Álvaro Gestido

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Álvaro Gestido
Personnel
Surname Álvaro Pelegrín Gestido
birthday May 17, 1907
place of birth MontevideoUruguay
date of death January 18, 1957
Place of death Santa Clara de OlimarUruguay
size 173 cm
Juniors
Years station
1922– Club Atlético Peñarol
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1928-1941, 1944 Club Atlético Peñarol
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1927-1940 Uruguay 26 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Álvaro Pelegrín Gestido (born May 17, 1907 in Montevideo , † January 18, 1957 in Santa Clara de Olimar / Departamento Treinta y Tres ) was a Uruguayan football player . He was the brother of the later Uruguayan President Óscar Diego Gestido .

Club career

The 1.73-meter-tall Gestido, known by fans as El Teniente or Varito , attended the military school (Escuela Militar) from 1923, where he achieved the rank of Coronel , in German probably comparable to that of a colonel .

The year before, he began playing football in the Cuarta Peñarols. Again from 1928 to 1941, Gestido, known for his sense of fair play, played for Peñarol Montevideo . During this time he won the national championship seven times in 1928, 1929/30, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1938. On September 28, 1941 he declared on the occasion of a 50th anniversary of Peñarol against the Argentine club River Plate game played his resignation. However, in 1944 he stepped in again for two games. On September 22, 1944 he was made an honorary member of the association.

National team

Between July 14, 1927 and August 15, 1940 Gestido played 26 international matches for the Uruguayan national team . He could not record a personal goal.

At the soccer tournament of the 1928 Summer Olympics , he won the gold medal with his team and was considered by many to be the best player in the Celeste . In the following year he took part in the Campeonato Sudamericano 1929 on the part of Uruguay . Two years later he won the world championship title at the soccer world championship in his own country. He played all four games and formed the so-called Costilla metálica ("Iron Curtain") with José Andrade and Lorenzo Fernández as a link between defense and attack .

Gestido died of a heart attack at the age of 49.

successes

  • Olympic gold: 1928
  • World Champion: 1930
  • 7 × Uruguayan champions: 1928, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938

literature

  • Folke Havekost, Volker Stahl: Football World Cup 1930 Uruguay , AGON, 1st edition, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89784-245-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, pp. 175ff
  2. Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team at www.rsssf.com
  3. Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, pp. 175ff, 175
  4. Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, pp. 175ff, 177