Marcos Calderón

Marcos Calderón
Personal information
Full name Marcos Calderón
Date of birth (1928-07-11)July 11, 1928
Place of birth Peru
Date of death December 8, 1987(1987-12-08) (aged 59)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
194?-1951 Carlos Concha
1951-1956 Sport Boys
Teams managed
1958-1960 Sport Boys
1963 Defensor Lima
1964-1968 Universitario
1965-1967 Peru
1969-1971 Defensor Arica
1972-1974 Sporting Cristal
1975-1976 Alianza Lima
1975-1979 Peru
1978-1979 Barcelona de Guayaquil
1979-1981 Sporting Cristal
1981 Tigres UANL
1981-82 Deportivo Municipal
1983 Deportivo Táchira
1984 Sport Boys
1985-1986 Universitario
1987 Peru
1987 Juventud La Joya
1987 Alianza Lima
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Marcos Calderón (11 July 1928 – 8 December 1987) was a Peruvian football coach. He led the Peru national football team to win the Copa América 1975 and led the team to the second round of the 1978 World Cup.[1] He was born in Lima in 1928 and died while coaching Alianza Lima in a terrible aviation crash that occurred on 8 December 1987 that killed most of the team's promising squad.

Coaching career

Calderon had been a football player during the 1950s. A few years after his farewell, he began coaching.

Calderon had won several titles with important Peruvian clubs such as Universitario de Deportes, Sport Boys, and Sporting Cristal. Due to his successes, he was named the coach of the Peru national football team.

Alianza Lima air disaster

Later, Calderon went on to coach Alianza Lima and through his leadership the team rose to many victories and several good players came out from the team. The majority of the team was relatively young, but Calderon set a lot of faith into the players and soon many of them became part of the Peruvian national team. When traveling on an away game for the Peruvian League match of Alianza Lima, Calderon died along with the entire team of Alianza in an aviation crash. Not only was Peru's national team coach lost, but also several national team players.

References

  1. ↑ 1978 FIFA World Cup Argentina Archived 2011-10-20 at the Wayback Machine.
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