Óscar Omar Míguez

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Óscar O. Míguez
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Óscar O. Míguez (front row in the middle with ball)
Personnel
Surname Óscar Omar Míguez Anton
birthday December 5, 1927
place of birth Artigas ,  Uruguay
date of death August 19, 2006
size 1.76 m
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
South America
1948-1959 Peñarol Montevideo
1960 Sporting Cristal 18 (10)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1950-1958 Uruguay 39 (27)
1 Only league games are given.

Óscar Omar Míguez , full name Óscar Omar Míguez Anton , (born December 5, 1927 in Artigas , Uruguay, † August 19, 2006 ) was a Uruguayan football player .

Career

society

At club level, the 1.76 meter tall striker first played for Montevideo-based club Sud América and formed the attack there with Alcides Ghiggia . From 1948 to 1959 he was active for the Club Atlético Peñarol . During his time at Peñarol, the Aurinegros recorded winning the Uruguayan championship in 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1958 and 1959. In the seasons 1948 (eight goals) and 1949 (20 goals) Míguez was each top scorer in the Primera División . In 1960 he played for Sporting Cristal for half a year . He ended his career at the Peruvian club.

National team

Óscar Omar Míguez Uruguayan national soccer team , for which he played 39 internationals from his debut on April 30, 1950 against the Paraguayan selection to his last appearance on April 30, 1958 in Buenos Aires, when they played against the national team of Argentina. He scored a total of 27 hits.

Míguez took part in the Copa Rio Branco 1950, the two World Cups in 1950 and 1954, the Pan American Football Championship in 1952 , the South American Championships in 1955 and 1956, the Copa del Atlántico 1956 and the Copa Newton 1957.

With eight goals, the World Cup record scorer is the Celeste . At the Soccer World Cup in Brazil in 1950 , he scored five goals, making it second on the list of goalscorers. He scored three goals in the preliminary round in an 8-0 win against Bolivia . He scored his most important two goals in the final against Sweden . His team were down 2-1 against the current Olympic champion 13 minutes before the end when Míguez turned the game around in favor of Uruguay with two goals. After beating Brazil 2-1 in their last game , Óscar Omar Míguez became world champion. Four years later he started at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland to defend the title. In the preliminary round, he scored three goals again, but had to go to the quarter-final victory over England in the semifinal against Hungary pause injured. The game was lost 2: 4 after extra time.

At the South American Championships in 1956 he won the title with the Uruguayans. Míguez was named the best player of the tournament.

successes

death

Míguez died of heart failure on August 19, 2006 at the age of 78. He was buried in the Cementerio Central .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Avisos Funebres (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy of August 21, 2006, accessed October 18, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Murió Oscar Omar Miguez, Campeón del Mundo con Uruguay en 1950 (Spanish) on mediotiempo.com from August 20, 2006, accessed on October 18, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c Fallció Oscar Omar Miguez, campeón mundial en 1950 con Uruguay (Spanish) on futbol.as.com from August 20, 2006, accessed on October 18, 2016
  4. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez : Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, Ediciones El Galeón , Montevideo 2011, p. 88 - ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile on playerhistory.com , accessed on December 17, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / soccerdatabase.eu
  6. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on December 18, 2012
  7. ↑ Luis Suárez: el terror de los arqueros hace temblar el récord de Forlán (Spanish) in La República of November 13, 2011, accessed on January 5, 2012
  8. ↑ Oscar Omar Míguez - Goals in International Matches on rsssf.com, accessed on December 18, 2012
  9. ↑ South American Championship 1956 on rsssf.com, accessed on 18 December 2012
personal data
SURNAME Míguez, Óscar Omar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Míguez Anton, Óscar Omar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Artigas , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2006