Ángel Rubén Cabrera

Angel Cabrera
Cabrera (crouching, third from left)
Personnel
Surname	Ángel Rubén Cabrera
birthday	October 9, 1939
place of birth	Mercedes ,  Uruguay
date of death	November 15, 2010
Place of death	Mercedes ,  Uruguay
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Independiente de Mercedes
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960-1964	Club Atlético Peñarol	?? (at least 28)
1965	→  Newell's Old Boys  (loan)
	→  Montevideo Wanderers  (loan)
1967	Club Atlético Peñarol
1968	Emelec
1969	Danubio FC
1970	Wanderers de Santa Lucía
	Independiente de Mercedes
1971-1972	Huracan Buceo
	Los Colores (Mercedes)
	Racing (Mercedes)
	Peñarol (Mercedes)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1961–1962	Uruguay	6 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Ángel Cabrera , full name Ángel Rubén Cabrera , (born October 9, 1939 in Mercedes , † November 15, 2010 ibid) was a Uruguayan football player .

Career

society

The midfielder Cabrera was the son of the mason Mario Cabrera and the domestic worker María Cristina Santana. Both were born in Mercedes . In total, Ángel Cabrera had five siblings: Angélica, Delia, José Pedro, Mario Roberto and Omar. He comes from a football-related family. His father, also known as Mario Sandoval, played for Olímpico at the time and, according to Ángel Cabrera's memory, he ended his football career at Peñarol de Mercedes. “Gorola” Cabrera, one of the Ángel Cabreras brothers, was active for Independiente, Olímpico and for the department selection of Soriano . His youngest brother "Tibilo" was in the ranks of Independiente, Juventud and also the department selection. Independiente was also the club in which Ángel Cabrera played as a 14-year-old and where he became champions in 1957 with the first team at the side of his older brother. During this early phase of his career, Washington Barrenechea was a major supporter of Cabrera. In the following year he was appointed to the department selection Soriano, with which he won the runner-up championship under the coach Carlos Scarone . At the end of 1959, he then joined the Club Atlético Peñarol in Montevideo , where he was initially used in the Tercera División.

For the "Aurinegros", who were supervised in those years by the coaches Roberto Scarone , Bela Guttman and Roque Máspoli , he played in the Primera División from 1960 to 1964 and 1967 . In 1960 he was the top scorer of the Primera División with 14 goals scored and won the first of five national championship titles during his time with the Aurinegros . During that season, however, he also injured his meniscus and had to be operated on.

The other championship honors were achieved in 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1967. In 1961 he was again able to score 14 goals, but missed four game days due to a knee injury and thus placed in the top scorer list that year behind Alberto Spencer , whose goal account was 18 Showed success. 1960 and 1961 his club also won the at that time still as Copa Campeones de América called Copa Libertadores . In the competition of 1961 he was on the starting line-up in both the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. However, Cabreras did not participate in the final duels with Palmeiras. Another title win in 1961 is the World Cup , to which Cabrera contributed with an appearance in the first leg. In 1962, Peñarol took part in the finals of the Copa Campeones de América , in which the Uruguayan club ultimately had to hand over the trophy to the Brazilian representative FC Santos . Cabrera played in the first of the finals. The engagement at Peñarol was interrupted in 1965 by a loan to the Newell's Old Boys . From Argentina he then returned to Uruguay and was then also in the form of a loan deal until the last stage of the “Aurinegros” in 1967 with the Montevideo Wanderers . In 1967, however, he could no longer build on his previous performance in the early 1960s with the Montevideans. In 1968 he joined the Ecuadorian association Emelec in Guayaquil . Although he was offered the opportunity to extend his contract with the Ecuadorians by two years, he decided against it and then went on to work for Danubio FC . In 1970 he moved on to Wanderers de Santa Lucía and then played again for Independiente de Mercedes. Then coach Hugo Bagnulo brought him to Huracán Buceo in 1971 , with whom he completed the first European tour in the club's history. During this tour they lost only one game against Celta de Vigo . In 1972 his time with the Montevideans ended. He went back to his hometown Mercedes and was still active there with Los Colores, Racing and Peñarol.

Due to two knee injuries, Cabrera, described as a strong headball and two-footed player, could no longer achieve the level of performance from the early days of his footballing career at later stations. He finally retired at the age of 34 after injuring himself against Olímpico in 1974.

National team

Cabrera was also a member of Uruguay's senior team , for which he played six international matches between July 15, 1961 and June 6, 1962. He scored two international goals. He was included in the World Cup qualification for the 1962 World Cup as well as on a European tour in preparation for the tournament itself, when he visited the Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark and Czechoslovakia with the national team. With the Celeste he then also took part in the World Cup in Chile . There he was used in the group game of Uruguay against Yugoslavia . He scored the opening goal but was sent off after a fight in the 71st minute.

successes

• World Cup: 1961
• 2 × Copa Libertadores ( Copa Campeones de América ): 1960, 1961
• 5 × Uruguayan champions: 1960 , 1961 , 1962 , 1964 , 1967
• Primera División top scorer: 1960

Private

Cabrera was married from 1963 until his divorce in 1970. From this marriage came a daughter who later emigrated to Australia . The "Negro Clano" called Cabrera died of a heart attack in his house.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} RUBEN ÁNGEL CABRERA “CLANO” (Spanish) on federicomarotta.blogspot.it from November 17, 2010, accessed on May 3, 2015
2. ↑ Ciudades - Obituario (Spanish) in El País of November 16, 2010, accessed June 22, 2013
3. ↑ Planteles Históricos (Spanish), accessed June 22, 2013
4. ↑ Profile on www.playerhistory.com ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on June 22, 2013
5. ↑ Peñarol in Copa Libertadores 1960-1969 , accessed June 22, 2013
6. ↑ Cichero completó el mapa rojinegro (Spanish) on lacapital.com.ar of June 14, 2010, accessed on May 3, 2015
7. ^ Murió Ruben Angel Cabrera (Spanish) in La República of November 16, 2010, accessed on June 22, 2013
8. ↑ Era ídolo de Morena y fue pierna con Spencer (Spanish) in El País on February 3, 2007, accessed on June 22, 2013
9. ↑ Statistics of the international appearances of the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on June 22, 2013
10. ↑ Se Ocultó un Sol. A los 70 Años Murió Ayer el “Clano” Cabrera (Spanish) on www.diariocronicas.com.uy, accessed on June 22, 2013