Eduardo García (football player, 1945)

Eduardo García
Personnel
birthday	March 8, 1945
place of birth	Colonia ,  Uruguay
date of death	February 26, 2016
Place of death	Guayaquil ,  Ecuador
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-1967	Club Atlético Peñarol	?? (0)
1967-1969	Emelec	?? (0)
1970-1971	Nacional Montevideo	?? (0)
1972-1979	Emelec	?? (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
at least 1964	Uruguay (Juniors)	at least 6 (0)
1978	Ecuador	4th
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1979	Emelec
1 Only league games are given.

Eduardo García (born March 8, 1945 in Colonia , Uruguay , † February 26, 2016 in Guayaquil , Ecuador ) was a Uruguayan-Ecuadorian football player and coach .

Player career

society

Goalkeeper Ñato García had been in Peñarol's ranks since 1962 and belonged to the squad in the Primera División at least from 1964 to 1966 . There he was only reserve goalkeeper and when in March 1965 the then regular goalkeeper Luis Maidana was thrown out of the team due to a disciplinary offense by coach Roque Máspoli , the latter first decided on García's competitor Ladislao Mazurkiewicz as the new goalkeeper. García said in an interview in 1991 that the meniscus injury he suffered at this point in his career played a role. García's club membership is dated to 1967. With the Aurinegros he won the Uruguayan championship in those years 1962, 1964 and 1965. In 1966 he triumphed with Peñarol in the Copa Libertadores and the World Cup. After recovering from a knee injury, he was loaned out to Emelec for three months in 1967 for the Copa Libertadores competition to gain game practice , but ultimately stayed beyond that. and then also played in the years 1968 to 1969 for the club from Ecuador. He then returned to Uruguay and joined the Peñarol arch-rival Nacional . The Bolsos were also extremely successful in these two years, so that García was able to book two more national championship titles. The two international titles that Nacional won that year with the Copa Libertadores and the World Cup, and in which Manga guarded the Bolsos' goal, are not explicitly attributed to García. From 1972 to 1979 he was again active for Emelec. There he was Ecuadorian champion in 1972 and 1979, and in 1979 he was also the coach of the team.

National team

García took part with Uruguay's selection as a regular goalkeeper and team captain at the South American Junior Football Championship in Colombia in 1964 , where they won the title. During the tournament he was used six times by coach Juan Carlos Ranzone , who preferred García to Mazurkiewicz, who was also in the squad.

After he was naturalized in Ecuador, he completed four international matches for the national team of the Andean country in 1978 in the run-up to the football World Cup .

Coaching

In 1979 he also worked as a coach for the Ecuadorian club Emelec.

successes

• World Cup: 1966
• Copa Libertadores: 1966
• 5 × Uruguayan champions: 1962, 1964, 1965, 1970, 1971
• 2 × Ecuadorian champion: 1972, 1979

After the active career

After his active career, García settled in Guayaquil and opened a grill restaurant called La Parrilla del Ñato , which gained fame in the 1980s and became the official restaurant of his former club Emelec. At Emelec, after working as a player and coach, he also took on managerial roles in the club. He died of a heart attack in his adopted country at the age of 70.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} El 'Ñato' García falleció en Guayaquil (Spanish) on elcomercio.com from February 26, 2016, accessed on March 9, 2016
2. ↑ Fallció Eduardo 'Ñato' García, histórico arquero de Emelec (Spanish) on eluniverso.com from February 26, 2016, accessed on March 9, 2016
3. ↑ Planteles Históricos ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved June 24, 2013 
4. ↑ Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 1st edition 2005, 527
5. ↑ ^{a b c} El 'Ñato' García: Vine por tres meses a Emelec y me quedé toda la vida (Spanish) on eluniverso.com from February 26, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2016
6. ↑ ^{a b} Profile on playerhistory.com ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 24, 2013
7. ↑ Sudamericanos sub-20: 50's y 60's ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from auf.org.uy, accessed May 11, 2015