Leo Cuellar  has been a soccer renaissance man on both sides of the border. Mexico’s captain at the 1978 World Cup and a title-winning midfielder with UNAM Pumas — where he teamed up with Hugo Sanchez, Bora Milutinovic and Co. — Cuellar spent the last half decade of his playing career with the old NASL’s San Diego Sockers and San Jose Earthquakes.

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