Carlos Manuel Hermosillo Goytortúa (born 24 August 1964) is a Mexican former professional

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who played as a forward. He is also known as ''El Grandote de Cerro Azul'' ("The big tall one from Cerro Azul"). He is the fifth all-time leading scorer of the

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with 34 goals.

Career

Hermosillo started his club career with América during the 1983–84 season. He spent most of his club career in his native Mexico, also playing for

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, Cruz Azul, Necaxa,

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, and Chivas. Carlos' best two seasons as a player were in 1994–95 and 1995–96, when he scored 35 and 36 goals respectively for Cruz Azul. Hermosillo made two stints of career football outside Mexico: Belgium's Standard Liège in 1989–90 and

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in 1998–99. For Galaxy, he scored 14 goals and 15 assists in two regular seasons, adding five goals and an assist in the playoffs. On 17 August 1986, he sparked an all-out war with Guadalajara's

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that included others from either side; he was suspended for 12 games. Hermosillo was once the all-time goalscoring leader for the national team with 34 goals in official matches and 35 goals in all matches (90 caps between 1984 and 1997). He played in the

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, in which he could not use his favoured no. 27 jersey due to FIFA's numbering rules for official competitions. Since 1 December 2006, Carlos Hermosillo was named the minister of Mexico national sporting policy, ''Comisión Nacional del Deporte'' (National Commission for Sports). President

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included him in cabinet-level matters. With an 18-year career with eight different clubs, Hermosillo retired. He last played with Guadalajara in 2001. He had a retirement game playing with Cruz Azul, his favorite team before professional play was Cruz Azul, also he won a championship with Cruz Azul in 1997.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hermosillo goal.''

Honours

América * Mexican Primera División: 1983–84, 1984–85, Prode-85, 1987–88, 1988–89 * Campeón de Campeones: 1988,

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1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airpor ...

Cruz Azul * Mexican Primera División: Invierno 1997 * Copa México: 1996–97 *

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

LA Galaxy *

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

Necaxa * Mexican Primera División: Invierno 1998 Individual * Mexican Primera División Golden Boot: 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96 * Mexican Primera División Golden Ball: 1994–95 * Mexican Primera División Forward of the Tournament: 1994–95, 1995–96 *

Golden Boot:

* Copa México Golden Boot: 1995–96, 1996–97 * MLS All-Star:

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

References

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