Argentine footballer and coach
In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
Mesones and the second or maternal family name is
Temperán .
Felipe Mesones Temperán (9 February 1936 – 15 December 2017) was an Argentine football right winger and coach .
Playing career
Born in Buenos Aires , Mesones spent the vast majority of his career in Spain, representing Real Murcia , Levante UD , CE L'Hospitalet and CE Europa , with all clubs competing in the Segunda División . In his native country he appeared for Boca Juniors , San Lorenzo de Almagro and Club Atlético Atlanta , and also had a stint at Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia.
Mesones retired at the end of the 1966–67 season while in service of Catalonia -based Europa, eventually amassing totals of 124 games and 16 goals in the second division.
Coaching career
As a manager, Mesones worked in the Spanish La Liga for nine campaigns, adding another 15 in the second tier.[1] [2] [3] On 27 April 1980, whilst at the helm of UD Salamanca , he was involved in a match fixing incident also involving Málaga CF which resulted in a two-year ban for himself and opposing players Raúl Castronovo and Julio Orozco.[4] [5]
In late January 2000, training with his club Granada CF , the 64-year-old Mesones suffered a heart attack and was admitted to intensive care unit .[6] His last spell consisted of nine games with Cartagonova FC , in Segunda División B .
Death
Mesones died on 15 December 2017 at the age of 81 in Murcia , after a long battle with illness.[7]
References
^ Felipe Mesones, entrenador (Felipe Mesones, manager) ; El País , 13 December 1977 (in Spanish)
^ Felipe Mesones, el robo, la polícia y otras curiosidades de su trayectoria (Felipe Mesones, the theft, the police and another career curios) Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine ; Ideal , 28 April 2006 (in Spanish)
^ «Pude entrenar al Athletic, pero ya había dado mi palabra al Murcia» ("I could have coached Athletic, but I had already given my word to Murcia") ; La Verdad , 26 December 2009 (in Spanish)
^ Graves sanciones para los implicados en el Málaga-Salamanca (Severe bans for those implicated in Málaga-Salamanca) ; El País, 22 June 1980 (in Spanish)
^ El Salamanca, un borrón en la historia malaguista (Salamanca, blur in malaguista history) Archived 29 June 2012 at archive.today ; Diario Sur , 27 August 2007 (in Spanish)
^ Mesones sufre un infarto entrenando (Mesones suffers heart attack in training) ; El País, 26 January 2000 (in Spanish)
^ Luto en el fútbol regional por la muerte de Felipe Mesones (Mourning in regional football for the death of Felipe Mesones) ; La Verdad, 15 December 2017 (in Spanish)
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