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This is a Spanish name; the first family name is Blanco and the second is Bravo.
Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo, also known as Cuauh or Temo, (born January 17, 1973 Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican professional footballer who currently plays for Veracruz in the Mexican Liga de Ascenso. Blanco is the only Mexican football player with an award in a major international FIFA competition, as he won the Silver Ball and the Golden Shoe awards in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup. He has been awarded the MVP of the Mexican First League Division five times. Although Blanco plays mostly as an attacking midfielder, he is tied with Ronaldinho as the leading Confederations Cup goalscorer. Blanco is the second leading goal scorer for the Mexican national football team and his debut team Club América; he is also Mexico's second top scorer in both the FIFA World Cup and the Copa Libertadores tournament.
[edit] Career[edit] Club[edit] Primera DivisiónBlanco was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Mexico City called Tepito, where he learned to love and play the game of football in the local fields. Growing up in a rough environment as Tepito, an area with a high crime rate, Blanco developed a style of play based on creativity and aggressiveness leading him to sometimes lose his temper. Blanco made his debut in the Primera División (Mexican First Division) in 1992 at the age of 19 with Club América. In 1997, Blanco was loaned out to play with Necaxa, and then in 2000 was loaned to Real Valladolid for two years in La Liga, Blanco returned to Club América in 2002, winning the MVP award. In May 2005, Blanco won his first club championship as a player, leading Club América to its tenth league title, when Club América defeated U.A.G. by an aggregate score of 7-4 (1-1, 6-3). In the next three consecutve years between 2005 to 2007, he was awarded the MVP. Blanco is regarded as one of Mexico's best football attacking midfielders and one of the league's most prolific scorers still active, with 151 goals. He has amassed 100 caps and scored 37 goals for his country. [edit] Major League SoccerOn 2 April 2007, Blanco ventured on to Major League Soccer in the United States and signed with Chicago Fire. He was welcomed by 5,000 fans at Toyota Park as he conducted interviews with the media, signed autographs and greeted with fans. He was later voted as a finalist for both the M.V.P. and Newcomer of the Year awards in 2007.[1] As of the 2008 season, Blanco is the second-highest paid player in Major League Soccer, after Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham, earning $2.7 million a year.[2] Blanco was the 2007 Sierra Mist Goal of the Year Winner which was his first season, goal came in week 20 against RSL.[3] On 24 July 2008 during the MLS All-Stars vs West Ham United, Blanco won the MVP of the game with one assist and one goal, a game in which he only played 46 Minutes the MLS All-stars won 3–2. [edit] Santos LagunaOn November 19, 2008, it was announced that Santos Laguna signed Blanco on a loan to play only for the Apertura 2008 Liguilla, after the injury of their Ecuadorian striker Christian Benítez. Blanco was formally presented to the press the next day, wearing jersey number 9, and stated that he looks forward to giving Santos a back-to-back championship. [4][5][6] Blanco scored his first goal with Santos Laguna 29 November 2008. It was penalty against San Luis goalkeeper Adrian Martinez in the return game which Santos Laguna won 2-1 and 5-2 aggregate score. [edit] Return to MexicoOn October 29, 2009 Blanco announced that he would not be renewing his three-year contract with Chicago Fire in December 2009, and would instead sign for Veracruz, beginning in January 2010.[7]. [edit] InternationalBlanco has played for the Mexican national football team in two World Cups including France '98 and Korea-Japan 2002, scoring in each one of them. He was a member of the Mexican national team that won the Confederations Cup in 1999 where he was the tournament's leading scorer with 6 goals, including one in the final. He was awarded the "Golden Boot" and "Silver Ball" for outstanding player of the tournament. Blanco holds the record along with Ronaldinho as the highest scoring players in the Confederations Cup with 9 goals, three in 1997 and 6 in 1999. He is also one of the top scorers of the Mexican national football team; nine goals behind the top scorer Jared Borgetti. In the selection for the final 23 man squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, former Mexican national team coach Ricardo Lavolpe left Blanco out of the team. While the ostensible reason is that Blanco was frequently injured and not in good form; some people considered this to be a consequence of the previous year's constant bickering, due to on-going personal problems between coach and player. Blanco became part of the squad that played the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, scoring one penalty goal, and the 2007 Copa America, where he scored 2 goals also in penalty kicks. He has since been praised for his influential performance and is now tipped to be a certain starter for the majority of Mexico's qualifying games, mostly due to his experience and current form with Chicago Fire in the MLS. On September 13 2008, the veteran Mexican playmaker earned his 100th cap for his country in its 2-1 World Cup Qualifier victory over Canada at Tuxtla Gutierrez, coming on with only 15 seconds left in regulation. Blanco has returned to the national team since Javier Aguirre's arrival to the team in April 2009. He has been called up for the World Cup Qualifying Matches, in June 6th. 2009 he scored versus El Salvador, and in September 9th, 2009, he scored versus Honduras a penalty, Mexico won 1-0. On October 10, 2009 Blanco provoked the first opposition own-goal and scored the 2nd goal in a 4-1 victory over El Salvador to help Mexico clinch a spot in the 2010 World Cup; as Mexico's team ensured a ticket for the World Cup, it was widely accepted that part of it was thanks to Cuauhtemoc for which he received a standing ovation from the Estadio Azteca crowd as he left the field in his last World Cup Qualifier game there. [edit] International goals
[edit] CelebrationBlanco himself has accepted on Mexican television and to the press that his goal celebration is an imitation of the "Archer"[1] celebration created by former Atletico de Madrid striker Kiko Narvaez. In a 2005 interview with Mexican newspaper El Universal (Mexico City), Blanco explains that while watching a Spanish league game accompanied by his teammate German Villa, both players agreed to celebrate their next goal by imitating the "Archer" gesture. In the end, only Blanco did it, and jokingly reprimanded Villa for not keeping his word.[8][2] However, the Chicago Fire official website claims that Blanco celebrates scoring a goal by acting like the Prehispanic Tlatoani Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc, "in order to show respect for the Mexican people, and their indigenous Amerindian heritage" [9]. [edit] CuautemiñaBlanco remains remembered for the Cuautemiña (also spelled Cuauhteminha), or Blanco Trick, which he performed notably at the 1998 World Cup.[10] In the trick, when two or more opposition players are trying to take the ball from him, he traps the ball between his feet and jumps through them releasing it in the air and landing it under control as he leaves them behind.[11] The trick is difficult to perform but is eye-catching and has been incorporated as a special skill into the FIFA series of football games.[12] [edit] Career statisticsAs of October 22, 2009[13]
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Categories: 1973 births | Living people | Mexican footballers | People from Mexico City | Primera División de México players | Club América footballers | Club Necaxa footballers | CD Veracruz players | La Liga footballers | Real Valladolid footballers | 1995 King Fahd Cup players | 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup players | 1998 FIFA World Cup players | 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup players | 2002 FIFA World Cup players | 1997 Copa América players | 1999 Copa América players | 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players | 2007 Copa América players | FIFA Confederations Cup-winning players | Olympic footballers of Mexico | Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics | Mexico international footballers | Chicago Fire players | Mexican expatriates in the United States | Mexican expatriate footballers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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