Franco Navarro

For his son, see Franco Navarro, Jr.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Navarroand the second or maternal family name is Monteiro.

Franco Navarro

Navarro with Independiente in 1987
Personal information
Full name	Franco Enrique Navarro Monteiro
Date of birth	(1961-11-10) 10 November 1961 (age 64)
Place of birth	Lima, Peru
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1979–1982	Municipal
1983–1985	Sporting Cristal
1985–1986	Independiente Medellín
1986–1988	Independiente	70	(22)
1988	Tecos UAG	3	(0)
1989	Wettingen	8	(0)
1989–1990	Unión Santa Fe	10	(0)
1991–1992	Sporting Cristal
1993	Municipal
1994	Carlos A. Mannucci	4	(2)
1995	Alianza Lima
International career
1980–1989	Peru	56	(16)
Managerial career
1998–2000	Sporting Cristal
2001	Estudiantes de Medicina
2002	Alianza Lima
2003	Unión Huaral
2004–2005	Sport Boys
2005	Universidad César Vallejo
2006	Peru
2007–2008	Cienciano
2008–2009	Juan Aurich
2010–2011	León de Huánuco
2012	Universidad San Martín
2012	Juan Aurich
2013	Melgar
2014–2016	Universidad César Vallejo
2016–2020	UTC
2021	Deportivo Municipal
2022	UTC
2022–2023	ADT
2024	Carlos A. Mannucci
2024	Sport Huancayo
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of February 2008

Franco Enrique Navarro Monteiro (born 10 November 1961) is a Peruvian football manager and former player who played as a striker.

Club career

Navarro played for Independiente from Argentina, Deportivo Municipal, Sporting Cristal, Alianza Lima from Peru and FC Wettingen from Switzerland among others. He retired in 1995.

International career

He was a prolific goal scorer and a participant at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He was also member of the Peru national football team for the qualification stages of the World Cup in Mexico (1986) and Italy (1990). Navarro played a total of 56 games for Peru between 1980 and 1989, scoring 16 goals. ^[1] He made his debut on 18 July 1980 in a friendly against Uruguay (0–0) in Montevideo. His last game was on 27 August 1989 against Uruguay at a FIFA World Cup Qualifier.

He is remembered for the leg-breaking incident five minutes into the deciding qualifier game between Argentina and Peru in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. The Argentine defender Julián Camino broke Navarro’s leg with a tackle. Camino was not expelled from the game. ^[2] Argentina with Ricardo Gareca tied the game 2–2 and qualified to the World Cup; Argentina would go on to win the 1986 World Cup.

Coaching career

He has been a coach for several Peruvian teams, including Sporting Cristal, Alianza Lima, and Cienciano as well as the Peru national football team.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Deportivo Municipal	1979	Torneo Descentralizado	4	3							4	3
	1980		28	15							28	15
	1981		21	11							21	11
	1982		26	14			2	0			28	14
	1983		22	8							22	8
	1993		9	2							9	2
	Total		110	53			2	0			112	53
Independiente Medellín	1984	Campeonato Profesional	35	10							35	10
	1985		41	13
	Total		76	23							76	23
CA Independiente	1986-87	Argentine Primera División	34	17			8	3			42	20
	1987-88		27	5							27	5
	Total		61	22			8	3			69	25
Tecos F.C.	1988	Liga MX	3	0	8	5					11	5
	1989-90		31	7							31	7
	Total		34	7	8	5					42	12
FC Wettingen	1989	Swiss Super League	7	0							7	0
	Total		7	0							7	0
Unión de Santa Fe	1990-91	Argentine Primera División	10	0							10	0
	Total		10	0							10	0
Sporting Cristal	1991	Torneo Descentralizado	25	10							25	10
	1992		12	2			7	1			19	3
	Total		37	12			7	1			44	13
Carlos A. Mannucci	1994	Torneo Descentralizado	4	2							4	2
	Total		4	2							4	2
Alianza Lima	1995	Torneo Descentralizado	13	1							13	1
	Total		13	1							13	1
Career total			352	128	8	5	17	4			377	133

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year ^[3]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Peru	1980	2	0
	1981	2	0
	1982	4	1
	1983	11	3
	1984	3	0
	1985	17	8
	1986	2	1
	1987	4	1
	1988	1	0
	1989	10	2
Total		56	16

Scores and results list Peru's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Navarro goal.

List of international goals scored by Franco Navarro ^[3]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	30 March 1982	Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru	Chile	1–0	1–0	Friendly
2	11 August 1983		Uruguay	1–1	1–1
3	17 August 1983		Colombia	1–0	1–0	1983 Copa América
4	21 August 1983	Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia	Bolivia	1–1	1–1
5	17 February 1985	Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru		1–0	3–0	Friendly
6				2–0
7				3–0
8	24 February 1985	Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile	Chile	2–0	2–1
9	27 February 1985	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay	Uruguay	1–0	2–2
10	16 June 1985	Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru	Venezuela	1–0	4–1	1986 FIFA World Cup qualification
11	27 October 1985	Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile	Chile	1–3	2–4
12				2–4
13	30 January 1986	Greenfield International Stadium, Trivandrum, India	India	1–0	1–0	Friendly
14	19 June 1987	Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru	Chile	1–0	1–3
15	20 June 1989	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Ecuador	2–1	2–1
16	5 July 1989	Estádio Fonte Nova, Salvador, Brazil	Venezuela	1–1	1–1	1989 Copa América

Honours

Player

Sporting Cristal

• Peruvian Primera División: 1991 ^[4]

Manager

Sporting Cristal

• Peruvian Primera División: 1998-Clausura ^[5]

Universidad César Vallejo

• Torneo del Inca: 2015 ^[5]

References

1. rsssf: Peru record international footballers Archived February 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Patada de Julián Camino a Franco Navarro". De Fútbol Somos (in Spanish). 10 October 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
3. Franco Navarro at National-Football-Teams.com
4. "Campeón 1991". Club Sporting Cristal (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 December 2025.
5. "Franco Navarro solo ganó dos finales como DT: ambas ante Alianza Lima". América Televisión (in Spanish). 27 April 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2025.

External links

• Franco Navarro at National-Football-Teams.com