Héctor Chumpitaz

Football player infobox
playername = Hector Chumpitaz
fullname = Héctor Eduardo Chumpitaz González


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1944|4|12
cityofbirth = Cañete
countryofbirth = Peru
height =
currentclub =
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position = Defender
youthyears =
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years = 1963
1964-1965
1966-1975
1976
1977
1978
1978-1984
clubs = Unidad Vecinal
Deportivo Municipal
Universitario de Deportes
Atlas
Sporting Cristal
Atlas
Sporting Cristal
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nationalyears = 1965-1981
nationalteam =Peru
nationalcaps(goals) = 105 (3) Héctor Eduardo Chumpitaz González (born April 12, 1944 in Cañete) is a former footballer from Peru. Chumpitaz is the second most capped player in the history of the Peru national team and was named to the list of best World Cup players of all time by Terra.com in 2006.

At the age of 19, Chumpitaz joined a second division team in Peru, the Unidad Vecinal. Chumpitaz became a first division player in 1964, when he was signed by Deportivo Municipal, a team where he stayed until 1965. On April 3 of that year, Chumpitaz played his first game as a member of Peru's national soccer team, when the Peruvians lost to Paraguay, 1-0, in Lima.

On May 16 1965, Chumpitaz played his first World Cup qualifier game, as Peru beat Venezuela, 1-0, in Lima. His first game abroad came later that year, as Peru and Venezuela held a rematch in Caracas, with the Peruvians defeating the Venezuelans by a score of 6-3.

During 1966, Chumpitaz began playing for Universitario de Deportes, where he would participate for almost one decade. Chumpitaz secured his first World Cup action when Peru's national team tied with Argentina, 2-2, on August 31, 1969 in Buenos Aires.

Chumpitaz played his first World Cup game on June 2, 1970, when the Peruvians defeated Bulgaria, 3-2, in León, Mexico. Although Peru advanced to the second round of that World Cup, they were eliminated by Brazil on June 14 in Guadalajara, by a score of 4-2.

Chumpitaz played for Peru's national team in the Independence Cup, held between June 18 and June 25, 1972, in Manaus, Brazil. He helped his team to the championship game with a 1-0 victory over Venezuela, but the Peruvian team lost in its group's final game to Yugoslavia, 2-1.

In the early 1970s, All-Star teams from the American and European continents played against each other in Barcelona, Spain. Soccer greats such as Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Teofilo Cubillas participated in that game. Chumpitaz was selected captain of the American continent's team thus earning the nickname "America's Captain."

In 1975, Chumpitaz played for the national team that won the Copa America held in Colombia. The following year, he was signed, for the first time, by an international club, when he played with the CF Atlas team in Mexico. In 1977, he went on to play for Sporting Cristal, a team he would play with until 1984.

Chumpitaz returned to the World Cup in 1978, when Peru played for the FIFA's most heralded championship in Argentina. Peru played six games in that World Cup, winning three of them. This would turn out to be Chumpitaz's last World Cup participation; he retired from the Peruvian national team after the team qualified for the 1982 World Cup, held in Spain. Chumpitaz played a total of 105 games with the national team.

Chumpitaz retired from professional association football in 1984.

Despite retiring, Chumpitaz continued being a public figure, and, on December 3, 2004, he was found guilty and sentenced to four years of suspended sentence (probation), for allegedly accepting $30,000 from presidential advisor and right-hand man Vladimiro Montesinos, supposedly after joining former minister Juan Carlos Hurtado in latter's quest to become mayor of Lima in 1998, during Alberto Fujimori's presidency. After the appeals process, on April 8, 2005, the Supreme Court of Peru nullified the sentence against Chumpitaz.

External links

* [http://www.arkivperu.com/futbol.htm arkivperu.com, in Spanish]
* [http://www.cooperativa.cl/p4_noticias/antialone.html? cooperativa.cl, in Spanish]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/chumpitaz-intl.html rsssf.com]
* [http://www.us.terra.com/shared/worldcup2006/eng/grandes/7408.html terra.com]
* [http://www.midfielddynamo.com/cups/ca/10_heroes.htm#SectionChumpitaz Midfield Dynamo's 10 Heroes of the Copa América] Héctor Chumpitaz listed in the top 10