Full name Marcelino Bernal Perez Years Team Position Midfielder 1979–1983 Cruz Azul Height 1.80 m | Playing position Role Football player Name Marcelino Bernal | |
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Date of birth (1962-05-07) May 7, 1962 (age 53) Similar People Alberto Garcia Aspe, Claudio Suarez, Ramon Ramirez, Jorge Rodriguez, Juan de Dios Ramirez | ||
Place of birth Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico | ||
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Marcelino Bernal Pérez (born May 27, 1962 in Tepic) is a retired Mexican football midfielder.
A talented all-around midfielder, able to win possession effectively as well as score goals, Bernal spent most of his club career with Puebla and Toluca. He won two championships: Puebla in 1990 and Pachuca in 1999. He ended his top-flight career with UNAM in 2001.
He got 65 caps and 5 goals for the Mexico national team between 1988 and 1998, and he participated at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998. Bernal's career developed at a relatively late stage, and he earned 58 of his 65 caps at the age of 30 or older. At the 1994 World Cup he scored a goal in the game against Italy, but he was best known for the Mexico-Bulgaria second-round game in which he cleared a shot from Krassimir Balakov, but in doing so, he fell on the net and snapped the post, causing the goal to cave in. An eight-minute delay was needed to install a new net and play resumed. Mexico would eventually lose in a penalty shootout, in which Bulgaria goalkeeper Borislav Mikhailov saved Bernal's attempt.
