Humberto Filizola

Humberto Francisco Filizola Haces (born 2 February 1950) is a Mexican former professor and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Between 2003 and 2006, he served as deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing his hometown of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. He had previously served as the rector of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT), between 1991 and 2003.

Oddly, Filizola had a short-lived career as a professional football player for Correcaminos, the team representing the university of which he was the incumbent rector. On the last matchday of the 1993–94 Mexican Primera División season, he appeared for 29 minutes against Club América before being substituted. Although he almost managed to score a goal at one point, he and manager Jesús Bracamontes were lampooned by the press. Filizola, who was 44 years old at the time, defended his participation, saying that he had wanted to give an example of hard work and courage to the youth from Tamaulipas.