadalajara, Mexico
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Herediano
Juan Bosco
1948 Sport Club La Libertad 3
1948–1954 Atlas (81)
1954–1955 Puebla
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edwin Cubero Rivera (11 February 1924 - 8 March 2000) was a Costa Rican professional footballer who played for several clubs in Costa Rica and Mexico, enjoying his greatest success with Atlas. [1]

Contents

Club career

Born in San Antonio de Belén, [2] Cubero is the all-time leading goalscorer for Atlas and was an important part of the club during the 1950-51 season, their first championship-winning season. [3] He joined Puebla after Atlas released him. [4]

Later life and death

After retiring as a player, Cubero founded the Mudanzas Cubero moving company. [2]

In March 2000, Cubero died from renal failure in Guadalajara, Mexico. [5]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Club América</span> Mexican association football club

Club de Fútbol América S.A. de C.V., commonly known as Club América or simply América, is a professional football club based in Mexico City. Nicknamed Las Águilas, it competes in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football. The club was founded in 1916, and since 1959 has been owned by media company Televisa. The team plays its home games at the Estadio Azteca, the largest stadium in Latin America and one of the largest in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Atlético Morelia</span> Mexican association football club

Club Atlético Morelia is a Mexican football club based in Morelia, Michoacán. Founded on 4 June 1950, the club currently plays in the Liga de Expansión MX. The club play their home games at Estadio Morelos.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">C.S. Cartaginés</span> Football club

Club Sport Cartaginés Deportiva S.A., also known as Cartaginés, is a Costa Rican football club, that currently plays in the Liga de Fútbol de Primera División, the top division of Costa Rican football league system. Cartaginés' home venue is Estadio Jose Rafael Fello Meza, located in Barrio Asis of Cartago.

Mauricio Rodrigo Solís Mora is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oswaldo Sánchez</span> Mexican footballer and sports commentator (born 1973)

Oswaldo Javier Sánchez Ibarra is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and a sports analyst for Televisa Deportes. He is highly regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in Mexican football history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hernán Medford</span> Costa Rican footballer (born 1968)

Hernán Evaristo Medford Bryan is a Costa Rican former football player and coach. Highly regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Central American football, Medford achieved success as both a player and a coach.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">César Costa</span> Mexican singer and actor

César Roel Schreurs, best known as César Costa, is a Mexican actor and rock-and-roll singer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan de Dios Castillo</span> Mexican footballer and manager (1951-2014)

Juan de Dios Castillo González was a Mexican footballer and coach, last with F.C. Motagua of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras, the top tier of the Honduran football. He has coached in the Professional Mexican League, as well in the Honduras Professional League, being a 2 time Champion with Real España and Olimpia.

Martín Horacio Herrera is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Tomás Alberto Costa is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Jhonny Cubero Quesada is a Costa Rican professional footballer who currently plays for Coatepeque in Guatemala.

Football is the most popular sport in Peru. Football/soccer in Peru was introduced by British immigrants, Peruvians returning from Great Britain, and by English sailors in the later half of the 19th century during their frequent stops at the port of Callao, which at that point was considered one of the most important ports of the Pacific Ocean. According to the work entitled La Difusión del Fútbol en Lima, during the last decade of the 19th century, records show that sailors were known to practice sports such as football/soccer and played against teams made up of Englishmen, Peruvians, or a mix between Englishmen and Peruvians.

Huichapan is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 668.1 km2. Its name derives from the Classical Nahuatl Huēyichiyapan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Miguel Layún</span> Mexican footballer (born 1988)

Miguel Arturo Layún Prado is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Liga MX club América.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shirley Cruz</span> Costa Rican footballer (born 1985)

Shirley Cruz Traña is a retired Costa Rican professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Alajuelense of the Costa Rican Women's Premier Division and the Costa Rica women's national football team. A creative midfielder who often acts as a deep-lying playmaker, Cruz is the second-ever female footballer from Costa Rica to play abroad when she joined Lyon in 2005.

Fidencio Oviedo Domínguez, known as Fidencio Oviedo, is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Fernando de la Mora in the División Intermedia. In 2012, Oviedo was named Paraguayan Footballer of the Year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">José Miguel Cubero</span> Costa Rican footballer (born 1987)

José Miguel Cubero Loría is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga FPD club Sporting San José.

Zellyka Guadalupe Arce Balleza, known as Zellykaguama ó Zellycactus, is a Mexican professional football midfielder who currently plays for Atlas (femenil) of the Mexican Liga MX Femenil, the first professional women's soccer league in Mexico. In 2017, she contributed to Chivas win the first professional women's football championship in the country in front of a record-setting 32,466 spectators.

El chiringuito de Jugones is a Spanish television program of football debate in which the current affairs of the main teams of the Spanish league are discussed, essentially FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF. To a lesser extent, other teams such as Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, Valencia CF or Athletic Club de Bilbao, among others, are discussed. In addition, international football and, occasionally, Spanish futsal and basketball are also discussed.

Carlos Rafael Vega Mena is a Chilean football manager and former footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Chile and abroad.

References

  1. "Edwin Cubero, el tico que dio un titulo". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
  2. 1 2 Historia - Mudanzas Cubero (in Spanish)
  3. Atlas :: Historia por años [ permanent dead link ]
  4. Héroe en casa ajena Edwin Cubero, el máximo artillero histórico del Atlas mexicano - Nación (in Spanish)
  5. MUERE COSTARRICENSE CUBERO QUE DIO A ATLAS ÚNICO TÍTULO