Squad
Genaro García Luna, a police officer accused of drug trafficking, would have played in the Basic Forces of Club América. Details in this Águilas Monumental article.
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By German Carrara
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It was a day like all in the week of the practices of theAmerica in the 1983/1984 season and Carlos Reinoso requested the presence of a group of players from the club’s quarry, for a training session with the main team. Among them, a central defender named Genaro Garcia Luna that, like the rest, did not exceed 17 years.
That same defender who dreamed of being a professional soccer player of the Eagles, 22 years later, he became Secretary of Federal Public Security during the period of Felipe Calderón, today detained for a cause in which he is accused of receiving millionaire bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel to enable the free circulation of drug shipments from Mexico to the United States according to case number 1: 19-cr-00576-BMC issued by the Eastern District Court of Brooklyn in New York.
“Genaro Garcia Luna played in the Basic forces of the America club, and then when he left the categories, they passed him to the third division “, he assured in a conversation with the Mediotiempo portal Angel the ‘Coca’ González, discoverer, among others, of Mexican soccer figures such as the legend Cuauhtémoc White and the current forward of the Naples Chucky lozano.
“He liked football a lot and it was Americanist. I met him when I was like 17 years old. I knew him great when he came to the last category of Basic Forces of the America”, adds González, who knew how to be the sports director of the Ministry of Public Security during the administration of Genaro Garcia Luna.
The passage of García Luna by the Spanish Football League of the FMF
Genaro Garcia Luna managed to play three seasons with him Real Gijón from Spanish Amateur Soccer League, recognized by the Mexican Soccer Federation, between 1984 and 1988. In his second campaign, in which they were champions, he had “The Coca” as a coach. “He was a strong, powerful central defender, he wasn’t very tall but he headed well. He was strong-willed. Technically it was not excellent, but it was not bad ”, remembered Angel Gonzalez.
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