Atilio Ancheta

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atilio Ancheta
Personnel
Surname Atilio Genaro Ancheta Weiguel
birthday July 19, 1948
place of birth Florida , Uruguay
size 185 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1971 Nacional Montevideo
1971-1980 Gremio Porto Alegre
1981 Los Millonarios CD
1982 Nacional Montevideo
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1971 Uruguay 20 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Atilio Ancheta , full name Atilio Genaro Ancheta Weiguel , (born July 19, 1948 in Florida ) is a former Uruguayan football player .

Career

Club career

Ancheta began playing soccer in the San Lorenzo team in Florida, which his brothers founded. In his home department he was soon a member of the youth selection. Depending on the sources, his path led him to Nacional, one of the two major clubs that dominate Uruguayan football, in 1965 or 1966, through the mediation of Toto Carratú . There he started in the 5th División (Quinta) and went through the other teams Nacionals in the following years. The tall, headed right-back, whose style of play is described as unusual and whose passes were often used to initiate the Bolsos attacking game , then played in the Primera División for Nacional Montevideo until 1971 . While he was a member of this club, he won the Uruguayan championship in 1969, 1970 and 1971 and, after losing in the final in 1969, finally won the Copa Libertadores in 1971 . Further career stations were then Grêmio Porto Alegre (1971–1980) in Brazil and the Colombian club CD Los Millonarios (1981). During his stay in Brazil, he was awarded the Bola de Ouro in 1973 . In addition, in the period of his association with Gremio in 1977 and 1979, he won the state championship of Rio Grande do Sul for his employer. In Brazil, he was honored to have his footprints immortalized on the club's own calzada de la fama , a kind of Walk of Fame. At the end of his career, he returned to Nacional Montevideo in 1982. Across stations, he scored three hits for Nacional in 134 official missions.

National team

The 1.85 meter tall defender played several games with the Uruguayan national team as part of the qualifying round for the 1970 World Cup and, after qualifying for the tournament by selecting his home country, was also part of the Uruguayan squad in Mexico. There he came to six appearances in the course of the final round, finally lost with Uruguay's team against Germany in the game for third place with 0: 1 and finished fourth with the Celeste. At the tournament he stood out with good performances and was subsequently named the best full-back of the tournament. In total, he completed 20 international matches for his home country between June 8, 1969 and July 18, 1971, in which he hit the opponent's goal once.

successes

  • Uruguayan champions: 1969 , 1970 and 1971
  • World Cup fourth: 1970
  • Copa Libertadores: 1971
  • Bola de Ouro: 1973
  • National Championship of Rio Grande do Sul: 1977 and 1979

Coaching

Atilio Ancheta has been part of the coaching staff at Grêmio Porto Alegre since at least August 2013 and also in August 2016 as a consultant and development trainer in the youth sector.

Others

The Uruguayan now runs a small football school. Otherwise, after his football career, he has focused his life on music, works as a composer and singer and appears in shows in Rio Grande do Sul . In September 2002, Ancheta , who lives in the seaside resort of Capao da Canoa near Porto Alegre, was honored by the city parliament ( Cámara Municipal de vereadores ) of Porto Alegres as "Exemplary Sportsman".

His son Atilio Ancheta worked from May 2009 as assistant coach under Roberto Donato at the Rampla Juniors . His daughter's son, his grandson Rodrigo Medina Ancheta , is also active as a football player. In June 2013, the then 16-year-old, who has been a player in Grêmio Porto Alegre's youth team since 2010 , was appointed to the Uruguayan U-17 team by coach Fabián Coito .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on playerhistory.com ( memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 14, 2012
  2. ↑ Atilio Ancheta (Spanish) on nacional.uy, accessed on October 28, 2016
  3. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on September 25, 2012
  4. ↑ Gilson izquierdo, fue felicitado por Atilio Ancheta en Gremio (Spanish) on sangregorioportal.com from August 4, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2016
  5. ↑ a b Otro Ancheta con la celeste (Spanish) on urugol.com from August 7, 2013, accessed on October 28, 2016
  6. ↑ Biographical Profile (Spanish) on nacionaldigital.com, accessed on October 14, 2012
  7. ^ Roberto Donato comenzó en Rampla. (Spanish) from lr21.com.uy on May 13, 2009, accessed October 28, 2016
  8. ↑ Sub 17: convocan al nieto del mítico zaguero Atilio Ancheta (Spanish) on espectador.com from June 7, 2013, accessed on October 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ancheta, Atilio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ancheta Weiguel, Atilio Genaro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Florida , Uruguay