He Elche announced this Wednesday the death of the former Paraguayan player at the age of 87 Juan Carlos Lezcanopart of the best Elche team in history and the foreign soccer player with the most games played in the history of the entity.
Lezcano signed for Elche in 1962 and competed for nine seasons in the Elche team, eight of them in Firstand played in the final of the 1969 King’s Cup.
The ‘Chino’, the nickname by which he was known, He played a total of 254 League games and scored 42 goals. After Elche’s relegation in 1972, the Paraguayan played for other teams in the area, such as Eldensehe Villena and the Crevillentthe team in which he hung up his boots and in which he began his time as a coach.
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In the Elche club he was coach of the subsidiary in the mid-60s and second in Felipe Mesones in the first team. During several stages he assumed management of the team on an interim basis after a dismissal, the last in the mid-90s.
