Place of birth Mexico Role Footballer Number 12 Height 1.66 m | Years Team Weight 66 kg Name Luis Montes Career start 2005 | |
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Full name Luis Arturo Montes Jimenez Date of birth (1986-05-15) 15 May 1986 (age 29) Playing position Current teams Mexico national football team (Midfielder), Club Leon (#10 / Midfielder) Similar People Carlos Alberto Pena, Jose Juan Vazquez, Marco Fabian, Rafael Marquez, Miguel Herrera Profiles | ||
Luis montes mexico out of the world cup after breaking a leg 2014 fifa friendly
Luis Arturo Montes Jiménez (born 15 May 1986 in Ciudad Juárez) is a Mexican footballer who plays for Leon and the Mexico National Team
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- Luis montes mexico out of the world cup after breaking a leg 2014 fifa friendly
- Luis montes skills goals chapo 2016
- Club career
- International career
- International goals
- Honors
- References
Luis montes skills goals chapo 2016
Club career
He started his career playing for Pachuca's mecos youth team, although when he was 19 years old, he was loaned out to Indios de Juarez de la Primera 'A', now Ascenso MX.
He made his professional debut while he played for Indios de Juárez, on January 8, 2006: in a league game against Irapuato entering the game as a substitute for Luis Esqueda at the 79 minute in the Olimpico Benito Juarez Stadium.
He came back to Pachuca for the Clausura 2007 tournament and remains in the team until the Clausura 2011 tournament. He played 86 official league games for the first team, plus 25 international games in the Copa Sudamericana, CONCACAF Champions League, Club World Cup, Copa Libertadores and the now-defunct North American SuperLiga.
At the Beginning of the Apertura 2011 tournament, he is transferred to Club Leon on loan for a year, and became an important first team player for León, playing a total of 38 games between the Apertura 2011 and the Clausura 2012 Tournaments. Clinching the title of the Liga de Ancenso, now Ascenso MX. As a result, the team was promoted back to the Primera Division.
In 2014, he was in injured by a tackle after he had scored in a friendly international match against Ecuador, breaking his tibia and fibula making him ineligible for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
International career
Montes made his senior international debut for Mexico as a second-half substitute in a goalless friendly with Peru on 17 April 2013. He was selected by coach José Manuel de la Torre to participate in the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup held in the United States, and scored his first international goal on his third Mexico appearance, in a 3–1 win over Martinique in the group stage of the Gold Cup on 14 July.
Montes was selected in October 2013 by new coach Miguel Herrera to dispute the Intercontinental play-off between Mexico and New Zealand in which he played both games and helped Mexico qualify to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Luis Montes received his first call up in 2014, in Mexico's first game in 2014 against South Korea. Eventually Montes was called up to be in Mexico's squad for the 2014 World Cup along with teammates, Carlos Peña, José Vázquez, and Rafael Márquez.
On 31 May 2014, in a friendly match against Ecuador two minutes after scoring a long range goal, Montes suffered a double fracture [tibia and fibula] in a challenge with Segundo Castillo. Due to the injury Montes missed the 2014 FIFA World Cup and did not return to action until 8 February 2015 against UNAM.