Title: Teófilo Cubillas Content: Teófilo Juan Cubillas Arizaga (; born 8 March 1949) is a Peruvian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He was selected as Peru's greatest ever player in an IFFHS poll, in which he was also included in the world's Top 50. He was renowned for his technique, shooting ability and free kick ability.Teófilo Cubillas Planet World Cup He was considered one of the best players in the world of the 1970s and the best in his position of the decade only behind the Dutch Johan Cruyff. Among his main achievements are the FIFA awards for the best young player and the bronze boot in Mexico 1970, as well as the silver boot and member of the ideal team of Argentina 1978, he was also champion and best player of the 1975 Copa América. He is regarded one of the best attacking midfielders in the history of football. Nicknamed El Nene (The Kid), he was part of the Peru national football team that won the 1975 Copa América. He helped Peru reach the quarter finals at the 1970 FIFA World Cup and again at the 1978 World Cup and was elected the South American Footballer of the Year in 1972. In 2004, Pelé selected Cubillas as one of the FIFA 100, a list of 125 footballing greats. In February 2008, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Brazilian World Cup victory, he was selected in the All-Star First Team of South America of the past 50 years.All-Star First Team Selection (1958–2008) Retrieved on 17 January 2009. Cubillas is one of only three players to score five or more goals in two different World Cups, the other two being Miroslav Klose and Thomas Müller. ==Club career statistics== |- |1966||rowspan="7"|Alianza Lima||rowspan="7"|Primera División||23||19||||||||||23||19 |- |1967||25||9||||||||||25||9 |- |1968||25||19||||||||||25||19 |- |1969||11||5||||||||||11||5 |- |1970||27||22||||||||||27||22 |- |1971||29||22||||||||||29||22 |- |1972||29||14||||||||||29||14 |- |1973/74||Basel||Nationalliga A||10||3||2||2||2||2||14||7 |- |1973/74||rowspan="4"|Porto||rowspan="4"|Portuguese Liga||12||4||2||2||colspan="2"|-||14||6 |- |1974/75||30||9||4||4||4||2||38||15 |- |1975/76||29||28||5||3||4||4||38||35 |- |1976/77||14||7||2||1||2||1||18||9 |- |1977||rowspan="2"|Alianza Lima||rowspan="2"|Primera División||32||23||||||||||32||23 |- |1978||15||12||||||||||15||12 |- |1979||rowspan="5"|Fort Lauderdale Strikers||rowspan="5"|NASL||30||16||||||||||30||16 |- |1980||27||14||||||||||27||14 |- |1981||28||17||||||||||28||17 |- |1982||13||4||||||||||13||4 |- |1983||22||8||||||||||22||8 |- |1984||Alianza Lima||Primera División||4||4||||||||||4||4 |- |1985||South Florida Sun||United Soccer League||6||3||||||||||6||3 |- |1987||Alianza Lima||Primera División||13||3||||||||||13||3 |- |1988||Miami Sharks||American Soccer League||16||7||||||||||16||7 233||152||||||||||233||152 10||3||2||2||2||2||14||7 85||48||13||10||10||7||108||65 142||69||||||||||142||69 470||272||15||12||12||9||497||293 |} ==International career statistics== |- |1968||4||0 |- |1969||14||4 |- |1970||15||8 |- |1971||4||0 |- |1972||8||2 |- |1973||8||3 |- |1974||0||0 |- |1975||7||2 |- |1976||0||0 |- |1977||5||2 |- |1978||11||5 |- |1979||0||0 |- |1980||0||0 |- |1981||1||0 |- |1982||4||0 |- !Total||81||26 |}