Víctor Mañón
Mexican footballer
Víctor Omar Mañón Barrón (born 6 February 1992) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Panathinaikos Chicago.
Club career
On 8 September 2007, Mañón made his league debut for Pachuca in Matchday 7 of the 2007 Apertura, coming off the bench in the second half against Cruz Azul and needing only two minutes to provide the match-winning assist to Chaco Giménez (2–1). In doing so at the age of 15 years and 7 months, he became the youngest footballer to ever play in a Mexican Primera División match, a record that he still holds.
The following year, Mañón was a member of the Pachuca team that won the 2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, thus qualifying for the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup, in which he only played the match for third place against Gamba Osaka on 21 December, becoming, at the age of 16 years and 319 days, the youngest-ever player in the history of the Club World Cup, as well as the youngest player in an official FIFA tournament, breaking the previous record set by Samuel Eto'o in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, aged 17 years and 3 months.
It was not until nearly two years after his debut, on 5 September 2009, that Mañón scored his first goal with Club Pachuca in a match against Jaguares de Chiapas.
International career
He has played for the under-17 national team. He made three appearances in the 2009 CONCACAF U17 Championship and scored a goal.
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