Mexico City /
Tuesday mourning Mexican football because Jorge “Coco” Gómez died, a America’s historic player of the decade of the 60, a news that was confirmed by the journalist Raul Orvañanos.
Coco Gómez helped America break a nearly 40-year drought in the 1965-1966 Season alongside club historians like the recently deceased, José Alves Zague, As well as Arlindo dos Santos and Alfonso Portugal. In its palmares it added this title of League and one of Glass Mexico.
I am very sad to learn of the death of Jorge “Coco” Gómez, a historic player and coach, as well as a great friend of mine.
How to forget his Olympic goal the day America beat Veracruz in the CU and was champion
My deepest condolences to his family
QEPD pic.twitter.com/D2coTSD1rl
– Raúl Orvañanos (@RaulOrvananos) March 2, 2021
Who was Jorge ‘Coco’ Gómez?
According to Héctor R. Hernández, official historian of the Club America, el coco Gómez could be defined as: “A player who had a class like very few“Fine and elegant, he even had a plus, he hit the ball very well.”
Sample of this ball stroke is the Olympic goal that marked with the Eagles against Veracruz the 19 of December of 1965, When the azulcremas played of premises in the University Olympic and looked for to break the worse drought of the institution, since they were not consecrated in this contest from the campaign 1927-1928.
He emerged from the American squad in 1962 and after his retirement tried his luck as a coach in 1985 with the Cobras de Ciudad de Querétaro, and then with Bous Nea and Irapuato, in addition to which he was manager of San Luis. This March 2 he died at the age of 75, Without confirming the causes.
Coco Gómez’s Olympic goal
???? The Olympic goal scored by Jorge “El Coco” Gómez, with which America won its first league title in the professional era. pic.twitter.com/7V0CwNHYVA
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