Hugo de León

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Hugo de León
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Hugo De León (2019)
Personnel
Surname Hugo Eduardo de León Rodríguez
birthday February 27, 1958
place of birth Rivera ,  Uruguay
size 189 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1980 Nacional Montevideo
1981-1984 Gremio Porto Alegre 83 (2)
1985 Corinthians São Paulo 24 (0)
1986 FC Santos
1987-1988 CD Logroñés 16 (0)
1988-1989 Nacional Montevideo
1989-1990 CA River Plate 10 (0)
1991 Botafogo FR 13 (0)
1991-1992 Toshiba SC
1992-1993 Nacional Montevideo
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
at least 1977 Uruguay (Juniors)
1979-1990 Uruguay 48 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998-2001 Nacional Montevideo
2004 Nacional Montevideo
1 Only league games are given.

Hugo de León , full name Hugo Eduardo de León Rodríguez (born February 27, 1958 in Rivera ) is a former Uruguayan football player and coach who is also active as a politician.

Career

society

The 1.89 meter tall central defender de León was a member of the Nacionals squad in the Primera División from 1977 to 1980 . There he was Uruguayan champion in 1977 and 1980. In the year of his second league title, he reached the final of the Copa Libertadores with the Bolsos . With de León in the two finals in the starting eleven, the Montevideans defeated the Internacional Porto Alegre after a 0-0 win on July 30, 1980 and the 1-0 second leg win on August 6 of that year and brought this trophy to Uruguay. In the following year he moved to the Brazilian club Gremio Porto Alegre , for which he played until 1984. The Brazilian championship in his debut year was followed two years later by the entry into the final of the Copa Libertadores of 1983 . Again he took part in both finals and, after his club had overall the upper hand over Peñarol , was able to record this cup victory in his success statistics for the second time. In the subsequent final of the World Cup , known at the time as the Toyota Cup , he and his team defeated Hamburger SV, who won the European Cup . A few months later, Gremio again moved into the final for the Copa Libertadores of 1984 . De León, who thus advanced for the third time in these finals, was defeated this time with the team against the Argentine club CA Independiente . In 1985 he joined Corinthians São Paulo . The following year he moved to competitor FC Santos . It followed in the 1987/88 season a station in the Spanish Primera División with CD Logroñés , where he played 16 league games. Then he moved back to Uruguay. There he started his second extremely successful engagement at Nacional in 1988 and 1989. With the Bolsos he won his third title in this competition at the Copa Libertadores in 1988 , where he was on the starting line-up in both final games against the Newell's Old Boys . In the subsequent World Cup final on December 11, 1988 in Tokyo against PSV Eindhoven , he led the team to victory as captain. After de León was already on the pitch in the final games for the Recopa Sudamericana in 1989 and thus actively contributed to the title win in the duel with the Argentine representative Racing Club , he was also in the finals for the Copa Interamericana used from the start in 1989 . Nacional prevailed against CD Olimpia there in March 1989 . In the same year he moved to the other side of the Río de la Plata and played for River Plate in Buenos Aires until 1990 . In 1990 he celebrated the Argentinian national championship that was still missing in his extensive collection of titles. Another move to Brazil to Botafogo in 1991, he had another career station in Japan at Toshiba SC (1991-1992) followed. He ended his career in Uruguay, where he signed for the third time with Nacional and also won his third league title in 1992. However, other sources do not attribute this last title to him.

National team

Already with the junior national team , he won the title at the junior soccer South American championship (no use) in 1977 and finished fourth at the junior soccer world championship in 1977 . De León was also a member of the senior team . He made his debut in Celeste on July 11, 1979. His 48th and last international match he completed on June 25, 1990. He did not score an international goal. He played his first major tournament at the 1979 Copa America . At the Mundialito at the turn of the year 1980/81 he was also part of the winning squad and knew how to convince. Nevertheless, de León, who was openly affiliated with the political left, was not considered for the following tournaments during the civil-military dictatorship ruling in Uruguay under the new, loyal national coach Omar Borrás . However, after the political situation and the staffing of the national coaching post changed, he later belonged to the Uruguayan squad at the Copa America 1989 , which Uruguay finished in second place. De León also took part in the 1990 World Cup, where he was used in all three group matches and in the knockout round defeat against Italy .

Coaching

After his playing career, De León also worked as a coach. In this role he also won three Uruguayan national championships with Nacional in 1998, 2000 and 2001. At the Bolsos , he held the coaching position in a first stage from 1998 in 2001 and in another engagement in 2004.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Political ambitions

After de León, now an entrepreneur and father of two daughters, had already campaigned for the Partido Colorado in the run-up to the 2009 internal elections , he finally stood as a candidate for the vice-presidency of the presidential candidate Pedro in the presidential and parliamentary elections of the same year Bordaberry on.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile on playerhistory.com , accessed on December 30, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / soccerdatabase.eu
  2. ↑ a b Bordaberry se jugó por el "patriarca" tricolor ( Memento from January 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) in El País from July 17, 2009, accessed on January 3, 2013
  3. ↑ Sudamericanos s20: década del 70 ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on May 11, 2015
  4. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on December 30, 2012
  5. ^ Copa América 1979 on rsssf.com, accessed December 30, 2012
  6. ^ Copa América 1989 on rsssf.com, accessed December 30, 2012
  7. ↑ Después de 50 torneos puede ser campeón un DT extranjero (Spanish) in La República of December 2, 2011, accessed on January 3, 2013
  8. ↑ Hugo de León sale a pedir el voto para el Partido Colorado (Spanish) in La República on November 24, 2008, accessed on January 3, 2013
personal data
SURNAME León, Hugo de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES León Rodríguez, Hugo Eduardo de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rivera , Uruguay