Domingo Tejera

Domingo Tejera
Personnel
birthday	July 27, 1899
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
date of death	June 30, 1969
Place of death	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size	1.89 m
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1918-1932	Wanderers	287 (5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1922-1932	Uruguay	20 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Domingo Tejera (born July 27, 1899 in Montevideo , † June 30, 1969 there ) was a Uruguayan football player .

Club career

Already in his debut year - he was already 18 years for first team - the 1.89 unusually large celebrated defender with the Bohemios called Wanderers , having won the championship of the Segunda División his personal promotion to the top Uruguayan league, where he once first in the Team debuted. In 1922 he and his team were Uruguayan runners-up when the AUF Nacional declared champions ahead of time. In the next few seasons in the Federacion Uruguaya de Football aligned Campeonato Uruguayo de la Federacion Uruguaya de Football antretend, Tejera was there with a dismal 1923 champion and 1924 runner-up. At that time, the complete and especially physically convincing player Tejera was also captain of the Wanderers. In 1924 he also won the Copa Río de La Plata . In 1931 he secured the Uruguayan championship title with the Wanderers. After the following season he ended, still as captain, his career at the club, to which he remained loyal throughout his career.

National team

For the first time at the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1920 in Viña del Mar , Chile, he was part of the successful, title-winning contingent of the Uruguayan national soccer team. In the following two years he was repeatedly appointed to the national team and was part of the successful selection at the Copa Lipton in 1922 . Between 1923 and 1925 he was a member of the Uruguayan selection of the FUF. After the unification of the associations, he again took part in the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1926 , which Uruguay won this time as well. The following year he was the undisputed regular player of the Celeste at the Campeonato Sudamericano 1927 . Winning the gold medal with the Uruguayan selection at the 1928 Summer Olympics (without playing a game of his own) and participating in the 1930 World Cup , where Uruguay was able to secure the world championship title when this event was held for the first time, were further building blocks of his great career. In the course of the World Cup, however, he was only used once in the preliminary round match against Peru, in which he suffered a serious injury to his left knee from a kick by Lavalle , the consequences of which ultimately forced him to retire two years later. In 1928 he won the Copa Lipton again with the Celeste, and the Copa Newton two years later .

Tejera completed a total of 20 international matches in the period from September 23, 1922 to May 15, 1932, in which he did not hit the opposing goal. The Wanderers website, on the other hand, mentions 30 international matches, in which the FUF deployments were probably taken into account.

successes

• World Champion (1930)
• Olympic Champion (1928)
• South American Champion (1920 and 1926)
• Copa Lipton (1922 and 1928)
• Copa Newton (1930)
• Uruguayan champion (1923 (FUF) and 1931)
• Copa Río de la Plata (1924)

Web links

• Historian Dr. Manuel Paredes wrote the biography of Tejeras on the website of the Montevideo Wanderers (Spanish)
• Domingo Tejera in the database of FIFA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uruguay's World Cup squad at the 1930 World Cup on fifa.com ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team at www.rsssf.com