Hector Castro

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Hector Castro
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Héctor Castro at the 1926 South American Championship
Personnel
birthday November 29, 1904
place of birth Montevideo , Uruguay
date of death September 15, 1960
Place of death Montevideo , Uruguay
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1921-1924 Lito
1924-1932 Nacional Montevideo
1932-1933 Estudiantes de La Plata
1933-1936 Nacional Montevideo
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1923-1935 Uruguay 25 (18)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1939 Nacional Montevideo (assistant coach)
1940-1943 Nacional Montevideo (Head Coach)
1943–? Uruguay
1952 Nacional Montevideo (Head Coach)
1959 Uruguay
1 Only league games are given.

Héctor Castro (born November 29, 1904 in Montevideo , † September 15, 1960 ibid) was a Uruguayan football player and coach .

Player career

society

The only 1.69 meter tall striker initially played for Centro Atlético Lito . There he made his debut in 1921. In 1924 he moved to Nacional Montevideo and won his first national championship in the first year; He later remained loyal to this club and took part with the Bolsos on both the great European tour of 1925 and the 1927 competition tour of Central and North America. He was part of the first team right away, alongside the legendary José Leandro Andrade . Although the trained carpenter had lost his right hand - not his arm, as can be read occasionally - in an accident at the age of 13 with an electric saw, he was a celebrated goalscorer, called El divino manco ("The divine one-handed") and also a type of fighter who also cheered on his teammates incessantly: the battle cry "Vamo'arriba, que ya los tenemos" (in German "Los now, we have them in the sack") is ascribed to him. Castro completed a total of 231 games for the Bolsos . He scored 145 hits. From 1932 to 1933 he also made a stopover at the Argentine club Estudiantes de La Plata .

Castro ranks in the all-time top scorer list in the Primera División with 107 goals scored in 181 first division matches (period 1921 to 1936) tied with Óscar Míguez in 7th place. Míguez, however, required significantly fewer stakes with only 137 games, so that he has the better goal quotient.

National team

Internationally, he first stepped into the limelight at the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1926 , when the 21-year-old won this trophy with his "Urus" and contributed six goals, making him the second most successful goalscorer in the competition. He scored four goals in the 6-1 win over Paraguay alone . In this cup he also wore the blue and white jersey in 1927 (2nd place for Uruguay) and 1929 (3rd place). In 1928 he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games with Uruguay .

At the first World Cup (1930) in his home country , he was also in the squad of the world's best national team at the time. In the opening game against Peru , it was Héctor Castro who relieved his nervous teammates in the 60th minute from the pressure that the tournament favorites were under with the only goal of the encounter, which was also the first goal scored at the Estadio Centenario . Nevertheless, national coach Alberto Suppici surprisingly did not use him in the second group match against Romania or in the semifinals against Yugoslavia . It was only in the final that he was able to oust Juan Peregrino Anselmo from the team - and he justified the trust again: his header to the 4-2 final score shortly before the end of the fiercely contested game against Argentina brought the final decision and his team the very first title of the World Cup. Story .

At the end of his playing career, he managed to win the South American Championship again in 1935 , to which Castro again contributed two hits. A year later he ended his active career at the age of 31.

Castro completed a total of 25 international matches from his debut on November 25, 1923 to his last game for the Celeste on August 15, 1935. He scored 18 hits. Other sources give him 20 goals in 25 international matches.

Coaching career

In 1939 he was initially assistant coach at Nacional Montevideo under the British William Reaside . From 1940 he then held the head coach position, and in this position he managed to win five championship titles in a row, the so-called Quinquenio , with his club in the "eternal duel" against Peñarol Montevideo . The championship title of 1939 fell into his responsibility as head coach, as he was the coach in charge of the final against Peñarol, which took place on April 28, 1940. On March 28, 1943, he made his debut in the 3-3 draw against Argentina in the Copa Mignaburu as coach of the Uruguayan national team . In this role he was replaced at the latest by Emilio Servetti , who first looked after the team in a game at the end of January 1944.

In 1951/52 he jumped in at short notice for a dismissed colleague and promptly won the Uruguayan championship again. In March 1959, in the defeats against Peru (3: 5) and Argentina (1: 4) in the South American Championship that year, he was again led as the Uruguayan national coach.

Héctor Castro died at the age of 55.

Palmarès

As a player

As a trainer

Source

  • Folke Havekost / Volker Stahl, Football World Cup 1930 Uruguay AGON Kassel 2002 ISBN 3-89784-245-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ídolos - Héctor Castro (Spanish) on nacionaldigital.com, accessed June 9, 2013
  2. ^ Ídolos - Héctor Castro (Spanish) on nacionaldigital.com, accessed June 9, 2013
  3. ↑ Uruguayan players in Argentina 1st level on rsssf.com, accessed June 9, 2013
  4. ↑ ESTUDIANTES (La Plata) 3 - RIVER 3 on estadisticasderiverplate.blogspot.de, accessed on June 9, 2013
  5. ↑ November 29, 1904 - Héctor, The Nacional Hero (English), accessed June 9, 2013
  6. ↑ Uruguay - All-Time Topscorers on rsssf.com, accessed June 9, 2013
  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. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on June 9, 2013
  9. ↑ Luis Suárez: el terror de los arqueros hace temblar el récord de Forlán (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy of November 13, 2011, accessed on January 5, 2012
  10. ^ Uruguay 1939 Championship on rsssf.com, accessed June 9, 2013
  11. ^ Ídolos - Héctor Castro (Spanish) on nacionaldigital.com, accessed June 9, 2013
  12. ↑ Juan Ramón Carrasco es el 44º técnico de la Selección (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy from June 12, 2003, accessed on November 6, 2016
  13. ↑ Ouch Q&A: Héctor Castro 1930s disabled football star (English) on bbc.co.uk from June 7, 2006, accessed June 9, 2013
  14. ↑ Los 45 partidos mas nefastos (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy from February 22, 2004, accessed on November 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Castro, Héctor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1960
Place of death Montevideo