Lorenzo Fernández

This article is about the soccer player Lorenzo Fernández. For the clergy, see Lorenzo Antonio Fernández .

Lorenzo Fernández
Lorenzo Fernández (1928)
Personnel
birthday	May 20, 1900
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
date of death	November 16, 1973
Place of death	Montevideo, Uruguay
size	1.73 m
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	Capurro
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Capurro
at least 1923	Club Atlético Wanderers
1924–	Capurro
1927-1935	Club Atlético Peñarol
1936	River Plate Montevideo
1938-1939	Defensor
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1925-1935	Uruguay	31 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1939-1941	Liverpool Montevideo
1942	Club Atlético Peñarol
1945-1947	Liverpool Montevideo
1949-1951	Liverpool Montevideo
1956	Uruguay
1 Only league games are given.

Lorenzo Fernández (born May 20, 1900 in Galicia , Spain or in Montevideo , Uruguay , † November 16, 1973 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan football player and coach.

Career as a player

society

Contrary to other sources, according to which he was born in Redondela, Spain, on March 20, 1901, it is reported that Fernandéz was born on May 20, 1900 in Montevideo's Calle Colón (between Piedras and 25 de agosto ).

The 1.73 meter tall Fernández, known as el Gallego and el Patrón , was a very strong defensively, but with technical skills, powerful and mentally strong player who was mainly at home in the middle position. Luciano Álvarez describes Fernández as a son of the port , where he worked as a porter with his father and numerous brothers. He was someone who knew little fun, had no sense of humor and played football as seriously as he lived. He is also described as spirited, brave, but also a bit simple and naive. The masseur Nacionals Juan Kirschberg once said that whenever he massaged Fernández, he had the impression of massaging a lamppost. Fernández's legs were like masses of muscles woven from iron.

At the age of 14, he began playing football at the Capurro club, which was part of the UP in Tercera Extra . At the time the organizational structure of Uruguayan football was split up into the associations AUF and FUF , he then joined the Club Atlético Wanderers and became Uruguayan FUF champion in 1923. The following year he returned to Capurro .

Fernández joined Peñarol in 1927 and played there until 1935. Another source names the period of membership from 1928 to 1936. During this period, the Aurinegros were Uruguayan champions in 1928, 1929, 1932 and 1935. At Peñarol he formed the so-called iron curtain (cortina metálica) on the side of Silva and Gestido in defense . In 1928 he held the office of team captain, but was replaced as such by Gestido the following year. Although he was still his deputy, this struck the pride of the player and probably formed the trigger for a subsequent rivalry between the two. In other respects too, Lorenzo Fernandéz's career was constantly accompanied by conflicts. In 1929, during a Copa Uruguaya game against Bella Vista , an altercation for him at the police station ended. His time at Peñarol also came to an end in 1935 when his contract was terminated due to a disciplinary problem.

In 1936 Fernández retired from football after a tour of France with River Plate Montevideo . In 1938 and 1939 he joined Defensor again .

National team

The defender Fernández won the gold medal with the Uruguayan national soccer team at the Olympic Games in 1928 , the soccer world championship in 1930 in his own country and the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1926 and 1935 . He also took part in the South American Championships in 1927 and 1929 . He played from July 18, 1925 to January 27, 1935 31 international matches, in which he scored four goals.

Coaching

Fernández coached the Liverpool Montevideo team from September 25, 1939 to 1941 . In 1942 he took over the coaching position at Peñarol. Although the team did not do badly, the contract was broken. This culminated in disputes that led to the resignation of the then club president Dr. Bolívar Baliñas led. He was then again from 1945 to January 1947 and from 1949 to 1951 coach of Liverpool Montevideo. In the 1: 2 defeat in the friendly against Argentina on October 10, 1956, he made his debut as national coach of Uruguay. By mid-March 1957 at the latest, he had already been replaced in this role by Juan López .

successes

• Olympic champion: 1928
• World Champion: 1930
• 2 × South American champions: 1926, 1935
• 5 × Uruguayan champions: 1923 (FUF), 1928 , 1929 , 1932 and 1935

Others

Fernández's portrait adorned a stamp issued by the Uruguayan Post in 2002.

literature

• Folke Havekost, Volker Stahl: Football World Cup 1930 Uruguay , AGON, 1st edition, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89784-245-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández (Spanish) on liverpool100hechos.blogspot.de from September 25, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2016
2. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on November 11, 2012
3. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández (Spanish) on padreydecano.com, accessed November 11, 2012
4. ↑ Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, pp. 177f
5. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández (Spanish) on padreydecano.com, accessed November 11, 2012
6. ↑ Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, pp. 177ff, 178
7. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández (Spanish) on padreydecano.com, accessed November 11, 2012
8. ↑ Lorenzo Fdez. Un redondelano en Uruguay (Spanish), accessed July 29, 2012
9. ↑ Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, pp. 177ff
10. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández (Spanish) on padreydecano.com, accessed November 11, 2012
11. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on November 10, 2012
12. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández (Spanish) on liverpool100hechos.blogspot.de from September 25, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2016
13. ↑ Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, p. 180
14. ↑ Lorenzo Fernández (Spanish) on liverpool100hechos.blogspot.de from September 25, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2016
15. ↑ Juan Ramón Carrasco es el 44º técnico de la Selección (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy of June 12, 2003, accessed on November 10, 2016
16. ↑ Los 45 partidos mas nefastos (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy from February 22, 2004, accessed on November 10, 2016
17. ↑ Correos Presento sellos de la emisión Deportistas uruguayos (Spanish), accessed on November 11, 2012
18. ↑ Sellos conmemorativos , accessed November 11, 2012