Chumpitas, Hector

Club career

At the age of 19, Chumpitas made his debut in the club of the 2nd division “Unidad Vesinal”. In 1964, he began to play for the team of the 1st division of Peru - Deportivo Municipal .

Since 1966, Chumpitas began to play for one of the most successful Peruvian clubs - Universitario . With this team, he won 5 champion titles in Peru (1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1974).

In 1972, Universario for the first time in the history of Peruvian football made it to the final of the Libertadores Cup , where it lost to the Argentinean Independiente 2-1 in the second final match (the match in Lima ended in a draw 0-0). Chumpitas was the captain of that Universario team.

In 1973, a match of stars between the teams of Europe and South America took place in Barcelona, Spain . Such great players as Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Teofilo Cubillas took part in it. Hector Chumpitas was elected captain of the South American national team, for which he received the nickname " Captain of America " ( Spanish El Capitán de America ). The match ended with a score of 4: 4, and in the penalty shoot-out series South America won with a score of 7: 6.

In 1975, Chumpitas left to play for the Mexican club Atlas from Guadalajara .

In 1977 he returned to the championship of Peru, this time to the Sporting Crystal club, with which he won the championship three more times (1979, 1980, 1983).

To this day, Chumpitas remains the best striker-defender in the history of the championship of Peru - he scored 65 goals in 456 matches ^[2] .

Peru Team

The first match for the national team of Peru Chumpitas held April 3, 1965 against the national team of Paraguay in Lima, the Peruvians lost with the score 0: 1.

At the World Cup, Chumpitas held his first match on June 2, 1970 against Bulgaria in Mexican Leon , in which the Peruvians won 3–2. The national team of Peru reached the quarter finals, as well as 8 years later, in Argentina. In both tournaments, Chumpitas wore a captain's armband.

In 1975, Chumpitas, as captain of the national team, led Peru to victory in the America's Cup. Only twice did the Peruvians become the best on the continent - in 1939 and in 1975.

After the Peru team made it to the 1982 World Cup, which was facilitated by Chumpitas himself, he announced the end of his performances for the national team.

Total: 105 matches / 3 goals; 37 wins, 21 draws, 47 losses.

After completing a football career

After the career of a football player, Chumpitas began to participate in the socio-political life of the country. There were quite unpleasant incidents that investigated his activities and relations with former President Alberto Fujimori .

Team

  Team Peru

• America's Cup Winner: 1975
• America's Bronze Medalist: 1979

  Deportivo Municipal

• Peru Bronze Championship : 1964

  Universitario

• Champion of Peru (5): 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1974
• Silver medalist of the championship of Peru (2): 1970, 1972
• Peru Bronze Championship: 1973
• Finalist of the Libertadores Cup : 1972

  Sporting Crystal

• Champion of Peru (3): 1979, 1980, 1983
• Silver medalist of the championship of Peru: 1977
• Peruvian Championship Bronze Medalist: 1978

Personal

• 35th place in the list of the best football players of South America of the XX century according to IFFIIS
• South America Best Player Nominee: 1971
• 33rd place in the list of most successful defenders: 65 goals
• The best defender CONMEBOL : 1969
• South America Captain: 1973
• America's Star Team: 2007
• CONMEBOL star team over the past 50 years: 2008

• Profile on FIFA.com
• Player profile on worldfootball.net (German)
• Statistics of matches for the national team of Peru on the site rsssf.com
• Biography in the LJ community on international football
• arkivperu.com Biography in Spanish
• rsssf.com - matches for the national team
• terra.com - statistics and biography