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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Blanco and the second or maternal family name is Bravo.
Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Blanco with Veracruz in 2010.
Personal information
Full name Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo
Date of birth January 17, 1973 (age 37)
Place of birth Mexico City, Mexico
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position Attacking Midfielder
Forward
Club information
Current club Irapuato
Number 10
Senior career*
Years Team Apps? (Gls)?
1992-2007 América 333 (125)
1997-1998 ? Necaxa (loan) 28 (13)
2000-2002 ? Real Valladolid (loan) 23 (3)
2004 ? Veracruz (loan) 15 (5)
2007-2009 Chicago Fire 62 (16)
2008 ? Santos Laguna (loan) 4 (1)
2010 Veracruz 14 (5)
2010- Irapuato 14 (2)
National team
1995- Mexico 121 (39)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
? Appearances (Goals).
Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo (born January 17, 1973) is a Mexican professional footballer currently signed for Irapuato in the Mexican Liga de Ascenso.[1]
Known for his aggressive yet charismatic personality on the field, playing most of his career as a deep-lying forward and his last years as an attacking midfielder. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most talented Mexican players in the last two decades.
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.
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.