Manuel Varela

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Manuel Varela
Personnel
birthday 1891 or 1892
place of birth Uruguay
date of death 1927
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1914-1918 Peñarol
1919-1925 Nacional
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1915-1924 Uruguay 18 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Manuel Varela (* 1891 or 1892 ; † 1927 ) was a Uruguayan football player .

society

The used as a defender , el Japonés (the Japanese) called Varela belonged from 1914 to 1918 to the squad of Peñarols in the Primera División . He left in March 1918 after he was involved in a bribery scandal involving the so-called "Clásico of Shame", which was decisive for the championship that year, on November 11, 1917, at the center of which the allegations were the Peñarol players José Piendibene and in particular José Pérez and himself the Aurinegros . He played, because he had to pause until the 1919 season due to the regulations in force at the time, from 1919 to 1925 for the competitor Nacional . Varela subsequently met irreconcilable hatred on the part of Peñarol's supporters. However , it was rarely used by the Bolsos . However, he also took part in their European tour in 1925. While he was a member of Nacional, his new club won the national championship title in 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923 and 1924.

National team

Varela was also a member of the Uruguayan senior team . He made a total of 18 international matches from his debut on July 18, 1915 to his last game for Celeste on May 25, 1924. He did not score a hit.

Varela took part with the national team in the South American Championships in 1916 (three games), 1917 (three games) and 1919 (four games, one own goal). Uruguay won the title in 1916 and 1917 respectively. In 1919 his home country narrowly failed and finished second.

At the 1917 tournament it came to the peculiarity that Varela replaced the injured goalkeeper Cayetano Saporiti in his position in the last and decisive game against the Argentine selection when the score was 1-0 for Uruguay from the 70th minute of the game . He survived the rest of the season without conceding a goal.

He also won the 1917 Copa Newton with the national team .

death

Varela died in 1927 at the age of only 35 in Vilardebó Hospital .

successes

  • South American Champion (1916, 1917)
  • Copa Newton 1917
  • Uruguayan champion (1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Planteles Históricos ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), accessed January 20, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / campeondelsiglo.com
  2. ↑ Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 1st edition 2005, 145ff, 153
  3. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team at www.rsssf.com , accessed on January 20, 2013
  4. ↑ South American Championship 1916 on www.rsssf.com, accessed on January 20, 2013
  5. ↑ South American Championship 1917 on www.rsssf.com, accessed on January 20, 2013
  6. ↑ South American Championship 1919 on www.rsssf.com, accessed on January 20, 2013
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile on www.playerhistory.com , accessed on January 20, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / soccerdatabase.eu
  8. ↑ Luciano Álvarez: Historia de Peñarol , 1st edition 2005, 153
personal data
SURNAME Varela, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1891 or 1892
DATE OF DEATH 1927