SOCCER PLAYER

Manuel Lapuente

1944 - 2025

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Manuel Lapuente Díaz (15 May 1944 – 25 October 2025) was a Mexican professional footballer and manager. Over the course of more than three decades, Lapuente established himself as one of the most successful managers in Mexican football. He took charge of seven different clubs in Mexico and secured five Primera División championships with three of them. He is also remembered as the strategist who guided the Mexico national team to its greatest international triumph: the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Manuel Lapuente is the 4,670th most popular soccer player (down from 4,102nd in 2024), the 351st most popular biography from Mexico (down from 326th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Mexican Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Manuel Lapuente ranks 4,670 out of 21,273. Before him are Dimitar Largov, Boris Razinsky, Josef Streb, Serge Chiesa, Arnór Guðjohnsen, and Atilio López. After him are Ángel Correa, François Bourbotte, Vikash Dhorasoo, Julio Dely Valdés, José Kléberson, and Júnior Baiano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Manuel Lapuente ranks 614. Before him are Fannie Flagg, Dieter Grahn, Russi Taylor, Annie Famose, Booker T. Jones, and Eddy Ottoz. After him are Mick Avory, Nora Astorga, Ross Collinge, Alex Acuña, Feleti Sevele, and Ans Schut. Among people deceased in 2025, Manuel Lapuente ranks 384. Before him are Dick Barnett, Chuck Mangione, Niilo Halonen, Josef Černý, Tomo Sakurai, and Kęstutis Šapka. After him are Clodagh Rodgers, Mary K. Gaillard, Mara Corday, Andriy Parubiy, Sabu, and Polly Holliday.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Manuel Lapuente ranks 351 out of 729. Before him are Juan Bautista de Anza (1736), José Antonio Roca (1928), Alfonso Zamora (1954), Patricia Espinosa (1958), Ricardo López (1966), and Raúl Fernández (1905). After him are Luis Regueiro (1943), Joaquín Capilla (1928), Andrés Guardado (1986), Tomás Boy (1951), Javier Hernández (1961), and Héctor Pulido (1942).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Mexico

Among soccer players born in Mexico, Manuel Lapuente ranks 47. Before him are Guillermo Sepúlveda (1934), Elías Muñoz (1941), Claudio Suárez (1968), Alfredo Torres (1935), Raymundo Rodríguez (1905), and José Antonio Roca (1928). After him are Luis Regueiro (1943), Andrés Guardado (1986), Javier Hernández (1961), Héctor Pulido (1942), Rafael Garza Gutiérrez (1896), and Juan Ignacio Basaguren (1944).

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