Leonardo Cuéllar

Leonardo Cuéllar
Personal information
Cuéllar with Mexico as depicted in a Panini trading card
Full name	Leonardo Cuéllar Rivera
Date of birth	(1954-01-14) 14 January 1954 (age 69)
Place of birth	Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mexico^[1]
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)^[1]^[2]
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1979	UNAM
1979–1981	San Diego Sockers	57	(9)
1980–1981	San Diego Sockers (indoor)	2	(0)
1981–1982	Atletas Campesinos
1982	San Jose Earthquakes	20	(0)
1982–1983	Golden Bay Earthquakes (indoor)	25	(3)
1983–1984	Golden Bay Earthquakes	51	(3)
International career
1973–1981	Mexico	40	(3)
Managerial career
1998–2016	Mexico women
2017–2021^[3]	América women
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonardo Cuéllar Rivera (born 14 January 1954) is a Mexican football manager and former player who last acted as the manager of América in the Liga MX Femenil.^[4] He was the head coach of the Mexico women's national football team from 1998 to 2016.^[5]^[6]

Playing career

Cuéllar played for Pumas and Atletas Campesinos in Mexico.^[7] He played in the NASL between 1979 and 1984 for the San Diego Sockers, San Jose Earthquakes and Golden Bay Earthquakes. He played for the Earthquakes during the NASL indoor seasons.

Cuéllar also represented the Mexico national football team 40 times, scoring 3 goals^[8]^[9] and participated at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.^[10]

He has an American-born son, Christopher Cuellar, who has coached Mexico women at under-17 and under-20 levels.^[11]^[12]

^ ^a ^b "Leonardo Cuellar Rivera". Liga MX (in Spanish). ligamx.net. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
^ "Leonardo Cuellar Rivera". Liga MX Femenil (in Spanish). ligafemenil.mx. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
^ El Universal (27 March 2021). "Leo Cuéllar se va del América, tras perder el Clásico ante Chivas". El Universal. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
^ "Leonardo Cuellar, nuevo tecnico del America". El Universal. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
^ Lewis, Michael (21 January 2012). "Mexico's Leonardo Cuellar Has Turned 'Las Tri' into a Global Power". Fox News. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
^ Longman, Jere (10 June 1999). "SOCCER; Mexican World Cup Team Reaps Benefit of America's Special Export". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
^ "1978-79 Season". Pumas. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
^ Appearances for Mexico National Team - RSSSF
^ "Pre-Game Notes: U.S. WNT vs. Mexico - Oct. 21, 2005". U.S. Soccer Federation. 21 October 2005. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
^ "Leonardo Cuellar". FIFA. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
^ Márquez Tizano, Rodrigo; Vilchis, Raúl (11 October 2016). "Christopher Cuéllar: el hombre detrás de la Sub-17 femenil" [Christopher Cuellar: the man behind the women's under-17 team] (in Spanish). VICE. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
^ Luna Cruz, Édgar (13 August 2014). "México busca su pase en Sub-20" [Mexico seeks its pass in Under-20]. El Universal (in Spanish). Mexico City. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

Mexico squads

v t e Mexico football squad – 1972 Summer Olympics
1 Ruiz 2 Rico 3 Trejo 4 Álvarez 5 Martín 6 Ale. Hernández 7 Blanco 8 Reyes 9 Manzo 10 Razo 11 Cuéllar 12 Sánchez 13 Barba 14 Márquez 15 Talavera 16 Regalado 17 Alf. Hernández 18 Peña 19 Borja Coach: Mercado

v t e Mexico squad – 1978 FIFA World Cup
1 Reyes 2 Nájera 3 Tena 4 Ramos 5 Vázquez (c) 6 Mendizábal 7 de la Torre 8 López 9 Rangel 10 Ortega 11 Sánchez 12 Martínez 13 Cisneros 14 Gómez 15 Flores 16 Cárdenas 17 Cuéllar 18 Lugo 19 Rodríguez 20 Medina 21 Isiordia 22 Soto Coach: Roca

v t e Mexico squad – 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
1 Quiñones 2 S. Mora 3 Moore 4 Oceguera (c) 5 Pérez 6 Leyva 7 Vergara 8 Rodebaugh 9 Náñez 10 Domínguez 11 Gerardo 12 Valdez 13 González 14 I. Mora 15 Hill 16 Pinzón 17 Michner 18 Rubalcaba 19 Almaraz 20 Ireta Coach: Cuéllar

v t e Mexico women's football squad – 2004 Summer Olympics
1 Molina 2 Gómez 3 Sandoval 4 González 5 Castillo 6 Vergara 7 López 8 Leyva 9 Domínguez 10 Mora 11 Pérez 12 Maravillas 13 Saucedo 14 Gutiérrez 15 Valderrama 16 Martínez 17 Worbis 18 Tajonar Coach: Cuéllar

v t e Mexico squad – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
1 Vanegas 2 Robles 3 Sandoval 4 Garciamendez 5 Vinti 6 Garcia 7 López 8 Worbis 9 Domínguez (c) 10 Garza 11 Rangel 12 Tajonar 13 Mercado 14 Alvarado 15 Saucedo 16 Corral 17 Noyola 18 Pérez 19 Ocampo 20 Santiago 21 Mayor Coach: Cuéllar

v t e Mexico squad – 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship third place
1 Santiago 2 Romero 3 Sierra 4 García Méndez 5 Solís 6 Mercado 7 Rangel 8 Noyola 9 Corral 10 Mayor 11 Ocampo 12 Tajonar 13 Robles 14 Alvarado 15 Murillo 16 Nieto 17 Pérez 18 Garza 19 Samarzich 20 Duarte Coach: Cuéllar

v t e Mexico squad – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
1 Santiago 2 Robles 3 Murillo 4 Garciamendez 5 Miranda 6 Ruiz 7 Rangel (c) 8 Noyola 9 Corral 10 Mayor 11 Ocampo 12 Tajonar 13 Espinoza 14 Romero 15 Sierra 16 M. Alvarado 17 V. Pérez 18 A. Pérez 19 R. Cuéllar 20 Sánchez 21 Guajardo 22 Ibarra 23 E. Alvarado Coach: L. Cuéllar

Managerial positions

v t e Mexico women's national football team – managers
Rodríguez (1991–98) L. Cuéllar (1998–2016) Medina (2016–18) C. Cuéllar (2018–21) Vergara (2021–2022) López (2022–)

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