Gilberto Penayo

Gilberto Penayo
Personnel
Surname	Benigno Gilberto Penayo
birthday	April 3, 1933
place of birth	Asunción ,  Paraguay
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
Until 1952	Salesian Order
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1952-1958	Club Sol de America	? (?)
1958-1964	Cerro Porteño	? (?)
1964-1965	Club Silvio Pettirossi	? (?)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1958	Paraguay	5 (-)
1 Only league games are given.

Benigno Gilberto "Kike" Penayo (born April 3, 1933 in Asunción , Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan football player .

Life

Penayo began to be interested in football at an early age and played with the Salesians of Don Bosco , a Catholic religious community that had its own league for young people. In his career, in which he also came to some games for the Paraguayan national team at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, he never moved abroad. Parallel to his football career, he completed a degree in chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, where he later worked as a professor for over 40 years.

society

1951 to 1956 Sol de América

After a failed trial session at the traditional club Libertad, Penayo was signed to Sol de América, where he made his debut in a friendly against the Chacarita Juniors from Buenos Aires.

1959 to 1964 Cerro Porteño

After the 1958 World Cup, he switched to the most popular Paraguayan football club, with which he won a total of two championships.

1964 to 1965 Silvio Pettirossi

The end of his career made Penayo in the second Paraguayan league at the Silvio Pettirossi Fútbol Club.

Awards

• Paraguayan champions: 1961, 1963 (with Cerro Porteño)
• Top scorer of the Primera División de Paraguay: 1960 (18 goals)

Web links

• Biography with pictures from Albigol, a multilingual site about Paraguayan football