José Gerardo "Jamaicón" Villegas Tavares (20 June 1934 – 24 December 2021) was a Mexican footballer who played as a defender for the Mexico national team at the 1958 and 1962 World Cup matches.
[citation needed] He began his football career playing for “Club Imperio” in 1949 and he was selected to the Jalisco State youth league in 1951.
[citation needed] He was raised at the center of a typical Mexican family, and as most other youth in his town, he would work in textiles, and then play in his spare time.
As a reporter approached him to interview him on his disappointing performance, he said he missed his mother and days had gone by where he could not eat "birria" and that life was not worth it if he was not in his town.
A story also tells that one day he sneaked out of a dinner that was served to the Mexican team in Lisbon, prior to the Sweden World Cup of 1958.