Julio César Britos

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Julio César Britos
Personnel
Surname Julio César Britos Vázquez
birthday May 18, 1926
place of birth Montevideo ,  Uruguay
date of death March 27, 1998
Place of death Montevideo ,  Uruguay
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1947-1953 Club Atlético Peñarol
1953-1954 real Madrid 3 (2)
1961 Deportivo Portugués
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1947-1952 Uruguay 12 (6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Deportivo Portugués
Deportivo Galicia
Portuguesa FC
Estudiantes de Mérida
Deportivo Táchira
1 Only league games are given.

Julio César Britos Vázquez (born May 18, 1926 in Montevideo , † March 27, 1998 ibid) was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He became soccer world champion in 1950 .

Player career

society

Julio César Britos began his football career in 1947 at Club Atlético Peñarol in Uruguay's capital Montevideo , where he was born on May 18, 1926. With Peñarol Britos was three times Uruguayan football champion. In 1949 he took first place in the Primera División with Peñarol, where he played together with other Uruguayan football greats of the time such as Obdulio Varela , Julio Abbadie , Ernesto Vidal or Juan Hohberg , six points ahead of city rivals Nacional Montevideo . After becoming Nacional champion in 1950, Britos won his second national title with Peñarol in 1951 when a first place, two points ahead of Nacional, was achieved. In 1952, Peñarol took first place together with Nacional Montevideo because they were tied. However, Nacional won the playoff for the championship. 1953 Julio César Britos won his third championship in Uruguay. In the same year he was signed by Real Madrid . In the White Ballet with world stars like Alfredo Di Stéfano , Francisco Gento or Miguel Muñoz , however, he was only used sporadically, in one year he only made three league games in Spain, in which he scored two goals.

In 1961 he still played for Deportivo Portugués in Caracas .

National team

In the Uruguayan national football team Julio César Britos was used a total of twelve times between 1947 and 1952. He scored six goals in these twelve international matches. Britos made his debut in the Celeste on December 2, 1947 when playing against the Colombian national football team as part of the 1947 South American Championship . Uruguay's national coach Juan López called him into the squad for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil . However, he was not used in the tournament. Meanwhile, his team won the world championship at the world tournament after surprisingly winning 2-1 in the decisive final round match against Brazil . Britos made his last international match on April 16, 1952.

successes

  • World Champion: 1950
  • Uruguayan champions: 1949 , 1951 , 1953

Coaching career

After his active career, "El Poroto" Britos worked as a coach in Venezuela . There he was in charge of the Deportivo Portugués , Portuguesa FC , Estudiantes de Mérida and Deportivo Táchira clubs . With Deportivo Galicia he was also Venezuelan champion in 1964 and 1969.

death

Britos died of complications from cancer in Montevideo at the age of 71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Britos también falleció (Spanish) in ABC of March 28, 1998, accessed on April 20, 2014
  2. ↑ El paso mundialista por Venezuela ( Memento from December 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on talcualdigital.com from September 11, 2002, accessed on October 23, 2016
  3. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on October 27, 2012
  4. ↑ Técnicos y Jugadores Mundialistas que pasaron por el fútbol nacional ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on balonazos.com from June 17, 2014, accessed on February 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Britos, Julio César
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Britos Vázquez, Julio César (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1998
Place of death Montevideo , Uruguay