Édgar García de Dios

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Édgar García de Dios
Personal information
Full name Édgar Arturo García de Dios[1]
Date of birth (1977-09-01)1 September 1977
Place of birth Mexico City, Mexico
Date of death 27 June 2010(2010-06-27) (aged 32)
Place of death Naucalpan, Mexico
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1996 Atlante
1996–1997 LASK 12 (0)
1997–1999 Toluca 5 (0)
1999–2000 Tecos UAG 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Édgar Arturo García de Dios (1 September 1977 – 27 June 2010) was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a forward.[1]

Club career[edit]

Born in Mexico City, García made his debut with Atlante F.C. in the Mexico First Division in the 1995–96 season. He then moved to play in Toluca, and Verano.[2] After a brief season in LASK in Second Division in Austria, he returned for season 1999–2000 to play with Tecos UAG.[3]

Personal life[edit]

He was a son of Arturo and Margarita García. As of 2002, García did not play professional football anymore after he had become an alcoholic, effectively ending his football career prematurely.[4]

Death[edit]

García was shot with seven bullets at close range while in a taxi cab in Naucalpan. The motives of the killing are not clear.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Édgar García de Dios at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ Yucatan.com: Asesinan al ex atlantista Edgar García de Dios (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Sale a la luz ejecución del ex futbolista Édgar Arturo García de Dios (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Salgado Gudiño, Arturo (12 July 2002). "García de Dios se ahoga en alcohol" [Garcia de Dios drowns in alcohol]. La Crónica de Hoy. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Murió asesinado Edgar García de Dios" [Edgar García de Dios was assassinated]. Mediotiempo (in Spanish). 2 July 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2021.

External links[edit]

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